Cochran's Cartoons

Author: BruceCochran

  • A little trout fishing history

    Cutthroat Cahill

  • A Buck’s Worst Nightmare

    You’re a whitetail buck and the rut is on. Your neck is swollen with lust,  you’re rubbing your new antlers on every little tree you can find and making scrapes in the ground all over your territory trying to find  the right girl for you. What is your worst nightmare?

     

  • Catch More Trout

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  • Cocker Spaniels

    The other day my wife played bridge with a woman who brought along a Cocker spaniel. She said it was a service dog. When my wife asked what kind of service a Cocker spaniel could provide, the woman said the dog was trained to pick things up off the floor for its owner. You know, for old geezers like us who can’t bend over…and get back up.

    Most service dogs I’ve seen have been Labs, goldens, or German shepherds. My Labs have all been smart dogs but I can’t see them being trained to pick things up off the floor and give them to me. When any of my Labs found anything on the floor they would automatically eat it, roll in it, or try to have sex with it.

    Cocker spaniels were once upland hunting dogs but down through the ages their hunting instincts were bred out of them. I know people like that. I call them Human Cocker Spaniels. They think meat is something you buy wrapped in paper at the grocery store… or they don’t eat it at all.

     

    That’s why, when people refer to me as a Neanderthal, I take it as a compliment.cocker_edited-1

     

  • Bill Mauldin

    I said this blog would be about outdoor sports. Well, world war two was mostly fought outdoors so it qualifies.

    When I read Bill Mauldin’s “Up Front” at the tender age of nine I knew I had to become a cartoonist. After all, I was qualified: I was a smartass and I liked to draw.

     

    Mauldin claims he had at least one ancestor fighting in every American conflict since the Revolutionary War. He’s been quoted as saying he is most proud of the fact that every one of them was an enlisted man. Not a single officer in the whole bunch!

    Surely his characters Willie and Joe still resonate with today’s GIs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Mauldin cartoon 1 Mauldin cartoon 2

     

  • The Return Of Bambi

    Remember the classic Disney movie Bambi that we all saw when we were kids? If memory serves me correctly the cruel hunters shot Bambi’s mom. Normal kids were horrified but personally I thought the bitch had it coming.

    This little clip is from my book Antlers Away, available on Amazon.com  or you can order one from me and I’ll sign it and draw a little picture of a deer inside the front cover at no extra charge.

     

  • Orvis and Bead Head

    Remember Beavis and Butt Head? Could you identify with them? Me neither, but I thought they were funny in a junior high school sort of way. Maybe I would’ve liked them even more if they had been fly fishermen… like Orvis and Bead Head.Orvis & Beadhead

  • Global warming?

    Stroll down the aisles of any tackle shop today and look at the shelves. Where are the Heddon Crazy Crawlers and Lazy Ikes of our youth? What has happened to the Fred Arbogast Hawaiian Wigglers, the Bass-O-Renos? They’ve all been replaced by thirty-seven feet of shelf space devoted to … you guessed it… PLASTIC WORMS!

     

    We hear a lot about global warming but an even more disastrous fate awaits mankind if we don’t quell the proliferation of those squiggly, wiggly plastic imposters. Mark my words, they’re taking over. Today, a small lake near you. Tomorrow, the world. Yes, the number one threat facing mankind today is not climate change,   not income inequality, not poverty or lack of health insurance, it’s….GLOBAL WORMING!

     

  • A New Year’s Eve Celebration

    Scott Morgan and  friends celebrated New Year’s Eve flat on their backs in layout blinds in a field near Baldwin City, KS. Using only fourteen shell decoys, they had hundreds of Canadas checking them out all afternoon. Conscientious hunters that they are, Scott said they could easily have limited out but didn’t want to clean that many birds so they quit with six honkers in the bag.

    Good dog work is at least half the fun of a waterfowl hunt and Scott’s Lab Kola did her part by dragging one goose on a 1/8-mile retrieve. The big gander weighed in at 15.5 lbs. and had a vise grip on Kola’s ear all the way.

    Now these guys know how to celebrate!

     

     

  • Lone Oak Duck Club

    Good opening weekend at the Lone Oak Duck Club, then tapering off. Now we’re iced up but hopefully not for long thanks to climate change. This cold weather should bring new birds down from up north (or push the ones that are here on down south). We’ll see what the rest of the season brings.

    Speaking of climate change, the current issue of Delta Waterfowl magazine has an article about waterfowl migrating later than they used to.

    Short answer:less severe winter weather and more acres of corn being planted in the Dakotas.

    In fact the last few years some mallards and Canada geese haven’t migrated’t all.  They don’t do it just because they like to fly.

    Meanwhile we’re having fun and that’s what it’s all about.