Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

Please mark your calendar ! On Saturday May 16th WILSON’S will have Matt Supinski in the store from 9 am until 5 pm. Matt is one of Michigan’s premier fly fishing guides and he is coming to our store to give a talk on fly fishing his home water and to answer any [...]

Those of you who read our blog on a regular basis have probably noticed that the “Reviews” section has been blank since we started the blog. The reason is we have been re-thinking this part of the site. Well, we recently made up our minds on what we want to do… lol. [...]

We could be sarcastic and just say, “Step outside your door, look at the sky and you tell us…” Nope. We’re not knob-ends at WILSON’S ! We take great pride in providing great customer service ! We won’t tell you to put in the effort of stepping outside when we can [...]

Many of you stopped by our booth at the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show to enter draws for free admittance to the Toronto Fly Fishing School and for an overnight stay at the Jasper Stuart House in Kimberly, Ontario.
We are pleased to announce that Ray Perks won our draw for admittance for 2 to the Toronto Fly [...]

For those of you who did not drop by our booth at the shows we attended this spring we want to make you aware of our new travel incentive program.
If you book a fly fishing trip by calling the lodge directly or booking it through our store you pay the same price but [...]

Today marks the opening of the trout season in Ontario and many of you are already out fly fishing as I type this missive. I think all would agree that the last few months have been stressful and the time we are able to spend on the water is the perfect antidote to dealing [...]

Cory Trepanier is a world-class artist from Caledon who is a friend of WILSON’S and one of the most talented people we know. He and his family have been traveling to Canada’s far north to capture the incredible arctic scenery on canvas and he has filmed much of this multi-year adventure to share with [...]

While attending the Canadian Fly Fishing Forum in Burlington last week I was approached by a gentlemen in his 70s who had a tale to tell. To respect his privacy let’s call him Frank.
Our booth was tucked away in the far corner of the room and as usual we were not selling any wares [...]

First launched as an environmental awareness event in the United States in 1970, Earth Day (April 22) is celebrated as the birth of the environmental movement.
The first Earth Day, spearheaded by Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson and Harvard University student Denis Hayes, involved 20 million participants in teach-ins that addressed decades of environmental pollution. The event [...]

WILSON’S is very pleased to be partnering with Rafn Alfredsson of Midfjardara Lodge to promote fly fishing in Iceland. Rafn was in Toronto to help man our booth at the Toronto Sportsman’s Show last month and will be returning to Toronto on May 19 to host a slide show on fly fishing for Atlantic [...]