I'm starting to suspect a cable or other man-made type object you all are hooking on the sea floor.

No head shakes. Always in the same spot. Fast moving. That just doesn't add up to a fish - especially fish that migrate, move, or can swim.

Just like the "fish" that Stam hooked up in the Prince of Wales Sound. All fish eventually come up. The fact that we couldn't bring it up more than 50' off of the bottom tells me that it might not have been a fish.

I'd like to believe it was a halibut of epic proportions, but the odds just are not in one's favor.

I'm guessing it's a cable that swing/moves with the tides/currents and eventually get's caught up on the rock pile. Under tension, it springs back to it's normal configuration when you yank it up off of the pile with your lures. It's going to race back to it's normal configuration at a really rapid pace.

But, I'm hoping that it's a big-ass monster fish.....as I want to see the photos!!!!!!

PS. Ifsomeone emails me GPS coordinates of where this happens, I'll see if that area has been surveyed with side scan sonars, etc. If so, I bet I can find what's down there. Someone at UW Oceanography will have a photo of that location.