Solus wrote on May 13^th, 2019 at 1:46pm:

No need to worry about hook set (sharp or not). The laker thinks its grabbing a 2oz minnow but instead has attached itself to (in the case of a tandem) some 500# of  boat/paddler/gear. Gotta be a shock on the system.

Agreed. Even trolling with 8# mono I don't purposely set the hook while trolling. If anything I'll take an extra stroke. Using barbless, it seems to me you'd be just be making the holes bigger.