I've fished a lot with barbless hooks up in Manitoba. I accually didn't have a problem with it. I've caught the biggest fish in my life on barbless along with limits of nice Walleyes. But I agree with Solotripper on this, for those pushing for barbless... it's never good enough, it would be the next step. If barbs were hurting much they would have been outlawed years ago. If they were a problem it would be fish biologists or the like pushing for it. Not special interest.