Can You Selll Flies To Fly Fishing Shops?
Posted by admin on Monday, December 7th, 2009
If you can do you have to have a license? And how old you have to be? And how munch will you get for the flies?
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Chaddon 07 Dec 2009 at 7:56 am 1accually i was just asking one of the people at my local fly shop if he wanted me to tie flies for him and he said that he would let me he provided the materials but only paid me $0.25 a fly but its somthing i like to do (i always tie at least 10 flies a day to get better at tying) im only 14. but you have to find a fly shop where the people are nice and get to know the people that work there before you go asking for the job and dont ask them to provide the materials but if they offer go for it then you know how much money your making of each fly
also what i did before i got this job i set up a website using a website called weebly.com, its a free webite but you have to have a .weebly in the url of the website if you want to get rid of the .weebly you have to pay for it
if you want to check out my website to see what you can do with weebly copy and paste > http://www.natureboyoutdoors.weebly.com
and see what i mean about the .weebly it can get annoying but it still works
good luck and tight lines
-natureboy
christopon 07 Dec 2009 at 8:01 am 2Yes, you can sell flies to fly fishing shops.
Yes, you need a license — a business license. You’ll have to keep track of business fees and taxes. No, you do not need a license to actually tie the flies commercially, but various credentials and certifications will help. Like classes or learning from particular, well-known individuals.
There are no age requirements, other than the age restrictions on doing business. I’m sure there is a minimum age to get a business license.
I don’t know how much a fly shop will pay you for flies, but I know that a fly shop near me marks up their flies by more than 100 percent. Considering that they sell their flies for around 90 cents a pop, I guess that means they’re paying their tier 30 or 40 cents apeice..?
Things is, you’ve got to tie scores and scores of dozens of patterns, and they have to be very consistently tied. If you look at the flies at a good fly shop, all the flies look almost exactly alike, they’re attractive, and they’re sturdy. I know three or four guys who tie commercially or have in the past (including the guy who taught me), and they’re all older dudes who have LOTs of time behind a vise.
You’ll need wholesale connections to buy materials — you’ll need to make each fly cost you as little as possible and make your margins as wide as possible. Finding materials of high quality at good prices and quantities will be a big challenge. If you buy your materials from ordinary places (like fly shops), you won’t make any money.
You also have to be reliable and flexible. You have to be ready to go all winter with no orders and then fill big orders at other times — if you let your shop run out of BWOs in June too many times, they’ll find someone else. On the other hand, you can’t have a ton of materials and flies on your hands — that stuff costs you money and you’ve got to be sending them out all the time. Finding several shops to tie for would be best, but of course that means tying more flies…
Sheesh, I don’t even know much about this and it’s already too complicated for me to even consider — and I bet I’m simplifying things.