Barbageddon 2013

[BeeGuy]

Well, looks like the Mayans may have had it right.

We have been saved so far from the Zombie Apocalypse,

but as the confusing 2013 AB Fishing Regulations Guide has dictated, this is the year of

The Barbageddon.

It will be a miracle if any fish survives to 2014.

Please vote to indicate whether you will be either 100% braless or will sometimes or always use barbs.

I personally will sometimes use barbs, but often will not. I just don't put much weight on it. I find trebles to have a significant impact on fish, and barbs none.

[Graffy91]

Originally Posted by BeeGuy

Well, looks like the Mayans may have had it right.

We have been saved so far from the Zombie Apocalypse,

but as the confusing 2013 AB Fishing Regulations Guide has dictated, this is the year of

The Barbageddon.

It will be a miracle if any fish survives to 2014.

Please vote to indicated whether you will be either 100% braless or will sometimes or always use barbs.

I personally will sometimes use barbs, but often will not. I just don't put much weight on it. I find trebles to have a significant impact on fish, and barbs none.

[bubba 96]

Originally Posted by BeeGuy

Well, looks like the Mayans may have had it right.

We have been saved so far from the Zombie Apocalypse,

but as the confusing 2013 AB Fishing Regulations Guide has dictated, this is the year of

The Barbageddon.

It will be a miracle if any fish survives to 2014.

Please vote to indicated whether you will be either 100% braless or will sometimes or always use barbs.

I personally will sometimes use barbs, but often will not. I just don't put much weight on it. I find trebles to have a significant impact on fish, and barbs none.

I like braless..... lol, as for fishing i still go barbless as my 11yr old son, however if he is fishing say for trout I will keep barb on for now, just for the way trout can throw a hook, untill he gets a better hang of fishing for trout..

[MoFugger21]

I voted 100% barbless just so Mutter doesn't think I'm the anti-Christ.....

[FishingFrenzy]

I can see myself leaving the barb on SINGLE hooks when fishing streamers as they always end up in the lip...could mean I can keep em on better.

Other than that...barbless

[coppershot]

I'm barbless but find it pointless on any fly smaller than a 14. So I will be leaving the barbs on most of my midges and nymphs this year

[Geezle]

If I'm planing on keeping fish (rare) I'll consider barbs, but if it's a c&r day then I'll be barbless.

[huntsfurfish]

Will be barbed - have to, with all the complaining I have done about it. However might accidently put on a barbless hook that had already been pinched. Should get fined for using barbless!

[dodgeboy1979]

i have always pinched the barbs on treble hooks, but leave them on the single hooks....they tend to hold bait on better.

[Nakoda boater]

Just because it's easy in and easy out. Then it's quicker to max your fishing time.

[pikergolf]

what's a mif?

[Redfrog]

It's the law.

[ogre]

Originally Posted by BeeGuy

Well, looks like the Mayans may have had it right.

We have been saved so far from the Zombie Apocalypse,

but as the confusing 2013 AB Fishing Regulations Guide has dictated, this is the year of

The Barbageddon.

It will be a miracle if any fish survives to 2014.

Please vote to indicate whether you will be either 100% braless or will sometimes or always use barbs.

I personally will sometimes use barbs, but often will not. I just don't put much weight on it. I find trebles to have a significant impact on fish, and barbs none.

...and I fish braless too

[anthony5]

Voted to use barbs sometimes because I will most likely use barbless where it is C&R only, don't much care what anyone thinks, as long as it is legal.

[jacenbeers]

Originally Posted by Geezle

If I'm planing on keeping fish (rare) I'll consider barbs, but if it's a c&r day then I'll be barbless.

My thoughts exactly. If I am fishing for Sturgeon or anything in the Bow River (browns and rainbows), I will be barbless as always. Also, anytime I am fishing for pike or walleye anywhere because they are not a fish I would keep. However, if I am at Spray for lakers or whites, I will likely be barbed.

[Wild&Free]

My intention is to be 100% barb less, however there are times when pinching a barb slips a guys mind for a few casts.

