Have you guys heard about this new fad that has fly shops and fly tiers standing on their tying bench yelling, "What the hell!"? Apparently, young fashionable women all over the country are lashing long colorful feathers in their hair and calling them, feather hair extensions. No big deal right? It's just another goofy phase that will go just as quickly as it came. But for the dry fly freaks itching for spring and dreaming of the season's first bug sipping trout, it seems like the quality hackles used to make their favorite flies have been snatched up by every hair salon in the country. Sorry fly tiers, these feathers don't grow on trees, they grow on chickens. And the birds that sport these crazy long hackle feathers certainly don't reproduce and mature over night. To make things worse, the fly tying industry is very small and the only industry that produces these, now highly sought after, quills. So fly tiers, guard the saddles that you have and tie sparingly, cuz it's gonna be a while before you see them on your fly shop's wall.
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