Reports of my Death…

This story is brought to you by “Trout Fishing” –Keeping Chris Sane for Over 40 Years… Yeah, we got the hail.  I pointed out the green sky to the kids, told them whenever you see that, hail is coming.  I should have covered my truck, or at least parked it under a tree, because it got dinged up pretty good. Bunch of holes in the siding of our house too.  State Farm is covering it, but when I dropped my truck off for body work I was not expecting it to take so long.  I figured it would be the better part of week, but they’re waiting for parts, bla bla bla, and I’ll be lucky to have it back by next weekend.  And after attending a considerable number of fast pitch softball games, I needed to go fishing.  But with no truck there would be no pulling the boat, no loading up the kayaks, that leaves me with trout fishing.  AS it turns out, I like trout fishing, but for one reason or another I mostly stick to the late winter through spring for trout, and when summer rolls around my attention turns to bass and muskies and such.  Before I had a boat, I used to trout fish all summer, and maybe on a Thursday night there wouldn’t be eight cars at every bridge, so when I left...

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