[skidderman]

Barbs all the way. Isn't it funny. Sk never went barbless, Sk asks to release the big spawners but no, Alberta is smarter than SK-----NOT

[RayL42]

The title made me laugh a little.
Anyway I may use barbed hooks if I plan on keeping fish, but most of my hooks have the barbs pinched already and I’m not going to the effort to un-pinch the barb or the expense to replace the pinched hooks.

[Double-Eh]

I won't be replacing debarbed hooks. Too much money for something that may change back again.

If I buy new, I'll likely debarb trebles. Especially since I don't keep many jacks and they tend to nearly pass lures entirely at times.

[Freedom55]

Originally Posted by skidderman

Barbs all the way. Isn't it funny. Sk never went barbless, Sk asks to release the big spawners but no, Alberta is smarter than SK-----NOT

Check the regulations. Saskatchewan has a lot of C&R lakes in three categories, all barbless. No barbs allowed at the Vanity Cup, the Premier's Cup, or Big River Walleye Classic. Nor in the Southern Tour.

I recently completed 1000 snell knots; not a barb in the bunch. None of the tackle I owned when I left Calgary has a barb on it. None of my salmon tackle is barbed (not that there are many sockeyes in SK). Nothing goes in a box or tray with a barb. Any hooks that make it under my skin will not have a barb.

Some of you guys got a weird belief that before barbs were outlawed, no one ever lost a fish. Oh look! My worm fell off.

Only Italo fishes with Barb.

Free

[Scott N]

Most of the time I flyfish, so I don't see much point in de-barbing small flies.

[Gust]

here's a barb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnwJ5KIcKX4

awesome fish caught on a barb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsG2-BMCF8o

[Gust]

Thing is, is that all my lures are barbless now, unless I'm buying new, which I'm not.

[Nakoda boater]

Originally Posted by Gust

here's a barb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnwJ5KIcKX4

awesome fish caught on a barb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsG2-BMCF8o

Yup, Barbie rod is my next purchase...

[MtnGiant]

Originally Posted by pikergolf

what's a mif?

That's what I was thinking too....maybe he meant milf? hahaha

[Wild&Free]

Originally Posted by mtngiant

That's what I was thinking too....maybe he meant milf? hahaha

If that's the case, I voted wrong.

[Blairh]

Barbless all the way! not to mention couple derbies I fish are barbless only in the rules.

[cranky]

Barbless soon as it comes outa the package, before it hits the tackle box. Cause sometimes i forget to pinch otherwise and its good practice for when they make it the law.

[grinr]

Again...what's a mif??
And where is the 100% barbed or "Barbed Most Of the Time" poll options?
I flyfish only and agree with a previous post that says "barbless on small flies is pointless".He says <#14.....I'd go so far as to say <#8?I hadn't fished a barbless fly in my life until moving to AB 2 yrs ago,I've caught at least a cpl thousand brookies over the span of 25yrs flyfishing,probably half of those on barbed #8 Woolybuggers,and safely released over 90% of those no worse for wear.Of the 10% that I killed,maybe 1-2% were because of a deep hook set or a hook point thru the gills or eyeball of tiny fish,which can happen just as easily with a barbless fly.The other 8-9% that I killed was because I had a craving for a panful of trout.Bait,now that's a differemt can'o worms,pun intended......but I don't fish with bait or jewelry so moot point.

IMO,barbed flies in appropriate sizes are no more harmful than barbless.Some might even argue that barbless advocates that take too long to land a fish for fear of losing it before they can take their "grip'n grin hero photo" are actually doing far more damage to the fishery with higher mortality rates from excessively playing fish/lactic acid concentrations than the barbed angler that lands fish quickly?What I do know for certain is that my hooked:landed ratio has suffered noticeably since going barbless last two years,and I'll be using barbs as long as it's legal,other than maybe for Bullies on relatively large flies?

[fishstix]

I don't fish to survive. If one gets off because I've chosen to use a barbless hook then good for the fish. Its not like I'm going to starve to death. I'll catch another.... I hope.