Dilemma: Do you leave fish to find fish?

[steve]

CASE IN POINT- I was once picking away at small schoolies using live eels and thought about leaving to find bigger fish. Conditions were good and it was about this time of year. Something told me to stick it out and about 15 minutes later I landed a 44 pounder. Ever since that incident I very rarely leave biting fish, even dinks.

[steve]

Just for the record- A very good surffisherman recently told me that he routinely "leaves" 30 pounders to find bigger fish. Now that's confidence! I couldn't do it.