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The Barbless Hook 
By R. SCHRENKEISEN 
HERE has been a great deal of talk, 
pro and con, within the past year 
regarding the barbless hook. It is safe 
to say that most of the “con” part of 
the talking has been done by those who 
never had any practical experience 
with one of these hooks. 
The greatest argument in favor of 
the barbless hook is, of course, its im- 
portance as a conservation measure. 
Even a great many of the most con- 
servative and careful fly fishermen do 
not appreciate the loss to the interests 
of fish conservation that results from 
the catching of undersized fish on the 
regulation barbed hook. By the man- 
ner in which the average streams in or 
near the precincts of civilization are 
stocked, it is impossible to avoid catch- 
ing a larger percentage of undersized 
fish. It is by no means an infrequent 
occurrence when fishing for trout, for 
more than 75% of a day’s catch to be 
fish under six or seven inches in size. 
It is also a safe estimate to make that 
more than half of this number upon 
being returned to the water after hay- 
ing a barbed hook removed from their 
mouths will die. Death results as a 
rule from the formation of fungus 
growths where the protective coating 
has been removed in handling the fish 
or infection of the wound caused by re- 
moving the hook. It is true that some 
of this loss can be avoided by careful 
handling of the fish with moistened 
hands, but only a very small percentage 
of fish are fortunate enough to fall 
into the hands of such considerate 
anglers. 
Now, the average fisherman who has 
not had practical experience with the 
barbless hook, upon reading this will 
say, “That is true and all very nice, 
but can I hold a fish on a barbless 
hook?” The answer is that he most 
certainly can, and hold just as many 
as on a barbed hook, providing he keeps 
a taut line. It is true, that to con- 
stantly keep a taut line on a fish re- 
quires more than little experience. 
However, it is only the results born of 
experience that give any real joy and 
satisfaction in the honorable and 
ancient art of angling. The use of 
barbless hooks furnish one of the best 
means to gain this experience, and 
once it is attained, it will readily be 
seen that it is possible to catch just as 
many fish with a barbless hook as it is 
with a barbed one. Countless numbers 
of the most experienced anglers have 
proven this beyond a shadow of a 
doubt. For that matter, it is by no 
means a difficult trick to lose a fish on 
a barbed hook if any slack line is 
given. Anyone who has ever wet a 
line has probably demonstrated this 
fact to himself on more than one oc- 
casion. 
Another argument that is sometimes 
offered against the use of barbless 
hooks is that they tear out of a fish’s 
mouth more easily than does the barbed 
hook. In this connection, it should be © 
borne in mind that the tearing out of 
a hook has very little to do with the 
hook. This depends almost entirely 
upon in what part of the mouth the 
fish is hooked. If a barbless hook en- 
ters a tough portion, it will not tear 
out one whit easier than would a barbed 
hook, nor will the barbless one come 
out any easier when hooked in a soft 
portion of the mouth than would a 
barbed hook. Besides, the barbless 
hook does not tear nearly as big a hole 
in a fish’s mouth as does a hook with 
a barb. 
Contrary to the opinion of a great 
many fishermen, a barbless hook has 
splendid penetration—as good or bet- 
ter than that of the barbed hook. A 
barbless hook also hooks more fish. On 
the other hand, should a barbless hook 
get into the clothing or through the 
flesh of an unfortunate angler, which 
are by no means infrequent occur- 
rences, it is easily removed without any 
further injury to flesh or clothing than 
was actually caused by the penetration 
of the hook. 
Some of the more tender-hearted 
members of the angling fraternity are 
vehement in their declarations that a 
barbless hook is more humane. There 
may be something to this, and it is per- 
haps only fair to give the fish the 
benefit of the doubt, but from what 
biologists tell us of a fish’s psychology 
and the organization of their nervous 
system, advocating the use of a barb- 
less hook from this standpoint is some- 
what questionable. 
There are so many other arguments 
in favor of encouraging the use of 
barbless hooks as outlined above, how- 
ever, that they should warrant the at- 
tention of every manufacturer and 
fisherman—at least sufficient to give 
them a fair try-out. From the stand- 
point of general use, barbless hooks are 
more or less in an experimental stage. 
When the results that have been ob- 
tained by experienced anglers are 
taken into account, all indications 
would seem to point to the possibility 
that the barbless hook will in the near 
future prove to be one of the greatest 
boons to fish conservation in angling 
history, providing it receives the proper 
support and encouragement from the 
angling public. 
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