Fishing Addicts?

I fished a February tournament a few years ago - the bank thermometer
showed 11 F when I went thru town before daylight. Got all the way up
to 16 that day. I won the tournament, had 9 keepers off bridge
pilings. Didn't but 12 fishermen show up - others like my partner
backed out.

Fortunately most winters never get that cold, but we did have a 20
degree night last week already.

I think I bought the first snowmobile suit purchased in Georgia - in
1974, same year I got my first bass boat.

Ronnie

http://fishing.about.com

Ken Blevins wrote:
Ronnie = It was 13 degrees when I got up .Its almost 9 AM and a scorching
19degrees with some wind.As much as I enjoy fishing I just can't bring
myself to go out into this.At 45-50 degrees, its is still hard for me to do
.As a boy I lived in Georgia and Florida for several years and remember the
winters as cold mornings and pleasant days but back then I could care less
about fishing and more about ball or girls. Some times I wish I still lived
in Georgia
Ken





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"Ronnie" wrote in message
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It doesn't get too cold to fish.

Ronnie

http://fishing.about.com

Bob La Londe wrote:
What do you do as the weather gets too cold to fish?

Have you already respooled all your rods? Repaired all your damaged
equipment? fogged and stored your boat?


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Writing and outlines of what I plan to write.

Bob La Londe wrote:
What do you do as the weather gets too cold to fish?

Have you already respooled all your rods? Repaired all your damaged
equipment? fogged and stored your boat?


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Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
Fishing Forums & Contests
http://www.YumaBassMan.com



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fishtale wrote:

Writing and outlines of what I plan to write.

You should plan on going to school to learn to write first.

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"fishtale" wrote in message
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Writing and outlines of what I plan to write.


I've written a few published articles. Nothing like Joe or Rich or some of
the other guys here, but a couple. I've found that outlining an article
works if I am doing a research paper style piece, but my best work has come
from hammering out page after page of free flowing free thinking work as
fast as I can type. I don't stop to correct it or think about flow or
anything. Just try and keep up with the flow of thought.

Then...

After I run out of momentum...

1. Reorganize it into a coherent order that flows from one point to the
next.
2. Delete from 1/2 to 2/3s of it as unnecessary garbage.
3. Add illustrations as needed.
4. Leave it set for a couple days to a week, then go back and tweak it to
make it right.
5. Think about reading style. Do simple things like break down compound
and run on sentences into simple sentences with just a few compounds to
break up the monotony. (This makes a huge difference int he readablity of
an article.)

The end product actually has a similar style to a formal research paper, but
it seems to have more emotional charge when I work that way. Those are the
articles that people compliment when I am done.

I've got one or two short works that came out complete when I was still
riding the emotional high after an experience, but that is very rare.
Usually even those need some editing of the cold analytical mind after a few
days.


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Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
Fishing Forums & Contests
http://www.YumaBassMan.com





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Pickover has some good advice on writing methods. Azimov was a very
prolific writer who would work on three scipts ar once. He had a u
shaped desk with three typewriters.
Bob La Londe wrote:
"fishtale" wrote in message
ups.com...
Writing and outlines of what I plan to write.


I've written a few published articles. Nothing like Joe or Rich or some of
the other guys here, but a couple. I've found that outlining an article
works if I am doing a research paper style piece, but my best work has come
from hammering out page after page of free flowing free thinking work as
fast as I can type. I don't stop to correct it or think about flow or
anything. Just try and keep up with the flow of thought.

Then...

After I run out of momentum...

1. Reorganize it into a coherent order that flows from one point to the
next.
2. Delete from 1/2 to 2/3s of it as unnecessary garbage.
3. Add illustrations as needed.
4. Leave it set for a couple days to a week, then go back and tweak it to
make it right.
5. Think about reading style. Do simple things like break down compound
and run on sentences into simple sentences with just a few compounds to
break up the monotony. (This makes a huge difference int he readablity of
an article.)

The end product actually has a similar style to a formal research paper, but
it seems to have more emotional charge when I work that way. Those are the
articles that people compliment when I am done.

I've got one or two short works that came out complete when I was still
riding the emotional high after an experience, but that is very rare.
Usually even those need some editing of the cold analytical mind after a few
days.


--
Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
Fishing Forums & Contests
http://www.YumaBassMan.com





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Bob La Londe wrote:
I've found that outlining an article
works if I am doing a research paper style piece, but my best work has come
from hammering out page after page of free flowing free thinking work as
fast as I can type. I don't stop to correct it or think about flow or
anything. Just try and keep up with the flow of thought.

Then...

After I run out of momentum...

1. Reorganize it into a coherent order that flows from one point to the
next.
2. Delete from 1/2 to 2/3s of it as unnecessary garbage.
3. Add illustrations as needed.
4. Leave it set for a couple days to a week, then go back and tweak it to
make it right.
5. Think about reading style. Do simple things like break down compound
and run on sentences into simple sentences with just a few compounds to
break up the monotony. (This makes a huge difference int he readablity of
an article.)

The end product actually has a similar style to a formal research paper, but
it seems to have more emotional charge when I work that way. Those are the
articles that people compliment when I am done.

I've got one or two short works that came out complete when I was still
riding the emotional high after an experience, but that is very rare.
Usually even those need some editing of the cold analytical mind after a few
days.



This is not far off my usual technique, Bob. I do find an outline
helpful for longer pieces -- books and 12,000 to 25,000 word tomes that
end up being published as 4 or 5 part series AFTER an editor a lot less
thrilled with my wordcount than I am has his way with them.

But a simple 2000 to 3500 word magazine article, I write as it comes to
me, then edit mercilessly. Then I rewrite and edit even more mercilessly
the lead (first 2 to 3 grafs) and the close (last 2 grafs), THEN I let
it ferment a week or two or three, if possible withing deadline
constraints. Being something of a procrastinator, sometimes it's not
possible to let it sit as long as I'd like before a final pass through
WordChopper 3.0.

Sometimes, I write a sentence or a paragraph that I'm so enamored with,
that I just can't bring myself to tweak it. Usually, after 2 weeks, the
verbiage that excited me when I wrote it gets cut completely.

Former Bassmaster Editor Bob Cobb once shared with me his "rules of the
can". Since our product (fishing articles/magazines) are most likely to
be read in the can, he wanted his regulars to write for the guy reading
while perched on porcelain. First rule -- No-one keeps a dictionary in
the can, so don't make the reader need one. Second rule -- Most guys'
legs will fall asleep after about 1300 words, so keep it brief. And so
it went for another dozen rules or so.

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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I've written a few published articles. snip
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I mentioned this Website to Ronnie a few months ago. John E. Phillips offers
useful advice to aspiring outdoor writers:
http://www.nighthawkpublications.com...ng/writing.htm

Joe