Last week was time for my annual brain MRI to monitor my brain tumor that ruptured back in 2014. You would  think I would be used to them by now but they can really get the anxiety kicked into overdrive !
My head gets placed into this small cage, then I get lifted and slid into the machine for 30 minutes
I do have a Panic Button that shuts it down and I get pulled out but I've only had to do that twice in 12 years   This is an Open MRI Machine,the regular ones are just a tube and due to Claustrophobia I use this one. They both SUCK !!! Glad it is over till next year !  I will get the results in a couple weeks, till then it's time to focus on The Bat Fight 

All good, Jeremy, trout are had to catch.

Aerial recon for bat fight?? OC needs to upgrade its artillery.

Roger got out yesterday to test out a different spot... Not even a tentacle shaker.

I'm going to go down later in the week and use the drone to find feeding mud clouds or feeding holes.

I bet the guy was stoked to see that butterfly ray.  He was probably also happy for the help.

Nicely done and nice signage.  I'm still waiting to see you with a trout picture....

Good on you for helping the Newbie 

Fished Belmont with my coworker Dave this morning, 0900-1100. Started quite nippy, probably 55, and warmed up to 65 pretty quick. High tide was 1130.

Water was pretty clean, LA River hadn't dumped a bunch of garbage onto the shoreline which was nice.

Shortly after I arrived, I saw a light tackle guy hook up to something good 50 yards away. I figured he would need a hand with landing it so I walked over to him. He was pretty green to surf fishing and was happy for the help. His drag was set really light and he admitted this was his first season of surf fishing so I started coaching him up quite a bit, resetting his drag and telling him to put more muscle to the fish because he was letting it sit on the bottom too much. Every time I told him to move to get in front of the fish he way over corrected and walked well past it. But, after some time, it came up and it was a nice butterfly ray around 30". No way to grip that thing so I just kinda got between it and the small waves and slowly pushed it up the sand a bit. Took his pics for him and shoved it off. He was very grateful and I may see him there again soon, nice guy.

For the rest of the time, Dave and I got nary a bump throwing LCFMs and I later switched to a KM. Gave up at 1100 and his girlfriend joined us from the dog park down the way and we got some great burgers at a spot called Grill 'Em All (metal themed burger joint on the harbor). I will definitely eat there again. Rooftop seating had a great view of the harbor.

Haven't pre-fished but it's time I did. Plenty of bait in my freezer. Seems I've got at least 3 guys from work who are excited about joining me this year so I'm kind of hoping they want to join at different times of day and I can try different things.

1st Paycheck goes towards a Pontoon

I'm surprised you haven't started soaking senkos for the trout yet, they sure seem to love them