Janet's right, of course.
But, why do you want to raise your TA? It's a fiberglass pool. With your CYA that high, you are going to have to run VERY high levels of chlorine to avoid algae. Using bleach won't lower your CYA; it will just keep it from going higher.
You'd be better off adding borates (and acid) to get additional pH stabilization in the water. LOW carbonate alkalinity -- the part of TA that baking soda raises -- inhibits algae. High borates ALSO inhibit algae. On your pool, 6 boxes of borax, plus 2 gallons of muriatic acid should get you there.
Read this thread: http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?13111 about using muriatic safely.
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