Are there groupers or Black Sea Bass at Fort Ross?

Was slow pitching a butterfly jig  south of Fort Ross beach at the pinnacles, Got into something big 3 Times and couldn’t  get it off the bottom, retrieved the same jig twice,  on the 3rd go.. after 30 min + fights back to back I got gassed. Felt outgunned and wanted to swear like a pirate. It felt like a sturgeon battle where it just hugged the bottom got it up the 25ft but every time it got close it just dove back down like my Lexa and trevala S was nothing. Got to the  point that my 30lb braid started to chaffe through the guides cause that tug back and forth was in the same location.  I wanna say big Ling or Pac halibut, but this felt like something more  and No was not snagged because it was a sleigh ride all over that area... any theories? Grouper, Black Sea Bass... IDK?!?

This Bory 

This Bory 

One party boat out from half moon bay caught a Black Sea bass a few weeks ago.

Black sea bass seems like a definite possibility.

Kelp in the drift gives on helluva fight and ride. Lol 

It could of been a nice size Ling.

Kelp in the drift gives on helluva fight and ride. Lol 

+1

Biggest ling I've ever seen in person was caught at that reef by DonD. The thing had the head the size of a sheep's. He let her go. May be her again.

If I can get a pic  from the fellow kayaker I was fishing with , it was the guts that was pulled from the fish maybe some of you can identify. Lol I’m serious this thing put up a big ol fight..  could be a ling but dammit I want redemption.. gotta  say the San Diego Jam knot on 30lb braid held up . Maybe bringing out the 8ft abyss and bigger conventional reel.

If I can get a pic  from the fellow kayaker I was fishing with , it was the guts that was pulled from the fish maybe some of you can identify. Lol I’m serious this thing put up a big ol fight..  could be a ling but dammit I want redemption.. gotta  say the San Diego Jam knot on 30lb braid held up . Maybe bringing out the 8ft abyss and bigger conventional reel.

Don't make me nervous...you got life insurance?....

Probably a thresher shark, they are unstoppable when they are hooked.

Thank guys , gonna go back out there with my yellow fin tuna gear.

Hope you can get to the bottom of it 

Kelp in the drift gives on helluva fight and ride. Lol 

+1

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Kelp in the drift gives on helluva fight and ride. Lol 

+1 They always fight pretty hard up there! No urchins around.