

Lol, it's later, and no dry shots.
I lost the 2 nicest fish of the year within 24hrs of each other this weekend. I don't mind losing fish, as long as it isn't cause I do something stoopit. Rule #1 for me was always 'don't touch the line till the fish is landed'. Rule #2 was something like 'Don't try to fukkin land the fish if you are standing somewhere that if you drop it the fukker just swims away.'
Yeah. Rule #1 is now 'get the fish 10 fukkin feet from the shoreline before you mess with it', cause I dropped 2 ~14-15" rainbows right back in the fukkin water. The first one I was messing with in sandals in the stream, and it would have been a pain in the ass to try to wade back to shore (no felt on the sandals). Fukkin PLOP! NEXT CAST had a lil fishie on, but that fukker threw the hook! The next day I went as the lokel yokel to the fishin hole, and it was jammed with tourists in neoprene waders n shit. Clipped the license on the back o the hat, and threw a rooster tail with no paint left on the body. Yup, NICE fat fish in ~5 min. In a hurry, STANDING ON SHORE, I dropped fat boy, and he flipped ~2' into a tiny puddle, waited a second, and flipped back into the stream. I knew that if I tried to grab him after he hit the puddle, he would have shot straight through my hands into the stream anyway, so I just watched it go.
Not huge fish, but they were DEFFO meals all by themselves. Today I took 1 lil pos fish, and missed ~5 in a few hours wading. The one that I hooked up was ~1/2 way back to the car before I messed with the hook, and I played it like a hot 1-hopper hit right at me.
Ok, weed forum...
I replaced the metal halide in veg today. The old bulb was pushing 18mo, @ 20 hrs... Close to 11k hrs, and it was time. It had developed a pretty bad flicker. The new bulb only burned ~15 min before I shut it off today, so fingers crossed. Hopefully I can get this flip flop built in the next few months, and free up a CMH for veg.
Repotted all of the deck veggers that are getting flipped this week/weekend. Sunday is chop day, but I may pull a bunch mid week, or even bump the whole chop up. I have SSH's that are already ~86days, with MKaze and LaNina's ready to go as soon as they dry. I'm only really waiting on the organic SuperSpice bukkit. I have to check, but I THINK that I have nice sized G1, C, and B's to flip with a few 'old-bulb-indoor-vegged-beercups' of some ol other shit (I have no idea, lol).
Something happened to my SuperSpice and LN moms. They were ~6mo old, in 2 gallon bage for prolly ~4mo, and under the 400MH with the MKaze and SSH moms (and rotating veg cuts...). They were super healthy, then the death came. Plants went orange/yellow from the leaf tips to the shoots to the stems. I put em out on the deck ~ 2weeks ago, hoping the sun would pick em up. I had them in the shade, with a few trips out to the full sun here and there, nothing long enough to worry about frying them, just givin them a lil full spectrum. Well, the SuperSpice just kept on dyin, but I have cuts as backups. The LN looked OK for a week, even like it was happy to be out there. Then she started to die the same way. I babied her the last 4 days (screened sun, kelp spray, castings topdress with a weak vitamin pee...), and I'm 90% sure it's a wrap for her. I don't think that I have any other copies in veg. I DO have a bunch of cuts coming down, so I'm gonna try all sorts of things to try to re-veg. It's a sign that I need to crack into a bunch of the f2's. Reveg or no.

(paddy drops 8 more of the same batch that just went 0fer. He also locates and places to the side the LN f2 batch that produced the 4 bad ass females over the winter/spring incase the whole 'other' batch is no bueno)
I picked up the outdoor pest control today, and the compost is prolly dry enough to start to stuff into dog chow bags, so summer IS coming...
