Fly-Fishing Quote: How to Weigh a Trout

Charles Dudley Warner, essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain. ca. 1897 photo via Wikipedia

Fish always lose by being “got in and dressed.” It is best to weigh them while they are in the water. The only really large one I ever caught got away with my leader when I first struck him. He weighed ten pounds.

—Charles Dudley Warner, In the Wilderness (1878)