FRESHWATER FISHING
March 1, 2000 - Vol. 3, No.8
Special Chat Sunday
Cold Front Fishing
Fishing With Grandpa
Chat Room
Vee's First Bonefish
Fishing Poll
Forum Discussion
Salt Water Fishing
Camping
Hunting
Flyfishing
Jug Fishing Info
Joke for Week
Trivia Contest
Tip of the Week
Forum Contest
Events
Thought for the Week
Fishing the Net
Bonus Joke
Affiliate Program
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Special Chat Sunday - Jim Dicken, webmaster for Fishing
Guides Home Page - http://www.FGHP.net - will be the special guest/host
Sunday night at 8:00 et. Drop in at http://fishing.about.com/mpchat.htm
and meet Jim and learn more about his site, and his fishing! Jim says "I
have been fishing since I was 5. First fishing trip was at my great grandmothers
pond. Once asked my dad (late at night i woke up and he was cleaning catfish)
why he was taking the fishies jammies off. Still have the first fiberglass
fishing pole my father gave me. 6 feet long and can cast a mile. I have
caught a lot of bluegill on that pole. Used a Zebco 202.
Went to Murray State University to be near Kentucky Lake. Graduated (barely) with a degree in Communications and a minor in fishing. Spent 15 years making pizzas and running a pizza store before I went to Trucking. My back went out last year and now I am a desk jokey writing fishing reports an working on Fishing Guides Home Page - http://www.FGHP.net
I went around the world when I was 18 on World Campus Afloat. Now the
program is called Semester at Sea. My biggest fish is a 28 pound Striper
from Lake Cumberland in Kentucky although I was with a friend when he hooked
the MONSTER of the lake. (Another Story). I have an 8 pound 1 ounce Largemouth
and a 3 pound Spotted Bass to my credit and a 15 pound Jack Crevalle which
I caught in the Seychelles Islands."
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This Week's Feature - Cold Front Fishing - http://fishing.about.com/sports/fishing/library/weekly/aa022800a.htm
- What happens to fish and fishermen after a cold front.
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Fishtales - Fishing With Grandpa -
http://fishing.about.com/sports/fishing/library/weekly/bl000228.htm -
Eddie Stimac tells about his first trip that got him hooked for life.
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Chat Room - http://fishing.about.com/mpchat.htm
Always open, I host on most Wednesday nights from 8 to 9 pm. Hope
to see you there tonight!
Drop in chats every night from 8 to 9 pm. I
try to be there from about 8 to 10 ET most nights - Check it out for chatters
between 8 and 9 in your time zone.
NOTE - If you drop in and no one is there, type *beep
enter on and float the chat window. You can
go do something else and your computer will beep when someone enters the
room.. Email me if you are
having problems getting in.
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Bragging Board - Vee's First Bonefish - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blbrb.htm
- Vee dropped in the chat room a couple of weeks ago to tell us about her
first bonefish. She sent a picture of it to share.
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Fishing Poll - http://fishing.about.com/sports/fishing/library/weekly/blpolllist.htm-
What is your biggest smallmouth bass?
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Forum Discussion - Eating Fish Eggs - http://forums.about.com/ab-fishing/messages/?msg=347.2&ctx=1-
"When I fileted the three white bass we caught, they were full of
eggs. Anybody have a good recipe for fish eggs? I have rolled them in cornmeal
and fried them before, but they pop bad. Taste ok - like mushy fish. Anybody
else eat them?"
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Saltwater Fishing - A Big Bull For John - http://saltfishing.about.com/sports/saltfishing/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm
- Fishing with a friend.
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Camping - Camping Basics - http://camping.about.com/mcurrent.htm
- Learn from the ground up!
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Hunting - Turkey Call - http://hunting.about.com/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm
- The perfect call
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Fly Fishing - The Guild Gets Going - http://flyfishing.about.com/sports/flyfishing/mcurrent.htm
- Info about the rod builders gathering.
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Site of the Week - Jug Fishing Info - http://www.jugfishing.com
- "I provide a free guide to building what I call the "BEST JUGS
ON THE LAKE"
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Joke for this Week - STUPID CRIMINAL STORIES - A man in Little Rock,
Arkansas started a fire that destroyed a mobile home and injured the home's
owner. The blaze started when the man used a cigarette lighter to look
inside a gasoline can to determine if there was water inside. Our only
hope is that this individual has not contributed to the human gene pool.
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Trivia Contest - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blcontest.htm
- Answer a trivia question, be entered into a drawing for a prize -An
official BASS Daily Planner and Fishing Guide 2000 - still has 10 good
months in in - and lots of nice pictures and info! - All correct answers
received during the week, before noon on Sunday, will be placed in a drawing
for the prize
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Tip of the Week - Try small baits early in the season. Sometimes
bass and other predators like a little bait. Last weekend at Clark Hill
the bass bit a 3/16ths ounce Hot Spot better than the 1/4 ounce Rattle
Trap I tried. They were feeding on little shad. Match the hatch!
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Message Boards - Contest ended 2/21/00
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Upcoming Events - There is a calendar of events on my site - http://fishing.about.com/sports/fishing/gi/pages/mevents.htm
- where I list any event I can find related to fishing. I have also
posted notes about this site - when articles will be updated, chat topics,
fishtales and other things. If you have any event you would like posted
there, please email me. I can post them years in advance!
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Thought for the Week - There's no sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't
work anyway.
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Five Fishing The Net SITES - http://fishing.about.com/msubfishnet.htm
- Each week I feature five to ten sites I have found that week. I get them
from newsgroups, email and surfing the net. Check these sites out - they
change each week and are moved to my library of links at the end of each
week. If you have your own site or a favorite that you would like me to
list, email me!
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Bonus Joke - More STUPID CRIMINAL STORIES - A Columbus, Ohio police
officer who was instructing bank employees on what to do during a robbery
was interrupted by a bank robbery. The suspect entered the bank and handed
a teller a note demanding cash. He had somehow missed the uniformed police
officer standing at a nearby teller window. The officer interrupted his
class and tackled the robber after a short foot chase.
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Affiliate Program - http://affiliates.about.com
- To all you webmasters out there, I would like to call your attention
to About.com's newly launched Affiliate Program where you can get paid
for click-thrus to my my site. Check it out!
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WEBMASTERS and site owners - please use this newsletter as a reminder
to check your link from Freshwater Fishing. Let me know what you think
of my comments about your site. Keep me informed of updates and changes,
especially URL changes. I would appreciate a link from your site. Feel
free to post information about your site, with a hotlink, to my boards
at http://fishing.about.com/mpboards.htm.
Also, check out my chat room at
http://fishing.about.com/mpchat.htm. The chat room is always open.
Contact me if you would like to set up a chat schedule for your site that
you would host.
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Good fishing!
Ronnie
fishing.guide@about.com
http://fishing.about.com
ISSN: 1525-8939
Feel free to send this to other fishermen - or anybody else with a warped
sense of humor!
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