FRESHWATER FISHING NEWSLETTER
December 2, 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 - Larry Leonard Books- http://www.pcez.com/~hobbit/fishbks.htm
- includes Sturgeon Fishing and The Meanest Fish On Earth!
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Joke for this Week - Darwin Award #3. Buxton, NC: A man died on
a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he
sat inside it. Beachgoers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun,
or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the
bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet
of sand. People on the beach, on the outer banks, used their hands and
shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA,
but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost
an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced
dead at a hospital.
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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 11/29 - 12/6, -A pack of Gary Yamamoto Lizards and a pack of
Twin T's Skirts, donated by them.Visit their site at http://www.yamamoto.baits.com.
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: - Protecting the Environment - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa113098.htm
- Sometimes friends can become fanatics, and their help becomes a problem.
Read my comments to Bass Times and add you own.
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Tip of the Week - Check back at places you caught fish earlier in
the day. At Clark's Hill last weekend, Linda and I caught bass Friday morning
on a gravel point and a patch of gravel in a cove. That afternoon we caugth
bass on another gravel point in a different cove. During the next two days,
we caught 14 keepers off those three places, most of the bass we caught
during the time we were there. Although we fished many other spots, no
others paid off like the three we found the first day.
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Fishtale This Week: - Take A Blond Fishing -
http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl981130.htm - Two blonds
find a crappie honey hole at West Point Lake.
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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 NOON (this is
a change) 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
11/30/98 through 12/6/98 - Prize - A pack
of Gary Yamamoto Lizards and a pack of Twin T's Skirts, donated by them.Visit
their site at http://www.yamamoto.baits.com.
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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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Thought for the Week - If at first you don't succeed, blame your
computer!
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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 - Darwin Award #5. According to police in Dahlonega,
GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was stabbed to death in January by fellow
cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23 who was trying to prove that a knife could not
penetrate the flak vest Berrena was wearing.
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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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