Single Barbless Hook
The barbless single hook is standard for trout bfs method for targeting wild fish for several reasons.
- Minimize damage to fish
- Field regulation
- Improve C&R success rate
- Better penetration
- Enhance game characteristics
Minimizing damage to fish:
The damage to the fish’s mouth differs significantly when using a single hook point versus three points on a treble hook.
Unhooking the Barbless single hook with fingers is a breeze, especially when the front and rear hooks are penetrated but minimizing scarring is next to impossible with treble hooks.
Field regulation:
The use of barbed hooks is strictly prohibited in many protected wild fisheries.
It’s simple and easy not to have any barbed hook-equipped minnows with you at all times to be able to fish anywhere.
Although there are other restrictions that apply on a field-by-field basis, we still need to check the local rules regardless.
Improve C&R success rate:
Stunning beauty of wild fish are treasure to us and feature anglers, proper catch and release is absolute mission for anglers targeting wild fish.
The presence of wild fish in this country is a great privilege, and Fish and Game and other organizations work tirelessly to preserve them.
Barbless single hooks play a significant role in participation in this.
Better penetration:
Barbless offer higher penetration rate compared to barbs especially with a finesse-powered rod.
Most of the trout bfs rod’s hooking power are set to minimal for the use of light line and thin gage wire hooks, full penetration is key to avoid hook opening up on large strong fish.
As an alternative experimental study, we’ve used many bass rods, but the downside of using non-specific rods is that they wipe out the fun factor in the trout bfs game.
One of the most attractive elements of trout bfs is to build the game using most-finesse equipment that is specifically built, especially the rods that conveys everything to the angler.
The challenge of achieving our ideal US-spec model is to fine-tune the balance between cast performance and fighting-ability, same time leaving the thrill of finesse elements.
The trout’s behavior makes blank modulus a crucial element.
Wild fish are excellent swimmers, sprinters and their natural instinct make them ultra-short biter.
Enhance game characteristics:
The use of barbless single hook dramatically enhances game performance characteristics of trout bfs because the tackle balance must be precisely matched.
Rod strength, bend curve, drag performance of the reel, line type and fighting style that are all precisely work flawlessly together.
Wild fish can unhook themselves easily if the tackle balance is not correct.
Fortunately, Shimano Japan has started equipping single hooks on the Cardiff REFRAIN series minnow. Remember to pinch the barb.
Replacing factory-equipped barbed treble hooks with barbless single hooks is a time-consuming task.
We hope that all trout minnows will be equipped with single hooks in the near future.
There is a huge benefit of single hook over treble hook.
Hook wire gage can be much thicker than trebles, wild fish over 20 inch can easily open or break the thin gaged hooks with short length trout bfs rods.
Short rods are physically less absorptive to fish-pull than longer rods.
Therefore, thicker gage wire is necessary to target large wild fish to prevent hook opening up
The surface coating of the forged hook is also an important feature that reflects penetration performance and relates to landing ratio.
The fluorine coating minimizes friction and ensures hook penetration, while at the same time increasing hook strength.
Smoother operation requires less force for the complete penetration.
Improved penetration comes with the disadvantage of being easier to dislodge, so that rod’s responsiveness must work together to keep the fish pinned.
Physical limitation of short lengths of trout bfs rods, selecting the ideal blank material is the best solution and makes the trout bfs rod so specific and unique.
Our product choice for targeting wild fish have been Vanfook PLB-59F pinched-barb even for our lightest model 4’10” UL for the field with occasional 16 inch+ fish for the strength.
Owner SBL75S for the field with only 16 inch and smaller for superior penetration.
The curved hook point secures fish in pocket and offer higher landing ratio than straight point for us.
Oh, quality snaps are must for quick minnow replacement.
High quality snaps provide worry-free strength even for the small size snaps, such as #00 and #0.
The owner (Cultiva) offers excellent snaps to choose from for each need.
These snaps provide a positive click that is crucial for frozen fingers, and their strength is unmatched.
We have experienced enough snap failures that cost us ‘fish of the trip’ until we settled with the owner’s snap.
Superior performance and quality we can rely on.
