19 inch Brown
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I took a neighbor kid of mine fishing on the Little Red River here in Arkansas yesterday. The fly fishing was slow yesterday, but last Sunday it was on. However, yesterday it was NOT. I tried all the normal flies that are my go to flies on the LR and no luck. The kid, 15 yr old, I took yesterday was using a gold and black count down Rapala lure. These have treble hooks and you would think that any fish caught with them was instant death. Well believe it or not that is not the truth. The trout usually run up behind these at tap them and so far I have never had a fish die on them. We mostly caught small rainbows except for the single, 19 inch brown that I caught. It was released, escaped while being photographed and measured, healthy. The LR water temp yesterday was 71 degrees between Pangburn and up river to the catch and release area. With the hot temps we have this week coming up, I would not be surprised to start seeing dead fish this coming weekend. The fishing was very hit and miss all day.
Maybe one of the pros can confirm this.
I heard that the barbs on hooks are a throw back to when people only fished with bait. The barbs are really only there to help hold bait on the hook, it doesn’t actually do anything to help keep the fish on right?
Alot of opinions on this, but I might as well be the first to throw in.
I think especially with trout and salmon fishing, taking the barb off is helpful.
The age old debate 🙂
Barbless.
The obvious advantage to fish is reducing the chance of physical tissue harm.
The less obvious and to me equally important advantage is releasing them that much faster. Removing a barbless even when its deep in the craw is always easy…Removing a barbed hook short of tearing it out in one second can take time depending on some varialbles, in some cases minutes.The faster you get any fish, but especially those prone to post release mortality, off the hook and back in the water, the better.
Removing the barb makes it a thousand times easier to remove the hook. I do not remove them for bass fishing and sometimes it is hard as hell to get a hook out.
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