FRESHWATER FISHING
August 18, 1999 - Vol. 2, No.12

Cutthroat Trout
Annon's Crappie
Forum Discussion
Bookstore
Member Page
Nite Glow Rods
Jim Pope's Grandaddy's Jigs
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This Week's Feature - Cutthroat Trout - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa081699.htm - Beautiful trout are plentiful in Yellowstone Park
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Fishtale This Week: - Send in your fishtale! No new ones available!
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Bragging Board - Annon's Crappie - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blbrb.htm - You have met him in chat - here are some of his big crappie!
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Forum Discussion - Cutthroat Trout - http://forums.about.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ab-fishing&msg=143.1 - Some pictures and a diary of my trip to Yellowstone!
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Bookstore - NOW OPEN - http://fishing.about.com/msubbook.htm - About.com has partnered with Borders books. I have listed a few books I have at home that I like and are available at Borders. Let me know if you have a favorite fishing book you would like to see listed here.
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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. JOIN THREE ABOUT COM SITES AND GET  A TEE SHIRT - 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 - Nite Glow Rods - http://www.niteglow.com/ - Get a rod with a tip that glows in the dark to help you while fishing at night!
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Jim Pope's Grandaddy's Bucktail Jigs - http://tnbucktail.addr.com - 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 - I had been doing Tech Support for Hewlett-Packard's Desk Jet division for about a month when I had a customer call with a problem I just couldn't solve. She could not print yellow. All the other colors would print fine, which truly baffled me because the only true colors are cyan, magenta, and yellow. For instance, green is a combination of cyan and yellow, but green printed fine. Every color of the rainbow printed fine except for yellow. I had the customer change ink cartridges. I had the customer delete and reinstall the drivers. Nothing worked. I asked my co-workers for help; they offered no new ideas. After over two hours of troubleshooting, I was about to tell the customer to send the printer in to us for repair when she asked quietly, "Should I try printing on a piece of white paper instead of this yellow paper?"
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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 8/16 -8/22, 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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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 - Take a hike! If you are visiting parks and heavily fished areas, a walk away from the crowds will pay off in fish. You do not have to be as extreme as my "death march" at Yellowstone, but putting a little distance between you and the crowds is worth it!
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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 visit 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 visitor's name from one Sunday NOON to the next in a 'hat' and draw one as the winner. Every log-in will be counted as one visit, so the more times you visit the board, the more chances you have to win! 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. All the details and a list of past winners can be found at http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blboardcontest.htm

8/16/99 through 8/22/99 - 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 - Always take time to stop and smell the roses... and sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee.
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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 - Customer: "My computer crashed!" Tech Support: "It crashed?" Customer: "Yeah, it won't let me play my game." Tech Support: "All right, hit Control-Alt-Delete to reboot." Customer: "No, it didn't crash - it crashed." Tech Support: "Huh?" Customer: "I crashed my game. That's what I said before. I crashed my spaceship and now it doesn't work." Tech Support: "Click on 'File,' then 'New Game.'" Customer: [pause] "Wow! How'd you learn how to do that?"
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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
ISSN: 1525-8939
Feel free to send this to other fishermen - or anybody else with a warped sense of humor!
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