most of the people i see with buzz bombs dont know to even pinch the barbs...i usually bring four herring with me at lunch to fish for Coho..but before the fish are really there it is not worth four herring going to waste...so i throw a buzz bomb or a spoon..unfourntly the spoons dont go very far unless you have current...i have always used a 2/0 but use Owners..i think they hook more fish than the trebles...seams most people with trebles hook the fish just on the edge of the jawline and seam to loose more fish...i think a nomal hook is aways better...c