Re: [VFB] Spey Hackle?

[Deb Duran]

I've found the stuff Tom is breeding to be almost like hair.  It's very fine 
and breaks easily.  I have some earlier spay feathers and some later ones 
that he bred.  I'm not real hot on them yet although they do show promise. 
I picture the original spey feathers to be closer to a Roosters tail, long 
schlappen so to speak.   We use a shorter version of it now in a lot of our 
salmon patterns for throats.   I've heard the same ...  original spey cocks 
are extinct.  Breeding a bird to have the same characteristics would not 
bring back a lost species.  This is why we have to protect the birds that 
are on the endangered list.   I also thought the marabou would make a 
wonderful Eagle sub.  It's also pretty on salmon flies.
Deb