smitty55

I've been saving seed and growing the same indeterminate heirloom Greek tomato for over thirty years now but I use a different method than you as I only grow one vine and pinch all suckers off. If they grew like yours I'd be overwhelmed with blight due to lack of air flow. They average over a pound each and my largest is over 2 1/2 lb. Best tomatoes I've ever eaten, all meat and a fantastic flavour. Last year I made salsa and the three people I passed a jar to all said it was the best salsa they'd ever had. They make an excellent tomato sauce as well, I can lots every year. Long wait yet though, they're maybe 8" right now under the lights.

Cliff if you aren't using a VPN yet I highly recommend you start using one. They are quite cheap and normally you can use 5 or more devices under the one account. Not only is your IP address hidden and can come from anywhere in the world where there is a server but all the data you send and receive is encrypted and encapsulated. It's the best security there is to protect your privacy.

Yea I always blanch them first no matter what I'm doing. This is what I tell everyone I share some with. Boil for 2 minutes and then throw out that dark brown water. Then I boil for one more minute and throw out the light brown water and then saute in butter and garlic/leeks. With the amount of crap that comes out of them from being under water it's no wonder some people feel sick if they just rinse and fry. For freezing they just get one blanch and then like you a quick chill in ice water and then pat dry before vacuum sealing. The do last well for months in the fridge without touching them so long as they're not too wet. Cheers

So did you get out again? The rain finally slowed down here late afternoon so I headed out to that other creek in full rain gear. Someone had been there already but there was enough new growth there and across the road that I got a good pick in. Over two hours it never rained and I got close to 7 pounds so that should do me for the season and I'll freeze some too. They were real wet obviously so I'm letting them dry overnight before I bag them back up and into the fridge. I gave my neighbour who loves them close to pound but that still leaves me plenty.

Yea most people don't realize what installing apps can do. Facebook is the only social media I use and I never sign in to anywhere with it. I can see twitter posts in links but I'm never signed in to it. It's mostly friends and family and the groups I'm in are mostly outdoor activities including gardening and also some sports groups, recipes and the high school and old neighborhoods I grew up in. Some people however seem to need to be involved in everything in social media regardless of the potential repercussions. Take tiktok for example, most people know it's run by the CCP and should realize how unsafe it can be but the only thing that matters to their ego is their online presence. Even governments are now banning it but so many couldn't care so long as they can post. And nobody that signs up for it even thinks of what the terms of service mean. Listen to this from Joe Rogan who goes through what agreeing to install tiktok on your device gives them in terms of access to your life, it's amazing.

You must be ahead of me where you live. From the look of those you may be sol. Some places I know along a river there can be an extended pic as water recedes but that hot spell sped things up for sure. Creeks around here are way down this past week. It's a good thing you posted that pic as it pushed me to go check that spot and I got a decent pick in, at most some of them were maybe 4" but usually there's a few short ones in the middle of the clump along with some clumps that were just starting. I only ever take short ones or right out of the clump and only 2 or maybe 3 at a time so it takes awhile. I got 3lbs in maybe 40 minutes and that was plenty as I have some other spots I go to as well. Calling for rain but I'll go anyway as one real good roadside spot has a couple of guys that go there and they take every damn one from the clump, really ticks me off. I'd have gone there today if I'd realized they were ready. Fortunately I have permission on the private property across the road along the same creek and it's always good for 5lb. Good luck finding some late starters. It's not uncommon for many spots to have some areas that are a bit behind, as you said with less sunlight. Cheers

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Good size fiddleheads. I just checked along the north foundation of the house and there are now two ferns up so I'm thinking I better take a little tour up the road where there's a creek with a decent population of ferns that are always early. Then I went over to the side of the property to check out the leeks and woohoo, they are starting to swell so I picked a few for my first snack of the year. They are so mild and almost sweet when this young, I just dip them in salt and munch away.

You can put the sinker as far away from the lure/bait as you want. So lets say you let out 50ft of line and then attach it making sure the pinch loop is facing the rod. That way when it reaches the rod tip you can give it a quick tug with your hand to release the line from the pinch and it will free slide down. In a way it's kind of similar to how they use lead core spliced in between your main line and a leader for depth control or as CM mentioned using snap weights. As you said there may be no proper way, you could reverse the weight and then hope the fish strike is hard enough to release the line but then that loop would slide into your line tie. Speaking of which, a bead would be a good idea to protect the knot too. I saw one site that used them for bottom fishing, while another site called them a poor mans downrigger. Go figure. I saw one site that only used a 2-4' length of heavy line just ahead of the flasher. Perhaps CrowMan can elaborate as to exactly how they used them for mooching when he was out. From what I thought they use a long rod and line counter reel and mono to a bead chain keel sinker and a 5' to 8' leader with a 2 hook system to hook an angled cut bait so that it spins rapidly. I also saw one setup that used a similar bead chain and bead with a keel type sinker but it was a slider with a teflon tube attached. Cheers

