KJ:

I agree that many of my most memorable fish were those that got away. I vividly remember a Thompson River steelhead the buried my float less than twenty feet from me. I set the hook way too hard and broke him off. As I was telling my friend that I felt it had been a really big one it rocket way out of the water and shook its head with my gear still in its mouth. That was a 20 plus pound fish that I remember better than any I ever landed.