Heavier line than reel is rated for?

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Originally Posted by BrokeLoser

Holy crap...that black looks like a toad....how big

That's a Santa Barbara Island fish and it is the largest black I have ever seen. Freddie whose pretty much an SBI expert, and practically knows the Blacks out there on first name basis said that it was well over 250 pounds.

Here's a few more pics of it




For the record I've caught and released many blacks but never killed one. The issue is not air in the swim bladder like with rockfish but air in the digestive system, that causes them to roll over and essentually get disoriented at the surface or puts them in kind of a sleep state. That fish was farting like a pig in a bubble bath but once I rolled him over and he quickly got his orientation back and took off no problem. The problem was turning him over. Every time I tried to grab his jaw he'd grab my hand and almost rip my arm off. Big old fish no doubt.

Jim