Dot Geese and the Bobber

Robert Earl Keen is belting out Five Pound Bass

The raucous sounds of Canada geese set me to clicking at what I couldn’t see on the screen of my iPhone 13 Pro. The sun had not quite breached the ridge to my east overlooking Horsetooth Reservoir in northcentral Colorado, USA. I pulled the photo up on my MacBook Air and was surprised to see that not only had I captured a pair of dot geese. Dot geese due to the fact that they are otherwise unidentifiable.

Now the bobber and strand of line were a different story altogether. They had been invisible as I clicked the photo. They are readily identifiable. Being an avid fisherman, I quickly realized that someone had been involved in the very old and distinguished art of squirrel fishing.

Back up the hill, the tree out back was loaded with robins. No bobber was evident, so no one had been robin fishing. I hold these migrants as a harbinger of spring.

April 1 was interesting in that we had 50–60 mph winds steady out of the north all day. Gusts up to 80…