Frogging In The Pads

[CheckedOut]

I was fishing the pads with a frog tonight. This monster strikes and I set the hook. I fight with it for a bit and it wraps up in the pads. I get free and then realize the fish is off. All I do is pull in lily pads. I do this 3 times. Nice fish, wrap up and catch pads. I am catch and release guy. I removed the barbs from the hooks and realize the cause. Looks like I am replacing a hook on my frog. Lesson learned for me. Will still use barbless but in super heavy weeds will use barbs.

[CPBassFishing]

Using barbless hooks is just begging to lose half your fish...... why would you do this in an effort to make a hole half the size of when the hook with the barb is half a millimeter?