Hooks for Quetico Park fishing and anywhere else in the world barbless hooks are required.

They're not pointless...they're barbless!

These are Eagleclaw #1 Barbless hooks. I recommend that you tie a snell knot for superior hooksetting power and strength. Practise this knot before you leave for the Quetico!
One really handy fact about barbless hooks is that if you get one in your finger (or eyebrow, or butt, or etc.) and you are 30 miles from nowhere, you can usually remove it as fast as it goes in. It hurts but it comes out. No hook-removing adventures using fishing line, pliers, a filletknife, etc. Probablly a whole lot less chance for nerve damage as well. Order #1 Barbless Eagle Claws Here

Fishing Tip for Barbless Hooks: It is absolutely imperative that upon hooking a fish, you NEVER slack up the line between your rod tip and the fish - if you want to land him.

I guided day fishing trips for about 25 years. If I had a nickel for everytime I said "keep your line tight" to countless new and repeat clients using "barbed" hooks with a nice fish on, and then watching them lose focus and allow the line to go slack... I'm figuring that about 70% of you will do the same or worse with barbless hooks. Yes, I know, I'm cynical. But unfortunately, I also know I'm correct. If you keep your line tight - no slack, but not pulling on the fish - at all times, you will rarely, if ever lose the fish.

Fishing Tip for any kind of hooks and lures : Three things when landing any fish: 1. Keep your line tight always. Tight means pressure applied to the fish but not so much that you double your rod in two. 2. Make sure that you have a decent reel with a drag that allows line to pull out when playing a fish. A reel drag that is set too loose will allow the fish to pull out line faster than you can keep up resulting in a slack line and "buh-bye". A drag set too tight will not allow any line to pull out when the fish needs it and you'll hear a "pink!" when your line breaks, or a "snap" when your rod breaks. 3. Do not "horse" the fish into the boat (ie., pull so hard the the poor little walleye comes flying out of the lake). Crank your line in and while keeping your line tight, allow the rod to essentially wind down to the water, then stop cranking and carefully pull the fish up. If he doesn't want to go up, just wait and keep the line tight. Then try to repeat the process. It's right at this point that 70% of you will forget to keep the line tight by cranking the reel and you'll suddenly drop the rod tip to the water with all that line piling up o the water's surface. 90% of the time with barbed hooks and 100% of the time with barbless hooks, the fish is outta there!

 

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