Fly Fishing Info.. hand to GOD you are not going to believe this

[Peacetrain]

I am not sure how many people fly fish around here.. or even where to put this.. so I will stick it here and the mods can move it where they will


But for all the fly fishers..if you wonder why it has been so hard to get hackle feathers

well you are not going to believe this...

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/high-fashion-bait-fly-ties-now-hair-extensions-092106557.html

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For a 49-year-old manager of a fly fishing shop, Jim Bernstein spends an awful lot of time on the phone with hairdressers.

They bought out his display of hackles — the long, skinny rooster feathers fishermen use to make lures — months ago. But the calls keep coming at Eldredge Bros. Fly Shop in Maine, and the women keep asking for more supplies as they fight to keep up with the latest hair trend: Feather extensions.

[chowder66]

1. I've never fished in my life but this is just weird. eom

[Peacetrain]

2. Well I am actually fairly new to it myself..

But I have been trying to tie flies, because they are so blasted expensive.. and what is in the store may not be what the fish are biting..

[Possumpoint]

3. Been The Subject Of A Number Of Fly Fishing Forum's Posts

A lot of us on the fly fishing forums are shaking our heads at what has happened and what consequences to prices of feathers. One thing I know, when it comes to fashion, this too will pass.

[Peacetrain]

4. Well it has been a question asked at our local fly fishing club..

Now I know why.. when I first read the lead in.. I thought they were actually tying flies into their hair.. hooks and all ..

[saras]

5. I always thought spinners would make good earrings

And I could see spoons (and hooks) catching on with the multiple piercing crowd

Live bait, though, is going too far.

[Vanje]

12. lol

live bait!

[aquart]

6. Oh, I have no trouble believing this.

[Orrex]

7. And he always insisted that he would never part with his feathers

[Agony]

8. bird feathers/whole birds as fashion = origin of Audubon Society

Although Grinnell's first Audubon Society failed, its pamphleteering helped shape the seminal beliefs behind the launch of the second incarnation of the society in 1896. Boston society matron Hariett Hemenway, moved by the bloody destruction of heron rookeries, targeted for membership her high-society peers who were wearing bird plumage or - as was the Victorian style - the carcasses of entire dead birds on their hats or in their hair.

Into this charter group of conscionable ladies of fashion, Hemenway enlisted prominent naturalists and sportsmen of Boston, creating the archetypal Massachusetts Audubon Society. With strong links to the powers that be, the MAS pushed for a first ''Model Law'' to outlaw the killing and sale of non-game birds or their eggs.


The Audubon Ark: A History of the National Audubon Society - By Frank Graham Jr. - Alfred A. Knopf, $29.95, hardcover, 334 pages

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-02-10/entertainment/9102080089_1_national-audubon-society-first-audubon-john-james-audubon

[Renew Deal]

9. "I'm looking around the shop thinking, 'Hmmm, what else can they put in their hair?'" Bernstein said

:rofl:

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. So, my roosters are valuable then?????

What kind of feathers do you need???

[Vanje]

11. Thats awesome!

Fortunately, I keep poultry.

I think feather-heads look great!

When they start weaving bass-plugs and bobbers into bee-hive doos, that might be cool too. Really cool.