Hook: TMC 300, #2-6
Thread: UNI 8/0 o UTC 70 and Uni Big Fly o UTC 140.
Weight: lead wire
Tail: olive marabu
Body: diamond braid, yellow pearl.
under wing: orange calf tail.
Wing: 2 Mallard flank feathers dyed olive.
head: deer body hair, olive.
The Zoo Cougar always seemed a fantastic fly, but I was not particularly attractive in the original colors even if they have been chosen by its creator K. Gallup.
In environments that I fish trout there are two bodies that occupy a favorite place for trout feeding time, one catfish are small and others are pancoras a good sized crustacean belonging to the family Aeglidae.
Both share a couple of features, one is that its color is often in olive tones and the other is that both have flattened silhouettes … the pancoras even have a silhouette of “almond” much flatter and wider than the small catfish, however I found we changing the color of the Zoo cougar would in a fly that share these patterns … and it was.
In small sizes they are really fisherwomen and can be used throughout the entire season, even with some additives such as rubber feet.
It is not a frequent model in boxes fishermen but the truth is that I suspect that will be for long.
