I am thinking about starting to use barbless hooks when I go for native brook trout. What are the pros/cons for barbless hooks?
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I am thinking about starting to use barbless hooks when I go for native brook trout. What are the pros/cons for barbless hooks?
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Good comment buckhunter, I also like to leave a little bit of the barb, more of just a bump, there to help hold onto the fish, but still allow for easy removal and less damage to the fish.
Just a side story, I used to fish in a barbless only stretch of river where we would all just pinch down our barbs. One day a Cons. Officer came down and was running a cotton ball across the pinched down barbs and was giving tickets to any hooks that snagged cotton. Real piece of work that guy.
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You must be fishing for a different brook trout than we have in many regions of CO. Brookies here are pretty far down the catch and release list. Because they tend to proliferate, compete with other trout for food and territory, and become stunted when overpopulated, CO wildlife management, many y ears ago, implemented a special bag limit of ten brookies, under eight inches, in addition to the regular trout bag limit.
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Back in the early 1900s brook trout were stocked in areas outside their native territory like browns and rainbows were. They ended up outcompeting the native species. Now F&W agencies are trying to remove them so they can protect the remaining natives or restore them through discoveries of pure strains which they can harvest eggs and milt from and grow in a hatchery to create a large enough population that can be replanted.
hothar wrote:
You must be fishing for a different brook trout than we have in many regions of CO. Brookies here are pretty far down the catch and release list. Because they tend to proliferate, compete with other trout for food and territory, and become stunted when overpopulated, CO wildlife management, many y ears ago, implemented a special bag limit of ten brookies, under eight inches, in addition to the regular trout bag limit.
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