Quote from: polepole on January 02, 2024, 01:59:07 PM

Quote from: Sailfish on January 02, 2024, 08:39:46 AM

Thanks BD1 for the dried sourdough starter.   I was able to revise it after a few days (see attached picture).  Tried to make my first sourdough bread after watching many YouTube videos but my doug doesn't double in size even after 2 days at room temperature.   Any tips/suggestions are appreciated.

A few days?  You may need a few weeks for that starter to stabilize.  Just keep feeding on a regular schedule.  It will work it self out.
-Allen

Thanks Allen for the info.  Just fed my starter.   It must be very hungry by now 
 

Also try to avoid a common beginner mistake of skipping feedings to make your starter/breads “more sour.” Results will be better if you remove some each day and refresh with fresh flour. Feeding 2 or more times a day can really ramp up the speed at which your starter and breads rise.

Quote from: The Gopher on December 20, 2023, 01:55:47 PM

Been appreciating everyone's attention and ideas around the rockfish season changes. Unfortunately, my trust in "the system" that has decimated the rockfish season is at zero. The quillback "problem" seems like a convenient, non-disprovable rationale for the recent restrictions. What really appears to be happening is the fulfillment of preconceived political promises to groups that would prefer zero fishing and are implementing a long-term strategy to get us there. Call me conspiratorial, but my trust in our institutions didn't make it though the last few years. Unless there's a wholesale change of governance in Cali and nearby states, the appointees to the regulatory groups will continue, ratchet-style, to gradually and irreversibly reduce opportunities and it has nothing to do with the health of the fisheries. Bargaining away opportunities in an attempt to appease will only quicken the pace of it.

You realize this isn't coming from CA?  PFMC/Noaa determines the status of the fishery and designates quota.  CDFW has to adhere to quotas and determines regulations to do so.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/overfished-declaration-quillback-rockfish-california-likely-limit-fishing

-Allen

I did type out “Cali and nearby states” for this very reason.

just shamelessly dropping a pic of one of my sourdough breads

Just wanna say you So-And-Sos are the best for hitting me up with some info. Moving starts in a week humbling myself on the river starts soon after.

That’s where I’ll be at. Spinners are my drug of choice when chasing trout, a habit developed back in Pennsylvania, but I appreciate the shrimp tip, Sin Coast!

Holy crap! Have fun on the new water sled!

I caught and released a Quillback at Fort Ross last year.
The thing that bothers me about these kind of decisions and regulations is the complete disregard for how it affects people and businesses.

It's sort of human nature to not be concerned about things that don't affect you. When they announced the closure for the North management area, I shrugged and thought "Well it sucks to be them, but it doesn't affect me."  - Oops.

As an example, I'm not a gun owner, and I would like to see some more restrictions on who can own what, but I do understand that people have interests and passions that differ from mine, and I shouldn't disregard those passions completely.

This is where the saying comes from: "Things will need to get worse before they get better." The activist government here has run out of good causes, and their favorite tool is restrictions. So all they have left is restricting nice things because they need a cause like they need oxygen. Until the nice things that more people like are affected, they'll be more than happy to turn a blind eye when someone else's nice thing gets restricted.

The whale/crab trap thing is a great example. Protections have been successful and populations are up, resulting in the occasional entanglement. This is evidence of a thriving whale population, but it is turned into a reason to restrict crabbing, something people have done for many many years, because it is a public display (virtue signaling) of exercising power over others "for a good cause," whether it's helpful or worth the negative effects or not. Same principle was in effect during Covid times. Publicly and frequently show you "care" over and over again with regulation updates regardless of who you hurt in the process because you need to constantly affirm what team you're on.

These public displays are now the norm and it's impossible and silly to separate the policies in Cali from the voting habits of the people here, who get off on restricting the activities of others in a public, visible manner. A Whole Foods store nearby has a sign that says "More than __ items have been banned from this store." I know we're supposed to assume they were banned for some "good" reason, but that reason isn't even mentioned. The culture is that banning is always good, and the sign really captured it.