The Cat Fly

by Yves Charron

This past April, I went fishing on the Rush with a fellow TCTU member. As we were concluding our day of fishing, he said “I will put on my special fly”. After a few drifts through the rifles, and a couple of nice fish in the net, I asked “what is so special about the fly?” He responded CAT HAIR.

I did return home that day thinking I could give this a try myself since I have 4 cats at home. I took the brush and started to groom my cats. The cats enjoyed it, and I got the material needed to tie some flies. That’s what we call a WIN-WIN!

Finally got a chance to get out and try to fish with the cat flies.   Conditions were not the best, but the cat flies worked!   The tan color flies and the white seems to get more strikes than the gray color. 

I ended up losing my trout flies on the bottom or in the trees….so I guess I will have to go back to square one and groom the cats again!

Give it a try yourself…. maybe you will have a new preferred pattern to fish the trout stream this summer.
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Tight lines!