No dont debarb your hooks, Try finding a different spot first. Unless youd be happy just seeing all your empty barbless hooks back at the boatramp>

Snburnt i dont think i have the option of choosing a different spot. The pond is very very small. Its a drainage ditch to hold excess rainwater tbh. It has just been stocked with fish i think.

Wherever i cast, is liekly a turtles habitat. Do you feel that strongly negative about barbless hooks? What are the reasons for it?

i always but a little bit if cork at the end of the hook and itl hook up on a cat but usually not a turtle

Can i get a pic or a diagram? Its kinda hard to imagine what you are talking about.

ive read articles that circle hooks are better as they can be swallowed but may not gut hook the turtle. makes sense if the hooks stay i nthe stomach i think the turtle would live. not sure if they really rust out in fw