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Originally Posted by crownb
We were fishing at chip lake last thursday for burbot,got the first hole drilled set dowm my line in about a foot of water and immediately felt some kind of weight.I pulled up the line and I had caught an ice fishing rod with braided line and a jig attached with a barb.I wonder if the fish and feathers would have ticketed me if the were there.  |
In the spring I collect a lot of gear from the shorelines of the reservoirs around Calgary and westward.
Without fail, hooks are barbed at least 4/5 times.
This also goes for flies (not mine) I remove from the faces of large trout in the Bow.