Lol good thread... my question is this....
There is all this talk about where you can get a few barbless hooks right? So if the law went barbless years ago why are there only a few? The only way you can use barbed hooks is to own a private water body... So why are the shelves still stocked to the 9's with barbed hooks? Why... because its more profitable (and easy)to give the common guy a $200 ticket than it is to take on a name brand box store into bringing new fishing gear...
Do i think it f&w's fault.....nope...what about the guy fishing with his barbs not pinched enough....nope
I blame wallmart and cambodian tire!
Also if the government does not like their income from barbed hooks they would be putting more pressure on retailers to bring in legal fishin gear!
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