Bill Stokes

Stokes, through his memories and wit, provides opportunities to learn through laughter, sharing of memories and love....

Bill Stokes obviously enjoys his role as Wisconsin's favorite journalist. In this delightful book he shares that fun with all....

Crossing the wild water was crazy, I knew, but I had a desperate need to bag the buck....

The adventure of a boy on a fox hunt....

Never in my many years of practicing journalism have I ever experienced the kind of reader response this series of articles about my experiences with alcohol generated....

An experienced trout fisherman reminisces about the love of opening day in various location in Wisconsin....

Wisconsin had a big party in 1998. It was a roll-out-the-barrel, slice-the-cheese, strike-up-the-polka-band wing-ding....

Satchel was the undisputed king of the resident muskies....

There is a haunted house up there that squats like a huge wooden toad behind a thick grove of pine trees on the end of a dead end road....

In these stories, popular Chicago Tribune outdoor columnist Bill Stokes gives himself over to his true passion, trout fishing....