Cartoon cat in a hat fishing from a wooden dock as two fish jump in a sunny pond.

Fishing Cat on a Sunny Pond Dock

A spotted cat in a striped hat grips a fishing rod while two fish splash below a smiling sun and cattails.

🎨 How to color it

Color the cat golden orange with cinnamon spots, the striped hat sky blue, the wooden dock honey brown, and the pond a clear teal. Use sharp colored pencils for the cat’s small spots, whiskers, fish scales, and cattail leaves, then switch to broader strokes for the open water and hills. Try making the bobber bright red and white so it pops between the two leaping fish.

The story behind this coloring page

The Bobber With a Bell — Every day after breakfast, Fritz marched to the cattail pond, tapped the dock twice, and cast his bobber with a plip. Read the full story →

Every day after breakfast, Fritz marched to the cattail pond, tapped the dock twice, and cast his bobber with a plip. He wanted the biggest splash in the whole pond, bigger than frog flops or duck sneezes. The fish, however, were excellent wiggle artists. They nibbled his bait, flicked their tails, and left him holding a line that smelled like pondweed and jokes.

Until one day, his bobber bonked a lily stem and went ding. Fritz froze. Because of that tiny bell sound, two minnows popped up to stare. Because of that, a fat sunfish leaped, splashed Fritz’s toes, and shouted, “Again!” Fritz shook the bobber. Ding-ding! From under the dock came six fish, one turtle, and a bubble that sounded suspiciously like a giggle.

Finally, Fritz stopped trying to catch the biggest splash and started conducting them. Every ding brought a plop, a flip, or a tail-slap, and the dock felt less like a fishing spot than the seat saved just for him. If you find the bobber between the leaping fish, you might hear Fritz’s breakfast plip turn into a pond full of ding-ding.