FRESHWATER FISHING
June 23, 1999 - Vol. 2, No.6

Catching Catfish
Thunder and Lightning
Gregory Henschel's first fish
Forum Discussion
Member Page
Jim Pope's Grandaddy's Jigs
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This Week's Feature: Catching Catfish - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa062199.htm - Catching catfish - fun and great to eat.
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Fishtale This Week: - Thunder and Lightning - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl990621.htm - Terry Yorker tells how he and his fishing buddy got that name.
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Bragging Board - Gregory Henschel's first fish - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blbrb.htm -Gregory is five and he caught a nice bream - wonder what he could have caught with a whole pole!
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Forum Discussion - Tell us about your biggest fish ever - http://forums.about.com/ab-fishing/messages/?msg=62.16&ctx=1 - and read about others!
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Member Page - Make your own page! Visit the http://fishing.miningco.com/gi/membership/join.htm, put in a little info and become a member of this site. You can make your own page then - check out one at http://members.about.com/TFrench. This will register you for the Delphi boards, too. Get in to the discussions there, and post to enter the contest there for a cap this week!
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Site of the Week - Great Lakes Charter Association - http://www.CTEINTERNET.com/glca - Educational site for activities in and around the Great Lakes, offering a Free Sportfishing Charter.
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Jim Pope's Grandaddy's Bucktail Jigs - http://homestead.com/tnbucktail/Bucktails.html - You have read about them here and some of you have won some. Now you can order them. Check out his page.
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Joke for this Week - Bumper sticker on Arkansan car: If you can read this, you're not from here!
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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 6/20 -6/27, A white K-Mart - Big K cap (again - no winner last week).- 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 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 - Check on small "pay" lakes in your area. Pond owners often charge a small amount to fish and the fishing can be great! Ask at local sporting good stores and the classified ads in your local paper.
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Message Boards - You will have to re-register for the new boards. If you sign up to join, you should be registered for the new boards. If you have problems, let me know.

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

6/20/99 through 6/27/99 - Prize this week, An official camo Cap from Waterfowl, USA!
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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 - Only in America...can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance
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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 - Q: What do they call "Hee Haw" in Oklahoma? A: A documentary. Q: What do they call it in Kentucky? A: "Life Styles of the Rich and Famous."
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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. Feel free to post information about your site, with a hotlink, to my boards at http://fishing.about.com/mpboards.htm. 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
http://fishing.about.com
ISSN01229
Feel free to send this to other fishermen - or anybody else with a warped sense of humor!
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