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Location: Naperville, IL | I just had TONS of fly fishing gear dumped on me by a family memeber, I have no use for it and would like to sell it but I have no info on how well Fly fishing equipment holds its value. Anyone have experience with this stuff? |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | If the rods/reels are high end, you should have no problem selling it. A lot of the rest depends on what it is. Feel free to PM with questions. |
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| What do you have? Condition of gear? |
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Location: Naperville, IL | I have 6 martin reels, I will have to get you the models after work. And about 7000 yards of line Lol only one rod a Berkeley 8foot. From the looks, I would say it is all unused but around 5-6 years old. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Unused lines can fetch some good coin if stored properly. I'm afraid if those Martins are 5-6 years old they're not worth a whole lot, 20-30 bucks if they're automatics, 5-10 if they're not. Rod is probably worth about 20-30. |
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Location: Naperville, IL | Almost all of the line looks to be unopened, I'm still trying to find time to inventory it all to know exactly what I have. |
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| Fly line can be quite expensive ($50-90 for a spool and up) so there is a good market even for used fly line on ebay. I have sold used fly line before on ebay and gotten some decent money out of it.
But since you have all this stuff, have you considered learning to fly fish? I have caught muskie and big northern fly fishing. It is a blast if you have the proper heavy equipment. I almost exclusively fly fish now. |
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Location: Smith Creek | My advice is sell the line now, wait 20 years or so till the reels and rod are considered "retro" and the fly nuts will pay 5 times what they're worth. |
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Location: Naperville, IL | I have been thinking about learning, but I don't need this much stuff. I have over 30 boxes of line, not counting thousands of yards of backing and tippets. |
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Anyone here into Fly fishing as well?