I typed “angora yarn” into the Google search box and pressed ‘enter.’ The third listing from the top was “Pure Imported Angora Yarn—www.fishusa.com—FishUSA has 100% purl Angora Yarn for fly tying or knitting.”
FishUSA? Fly tying? Well, sure enough! For $1.95 you get 11 feet of 100% angora, three-ply yarn from France, wound on a card. You can use it to knit a very tiny sweater or to tie a fly pattern called “sucker spawn.” According to bigyflyco.com, fish love to eat eggs, and this little pattern is meant to look like the egg sac of a sucker, which migrates to the tributaries of Lake Erie in early spring. Angora yarn is the preferred material to tie this fly, according to FishUSA.com.
Current fish fashion features angora in fluorescent chartreuse, peach, pink, yellow, and orange; salmon egg pink, red, and a few pale colors. FishUSA has regular-size balls of angora, which one could knit, but the range of colors is sadly limited—no fluorescents.
The Great Lakes Steelhead and trout really go for the angora sucker spawn fly. Obviously, they have very good taste in yarn.
Images from bigyflyco.com and fishusa.com.