FRESHWATER FISHING NEWSLETTER
November 4, 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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Site of the Week - Ai Nguyen asked about an internet site to help
learn to read maps, my tip last week. Here is a good starting place - Catch
Fish with Maps- http://www.topo-log.com/catch2.html
- A multiple part article explaining how to use maps to improve your catch.
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Late Update - Sorry for the late notification of the board winner
this week. I have been standing in a tree since last Friday and came home
for a couple of hours Sunday to check email and upload files. I was in
too big a hurry to get back to the woods and not see deer, and was not
as careful as I should have been.
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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 - prize
the week of 11/1 - 11/8 -A plug and a pack of worms. All correct answers
received during the week, before noon on Sunday, will be placed in a drawing
for the prize
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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 EST 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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This Week's Feature: - Making Money Outdoors - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa110198.htm
- Some jobs outdoors, from careers to hobbies that pay for themselves.
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Tip of the Week - Keep fishing! Late fall into winter is good for
fishing. Some of my best bass catches have come in November and December.
Bass still eat - don't give up on them - and other fish are also active.
Even under ice you can catch them, I have been told!
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Fishtale This Week: - Shallow Cranking the Docks, Part 2- http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl981102.htm
- Jim finishes up his article on how he and a friend discovered a way
to catch fish under docks with crankbaits.
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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
11/1/98 through 11/8/98 - Prize - A plug
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 - TRUE STORY #1: One young man now confesses
that several years ago he went to a family reunion with extremely red ears
and had a heck of a time trying to explain how it occurred. (He never did
admit they were burned!) 'Burned how?' was the natural question. His ears
had gotten burned during one of those long, lazy weekends of nothing but
football watching and drinking beer. 'I was deeply engrossed in the game,
and my wife was ironing near by. She left the room, leaving the iron near
the telephone. The phone rang...Keeping my eyes glued to the TV set, I
grabbed the hot iron and put it to my ear, thinking it was the telephone.'
How did both ears get burned, we may ask. 'I hadn't any more than hung
up, when the man called back!!'
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Thought for the Week - When All Else Fails; Misunderstand the Instructions
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Bass Chasers International - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blclub.htm
- Join our virtual bass fishing club. Just forming, there are no dues
right now. We need your input at this point on club rules, how to have
tournaments and other areas. We plan to set up tournaments where you can
win free tackle.
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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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Bonus Joke - TRUE STORY #2: There was this young couple who had
a terrific argument one morning before leaving for work. The wife couldn't
get her dress zipped up in back, so she backed up to her husband and motioned
for him to zip up her zipper. 'I'll show you zipping', he thought, and
briskly whipped it up and down the slide till it broke. He had to cut her
out of her favorite dress, which didn't make her happier with him. They
went their separate ways to work, both boiling mad at each other. The wife
did a slow burn all day. When she got home that evening, she walked through
the garage and saw her husband under the car fixing something, with only
his legs sticking out. She decided her moment of REVENGE had come. She
leaned over, grabbed his pants zipper, and whipped it up and down. Quite
contented, she walked into the kitchen, where she found her husband standing
by the sink. Sheepishly, she asked him, 'Who is in the garage, under the
car?' She was told it was a neighbor who had come over to help work on
the car. The acutely embarrassed wife asked her husband to help explain
the situation to the neighbor, and they both returned to the garage. They
asked him to come out from under the car, but he didn't respond. When they
finally dragged him out, he was unconscious and bleeding, from slamming
his head into the underside of the car each time he got zippeby surprise!!
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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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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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