Easier on them not to use bait. I caught all the fish I could handle up in the Straits so far this year with a Coyote and a single barbless hook, had one large king bleeder and one small fish that hit the wall and floated away belly up even though he fell off at the side of the boat, but the rest of the uncounted hordes of fish I released took off with no problems - they just don't seem to want to swallow that chunk of metal the way they do a herring, so they never seem to be hooked very bad. I just won't use bait anymore when I expect to have to release a lot of fish.