all I know is that when you catch a fish big or small with a barbed hook you have to handle the fish to get the hook out and if your smooth with a barbless hook you just grab the hook shank and the fish slides off with nary a finger print, I personally think there should be a bait ban on alot of areas in question. indians net this and indians net that so I can fish any way I want, grow up and get a clue people.

and yes those fly fisherman who think this is some montana stream using varouis small barbes flies are more than likely having a large mortality rate among juvenile steelhead and salmon squeezing I mean holding them to take the fly out.