Can anyone point me in the direction of a barbless 3/0 EWG strait shank hook?

Just smash the barb down with your needle nose pliers.

Just smash the barb down with your needle nose pliers.

 

I'm so happy I clicked on this thread

I use a dremel to take off the barb for my nightcrawler  #4 hooks.

Why would you need a barbless ewg?

I pinch down the barbs on my wide gap hooks that I use when senko fishing. If a fish gets hooked deep, I can get the hook out very easily while doing minimum damage to the fish.

I pinch down the barbs on my wide gap hooks that I use when senko fishing. If a fish gets hooked deep, I can get the hook out very easily while doing minimum damage to the fish.

This is why I want a barbless hook.

The reason I like to pinch them down instead of grinding them off is that the little bump that is left after pinching makes it just a little harder for the hook to back out when fighting a fish. Another advantage to barbless hooks is that they penetrate farther, easier with no barb.

The vast majority of my bass fishing is catch and release.  For that reason, most of my single hook baits and worm hooks have the barb mashed down.  I'll loose an occasional fish, but the enjoyment for me is finding, enticing and then fighting a fish.  Getting it in the boat  is less important to me than, say, the loss of my lure or being able to snap a photo. 

It also gives the fish a fighting chance to 'win' the battle and I'm okay with my win/loss percentage. I just wish my hook up percentage were a little better. 

I don't think I have ever heard of or seen a straight shank EWG hook.

 

I agree with Scott F about the barb.

I don't think I have ever heard of or seen a straight shank EWG hook.

 

I agree with Scott F about the barb.

Straight shank, not offset

I pinch down the barbs on my wide gap hooks that I use when senko fishing. If a fish gets hooked deep, I can get the hook out very easily while doing minimum damage to the fish.

Pinch a barb, save a fish (or a thousand)

I mash mine shut to. I figure the fish have got to heal a lot faster. And bite again sooner hopefully.

I mash mine shut to. I figure the fish have got to heal a lot faster. And bite again sooner hopefully. 

Mashed the barb down on my 3/0 WG hook, pulled a little sub-pounder out of some reeds with a zoom lizard, and by the time I got 'em on the bank, the hook already slipped out. Made it alot easier for me, and for the fish

 

Also caught a big little sunfish on the lizard by a dock, and hooked 'em all the way through his mouth. Hook slipped right out like nothin happened, where as I would have torn him up some if the hook still had the barb up.