I find it amazing how much of a difference is it when fishing with barbless hooks. I was lazy about debarbing my hooks i figured i would lose fish that way. When fishing for steelhead I would get a lot of "little stuff" with some being killed accidently. Without the barb the little stuff usually can get off by itself or very easly by me. I don't belief it has made any differenc with the larger fish. They should make it mandatory to have barbless hooks for all fisheries.