"ease of removal from wild fish AND because they hook the fish better"... Yes.
Treble equals trouble all the way around. On the fish's face/mouth, loosing of the fish, and a major bummer for removal from (if still living in 1970 and using one), a net...
Any body here ever have one of those huge bags of trebles in every assorted size and finish that they took off factory lures and kept lying around, "just in case"? I had more than a few, then when saving the planet became "popular" and "recycling" took off, they went to a King County Solid Waste site for sorting...
