Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

We received some nice feedback from a client this week that we appreciated on a number of fronts. First, he was kind enough to take the time to send us an email to explain how his shopping experience went and offered some excellent advice on what we might do to get better. Secondly, [...]

In a word – ‘wow!’ The folks in the fly fishing department at Patagonia were read the riot act by Yvon Chouinard a while ago because they were not doing as well as he thought they could. Well, having spent a few hours going over the new product lines we can say with [...]

Many of our regular customers who are fans of Patagonia have been puzzled as to why our inventory has been so low and the reason is that Patagonia is doing a complete overhaul of their fly fishing line. We are meeting this morning with the local sales rep to go through the changes and [...]

We were contacted a while ago by a group that wants to set up a new fly fishing club for downtown Toronto. We are of course happy to help promote the sport so hope the inaugural meeting goes well.
The first meeting is tonight at the Madison Avenue Pub near Bloor and Spadina [...]

Dick and Ricky Hoyt are a father and son who compete in the Ironman Triathalon. This was originally posted on YouTube in February 2007 but if you are not familiar with their story this video is certainly worth watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64A_AJjj8M4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwqGRNtHDQg

Deb Freele, a friend of many in the Ontario fly fishing community and of WILSON’S, is recovering in hospital in Cody, Wyoming today having had the misfortune of being attacked by a grizzly at the Sode Butte Campground in Montana yesterday morning. Our thoughts go out to Deb and we hope she has a [...]

I don’t usually comment on politics but I recently received a letter from Jerry Ouellette (MPP for Oshawa and a former Minister of Natural Resources for the Province of Ontario) that included a copy of the Special Purpose Account Annual Report from the Ministry of Natural Resources Fish and Wildlife Branch for the years 1999-2000 [...]

I have met a lot of people in municipal, provincial and federal levels of government and can count on one hand the number of people who are the right person in the right position committed to doing the right thing instead of doing the right thing for themselves… The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO) [...]

I flew in from Edmonton the day before yesterday and made a point of looking out the window as we passed over the Credit River in Mississauga. I have to admit I was a bit disheartened to see that it was a dark chocolate brown and even from a few thousand feet I could [...]