FRESHWATER FISHING NEWSLETTER #25
July 8, 1998
Ronnie Garrison
Freshwater Fishing Guide at The Mining Co
http://fishing.about.com
Suggestions, comments, complaints, tips, jokes, site suggestions and ideas
welcome at fishing.guide@about.com
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HELP - The Mining Co. is making a major effort to insure we are
providing the best possible sites for you. I want to have a site that gives
anyone looking for info on fishing what they want - and make it easy to
find. This should be easy for the beginner fisherman and beginner net user
as well as you pro fishermen and internet users that have been around since
it started.
Please look over my site and tell me what you think. What do I need
to add? Is my library
of links - http://fishing.about.com/mlibrary.htm
- easy to use, does it provide the info you want, how could I make it better?
How about other things like this newsletter, 'fishtales,'
weekly articles, chat, boards and contests. Is my home
page - http://fishing.about.com/
- easy to understand and follow? Please let
me know!!!
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Site of the Week - Creative Writing For Kids - http://kidswriting.about.com
- Guide Diane Dobbs offers great info for younger people wanting to
write. If it is too hot to go fishing, take your kids to this site. Learn
about writing and then do a fishtale for me!
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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.
Drop in chats every night from 8 to 9 pm. I
try to be there from about 8 to 10 EDT 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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Site Update - I have worked on my library of links for all subjects,
adding new ones and deleting bad ones in almost every category. I have
work especially hard on Bass - http://fishing.about.com/msubbass.htm
- and Organizations -http://fishing.about.com/msuborganizations.htm.
Please check them out. Do they provide you what you want? I have bass clubs
in the Organizations category. Should they also be under Bass? Should I
have a separate category for Bass Clubs? How could I change it to make
it better for you? Please give me feedback on these issues. Thank you!
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This Week's Feature: -July Fishing - Beat the Heat-
http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa070698.htm - Some ways you
can enjoy the fishing this summer in relative comfort!
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Tip of the Week - Live bait usually beats artificials! A regular
visitor to my chat room, annon, told me of a trip to Oconee last week.
He and his father watched a couple of bass fishermen fish a point with
worms and crankbaits with no success. When they left he and his father
moved over, anchored, dropped down some live shad and caught a bunch of
fish! The fish were there but would not hit artificials. If you want to
catch fish, and are not in a tournament, try live bait!
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Fishtale This Week: - Bumpy Sucker Raking - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl980706.htm
- Jim Pope provides another of his excellent stories of growing up
in Tennessee.
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Message Boards - 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
7/5/98 through 7/12/98 - Prize - A crankbait and a
pack of worms.
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Upcoming Events - There is a calendar of events on my site - http://fishing.about.com/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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Joke for this Week - Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Dogs are
man's best friend. So which is the dumber sex?
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Thought for the Week - You don't get ulcers from what you eat -
you get them from what's eating you
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Right Click Trick - Having trouble bookmarking a site you find through
The Mining Co 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 - or anybody else with a
warped sense of humor!
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