"BTW, I was only driven out once: LARGE dorsal fin that we sighted at the old oil piers, just south of Santa Barbara. We never did identify the species, only that it was a LARGE, shark's dorsal fin, about 40-50meters from shore."
We fished that area a lot for salmon in the 70s. A few times each year we'd see one of those guys. The profile is almost identical to a GWS but they swam very calm/slow and were 8-10 meters long. The old timers said they were Whale Sharks but there was a gill netter that used to catch small GWs in that kelp bed a little north of the Ventura pier.
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A man is wise, only to the extent that he is aware of his own ignorance. Bill Bonner '08
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