Denny,

Congratulations on your retirement! Enjoy it! Tie some flies, build some rods, go fishing! (Hope you kept some great hackle!)

Now that you no longer sell hackle, I am happy that I got to purchase some of your hackle, and it's neat to have Conranch Hackle in the container with the rest of my hackle, especially now that you have retired. It was really neat to talk with you and I much appreciated the advise and great service you gave when I bought the hackle.

I want to thank you for a sacrifice you made for fly tiers. You could have sold all of your saddles to hair dressers when the craze for fashion fly tying feathers was on, and instead you chose to serve the fly tying and fly fishing community. I know that you could have made more money selling the feathers to those folks but you didn't. Thank you. Not everyone did that.

Thanks and regards,

Gandolf