WSB question?

I had a question for the board. Hopefully someone will provide me an answer to my question and put my mind at ease.

I have tackled my fair share of WSB over the past two years. This past weekend, I got hit hard on a flyline squid. I saw a big splash by my bait. It hit/tugged my line but didn't RIP line like a WSB. It wasn't until I set the hook that it started to run, but not a HUGE run like i'm used to. It eventually ran back my way and under my boat which gave me a lot of slack line. When I got pressure on it again it ran the other way and eventually broke me off. (It wasn't a seal/bird because it didn't come up for air)

What the heck is it? Do WSB ever give you slack line? From my experience ghost busting, I've been simply lucky to keep my line with those boys. Looking back, I'm thinking it was a good size salmon?? Maybe? 

keith

That splash could of been a thresher shark stunning your bait with with its tail then snagging it

I've never caught a thresher before....but it sounds like a thresher!

Saw a thresher break someone's line @ Pajaro on Sunday.

Keith, it had to been a thesher. It did the same thing to me that ya just wrote about. I heard splashes behind me, and found it to be a thesher chasing and slapping my bait. Once I hooked it, it started running everywhere and skidded across the surface. I was hoping to see it do some aerial jumps, but it didn't