"Bro if you help me gaff it ill give you half the meat"!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That was the best thing I heard all day, if your polite and respectful to people on the water(or in any situation) 9 times out of 10 it will be recipricated, there are a lot of salty dudes that work really hard to time and locate bites and they just dont want to see all of the ground work and recon missions to dial in get blown up in online reports that get posted while the bite is still flaring, that being said the bat ray fishing is wide open go have at em.....
Bat rays are also wide open at shelter island pier, j street marina, and the channel just opposite the port of san diego, all of which are shorter paddles than LJ, and people dont have to worry about those big vicious sharks.
Nice to meet you too dude