Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

As 2008 draws to a close many of us will take a moment to recall the days we spent this year on the water, the company of friends, entertaining catches and those monster fish that got away. As we look forward to the 2009 angling season the enclosed interview of Nick Lyons of Lyons [...]

Being in downtown Toronto we are often asked where we go fly fishing and many who ask are surprised by our response: “We start at the Toronto Islands and work our way out from there !”.   
There are incredible fly fishing opportunities on our doorstep in Ontario and we encourage people to book an Ontario [...]

“You can always make more money later, but you can’t make more time…” ~Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch was a university professor who passed away this year from cancer.   If you would like to be inspired I encourage you to watch a 72 minute clip on YouTube (“if you had one last lecture to give before [...]

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These are some of the resolutions we have heard from our customers for 2009…
10. Find out exactly what I have in the bottom of my gear bag
9. Inspect and clean my fly lines before the trout season begins (!)
8. Attend the Canadian Fly Fishing Forum in Burlington, Ontario in April
7. Learn how to cast a [...]

Thanks for checking in – we hope Santa found you last night and you have lots of items from our store under your tree. Now, more to the point, what the hell are you doing on your computer ? Go spend time with your family you knucklehead… We won’t be on line [...]

It was the night (okay, day) before Christmas
And all through the store
The coffee was brewing
As friends came in the door.
The fly rods were leaning
In the corner with Bill,
And Mitch had his eyes
on the reels and the till.
The waders were hung
on the wall with the boots,
And the customers came
in long jackets and suits.
We sold tools [...]

Over the years as each of us gets into the sport we are exposed to the seminal works of fly fishing. For example, the publisher who owns the rights to Izaak Walton’s Complete Angler has made a small fortune and this book anchors any fly fishing library. Other books on entomology, casting and [...]

Need a last minute stocking stuffer ? Come on in and pick up a fly line by Airflo, Cortland, Orvis, Royal Wulff, Sage and Scientific Angler or a selection of leaders and tippet by Airflo, Frog Hair, Maxima, Orvis, Rio, Royal Wulff, Stroft, Scientific Angler.  We trust you will agree that no one has a [...]