Attribution: Paul Nute, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having no regrets about anything in his wayward life, is at a loss to understand the keeper’s ambition to balance his account with the fish that shared his bounty of years. Those fish were mostly trout that the keeper met in …
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Category:Fishing
Kickass and Canada Fishing
Attribution: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archivesvia Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_of_the_Woods_Sunset_(Klamath_County,Oregon_scenic_images)(klaDA0246).jpg By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper misses the summer fishing trips to Canada and is prone to wallowing in selective memory exercise, like the one about Antoine the seriously hung-over guide who clung to the back of the boat on a …
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Kickass Goes South
Attribution: Florida Memory, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that for many years the keeper would be using these post-holiday days to return his Christmas gifts for cash he could use to buy enough gas to get the hell out of Wisconsin and far enough south to go …
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Kickass and Illegal Order
Attribution: Hillebrand Steve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, after getting Phyllis’s approval, is seeking reactivation of his military status so he can see what happens when he refuses to obey an unlawful military order to help murder men in …
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Kickass and Pasture Bulls
Attribution: akial, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper resists reality at every aging moment, but must admit that it is unlikely he will have an opportunity to test his late fishing friend John Lawton’s theory of how to proceed when encountering an aggressive bull in a …
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Kickass and Farmer Fishing Days
Attribution: USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to restrain leakage from the keeper’s memory bag: “On rainy summer days when the haymows were full and the corn was nearly at its knee-high-by-the 4th goal, the farmers went fishing. “They tied cane poles to the sides …
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Kickass and Two Flat Tires
Attribution: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Midwest Region, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is with the keeper this morning as he says “Oh, to hell with it, let’s go fishing!” The time is many years ago as the keeper and trout fishing companion John Lawton suspend evening …
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Kickass and a Fishing Lie
Attribution: Photo by Jed Owen on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper in this age of lies and more lies, recalls “The Good Lie,” which was the title of a story of his that appeared in the June 1993 issue of Sports Afield magazine. It was about an old man–Ben Lusby and …
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Kickass and the Hex Hatch
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper reminded by son Larry of the days when this time of year meant “chasing the hex hatch” which translates to the two of them often driving at breakneck speed to get to the Mecan River in time for the nightfall hatch …
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Kickass and Adjustments
Attribution: Gene Daniels , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not much help to the keeper as he grapples with changing eyesight conditions due to macular degeneration, which currently has him wearing an eye patch to deal with seeing double images. At this point in his nonagenarian existence, the …
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Kickass and Dead Fish Photos
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is off on a research rampage to determine why it so pleases people—mostly men, to be photographed with a fish, usually a good-sized dead fish and sometimes with a whole string of smaller dead fish? It is a circumstance prominent …
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Kickass and Larry’s Birthday
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting that the keeper is more than familiar with the sons-out-of-control circumstance, adds that he is pretty much unable to assist in the latest problem whereby the keeper’s eldest son Larry very publicly celebrated a birthday marking him as old as the Pyramids. The …
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