Keep the listing. Own everything else.

FishingBooker works as a marketplace — captains set a commission between 10% and 30%, and that cut comes out of every booking the platform sends. For a first-time customer who found you there, that's fair enough: it's a finder's fee.

The problem is who owns the client afterward. FishingBooker's Platform Bypass Policy prohibits asking a platform customer to book directly, sharing contact info to avoid the commission, or redirecting them to your own site or socials — and it says it monitors messages and escalates to removing you. FishingBooker Direct softens the money side (a past customer can be sent a commission-free link), but the regular who fishes with you every fall still lives in their system, on their domain, under their account — not on a list you own and can email, text, and re-book on your own terms.

Here's the honest split. FishingBooker is good at one thing we don't do at all: putting your listing in front of strangers. Keep it for that. But every trip it touches carries 10–30% — including the regular who'd have called you anyway, and the buddy your client referred. Timber & Tackle is $29 a month, flat, and takes nothing from any booking. Three trips a year that come to you directly instead of through a commission pays for the whole thing.

Timber & Tackle isn't a marketplace and takes no commission — ever. You get your own booking site on your own domain, one flat monthly fee, and the customer's details are yours to keep, email, and re-book direct. Keep your FishingBooker listing for new discovery if you like; send your repeats to your own site and keep the cut.