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I absolutly agree frank. im glad that these points have been brought up and there definatly is no one answer on the subject. and i wasnt trying to make you sound misinformed( or retarded) and that is once again a very valid point, and i still have alot to learn about these fish that i love. i think its decussions like this that help me and people who read this thread to do so so thanks for keeping it civil and also informitive. -Miles

The only thing i could say about that is he probably didnt feel the hook which is why it came out of his mouth, furthermore brown trout tend to be much more agressive and much less weary (esp. at the sz. of ten inches) than rainbows, as they are actually a different species( not sub-species). Which would be like comparing bass with bluegill. The day someone posts or i hear a story of a rainbow caught with a hook in its mouth ill shut up..

My buddy tells me theres a stream he fishes back east for common carp, its right next to a famous ice cream shop and all the kids throw there half eaten cones into the river where the carp then slurp them up. he tells me he tied an imitation of the cones and the fish love it! also kinda off topic i just thought it was an interesting story..

Well perchjerker that is a really cool story about that red and i hope to target them one of these days but as previously mentioned trout are a very delicate fish, and from my 18 years of experience trout fishing i can say that nothing like that has ever happened with me most trout take one whack at a fly, feel the hook and dont come back.. ive never found a hook in a fishes mouth exept one time last year when i was fishing a small sesonal creek just a few miles from my house. it was me and a friend fishing for rainbows and brooks, we spotted a 14 inch rainbow at the next hole up so we took a few casts at it, the fish dident take the flys so we kept on moving up usually at this point we walk right up on them because this creek is in a sort of slot canyon and we cant really bypass the hole. when we walked up on him he dident budge so then my buddy noticed that he was attached to a downed log by fishing line and he was extremley skinny we where actually able to grab the line and pull the fish out of the water and we found that he was gut hooked by a single egg hook( barbed) we were able to remove the hook with our hemostats and release the fish. i came back to the creek a few days later to see the same fish in the same hole. i dident cast at him but from the look of it he was starting to recover.. this is something i will never forget and one reason i will always use barbless hooks on trout.

One thing i dont belive was mentioned is the loss of flies in fish, if a fish snaps you off i feel ( with no hard evidence) that the hook would fall out of the fishes mouth easier if it is debarbed then barbed, allowing the fish to get back to its feeding habits quicker. also on the thought of it bieng better for the fisherman than the fish, if its easier to get out of our skin then why wouldent it be the same for the fish? im sure those of you that have been hooked by both can say that it hurts a whole lot less to pull out a barbless hook then a barbed one.. and from my experince brook trout fishing using barbed hooks can mess up there jaws pretty bad esp. when using sz. 10 hooks with a standard barb. also i find it hard to belive that when bait fishing using a barbed treble hook (in still water esp.) that it is the same as a single hook barbless using that same bait, from my experience with both its a whole lot easier to remove the hook there is a less of a chance of gut hooking the fish. and the fish isnt shoked quite as bad, for these reasons i support single hook barbless laws, and crimp all of my barbs before they leave the vice.

Nice brookie gotta love the colors.. this was one of the more colorful ive caught.

I guess you could stick a bugger in the streamer catagory, my favorite to tie and fish. Hands down

Brook trout about 18 inches last year. It was post spawn so it was slim but still a big boy for our area. I've hooked into a few over 20 but I could never get em to the net. In reality I've probably caught rainbows bigger but it thought it was worth a mention seeing as no one seems to ever mention the under rated brookie. Caught on my own black ant too! Woo picture of a picture!

Thanks man, just got back from the north fork of the american, and all they produced was a couple of rock bass. Had to throw on a sz. 12 olive stimulator to catch any trout.. Ugh I hate drys.. And I hate tying them even more!

thanks guys I live in soda springs ca about an hour from lake tahoe.. Have the same style tied with chartreuse instead of orange.

ooo where did you catch that?? Very beautiful. Are you sure that's not a lightning trout. Looks just like the ones stocked in a lake around were I grew up.

Here something a little different I tied on a sz. 10. I like different..

How about a local legend for me, Andy Burke. Not only are his flies pieces of art but when I was first starting to tie I was Able to go into his shop and sit there and watch him tie as he would give me pointers and answer my questions. If you haven't heard of him check his work out!