So is this hair thing affecting "ALL" hackle prices?
Have distributors and in turn flyshops jacked up the price on all hackle?
It would seem that if lots of birds are being raised and wacked for the long thin hackle(which is what is in demand) it would create a glut of other hackle. Are the costs savings being passed on to flyfishers or are we getting screwed.
The long hackle like that isn't premium stuff is it?.....what size would that be? #12+
What about the premium hackle for smaller sizes like #22 midges to #16 callibaetis patterns?
The hackle I have for tying griffith's gnats and midges 20-18 and mayflies #16 is very short only a few inches long.
Well the girls are making some money selling this to hair salons and the salons are making money jacking up the price to their customers.
Seems like simple economics, supply either must increase to meet demand or prices will rise.
Suppliers must be making a KILLING!
Good opportunity if you have some land to raise some birds.
Maybe I'll go into the chicken farm business. Hackle and fried chicken.
Steven Tyler hackled up.
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