Usually crushed, always if it is schoolies. On trebles I generally crush em. If I got one uncrushed and its in the fish and won't come out easy, I will crush it before unhooking. Bucktails and other jigs and a shot at a bigun and I am likely to leave it barbed as long as possible. I agree, why if its unnescessary oke:
I crush the barbs when fishing for schoolies and I don't use trebles when fishing for schoolies. After that.... let 'em bleed ... no, when there's a chance for big fish the barbs stay.
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I don't quite understand the whole barbless thing, with the exception of maybe one or two schoolies that get hooked a little further down in the mouth, the barbed hook seems to come out fairly easy.
I really hate losing a fish, big or small and I am afraid crushing barbs will increase the chance of that. Call me cruel....
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... no, when there's a chance for big fish the barbs stay.
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