Ok guys, this is one of the most painful reports I have ever written, but here it goes. Was going to surffish this morning, but due to the heavy kelp and red-tide, I decided to fish the rocks instead. Only had a small amount of giant squid left, so I rigged up with a splitshotted size 4 baitholder hook (instead of my normal size 2) hoping to catch a baitfish for Calico Bass bait. Red tide was heavy off the rocks too (similiar to the conditions a few years ago when I landed my biggest ever 8 pound Calico Bass from here). Well shortly after trying for baitfish, I get the biggest hookup ever from the rocks. My 20 pound test set at medium drag was singing off the reel straight towards Catalina! Must have buzzed off a 100 yards, and it wasn't even close to stopping...this has never happened to me before. I figured I would try to tire it out and not horse it in...battled it for around 5 minutes and was getting fairly close to getting spooled. Oh sh**! Suddenly my line started heading south and was going straight around the mussel infested rocky point!? I tried to gently thumb the rapidly disappearing reel, but even as I did this, the fish just seemed to wake up and get stronger...sounded down like a Yellowtail so I backed off. It was basically in the rocks now, and it made another surge and unfortunately it totally straightened my size 4 hook and got away!? My line was very frayed about 20 feet up from the straightened hook, so not sure how much longer it would have held even if the hook didn't straighten. Finally caught a Walleye Perch for bait after this, but was so disheartened, that I released it. No bait left, so I threw my only Krokadile in frustration and was able to salvage a nice fat catch/release 16 inch Calico Bass on it. Made the long walk back the beach with my tail between my legs today! My guess is it was a BIG White Seabass...although I never saw the fish. I'm going to have nightmares about this one...what could I have done differently? Any advice on how to land a BIG White Seabass from the rocks would be greatly appreciated as that is one of my future goals!