I was extremely lucky to get this shot, patients paid off and I can guarantee you one can sit at that spot for the next 20 years and it will never happen again. Here are the reasons why, it is very rare to see a winter storm hitting the coast in a blue sky, second a huge wave hitting the front rock and the cliff wall at the same time to send spray so high to silhouette the fisherman will not be seen again, I can say this as I have been going there for 50 years. I also have never seen fishermen at that spot as it is very dangerous to get there, plus, what were the thinking, no fish in his right mind will get that close to shore in that storm. I guess my mother in law was right, she told me after I spent hours sitting watching my rod and hardly ever got a fish “Fishermen have a misguided brain” To get the shot I set up the tripod aimed the lens at the cliff and used the remote release, I didn't use the viewfinder just watched the surf and clicked whenever I saw any action. I saw this method used at Yellowstone Park a few years back photographing the elk runt, there was a young man that had two tripod with mounted cameras attached with some exotic glass on each side of him while he was sitting in between on a lawn chair. Both lenses were aimed at the elks down the meadow and about every minute he would release one of the shutters, he never looked through the viewfinder. I guess in the 1,000 shots he took there must have been some winners.