Fishing

Ask me why it's over 10 years since I last used barbed hooks.

In all honesty, I lose less fish on barbless than I did on barbed and the smaller hook I use, the less hook pulls I get. My go-to is now size 8 with boilies of up to 20mm and 12 or 14 with pellets, I have caught high 20s on all of these.

The only carp I can remember losing to a hook problem in the last two years was three weeks ago, predictably it felt easily mid-20s. The bloody hook partially straightend, the first time this has happened to me since the early 90s. I listened to ModernCarpAngler bullshit about super sharp hooks and tried Cryogen, they went in the bin.

I loathe the multiplicity of pointless products at stupid prices peddled by Korda, I can't stand Danny Fairbrass, BUT, I can't fault their Kurv hooks straight from the packet and only use anything else for very specific applications.