Rod, you must have missed my previous response to answer some of the questions for others. I didn't find her, nor any of the tens that were totally locked up and left alone for the next day. Thus affirming what experience has taught me that they are locked up one day and gone the next. Trust me, I thought hard about it and even called a big fish friend of mine just to one, bragg about what I had found and two, to get a second opinion. As I stated, she was a fish of a lifetime, one that will probably be my biggest for decades to come. In other words, had I left her, chances are she would have been not been there just like all the others I left alone, and would be kicking myself in the pants every sleepless night wishing I would have gone ahead and stuck her. Another thing to note was that upon first seeing her, I pitch up to see what she would do and she tried to smoke my bait. Upon seeing this with eyes as big as saucers I yanked the bait away from her since to think things over given the pre fishing situation. In other words I knew this was going to be as easy as they come, the type of big sight fish situation we all dream about, but if she was a stickler and ran around a lot, then I would have probably left her alone for the next day. I didn't win the tournament the next day....I got second place and you will not hear me complain one bit. Two awesome days in a row that will be hard for me to match ever again unless the planets align just right and i come up on an even bigger toad in pre-fish, which if it is bigger than her, I will most gladly stick if she is as willing as this one was. Tournaments come and go on a weekly basis. 15 pounders you have to chase away from your bait come along (for most of us) once in a life time.