^^^ what jpsdad has said.
I bend down the barbs on my hooks, too. It's uncommon to lose a fish for us when fishing with debarbed hooks. We lose some, of course, with barbed hooks, too. That's the nature of fishing.
Releasing fish unharmed is much easier and quicker. I find that netting a trout taken on a debarbed hook releases the hook from the fish's mouth. Bass and sunfish don't thrash around in the net as much as trout do, so they usually require deliberate manual unhooking.