With lots of fish with adipose fins intact that are mandatory to release in the Columbia springer fishery, with a few of them actual native fish, it is a good idea to use barbless hooks. They penetrate a bit quicker and deeper, and if you play the fish without allowing it to slack the line you will have very close to as good of landing rates. Where debarbed hooks usually come out during a fight is with a marginal hookup in a fish that quickly swims toward you, slacking the line long enough to headshake it loose.

Another good compromise alternative is to push the barbs down about half way. This allows the deeper pentration, yet does a little less barb reversal damage when taking the hook out. This is what I usually do where barbs are allowed.