I'll give it a try. They use differnt jig set ups and it is harder to make barblees then barbed hooks as the jig for making barbed hooks has the barb as a catch point in the jig as were the barbless has a jig that has to be setup differnt to hold the point of the hook vs/barbed hooks. Hope this sheds some lite on it as this is what I sort of remember beeing told in a post a yr. or so ago. You just have to search the arcives to find it/them. Later Matt P.S. no relation to Dr. Fish as I know of as my last name is Pierce also.

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To each there own !