Attribution: A farm track after rain by Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation that only a former farm boy of his obsolete vintage can remember how to appreciate a summer day that dawns wet and rainy and with the kind of overcast that is …
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Category:Fishing
Kickass and Wading Streams
Attribution: Photo by Taylor Grote on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper as he “refishes” a thousand trout streams, often in the company of his mentor John Lawton who taught him about Korbel brandy and the wading rights to streams even as they run through private property. John approached stream rights with a …
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Kickass and the Mayfly Hatch
Attribution: Davide125, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s shaky equilibrium, as Phyllis knows, is so easily tipped off kilter that he should probably be encased in a plastic bubble. This morning it was a bit of gray cottonwood fluff floating by the window, and the …
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Kickass and Canada Fishing
Attribution: See page for author, OGL-ON, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes with the keeper that it is that time of year when hordes of fishermen hook up their boats and head for Canada in ritualistic quests for walleye and northern pike, undaunted by the possibility of misfortune or even disaster. …
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Kickass and Mother’s Day Fishing
Attribution: Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris), Skaw by Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in honoring all mothers on this official day of doing so, and remembers when Mother’s Day and the opening of Wisconsin’s trout fishing season occurred on the same day and it was …
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Kickass Goes Ice Fishing
Attribution: Anneli Salo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting how the unusual winter weather has set up Wisconsin as an ice-fishing mecca; and as descended from a father who viewed the weird sport in religious terms, the keeper recalls with fond memories occasionally joining …
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Kickass and Positive Pain
Attribution: Photo by Henry Fraczek on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the results from the keeper’s right shoulder MRI showed, in Dr. Warbasse’s assessment, that there are rips in his rotator cuff and frayed muscles and the joint is generally a mess, and it is unusual that the keeper is not writhing in …
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Kickass and Cheating Fishermen
Bunrunner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that by now everyone, at least every fisherman, has heard about the two Ohio competitive fishing “champs” who were caught putting weights and other material inside their catches as they maintained their lead in the “Fisherman of the …
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Kickass and Lost Prop
Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper cheers the recent finding of the 3,000-year-old canoe at the bottom of Lake Mendota; and is reminded once again of the time that the propeller fell off his outboard as he and several highly questionable fishing companions …
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Kickass and Dan Wisniewski
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was among the hundreds of friends who gathered Thursday at Holy Wisdom to honor the life of Dan Wisniewski, who died last year. Dan was an exceptional man of limitless accomplishments, and a trout fishing companion to many, including the keeper …
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Kickass and Black Earth Creek
Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that among the latest big-money-sponsored insults to life as the keeper’s crowd knows it, is a warning from the DNR that eating the trout out of Black Earth Creek comes with the risk of cancer, a lower birth rate and …
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Kickass and Screaming Trout
Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper sometimes gets behind in adjusting to the flow of information; and is currently struggling with the speculation that humans do not have a monopoly on consciousness, meaning that other species—fish, for example, …
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