FRESHWATER FISHING NEWSLETTER
January 13, 1999
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 - Camping from The Mining Co - http://camping.about.com
- Guide David Sweet helps you find a place to stay near the fish!
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This Week's Feature: - Cold Water Fishing - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa011199.htm
- Some ways to catch fish in cold water.
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Joke for this Week - A young man hired by a supermarket reported
for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake
and a smile, gave him a broom and said, "Your first job will be to
sweep out the store." "But I'm a college graduate," the
young man replied indignantly. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that,"
said the manager. "Here, give me the broom - I'll show you how."
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Fishing Pictures - Like pictures of folks with fish? Check out the
new library of links for Clip Art and Pictures - http://fishing.about.com/msubpictures.htm
- Eric helped find the links - some nice fish are shown! Arranged alphabetically
by fish - from bass to walleye!
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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 1/10 - 1/17, - A Superchangeit spinnerbait with four changable
skirts - quickly change the color of the skirt you are using. - check out
their site at http://www.superchangeit.com/welcome.html
. 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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Tip of the Week - Fish heavy cover and shade for bass after a cold
front - even in icewater! Last Saturday it was warm, cloudy and rainy here
in Georgia. Sunday morning dawned bright and clear - and 22 degrees! We
had some wind and the sun was extremely bright. Two different club tournaments
on Sinclair that day were won on docks - both on Shadraps cast to them.
I think the bass took cover in the shade around the docks from the bright
sun. The day before the bass were more scattered and chasing shad. Quite
a difference!
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Fishtale This Week: - Tennessee Pickerel -
http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl990111.htm - Jim Pope
gets a suprise from a toothy critter!
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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
1/10/99 through 1/17/99 - Prize - A pack
of Gary Yamamoto Big Ika's 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 - .The problem with the gene pool is that there
is no lifeguard
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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 - This woman goes into a funeral home to make arrangements
for her husband's funeral. She tells the director that she wants her husband
to be buried in a dark blue suit. He asks, "Wouldn't it just be easier
to bury him in the black suit that he's wearing?" But she insists
that it must be a blue suit and gives him a blank check to buy one. When
she comes back for the wake, she sees her husband in the coffin and he
is wearing a beautiful blue suit. She tells the director how much she loves
the suit and asks how much it cost. He says, "Actually, it didn't
cost anything. The funniest thing happened. As soon as you left, another
corpse was brought in, this one wearing a blue suit. I noticed that they
were about the same size, and asked the other widow if she would mind if
her husband were buried in a black suit. She said that was fine with her.
So...
I switched the heads"
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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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