Surfers versus fishermen. While there is a lot of crossover between the two, you can usually only do one activity at a time and boy, oh boy, do the two not mix when they’re in the same space. That, of course, happens on the daily at any pier on any coast.
But whose pier is it?
We’ll circle back to that one later, but first we’ll watch one surfer give his side of the very thing we all fear happening the moment we paddle near pier pilings. Huntington Beach, California’s Willy Dobrenen felt a tug on his arm one day while paddling near the world-famous pier only to notice he had a hook in his wrist. Not in the cuff of his wetsuit, in his wrist. His response wasn’t much different from what most of us would have done in that moment hoping to get the attention of the person on the other end of that fishing line: “Let the string out! F***ing idiot!”
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