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<\/p>\nHaving lived for more than 60 long years in the environment of Montelimar (26) I live in perfect harmony with my neighbors, who are all of deeply rooted French stock.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, in the springtime of last year a family of loud Italians moved into a house a couple of doors from me. I can’t begin to tell you the racket that they make with their savage music! They play the mandolin and they bang on their tambourins until all hours of the night.<\/p>\n
I say it’s a shame for our beautiful country!<\/p>\n
And to crown it off, they have a cat, a persian or maybe a burmese or a norwegian of the woods or maybe a chartreux\u2026 possibly a scottish fold? Hard to say. In any case this thing vocalizes, her too, all through the night, regularly bothering my sleep. (At our age a good night’s sleep is essential!)<\/p>\n
Well, I came up with a strategy that will enchant you; you who are always ready to defend fly fishing.<\/p>\n
Surreptitiously, in my garage, I created a sort of a cat fly that I would like to share with you (perhaps I am not the only one to be annoyed by foreign cats).<\/p>\n
It took me a few hours to think about the essential question: what do these filthy beasts eat? The response is relatively simple: birds of all sorts, mice and canned cat food. Based on that, I created a fly and will share with you my method for mounting the fly.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Le-mouching-fly-fishing-mouche-%C3%A0-chats.jpg?resize=350%2C269&ssl=1\" "\\"Le")
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I have to say to cast such a fly I had to use a #12 rod and the appropriate silk!<\/p>\n
Anyway, on my second cast into the garden of these unwelcome neighbors, I felt a violent pull on my line. The filthy feline took my lure. The combat was violent but in the end I brought in the cat and scooped it up into my net. What followed, you’ll see, was high comedy.<\/p>\n
That night I invited the neighbor to dinner and as the “plat de resistance” I offered him, boiled and dressed like a pheasant on a platter with raw potatoes, his cat.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Le-mouching-fly-fishing-chat-croute.jpg?resize=278%2C200&ssl=1\" "\\"Le")
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Upon seeing that vision the poor man had a heart attack, you can just imagine my undisguised joy!<\/p>\n
Dear friends, my question is the following: what do I do with the cadaver of this neighbor? The garbage can? Meat for the cats?<\/p>\n
I await your response with impatience.<\/p>\n
Signature: illegible.<\/p>\n
Dear Reader,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Vilmo, as his name indicates, happens to be Italian (from an old family of neapolitan grave diggers) and he just flew out of our offices with a Beretta in his pocket to get on the first Paris\/Montelimar train.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0The response to your question won’t be long in arriving.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Patience. Having lived for more than 60 long years in the environment of Montelimar (26) I live in perfect harmony with my neighbors, who are all of deeply rooted French stock. Unfortunately, in the springtime of last year a family of loud Italians moved into a house a couple of doors from me. I can’t begin to tell you the racket that they make with their savage music! They play the mandolin and they bang on their tambourins until all hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15854,15851,15849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-mouching","category-fresh","category-nature"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Le-mouching-fly-fishing-spaghettis.jpg?resize=750%2C700&ssl=1\" "\\"Le")
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