FRESHWATER FISHING NEWSLETTER
February 24, 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 - Cold, Alone and Waiting - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/02/18/fp1s2-csm.shtml
- Good ice fishing article from The Christian Science Monitor, and they
have a great link at the bottom - to my ice fishing library!
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This Week's Feature: - Fishing with Randy and Wanda - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa022299.htm
- A trip with a couple that fish the Guys and Dolls trail.
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Joke for this Week - You know you are having a bad day - #1 - Two
animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs
to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them,
escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless
protesters to death.
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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 2/21- 2/28, Prize -again this week - a Superchangeit spinnerbait
with four changable skirts - quickly change the color of the skirt you
are using. They are great - 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 - From Wes Brooks, an easy way to add a rattle to
a jig: pick any of the many rattle's available. Choose your size and get
a matching lenth of shrink tubing of a inside diameter that is a little
larger than the hook shank & rattle combined. Slip the tubing onto
the hook, insert the rattle into the tubing, (bottom of shank) hold the
skirt in a rag to protect it. use a hair dryer to shrink & hold the
rattle. Paint if so desired. It is great. hope you try it.
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Fishtale This Week: - Tailwater Bassin' -
http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl990222.htm - Jim Pope
shares his knowledge of fishing below dams.
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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
2/21/99 through 2/28/99 - Prize again this week -
a Superchangeit spinnerbait with four changable skirts - quickly change
the color of the skirt you are using. They are great - check out their
site at http://www.superchangeit.com/welcome.html.
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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 a tree falls in the forest and no one
is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?
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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 - Bad Day #2 - Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't
pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to
sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and
was blown to bits.
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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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