Here are a few of the other pix Brett took.
Deadstick iron, white, glow back with a pearl scampi on a siwash nice and squidlike.
I have not caught a BSB in 2 1/2 years. My last one was estimated 80#. This one looked 100+.
Big thanks to Brett for snapping the pix and for Nate helping me get the fish back down. We had to chase it down as it swam off, belly up. I took that as a good sign, it still had alot of energy. It was pretty gassed, but once flipped over and pointing down it swam back down on it's own.