When thereafter the last hundred years fishermen used barbed hooks this was due to their false fear of loosing fish. Thats wrong- when you know how to keep tension on the line, barely a fish goes off your barbless hook.
Not only our respect towards the fish, but also avoiding unnecessary injuries or stress-related deaths in juvenile fish forces us to fish barbless.
Since 2008 Swiss legislation prohibits the use of barbed hooks in every flowing water.
Lisez: Reasons and histoiry of the Swiss prohibition of barbed hooks / Hintergründe zum Widerhakenverbot in der Schweiz (german text)
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