If you do lots of “catch and release” fly fishing you are aware of the advantages of barbless hooks. The main advantage, however, is that it will not hurt the fish and obviously its easier to remove the hook. BreamBugs has several barbless hooks to choose from. Here is a picture of my favorite barbless hook. Check out all of the different styles we have at: www.BreamBugs.com
To Use Or Not To Use Barbless Hooks
Sila Nice!
Most fish are hooked in the mouth, which is largely cartilage. The fish is not hurt when hooked in this manner. That area has a minimal amount of blood flow and soft tissue. Barbless hooks are excellent and can be used in any lure with a little work to install them.
Crayton Leaich nice but I use attractor flys for stocked trout and match the hatch for native trout. I like these because they look like they float upper Delaware would be a great place to fish these fly
Good looking bug
what are we got to do guess what the material to make this fly is I have an idea because I’ve been tying flies for years but why don’t you put out the recipe so other people can tie it like the new new people that’s coming to the sports you know there’s a
Thank you for your suggestion, however, we purchase all of our flies from fly tyers and the recipe would obviously need to come from them. If you want to send me an email to info@breambugs.com I will send you the contact information for this fly.
Used to love to paddle around a pond with my buddy, a. Bream buster pole with a Marathon bug on it. We’d catch a cooler full of big bluegills,perch, and shell cracker. Oh the joys of summertime.
Sounds familiar. Thanks for the memories.
Let me know when you get the green maribou damsels back in. I’ll take 6
Will do.
We have the Green Marabou Damsels in stock.
Only time I do catch and release if the fish is too small to eat.