Ladies Love Fishing Tackle
Sometimes in business, weird things happen and theres a surge in demand for certain products. Quite often you cant explain why without a little digging. Just recently, theres been a very high demand for fishing tackle feathers. It seems that, as with most things in life, celebrities and reality TV are to blame.
In this case its all down to reality television and featherheads a fashion craze involving wearing feather extensions in your hair. American Idol presenter Steven Tyler has been seen wearing them, as have the likes of Myley Cyrus and Hilary Duff. The trend has caught on and Fine Featherheads has latched on to the craze. Women and girls everywhere are buying up all the hackle stock from fishing tackle suppliers and even pet dogs arent safe as the feather craze sweeps across the US and Europe.
With supplies drying up, prices are on the rise. Some eBay sellers have even tried to cash in on the act by buying up all the stocks of feather lures and hackles and re-selling them as feather hair extensions.
These feather hair extensions are said to last months if properly cared for, even becoming one with the hair. This craze seems to hark back to the 70s fashion trend and is proving extremely popular. Some fishing tackle suppliers are refusing to sell to hairdressers and salons in an effort to prevent waning stocks firmly keeping fishermen and anglers as the priority customer. But others are happily selling hundreds of pounds (or dollars) worth of fly fishing accessories to so called feather ladies who make rather unusual customers in their stores.
Taking a look at eBay, the grizzly and solid coloured feather extensions seem to be the most popular and most common. Yet you can imagine if the ladies wearing them knew their original and true purpose they might be less inclined to pop them in their hair. Its clear from the prices involved that a big mark-up is being made on the original product. Featherheads goes a step further using special processing techniques and adhesives to ensure simple attachment and longer product life.
This phenomenon has been big news in the states being picked up by ABC and NBC news and other major media outlets. There is an outcry among genuine anglers who are angry at not being able to acquire supplies for the standard reasons. The fly fishing feathers are specialist and come from genetically modified and bred birds reared specifically for their plumage. The majority of these birds dont survive the plucking process and are thus euthanized beforehand. The most popular feathers used in ladies hair come from the birds posterior as they are generally the longest.
Frustrated fishermen wont go short with Lathams Fishing Tackle.
In this case its all down to reality television and featherheads a fashion craze involving wearing feather extensions in your hair. American Idol presenter Steven Tyler has been seen wearing them, as have the likes of Myley Cyrus and Hilary Duff. The trend has caught on and Fine Featherheads has latched on to the craze. Women and girls everywhere are buying up all the hackle stock from fishing tackle suppliers and even pet dogs arent safe as the feather craze sweeps across the US and Europe.
With supplies drying up, prices are on the rise. Some eBay sellers have even tried to cash in on the act by buying up all the stocks of feather lures and hackles and re-selling them as feather hair extensions.
These feather hair extensions are said to last months if properly cared for, even becoming one with the hair. This craze seems to hark back to the 70s fashion trend and is proving extremely popular. Some fishing tackle suppliers are refusing to sell to hairdressers and salons in an effort to prevent waning stocks firmly keeping fishermen and anglers as the priority customer. But others are happily selling hundreds of pounds (or dollars) worth of fly fishing accessories to so called feather ladies who make rather unusual customers in their stores.
Taking a look at eBay, the grizzly and solid coloured feather extensions seem to be the most popular and most common. Yet you can imagine if the ladies wearing them knew their original and true purpose they might be less inclined to pop them in their hair. Its clear from the prices involved that a big mark-up is being made on the original product. Featherheads goes a step further using special processing techniques and adhesives to ensure simple attachment and longer product life.
This phenomenon has been big news in the states being picked up by ABC and NBC news and other major media outlets. There is an outcry among genuine anglers who are angry at not being able to acquire supplies for the standard reasons. The fly fishing feathers are specialist and come from genetically modified and bred birds reared specifically for their plumage. The majority of these birds dont survive the plucking process and are thus euthanized beforehand. The most popular feathers used in ladies hair come from the birds posterior as they are generally the longest.
Frustrated fishermen wont go short with Lathams Fishing Tackle.
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