Anyone try barbless hooks?

[danyeo]

I catch and release pretty much everything I catch. A few years ago I got into the habit of snapping off 1 hook of the treble hooks on all my lures and I don't see it affecting my catches and it's much easier to unhooked the fish with only working with 2 hooks instead of 3.

I caught a nice Smallmouth today on the Passaic, yet again, and I got him on a pretty big hook. It went into his mouth and came out near his eye. Instead of yanking it back out I pushed it out past his eye a little and snipped off the hook with some pliers and of course it came back out like nothing. And a few weeks ago I caught a Smallmouth on the Raritan and the hook was so far in his belly I also just cut off as much hook as I could and just let him go. I read here that hooks will dissolve after a few days and wrestling with the hook would have caused some major damage.

So has anyone tried barbless? Or at least squeezing the barbs down a little with some pliers?