One spot on the back side of Anacapa island, before lobster season opened, the damn things would be thick as bugs under rock ledges, antenna wiggling everywhere, like they knew you could not grab them.
had a friend dive just as the sun was goin down...we hollered NOOOOOOOOOOo but he did on the front of Anacapa and sure nuff...he saw a great white.....he made it back but he was white as school paper
and by Anacapa...I mean the channel islands out from Oxnard Ca