FRESHWATER FISHING NEWSLETTER
December 9, 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 - Middletons
Fish Camp - Check out the pictures of "the ones that didn't
get away" and then visit the rest of the site.
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Joke for this Week - Prisons: Did you know that it costs forty thousand
dollars a year to house each prisoner? [Jeez, for forty thousand bucks
a piece I'll take a few prisoners into my house] I live in a big city.
I already have bars on the windows. I don't think we should give free room
and board to criminals. I think they should have to run twelve hours a
day on a treadmill and generate electricity. And if they don't want to
run, they can rest in the chair that's hooked up to the generator.
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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
(again) the week of 12/6 - 12/13, -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: -Christmas Gifts for Fishermen - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa120798.htm
- A few selections, from stocking stuffers to dream machines.
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Tip of the Week - Don't worry about what everybody else is doing
- especially in a tournament. Your competition is the fish - trying to
figure out what they are doing, what they want, how to catch them. What
the other competitors do has no effect on you - unless they are real slobs
and get right on top of you or jump ahead of you - so concentrate on the
fish, not the other fishermen.
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Fishtale This Week: -Zebco Trivia-
http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl981207.htm - How Zebco
got its name!
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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
12/6/98 through 12/13/98 - Prize (again this week)
- 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 - A computer program will always do what you
tell it to do, but rarely what you want it to do.
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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 - .Fabric Fabric Softener: My wife uses fabric softener.
I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women were coming
up to me (sniff) 'Married' (walk off). That's how they mark their territory.
You can take off that ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent
out of your clothes.
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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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