This all may be quite obvious to most of you , but is indeed new to me , so bear with me. I have been fishing the Green and just assumed it would be single hooks, barbless and fished as such. I actually like the barbless hooks now after goring myself a few times. After re-reading the regs, I called F&W. AT first I got quotes from the book with no real explanation and was told that 1 hook-barbless was it. I was transferred a few times and ended up with the guy who always seems to know the regs without reading right from the book. So, I ambushed him with questions. Poor guy! So, anything that floats on its own - can have treble hooks as long as the weight is at least 12 inches above the lure-setup. I was actually asking about plugs and lures and was shocked to hear I didn't have to take off the trebles. Now I actually didn't ask about corkies as I had many other questions, but they do float on their own right? This really wasn't so much of an issue for me as I normally just use 1 hook-barbless. But, to hear that trebles are actually legal with a floating lure and weight above 12 inches, I may throw out some more floating spinners. I am not handy at taking off treble hooks and putting singles on, so this is interesting. However, I've always liked how easy it was to remove the barbless hook from a non-retainable fish and from myself. Just interesting info to me that I didn't find in the guide book.

Ps The fish were jumping big time just below MlK yesterday. There is very few spots of access and I drove all up and down the river. I thought they might be fresher and friskier on the lower part, but it looks like most of the bank access is in Auburn.

Its in the definition section of the regs on page 21, "non-bouyant lure restriction", second paragraph.

I'm not so sure corkies are considered a lure?? They do lure a fish to the hook, but once you add a hook unless they are big they are not so bouyant anymore. What would everyone else think about this? Although, it would be strange to see corkies with a treble!!

See page 21 of the definitions, under "Lure." Once you add a hook to a corky, it becomes a "lure".

In fact, under this definition, a plain hook with just yarn tied on (i.e., with no bait or corky) is **probably** considered a "lure".

Corkeis and yarn would be considered a lure per the states definitions but the size of corkie I use doesnt have enough bouyancy to float the hook, so I would consider it a non-bouyant lure.