MeddelandeNick, I asked Dr Tom about this and he told me that there is absolutely no truth to this story and that he has no idea how it could have started. There have been some product shortages this season, mostly dry fly capes and saddles in the Whiting (Hoffman) and Hebert/Miner lines. Their production numbers have been increased, so that should be solved next season. There has also been an unbelievable increase in demand for Spey rooster capes. Their production numbers will also be raised for 2010 but this year's demand cannot be met at the moment.
So, if the topic is still alive on the other forum it would be fair to give the members the correct information. Do you have alink to that forum? Thanks. Mart ----- Original Message ----- From: Niclas Runarsson To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:22 PM Subject: [VFB] Whiting Farms... problems?? Here's a post from a Swedish fly-fishing forum (regarding a chickabou issue). It was written inside quotation marks from the start, so it seems like someone else has said it before him: "Saddle hackles is a real problem right now. Last year Whiting, who is the largest and almost the only source, got bugs among their animals and had to kill off the majority of it and start over... which lead to that some products disappeared from their stock (chickabou among them). Some times you can find saddles when they have killed some "test animals", but aside of that you're stuffed." Maybe not 100% quality translation, but well good enough to say the same thing as the Swedish one did. However, a lot of stuff said there tend to be exaggerated a little bit and since the quote was in Swedish, it might even have "grown" on its way over here to begin with. So, guys "over there", who are closer to the actual source... have you heard anything about this? /Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
