A friend of mine and I were surfing off Ventura one Christmas morning (YEAH CALIFORNIA!). Both of us were in wetsuits. I just came in onto the rocks (tide was coming in) and he was right behind me when a sea lion decided he was a GIRL sea lion. Barely got away with his life. Busted his teeth up, and nearly drowned him. Concusion, the whole nine yards. I had to drag him up to the car. While it was happening, I was throwing rocks and yelling bloody murder along with a couple other surfers. Finally, it just took off. I don’t think stabbing one for bait stealing is necessarily a good thing, even though I fish quite a bit and even attend a woman’s fishing club. But if it’s comin’ in for lovin’, I’m using a 12 gauge.
B U M P
If everybody had a 12 gauge
With a sufboard too.
You see em shootin and surfin'
From here to Malibu.
What the sea lion lovers don’t realize is that there are so many of them now that they will draw great whites into areas where they have never before been a problem.