FRESHWATER FISHING
September 29, 1999 - Vol. 2, No.18

Three 12 Pound Fish
Trout Farm Tricks
Jim Pope Ky Lake Bass
Forum Discussion
Carp Book
Ben Baker's Drivel
Jim Pope's Grandaddy's Jigs
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This Week's Feature - Three 12 Pound Fish - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa092799.htm - Three of my biggest fish are fond memories.
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Fishtale This Week: - Trout Farm Tricks - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/bl990927.htm - Kathy Dillon Stevens tells how to catch them.
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Bragging Board - Jim Pope - http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/blbrb.htm - Jim landed a good Ky Lake largemouth last March on one of his jigs.
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Forum Discussion - P-Line - http://forums.about.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=ab-fishing&msg=201.1 Ever tried this line?
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Site of the Week - Carp Book - http://www.carpbooks.com/ - Funny book about carp fishing - just the ad page is good!Read excerpts and the first chapter of carp fishing's first ever novel, 'The Syndicate'.
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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 - Please take time out of your busy lives to check your toilet paper stockpile. Make sure it's Y2K compliant!!! Word has it, if it isn't, come Jan 1, 2000, it will roll back to 1900, then turn into Sears Catalogs!!
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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 9/27 - 10/3, A sack of plastic worms. - 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 - Share your tips and read others on the forum - http://forums.about.com/n/mb/discussionFrameset.asp?webtag=ab-fishing&ctx=128&cacheTag=x11-45&ld=&msg=196.1
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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

9/27/99 through 10/2/99 - Prize this week, A sack of plastic worms.
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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 - If you don't like my driving, don't call anyone. Just take another road. That's why the highway department made so many of them.
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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 - A patient complained to his doctor, "I've been to three other doctors and none of them agreed with your diagnosis." The doctor calmly replied, "Just wait until the autopsy, then they'll see that I was right."
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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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