barbless bought vs barbless bent

Peaceful Bill wrote:
Scott Seidman wrote:



I've heard stories about Conservation officers checking for barbs in
barbless only areas by sticking the point through a stocking and
seeing how it comes out. It would be much harder for a bent-over barb
to pass this test.

I don't know if this is real or rumour.


On the tailwaters of Norfork Lake in the C&R area (Norfork River), F&G
checks with paper. Bent barbs often catch on the paper. Even when
barbs that are broken off by twisting, they could leave a burr than can
catch on paper. A friend of mine got a ticket even though he clearly
had the barb bent down because it caught on the paper.

Do you mean to say that they didn't confiscate all his gear and his rig
and haul him off to jail? That's the way I've heard the legend goes. :-)

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