FRESHWATER FISHING NEWSLETTER
March 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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Special Chat - Tonight! Wednesday, March 24, The Bass Coach, Roger
Brown, will be in the room from 8 to 9 pm est to talk fishing and answer
your questions. He guided at Santee Cooper in South Carolina before moving
to New York. Have a question about bass fishing? Make sure you are at http://fishing.about.com/mpchat.htm
that night!
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Site of the Week - San Diego Fishing - http://www.sdfish.com
- It has fish report, lake info and some real nice big fish photos.
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Fishing The Net - http://fishing.about.com/msubfishnet.htm
- Each week I feature five to ten sites I have found that week. I get them
from newsgroups, email and surfing the net myself. Check these sites out
- they change each week and are moved to my library of links at the end
of each week. If you have your own site or a favorite that you would like
me to list, email me!
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Net Links - I added about 75 new net links during the week of 3/15/99
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New Feature - Bragging Board - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blbrb.htm
- John Casey is featured this week - send me your pictures to post
here.
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This Week's Feature: - Same as last week - no update, I went fishing!
- Eufaula Bedding Bass - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm
- Breandan Smith showed me the pattern that he used to win the Georgia
Top Six last April, and some big bass were on it. With pictures.
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Joke for this Week - Another Bad Day - In 1992, Frank Perkins of
Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering
from the flu he came down eight hours short of the 400 day record, his
sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity
had been cut off.
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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 3/21- 3/28, PRIZE this week, two Granddaddy's Jigs and a pack
of curly tail trailers - All correct answers received during the week,
before noon on Sunday, will be placed in a drawing for the prize
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Bonus Site - Duluth Bass Club - http://www.mindspring.com/~duluthbass/index.html
Information about this Georgia club, including team tournaments.
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New Library of Links - Newsletters - http://fishing.about.com/msubnewsletters.htm
- Looking for email newsletters on fishing - several are listed here.
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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 - Try a variety if baits until the fish show you
what they want. Last weekend at West Point, we caught fish on worms, plugs
and spinnerbaits. Until I tried a #8 Shadrap I did not catch a keeper 16
inch bass though. They seemed to want a little bigger crankbait, and the
#8 worked!
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Fishtale This Week: - Same as last week - no update, I went fishing!
- Superchangeit Striper -
http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl990315.htm
- Picture of a nice California striper caught on a spinnerbait.
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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
3/21/99 through 3/28/99 - Prize this week,
two Granddaddy's Jigs and a pack of curly tail trailers
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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 - He would be out of his depth in a parking
lot puddle.
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Bonus Joke - More Bad Days - A woman came home to find her husband
in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running
from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away
from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the
back door, breaking his arm in two places. Till that moment he had been
happily listening to his Walkman.
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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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