PE Pete wrote: Treat ya self your fishing mates,your deckhand etc and go with barbless trebles IMO |
Muppet wrote: Trouble with trebles is they do horrendous damage to fish that are released. I have seen photo's of fish with several inches long gashes down near their gill plates etc. Plus if the fish get stuck with trebles barbless or not its going to be very hard to shake off due to having two hooks grasping on. I can understand why folks use them, but I understand why pro charters won't allow them either. |
captain.Gav. wrote: Again Great info given here by all, thanks Laidback and others. I will be running a carpenter gamma as my main lure so the info that trebles work better on that type of lure was great thanks. Will also be trialing some new stickbaits from Japan that my mate has sourced, slightly less weight but look good. Cheers, Gav. |
Muppet wrote: Fair point about my experience. But I see you don't say anything about the amount of damage trebles can do to a fish around the gill plate area which is undeniably true and not a blind opinion. The few times I have used stickbaits with trebles I have hooked the kings/kahawai in mouth as well as top of head / eyes / soft throat area. That was just with light gear. And obviously can hurt anglers / deckhands hence a lot of charters ban them. I have had this conversation before about topwater lures with trebles with some really good fisho's and I think it is worth thinking about when buying lures that will work better with singles. |
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