Fishing shops
The last place
to get honest
information.
A shop that has been open twenty years knows what is hatching this week better than any forecast. Search by ZIP code or city. Close to six thousand shops, from two open databases — fly shops, tackle counters and bait stores together, because neither source tells them apart and I would rather show you the whole list than guess which is which.
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Nothing is sent anywhere until you press the button. There is no tracking on this page and no advertising — shops appear here because they are near you, never because they paid.
Where this comes from
Where the list comes from. Two open databases, harvested into a file on this site rather than queried live, so searching costs nobody anything. OpenStreetMap is community-mapped and uneven. Overture Maps is an open dataset built from Meta and Microsoft business data, and carries roughly five times as many US fishing retailers with far better contact details. Where both list the same shop the card says so, which is worth knowing — two independent databases agreeing is better evidence than either alone.
Neither source distinguishes a fly shop from a bait counter, so this list does not either: a fly shop in Livingston and a bait counter on a Florida pier arrive looking identical. I have not tried to guess between them, because guessing from a name gets it wrong often enough to be worse than useless — check the website or ring ahead before driving.
What I have done is take out the entries that are not shops at all: places tagged as closed, and mis-tagged records like saddleries and hatcheries that were never fishing retail. Charter boats are gone too — you cannot walk into a boat and ask what is hatching. Addresses, phone numbers and websites are reproduced exactly as the sources hold them, with links checked and the dead ones dropped rather than guessed at. Nothing on this page is invented.
Coverage of small independent shops is still uneven — excellent in some towns, absent in others. About one entry in twenty-five is a name and a map pin with no address or phone, which is a good deal better than it was when this ran on OpenStreetMap alone. If a shop you rely on is missing, it can be added to OSM by anyone and it will appear here after the next harvest.
On privacy. Typing a ZIP sends only that ZIP to the OpenStreetMap geocoder to convert it to coordinates. Pressing Use my location asks your browser, which will prompt you first, and the coordinates never leave your device — the distance sorting happens locally. Nothing is logged here.
Geocoding is provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Nominatim service under its usage policy: a hard ceiling of one request per second, no autocomplete-style querying, results cached, and attribution shown. Map tiles © Esri and OpenStreetMap contributors. Shop data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive 2.0).