what about the guy that sells tied flies.looks like commercial to me.
Hi fishherron,
I just went through the first four pages of the postings and couldn't find one ad that sells flies, so I am confident to conclude that the sales of flies are rare occurrences and I don't consider them as commercial sales. Occasionally we do have people coming on here to sell their own flies, spinners, etc, which is allowed. On the other hand, say, Bent Rods starts selling his jigs, spinners in the buy and sell, then those would be taken down as there is a more effective and proper avenue to go about that.
I struggle to let the sale of bait like this one allowed on the buy and sell for a couple of reasons stated in previous post. Since you are commercially harvesting your products, I feel that it wouldn't be appropriate to have it here. It would also put us in some difficult situations in the future. There's obviously no way that I can verify your roe is commercially harvested and I have no interest in doing that. What if other individuals start wanting to sell their bait on here from now on and suddenly we have many who wish to do that, whether they have a licence to do so or not. I don't wish to see the website going that way, as I feel the need to be responsible for limiting illegally sale of bait.
In my opinion, a better (and more profitable) way for you to go about selling your bait would be through the local tackle store in that region. You unload your inventory to them instead of dealing with individual anglers who contact you online.
Thanks for understanding.