Glad I have a good guy. His shop is next door to my wife's shop. Does good work and we get a good neighbor price.

I hate mechanical issues ... Especially brakes.

Glad it was sort of taken care of. Hopefully that's the end of it.

As I pulled up to my house after work Monday, my brakes were making a horrendous metallic crunching. Looked and there was damage on the rear left rotor. I did them 18 months/20k miles ago so what's up?

Took the day off Tuesday to meet up with mechanic, replaced pads and rotors. Thankfully autozone honored the warranty so only paid labor. Weird heat spots and one of each side's brake pads were ground completely down while the other was totally healthy.

Drove to work today (Wednesday) and when I got off the freeway I heard clunking. WTF! Caliper lost a bolt! Mechanic is mobile and came out to fix it. First he was like "no way that's my fault! Gonna have to charge if I come out" then sent him a video of pushing the caliper around and he said "I'll be right there..."


No charge. He was in my work parking lot at 0645 and out by 0730. Apologetic but he's certainly fallen on my list of preferred mechanics.


Been some real bullsh!t. I still think I should replace the rear calipers if they're dragging like that. Or something. Something needs to be done but I'm gonna put it off for a wee bit.

Happy hump day!

I was too, but the price for the reel and battery was really good so I pulled the trigger.  I didn't want a bigger electric since I already have one, but I specifically wanted one for using the smaller jigs in deep water. 

I'll keep everyone posted on the reel's performance, but I guess I need to get the electrical to the trolling motor fixed now. lol

I was curious about that one. Hope it works out well!

I just picked up a new electric reel for those 300-500 foot critters.  Smaller electric reel holds 322 yards of 20# braid which is perfect for what I do and for those little jigs.

With my shoulder falling to sh!t again, I feel like I given myself a little more time!  Perfect for the little bait trolling and deep water rockfishing.  I just tried it and it's one cool little unit!



Only time will tell!

Jeremy, I wanted to go further, but my wife rented the cabins so I had no say except that "I'm good".  They hate road trips and I was trying to get them up to the Sierra's.  I'll try again next time.

I am planning a trip either out east or back up to Washington this fall though (minus the family).  Maybe get into a big surf striper bite or another epic salmon run.  I sure can use one of them again.

Sounds relaxing! Cold ciders and views and some fish!

Quote from: Tim524 on August 03, 2026, 08:41:16 PMAnd the drive home wasn't exhausting either

You know, I gotta admit I was thinking "doesn't Tom wanna adventure a little further from home?" And as soon as I saw this comment I got a wave of vicarious euphoria knowing that there is no "travel day" home from this.

Thanks for the report, interesting read.

I hear of local wahoo, tons of marlin toward the butterfly, nice yellows and even some dodos on the horseshoe right off Long Beach, and football bigeye mixed in with football yellowfin that are sneaking into state waters.

Just gotta distract the seiners with some key jingling so we can get in a few good rounds with the incoming YFT!

It's epic right now off la Jolla for yellows... Get out there when you get a chance!