Do kayak anglers need to worry about white shark attacks?

they are smarter than we.
they know plastic aint seal fat.....after a taste test of coarse.

Get a grip!!! Driving to the store in a car, (in a Toyota!), is much more likely to get you killed, and/or maimed.
I've been a predator all my life, if one takes me out, so be it, and a pretty fitting way to go. C'est la vie!

I figure I am in the wrong hobby and sports to worry about a big shark too much.  They are on my mind, but it is a chance (a slim one) I take when I go fishing, diving or swimming.  Just like backpacking, hunting big game in grizz country, ect.  There are a lot of things to fear, but to more you know the more at ease you become.  I love the Ocean too much to live in fear of it.  Most shark attacks are just mistakes.  Painful, bloody mistakes......

How bout freediving from a yak?
I want to practice diving, and was wondering if I should avoid BH or that area this time of the year to practice diving...
the next closest place to practice in the ocean for me would be HMB or SW south.

Practice at SW, vis will be better and its very protected from swell and wind. 

  What ever happened to Dan? The guy who got knocked out of his kayak up at Bean a couple of years ago. Does he still go out kayak fishing?
 

  I put some stripes on the bottom of my kayak because it got really spooky fishing up by Natural Bridges last year in late September.( Maybe  I should say , I got spooked. By my imagination. )
  Check out:  http://www.sharkcamo.com/

 I've seen one ,almost certainly a GWS, in fishing Santa Cruz for ten years . That was  a tail about 100 yards away headed in the opposite direction. According to percentages, that would mean that I may have encountered them 9 other times when they were below the surface.

   A commercial fisherman yanked a Halibut out of the jaws of a GWS , just before they closed, as he was pulling it out of the water. Somewhere up by Davenport I think. A couple of years ago.

Think of it this way: the odds of encountering a white shark are very low, and chicks dig scars!

but most chicks also dig limbs. So if your scar means you are missing one or more. then you loose. to reduce risk don't fish with sean/piscean

Not all is lost there are Acrotomophilia dating sites , most women prefer you leave a stump . So don't feed whitey too much.

 Check this  bit of art out: http://cgi.ebay.com/SKULL-SHARK-PIN-BROOCH-HARRIS-PEWTER-SHIP-FREE_W0QQitemZ380205524256QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item588603e520

   Maintain this sort of positive aggressive attitude  and you will be avoided. Or attacked.

No worries.

Invite your alimony sucking ex-wife along for a paddle.

Tie a bunch of bleeding fish carcasses to the stern of her hull.

Paddle away very fast, and keep yelling at her to "hurry up".

They only eat the slow ones.

sharks are cool animals

Mako1 has it right!

If Whitey takes me out, so be it.

God forbit I die sitting on the shitter.

Don't get me wrong, I got plans for the next forty years, but if I got to go early please let me go with a BANG and not a sputter.

Mako1 has it right!

If Whitey takes me out, so be it.

God forbit I die sitting on the shitter.

You always hear the expression "at least he died doing what he loved". To hell with that. I want to finish my yakfishing trip. May I die in the first 10 minutes at work on a monday before a big deadline. 

minimize the risk....uhm....the more kayakers in the water with you, your odds should get better...more bait in the water....

 

  And ALWAYS keep at least a paddle and half away from Mooch while out on the bean!

 

I used to worry, but not now 

Hi Yakers:

        I only think about Sharks when someone brings them up. I keep my Mind
on Current, Wind, Wash Rocks and, giving thanks I'm back Home.
       
                                                                                    Sea-ya
                                                                                    Ernie