who here crushes their barbs??

[Nebe]

As a rule i will always try to fish lures with crushed barbs until mid may and sometimes into june...sometimes i will forget to crush them, but about 95% of the time i am fishign barbless.

I just dont understand how people can justify hurting fish more than they have to if they are just going to release it.. I caught some schoolies the other night and let them flounder around at my feet in the water and they released themselves in about 4 seconds.. I didnt even have to touch them, but if my barbs were intact, i would have had to use plyers and preform a mini operation on them to get them back in one piece..