FRESHWATER FISHING
September 22, 1999 - Vol. 2, No.17

Tournament Rules
Zoom Flukes
Jeremy Ward's Vacation
Forum Discussion
Lanigan Performance Marine Applications
Ben Baker's Drivel
Jim Pope's Grandaddy's Jigs
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This Week's Feature - Tournament Rules - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa092099.htm - All tournaments have rules - do you know what they are if you are fishing one?
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Fishtale This Week: - Zoom Flukes - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl990920.htm - Ben Potaracke has a story and question about Flukes.
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Bragging Board - Jeremy Ward's Vacation - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blbrb.htm - Jeremy and his family caught some fish on vacation!
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Forum Discussion - Every Hook Yourself? - http://forums.about.com/ab-fishing/messages/?msg=191.2&ctx=1 Tell your painful experiences!
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Site of the Week - Lanigan Performance Marine Applications - http://www.laniganperformance.com/marine_applications.html
Protect your outboard and outdrive motors
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Ben Baker's Drivel - http://www.csunet.net/~pliny - Ben says "Get yer dose of drivel weekly Free email versions of Ben Baker's Award winning column." Don't know what award he won, but this is funny outdoor stuff! Please mention you were refered by fishing.guide@about.com and I will get one of his books free - which I will give away here in a contest!
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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 - The Locked Car - When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told that the keys had been accidentally locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver's side door. As I watched from the passenger's side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered it was open. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "It's open!" "I know," answered the young man. "I already got that side."
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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 9/20 -9/26, Two Jim Pope Granddaddy Jigs and a sack of 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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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 - Don't leave fish! In a tournament Sunday, we circled an area and I hooked and lost two good fish between 2 and 3 pounds each. We worked on down the bank without any more keeper fish, and started to leave. Instead, I idled back above where I had lost the two fish and circled that area again - and caught a 4 pound, 10 ounce bass from a tree top we had already fished three or four times. It was the only keeper we caught that day. If feeding fish are in an area, don't leave to go looking for them somewhere else!
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Message Boards - 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

9/19/99 through 9/26/99 - Prize this week, Two Jim Pope Granddaddy Jigs and a sack of 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 - Follow your dream! Unless it's the one where you're at work in your underwear during a fire drill.
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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 -Flight Attendant info talk - "Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but they'll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your money, more than Southwest Airlines"
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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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