I say nonsense. The guy was alone -- how convenient! Did you see the flasher on TV? It was a hard plastic flasher with scratch marks. When a great white hits a surfboard, it takes a huge chunk out of it, but in this case an 18-20 footer only puts scratches on a flasher? Don't know the guy, but heard he is an excellent angler. However, I know some folks who've spent years at Defiance and environs, and not all of them believe it. Also worth noting there is a long tradition of pranksters taking huge delight in hoodwinking reporters who don't do their jobs by fully researching a story. Why didn't the TV reporter check with the state or UW School of Fisheries for history of great white occurences in Sound, of which there are none documented?