Still not gonna go with that 6 foot leader even for trash fish, huh DR?

I took a look at that flasher also - not only chewed on but a chunk taken out of it

Salmon sharks and great whites look an awful lot alike unless you get a good look at the tail, but Bob sounds like the one person in the area that would be most qualified to tell what it was. Still, it seems that a flasher would be more attractive to a salmon eater than a marine mammal eater, but something like this is so unheard of that who knows?

I bet most of us who have spent time fishing the saltchuck have a story about hooking something completely unstoppable - had it happen myself at PD back in the 60's while playing out a small fish I hooked while motor mooching. This was not a seal or sea lion either - those have to come up for air - this fish headed straight for the bottom, then went due north and never slowed down or turned even after chasing it for an hour up Colvos Passage halfway to Seattle. I always thought it was some kind of shark or maybe even a mondo halibut, but I wonder now if I hooked this baby's daddy