I am not sure about single hook's, i have alway's used treble's, but this winter gone a lot of people are saying that they are using single's with good affect, they say you you can miss a few, but they say you won't get a deep hooked fish{ i don't anyway} and more fish are hooked around the front of the mouth or in scissor's and more easily unhooked, i agree that they are probably easily unhooked, but i don't usally have a problem with unhooking, if you have the right unhooking tool's you should'nt have a problem, anyway i have plenty of time till october, before i will decide.