Wholesale Fishing Tackle Distributor in Florida, Shipping to All 50 States

We make it and we distribute it. Florida Tackle Supply ties rigs and pours jigs in-house in Sarasota, Florida, and supplies them wholesale to bait and tackle shops, marinas, charter operations and online tackle retailers, in Florida first and in every other state. This page is the front door to the wholesale program: what you get, who it is for, and where to go next.

Wholesaling with Florida Tackle Supply

Most tackle distributors are catalogs. They buy from the same brands as everyone else and sell them to every shop on the coast, so the shop down the road has exactly what you have. We are the maker. Our pompano rigs, shark rigs, ready rigs and sabikis are tied in Sarasota, our jigs are poured and painted in Sarasota, and our house brands (Florida Tackle Supply, Trident Design with the Hog Ball, Sweeper Jigs and slow-pitch jigs, Nautix, Oceanic Offshore and Stinger hooks) come straight from us to your counter.

• Dealer pricing and low minimums, sized for an opening order that fits one shelf and reorders when you actually need them.
• Counter displays that sell the size ladder: every hook size and jig weight in front of the customer instead of in a drawer.
• Nationwide shipping from Florida, and pickup in Sarasota for Florida dealers.
• Real people on the phone who fish the water you sell into. 941-993-8851, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm ET.

Open a wholesale account or log in

Who we supply

• Bait and tackle shops, from a single-counter bait stand to multi-location outfitters.
• Marinas, fuel docks and fish camps: the grab-and-go tackle that sells beside the ice and the bait well.
• New shop owners: opening orders sized for a first shelf, not a warehouse. The guides below were written for you.
• Online tackle retailers: resale-ready, UPC-coded packaging.
• Charter captains and guides: volume pricing on the hooks, leader and rigs you go through every trip.

What we supply

Hooks and terminal tackle (circle, octopus and mutu circle hooks, assist hooks, swivels and snaps) · Hand-tied ready rigs, pompano rigs, shark rigs and deep-drop rigs · Jigs and lures (jig heads, Hog Balls, Sweeper Jigs, vertical and slow-pitch jigs, spoons, trolling lures, cedar plugs) · Line and leader (braid, monofilament, fluorocarbon) · Cast nets, mullet nets and pro nets · Sabikis, popping corks, weights and sinkers · Tools, buckets, storage and accessories.

Browse the full retail catalog to see exactly what your customers will see. Wholesale pricing is on the dealer portal once your account is open.

Wholesale by region

Every region fishes a little differently. Each page below covers the water, the fish and the tackle that turns at the counter there, and how fast we can get it to you.

• Florida: Tampa Bay to the Keys to the Panhandle. Pickup in Sarasota, ground shipping statewide.
• Gulf coast: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
• Georgia and the Carolinas: marsh, surf, pier and Gulf Stream.
• Mid-Atlantic and Northeast: Virginia to Maine, striper and fluke water.

Not on the list? We still ship to you. The same rigs and jigs work in the Chesapeake, the Great Lakes and inland reservoirs. If your customers fish, we ship to you.

Opening a bait and tackle shop?

Many of our new dealers are new shops. These four guides are written from the supplier side of the counter.

• How to open a bait and tackle shop: location, licenses, costs, inventory and how distributors work.
• Startup checklist: print it and cross things off.
• How to get a resale certificate: the one document every distributor asks for, state by state.
• What sells in a bait and tackle shop: the opening assortment, category by category.

Custom and private label

We run custom jig colors and custom-tied rigs to your spec, and we build branded counter displays. See Collabs.

See it before you stock it

Walk into the Sarasota shop at 5404 Ashton Ct, Unit D, Sarasota, FL 34233, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm ET, or order a sample at retail from this site. Details on Shop Local.