Fishing from a surfboard isn't complicated. You can use just about any method to catch your dinner. Out in California board fishermen will jig iron vertically, toss swimbaits out around the reefs, fish topwater plugs around the kelp beds, even fish with fresh cut or live bait.

Of course, even when you're not fishing with fresh bait, you're always thinking about the sharks. Especially towards nightfall.

"When you go out and it gets dark you start imagining things," says photographer Bill Decker (who's known as "the godfather" of boardfishing). "That's when you start thinking about sharks."

"Sometimes I get out there and fish too long and before I know it it's night. That's when it gets kind of scary dipping your arms in the water to paddle back home."

Decker has never heard of a shark attacking a board fisherman, though. Sea lions, he says, are more of a problem. "They come up around you and splash you and scare all the fish away. A real pain in the butt."

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