Quote from: jrodda on September 17, 2024, 05:53:48 PMWell! This has progressed horribly!

I ended up calling on 7/19. Lady answered and said to email info@avetreels.com and hurried me off the phone.

I wrote an email (7/19) asking for the specific parts and a quote, offering to exchange my shipping/billing info once I get the quote.

(7/29) They took 10 days to respond to the email. The response was an all-caps run on sentence asking for only my address. Didn't ask for CC info, nor did they give me a quote.

Gave them address same day (7/29) and asked for a quote (again).

(8/2) 4 days later, they say "GREAT WE WILL GET TO WORK ON THAT"

Honestly tried to forget what was happening for a while, mildly ashamed I am such a fan of these reels. Great anti-reverse......

I followed up (8/26) asking what's going on?

They responded (9/10) saying "HI JEREMY WE HAVE PARTS READY FOR A WHILE NOW WE JUST NEED CREDIT CARD INFO WE DON'T HAVE A PHONE NUMBER TO CALL YOU"

They finally attached an invoice to this one, dated 7/30........!!!!

I kinda wanna say why the f@ck didn't you ask for pertinent information sooner, respond sooner, send the invoice 6 weeks sooner, etc. Just gotta shut up and pay...This is all the more infuriating having worked in two different fishing customer service departments and knowing these things should be SOOOOOO much smoother.

Thankfully steel gears don't wear out too quick...even working at Shimano I would like to maintain maybe 4 Avets in my arsenal for the small/medium lever drags. Other than that I will switch the big boys to Tiagras.

I've only had to call them once before and I came away thinking it wasn't a really professional customer service operation. I felt like I was calling some service from Craigslist. I like the reels, but it lacked  in front office stuff and info.

I thought you split it by hand, or had your boys do it. Lol, that's a lot of wood!

Never caught one before.  Definitely on my list now!

Nice trip there Tim and a great way to absorb life's events as of late.

Nice Crappie and Lahontan Cutty!

I totally agree.... terrible puns.  Koga probably sits on those boats drinking 0.5% beer in tea cups with his pinky out while letting out an "ahhhhh" after each sip. 

 

Time to soak the long rods!

And there's Koga...

...also I heard the best eating marlin is the striped marlin (per Tombo who lived in Hawaii)

Nope and nope

It's fantastic. It reminds me of mako.

We bled, gilled, and gutted right away and dropped it in the RSW. Most people don't have a big enough cooler for it or want to keep the blood and guts in to weigh it back at the docks. Damn things sit out for hours in the sun and probably tastes as you would expect.

So far out of everything I shared with people, they were all really impressed. It was even good raw.

You didn't go Marlin fishing? Lol

Nicely done boss as usual. I'm looking forward to the offshore scene dying down but now I want a sword.  This is terrible.

Rough week at home and work, so I was planning on taking Friday off to recoup.  Got a call from Spencer wanting to head offshore and offered to pay for gas and ice.  Well hell, I called Shaun and he was in.

I thought I've met Spencer before but realized I've known him 10+ years online, but never met in person.  I had some ideas about making a collaboration with his shop, so it would be a good time to catch up and maybe talk about some possibilities.

Surprisingly, there were few people down at the ramp.  The Thunder Boat races are going on, so I'm thinking that was keeping people away.  Spencer arrived and we headed to catch some mackerel for marlin bait.



Tough pick at Mackerel, but we finally got 2-3 dozen in the well.  About 5 miles out and we spot our first marlin, but it sunk out so we kept going to where we have been seeing the most life.

Water was still warm, but about 2 degrees cooler than last week.  Very few paddies and nowhere near the bait and molas that were on them either as like last week.

We would spot a Marlin and cruise up to it before it was nowhere to be seen.  We trolled and checked the gyros all day.



Spencer spotted one that stayed up and we went right by.  We had a bait already rigged and Spencer dropped it right in front of his face as we passed by.  Unfortunately, it was not hungry and never took the bait.  That was our best opportunity this morning.



We found some awesome paddies that were void of life.... except for a really small amount of bait

We trolled areas we were watching marlin jump around apparently for fun.

All in all we saw 8 marlin close to the boat, but only had one real opportunity to bait one.  We also saw a 4-5 foot mako doing summersaults next to the boat, but it didn't want anything either.

Well damn.  We didn't catch anything, but it was great finally meeting Spencer and catching up.  I now realize what a juggernaut he created with Terrafirma and I don't even know where to start with PSoul.  lol

In any case, it's amazing these marlin have been in the same spot for 3 weeks now.  I'm almost over the marlin fishing, but feel like I want one more to call it the season...  hahaha

It's been a little wait, but my new skulls have arrived to join the current collection!



Let's see if you guys know what I have here....



I'll send stickers to the person who correctly identifies both.  lol

My marlin lure is all chipped  and scratched now, but I love the battle scars!

With that marlin, we got a lot of great loin meat off that thing and it looked beautiful!

I grabbed everything from my garden (except the pineapple) and got ready for some SD Marlin Kabobs!



A little Teriyaki, sesame seeds, salt and pepper.



Drizzled a mandarin sauce on it while it cooked on the grill.



Off the grill in about 10 minutes and absolutely spectacular!



First marlin of every year might be a harvest for me....  I'll have to be convinced otherwise.  LOL