I support barbless. Might not make much difference to a whitefish that tends to take hooks lightly in the lip, but something like pike that often inhale hooks deeply, barbless hooks are much, much easier on the fish. I just wish they were more available in stores because using a Dremel to remove barbs gets tedious. Or when they are available in stores, I wish they weren't priced double or triple the price of barbed hooks.
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