Roger Fogg, in his book "A Handbook of North Country Trout Flies" appeared adamant about the removing of feathers or hackle from the skin and storing it in hook boxes as opposed to leaving them on the skin and storing them in plastic bags. He felt the feathers would get damaged if kept in plastic bags. He was also very adamant about always having the "perfect" hackle for flies and stressed treating them very gently to maintain their perfection.

I have seen other threads or comments where the skins were stored in plastic bags and the feathers remaining on the skin as this way, they were already sorted by size.

Just wondering what thoughts others have?