Dan....I know it's your home water and not questioning your input, but I've read the regs over and over again....and also always stop on the side of #11 and cast into Nipigon on our way to Hearst.
The best I can get out of the regs is that you must be Barbless on "all tributaries up to the first barrier to migration, all waters on the islands and Forgan, Bonner, Little Bonner and Jackpot Lakes."
Are you saying that the entire body of Lake Nipigon is also barbless??
Thanks!
Wayne