Today (So cal) I got snapped off at my tie on to my swivel. 40lb braid to 20lb fluro. Was casting out rod #2 and saw my 10ft MH daiwa sealine in the sand getting dragged into the water(you can see the line in the sand in front of me).
Ran and grabbed it and immediately the fish took off and ran for a good 8-10 seconds. Set my drag higher and had a couple more runs. Multiple tugs down and head shakes. Could not get my rod past 45 degrees without it yanking it back down. Im a pretty big guy 6’6” 220 (although recovering from a back injury) and this fish was working my ass. Eventually snapped off because I was panicking and kept upping my drag even though I have plenty of line (pen pursuit IV 6000). I’ve caught big bat rays and halibut, but this felt like I had a pit bull on the end of my line.
Lesson learned, don’t panic and set the drag too high and that daiwa rod does not have enough bend to sit in my spike with any sort of drag.
What do you guys think it was? This was on a dropper rig with a YUM 3 FF sonar minnow. My mind immediately said leopard shark but I don’t have any exp with big ones.
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Judging from the mentioning of the multiple tugs and head shakes, I’m guessing a shark, a fairly large one. Now the question is what species of shark. Considering the fact that you were using a Penn pursuit 6000 and a 10 ft MH Daiwa deadline with 40 lb braid to 20 lb fluoro, and it was still taking out line, I think it was probably a very big leopard shark, or maybe even a large shovelnose guitarfish that was thrashing about.