No not at all. Just good to know so when I break off a nice fish and have to retie I don't make so much as a single cast without pinchin' my barb. Anyways my fishing buddies are the same guys you fish with. Actually your right we bonk a truckload of fish and they are all snagged in the back. We just took the eggs, come on man who do you think I am. Plus the fish BITE too well in there too ever think about doing something so low.