FRESHWATER FISHING NEWSLETTER #12
April 8, 1998
Ronnie Garrison
Freshwater Fishing Guide at The Mining Company
http://fishing.about.com
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Site of the Week - Georgia Bass Chapter Federation - http://www.bassangler.com/gbcf/- Done by David Chester of Bassangler.com. this page gives info from the monthly newsletter to final standings in the 1998 Top Six tournament.
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Georgia Bass Chapter Federation Top Six - I just spent five windblown days at Lake Walter F. George fishing the state Top Six tournament. If you have sent me email and I have not responded, or if you have requested to be unsubscribed from this newsletter, I apologise. I will try to catch up with my email by this weekend. =====================================
Chat Room - http://fishing.about.com/mpchat.htm.
Always open, I host on 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 11 EST most nights - Monday night three people dropped by between 9:30 and 10:30 EST. 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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This Week's Feature: -My Favorite Bass Boat - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa980406.htm - A 1983 Procraft was the best fishing boat I ever had - so far.
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Tip of the Week - At the Georgia BASS Chapter Federation Top Six tournament at Walter F. George I did not catch a 16 inch keeper on Monday. On Tuesday my partner carried me to a place where a team member had found some keeper fish. My partner told me to use a Shadrap. I caught four keepers weighing 9.9 pounds in the next hour - good for 28th place out of 499 fishermen. - Tip - sometimes it pays to listen to your partner!
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Fishtale This Week: A Near Death Experience -http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl980406.htm - by Jim Pope - A scary experience in a bass boat.
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Message Boards - My boards don't get much traffic - even with a contest! Is there something you don't like about them or some other problem? Let me know.

Every post to the Freshwater Fishing Board - http://fishing.about.com/mpboards.htm - during the week is eligible for a prize. Each Monday I will put every post from one Sunday midnight to the next in a "hat" and draw one as the winner. The winner will be notified by email and posted here. There will be one winner per week.

This contest is, of course, an unabashed attempt to get people to use my boards! The only requirement is that posts must be related to fishing. The board is for fishing info so ask a real question, respond with an answer you know, or post information about a trip you took. They can be original posts or responses to posts. I will use the "Show Post from 1 week" button to select the posts for the contest. All the details and a list of past winners can be found at http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blboardcontest.htm

4/5/98 through 4/12/98 - Prize - Lures including a bag of worms, a Rattle Trap (Donated by Berry's Sporting Goods in Griffin, GA) and a Shadrap.
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Joke for this Week - One more Darwin Award - A drunk security man asked a colleague at the Moscow bank they were guarding to stab his bullet-proof vest to see if it protected him against the knife. It didn't and the 25 year old guard died of a heart wound. Isn't it good to see the Russians getting into the spirit of the awards?..........
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Thought for the Week - When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
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Right Click Trick - Having trouble bookmarking a site you find through The Mining Company because the URL doesn't show? This is a problem with frames. Right click your mouse and the page url you are viewing should show. Then you can copy it and book mark it. Sorry for the trouble.
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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. 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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I hope you find the Freshwater Fishing Newsletter useful. If you do not want to receive any more issues, you can either go to http://fishing.about.com/gi/pages/mmail.htm
and unscribe, or hit reply, type UNSCRIBE in the message area and hit send. I will remove you from the list. You can also subscribe at this same address.
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Good fishing!
Ronnie
fishing.guide@about.com
Feel free to send this to other fishermen.
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