In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.
Ray Bergman (1938). “Trout: Fly Plates in Full Color Painted by Edgar Burke; Photographs of Fly Tying by Charles S. Krug; Also Many Diagrams in Line by Ivin Sickles”
