Also, if an errant fly gets stuck in your ear, you will be very glad you used barbless hooks. Don’t laugh, it happens. The proposed regulation allows anglers to crimp the barbs on existing hooks. Be ...

FISHING — Starting May 1, anglers fishing for salmon or steelhead on the Columbia River and most of its tributaries downstream from Chief Joseph Dam will be required to use barbless hooks.

Some anglers present asked for a compromise, keeping the new regulation’s limits on size and numbers, as well as barbless hooks ... fish caught with artificial flies. Lentz confirmed that ...