FRESHWATER FISHING NEWSLETTER
April 21, 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 - Jerry Puckett with Gary Yamamoto Baits will join us at 8:00 pm edt to discuss fishing - he can answer many of your questions. Join us tonight at http://fishing.about.com/mpchat.htm! For more info before the chat, check out Inside Line.net - http://www.insideline.net/ - the Gary Yamamoto Baits online magzaine
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Site of the Week - Stripers On Lanier - http://www.stripersonlanier.com - Professional guide for stripers on Lake Lanier, GA
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This Week's Feature: Georgia Top Six - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa041999.htm - I went from despair to delight to disappointment at this tournamanet.
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Bragging Board - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blbrb.htm - There were some problems with the pictures I uploaded - they all work now, I think. Check them out and let me know - This week, Steffen Nivens shows off his first smallmouth! Send me your pictures for the bragging Board!
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Joke for this Week - During his visit to the United States the Pope met with President Clinton. Instead of just an hour as scheduled, the meeting went on for two days. Finally, a weary President Clinton emerged to face the waiting news media. The President was smiling and announced the summit was a resounding success. He said he and the Pope agreed on 70% of the matters they discussed. Then Mr. Clinton declared he was going home to the White House to be with his family.

A few minutes later the Pope came out to make his statement. He looked tired, discouraged and was practically in tears. Sadly he announced his meeting with the President was a failure. Incredulous, one reporter asked, "But your Holiness, President Clinton just announced the summit was a great success and the two of you agreed on 70% of the items discussed". Exasperated, the Pope answered, "Yes, but we were talking about the Ten Commandments."
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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 4/18- 4/25, a Stanley Vibra-Shaft Wedge spinnerbait - 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 - New England Sportsman - http://www.nesportsman.com - Lots of good fishing info. like a story about a monster pike
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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 EDT 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 - When a cold front goes through in the spring, fish deeper with smaller baits. Bass especially tend to go deeper and become less active when the skies are blue and the water temp dropping. That happened to me at West Point but I kept looking for shallow fish - and all I found was small fish. Bigger fish were caught about 15 feet deep. I don't know if it is the high presssure, the bright light, or the cooling water, but it definitely has a bad effect on the fish.
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Fishtale This Week: - Color Selection -http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl990419.htm - The Bass Coach gives you good advice on choosing the right color.
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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

4/18/99 through 4/25/99 - Prize this week, a Stanley Vibra-Shaft Wedge spinnerbait
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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 - It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.
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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. 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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Bonus Joke - One day our professor was discussing a particularly complicated concept. A premed student rudely interrupted to ask, "Why do we have to learn this stuff?" "To save lives," the professor responded quickly and continued the lecture. A few minutes later the same student spoke up again. "So how does physics save lives?" he persisted. "It keeps the ignoramuses out of medical school," replied the professor!
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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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