I like barbless hooks a lot. If you have ever got a hook stuck in you that is barbed,it is no fun getting it out.
I got one hook fron a spinner stuck in my belly and I had to go and find a doctor to get it out. If it had been barbless I could have got it out myself.
A barbed hook holds better in a fish,where a barbless one has a tendency to move around. But to take a hook out of a fish the barb sometimes also takes out parts of the fish.
I just wish all of the hooks that we tie flies with were barbless. That way you wouldn't have to keep pinching down the barbs.
Well enough of this. Jim S.