yes ive been checked for barbless hooks during the last two salmon seasons. The fish cop took my hook and ran it threw a pice of cheese.cloth to see if the hook had a barb.
I seen one write out a ticket to a guy who had pinched his barb down and it just barley
caught.You could run your finger across it and not feel anything but the hook had a little mark on it and thats what caught and the fis cop said it was a barb so he wrote the guy a ticket.
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Where Destroying Fishing in Washington..

mainly region 6