I'm talking inland lakes in Ontario and Quebec for Greys, I've used those slip weight sinkers for Lakers to get a spoon down earlier in the season and also the 1oz later in the summer with small gang trolls for Rainbows and Specks in back lakes. The best thing to do is actually remove them but after losing a nice Speck while buddy fiddled with it I said never again. So I'm curious as to how they were used when you were Salmon fishing in BC. Did they just let them slide?

I've used those a lot over the years, I even have an 8oz one. Mostly the 1 and 2oz size. For those not familiar with them your line hooks underneath those clips on the far side and then up under those loops so it can slide along your line. So you had let out as much line as you want then attach the sinker and then lighty pinch your line in that ring loop to hold it in place. When you have a fish on once the sinker hits your rod tip the line pops out of the pinch and slides down to your lure, or you or preferably a buddy could remove it manually but for that period of time your rod isn't in play to fight the fish so that can be touchy. Just have to make sure your line is heavy enough that it doesn't get damaged by the pinch. They work quite well for their intended use.

No that's my garlic curing in late July a few years back. I'm a tad surprised you call them ramps actually, to me that's more of an American term. Around here in Lanark most just call them leeks or sometimes wild garlic. As you said it's way too early yet for around here. This pics is from beside my house 3 days ago. Too early for fiddleheads too for sure. I grow lots on my property and nothing showing yet even right along the foundation where they come up first.

I never paid a cent to join and use imgur. Maybe things have changed. Once signed in you can just drag and drop your image onto your image page and it will upload to there. Then when you click on an image it will show up with numerous options to load it in forums etc. Simply click on copy BBCode and then go to the forum post and simply paste. I just did this pic and it took only a few seconds once I was signed in.

That seems so strange that you can't post pics off your hard drive. Have you tried to copy and paste them on a flash drive or sd card and then transfer them to the forum? Or else as I mentioned earlier join imgur and see if you can upload to that site and then paste them from there into your post here.

Pretty sure that's a Fisher judging by the length of it compared to the barrel and the lack of a light coloured throat.

Have you tried using imgur, it's always been trouble free for me.

Seafoam is rated for two years as a fuel stabilizer and will also prevent phase separation due to any efuel. I use it religiously in all my small engines and fuel cans. Plus it will help keep your engine clean.

Down south they call it a Damiki rig. Ive also heard Jeff call it hanging a minnow. Basically you just hang the bait under the boat above the fish you find on sonar instead of using a float. Doesn't get much more basic. https://www.wired2fish.com/fishing-tips/how-to-fish-the-damiki-rig-beginner-to-advanced

Buddy of mine with a large glass boat swears by Power 1 Hull cleaner.

I can only imagine how quiet it is up there now in the hub area with so many lodges closed. Most of my close to 20 times up there were back in the 80s and 90s, and even back then there were only a couple spots where it got "busy" on weekends. Some day trippers would take the 10 mile ride up to Corbeau and troll the Corbeau run for Lakers. In the evenings for Walleye there'd be certain spots of course that lodge clients would visit. Sandbank would be good for a few weeks and it was close to both Corbeau and Alwaki lodges. Corbeau is long gone now and Alwaki is still functioning basically but is for sale in 3 different parcels. They already sold their real nice outpost cottage, that was another 4 miles away up Turtle Chute. That leaves Kipawa Lodge as the next one and that's a 22 mile run so you sure won't be seeing many people all week long. Definitely seclusion without the fly in. One of the best features in my mind of the huge Kipawa watershed after it's raw beauty is it's unique basic X shape and numerous off shoots and islands means you can always find areas to explore and fish out of the wind. Cheers

If you decide to go the Kipawa route let us know, I can help you out with maps, Laker runs and Walleye spots. There's also a great Smallmouth fishery there now. Cheers

FishnCanada has a couple of videos from trips they took.

You can assume that if you like. I just saw it as stating the results from testing of the present lithium battery EV technology. Kind of hard to assume what advancements there will be. Bottom line is that all batteries don't perform well in cold climates like most of Canada has. Add heavy loads to them and it just gets worse.

Here's a good article from FP. https://financialpost.com/opinion/tried-pulling-camper-electric-truck#Echobox=1676989775