How to Properly Pinch a Barbed Hook on a Trout Fly
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Often times anglers don't properly pinch their barbs and there is some shrapnel remaining on the hook shank. Don't be that guy! Properly pinch barbs on your flies and help make your trout fishery better one clean release at a time.
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the most important thing is to debarb a bunch of hooks before you go to the water don't get to the water and try to make that happen you will become sloppy or even not even do it.
Great informative video for beginner fly fisherman like me. Thank you.
I use a small set of pliers at the bench and have for 40+ years.
Also barbless hooks will easier as you don't have to set the hook so hard to get past the barb.
To bad they don't make barbless hooks a cheaper option.
Thanks
How many shirts you ruined with this ? 😂 maybe a piece of fabric cloth? Ehh..👍🏻
None. I pinch my barbs properly hahahah. - thanks for the humor. We need more of that.
I should add to Joe’s recommendations: If you need to handle a fish for some reason, wet your hand before doing so. If you are wearing a glove , take it off then wet your hand. Avoid handling fish however but if you do, do not squeeze it or stick your fingers in their gills! Don’t leave it gasping for oxygen while you are preparing to take a picture. Release a fish facing a not too strong of a current especially if you fought it longer than you should have. Put yourself in the fish’s place!
Very good additions, thank you!
Joe, you're absolutely right. Can you do a follow-up on dealing with what I call "stub barbs?" Stub barbs are the base of the barb that is left if the barb breaks, rather than bends. Stub barbs grab at the fish's mouth as badly as a full barb. I have the worst time trying to file them down, but there must be an efficient way to file that damnable stub down to smooth.
By the way, the stub barb phenomenon only happens fairly infrequently nowadays, but I remember when we all had no choice but the old-version Mustad fly-tying hooks. The steel was more brittle than the modern Japanese hooks, as well as today's Mustads. I had so much file grit from stub barbs that I had to clean my fingers with a magnet.
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Or just buy barbless hooks
Thx man. Good for the fish, good for the fishery.
Thanks for the information. Great video
Thank you!
Cool video don't have laws here regarding barbless hooks. That I have seen for the waters I fish. Nevertheless still excellent information to know. Hoping to hit my local waters tomorrow.
Good luck. Barbless is pretty handy cause then you can stick the flies in your hat or car visor when not in use.
I switched to barbless in my late teens and twenties, I've NEVER noticed any difference is losing fish to a barbless hook vs barbed. Never. For me, it's just easier to get the fish off the hook and get back to fishing.......
Sorry, replied to the wrong thread......
In Oklahoma there's no longer trout license required.
At Beaver's Bend State Park (Hochatown, OK)barbless hooks are only required in "Red Zones".
There are huge trout in the red zones.
I wish they required barbless hooks in the Blue Zones too😥
Thanks for the video😎
ALSO >>>> saves Your ears and back of Your neck 'winks'....... HEY who is the guy with NO HAT lol
Any vid in Alaska fishing.
I haven't been to Alaska since 2008, mostly because we are so busy from late June - August when the north country is at it's peak.
If you're not eating the fish you shouldn't be using a barb.
Good stuff. Thanks.
Is that the provo river?
I never knew that you could use those kind of forceps, i always had to use heavy pliers or i used a file and half way got rid of that barb.
You sure can, but they have to be pretty sturdy. Those are pretty strong and don't flex much. Many forceps are too flimsy and simply flex rather than crushing the barb.
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So I am still learning to fly fish (mostly self taught with some help from your videos) but I've fished spin rods my whole life. I've never heard of pinching the barb until relatively recently and I have a question: I am intrigued and interested in pinching my barbs but to be honest, I fear losing more fish because of getting rid of the barb. Is my fear justified or is it only an assumption with no grounding? And will I need to set a hook or fight differently with a barbless hook?
You will probably lose more fish. But you won't lose a lot more fish. I've only had a few times this past year when i lost fish and it was because my rod tip got stuck in the low hanging trees. Basically, just keep the line tight at all times while fighting the fish. Fishing barbless hooks will make it easier on you and the fish.
david matney Keep your line taught and you will minimize losing fish. Barbless hooks is the law in many catch and release fly fishing only streams. As Joe mentions here, it is crucial for survival of these fish that we fight them quickly, avoid handling and use barbless hooks.
Thanks NC bow hunter 14 and cachi, I mostly fish Bass and bluegill as I'm in the Kansas City area and the closest decent trout water is 3 hours away, but I will definitely try barbless hooks ...
I switched to barbless in my late teens and twenties, I've NEVER noticed any difference is losing fish to a barbless hook vs barbed. Never. For me, it's just easier to get the fish off a barbless hook and get back to fishing. That's all.....
Barbless hooks don't injure the fish and you don't lose any fish either.
You most certainly will loose more fish on a barbless hook than on a hook with barbs. That's just plain nonsense to believe otherwise.
You could not be more wrong.
@@icefisher1171 I have been angling for a long time now and have proven again and again that barbless hooks are fish and environment friendly - not to mention the injuries to the fish that are avoided or at least greatly minimized. There is only one exception with using barbless - bass are often able to throw a barbless hook. But there again because bass are invasive alien species in most parts of the world we use barbed hooks as we remove them all from the waters.
When you remove or flatten the barb on dry flies the tiny bubble at the bend of the hook goes away and do you tend to get more strikes. The main problems with barbed hooks is that when you lose a fish, it swims away with the hook and line in it's mouth. This puts the fish at a disadvantage and it will probably die a lingering death as a result. When you use barbed hooks, they often tear the mouth of the fish, leaving it open to secondary infections. Sometimes a fish will be hooked in the gills or in the eye by mistake - barbless hooks obviously are less traumatic in these cases.
So tell me now why you disagree so wrongly?
PS for those who do catch and release bass, please switch to wide gape worm hooks. They never get an eye or gill.
Thanks for promoting barbless. An often missed advantage is the you are more likely to get a deep hook set without the extra resistance of the barb. It’s probably a wash between the fish you don’t lose thanks to the deep set VS. those that get off due to no barb, so might as well fish barbless. Also, like you mention, when possible use a hook that’s manufactured barbless. They go in super slick, like a hypodermic needle.
I catch monster trout constantly and always have a barbless fly tied on. Theres really no need for a barb even if your going to eat a few just better all round. Cheers 😀🤙
Barbless hooks make a bigger hole in the fish from moving around.It can hook a fish 4 and 5 times before actually getting the fish in the boat too.Just because it's easier to get the hook out when you reel them in doesn't mean less damage.
Waylen Total nonsense.
@@cachi-7878 I agree,barbless hooks are total nonsense.
@@cachi-7878 It's true,Many places mandate the use of barbed hooks for those very reasons.
No, what you claim is total nonsense.
Do me a favor and stick two #2 hooks, one with a barb and one barbless, in your arm until you see the point come through your skin.. Tug and wiggle them around and then pull them out. Then tell me which one caused more pain and damage.
@@cachi-7878 Fish don't feel pain like humans do according to Neurobiologists.As well,from simply being the owner of an aquarium. I know fish skin heals very quickly.Like,within a few days as long as they have a good slime coat.The biggest killer of any fish is stress.