Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

If you haven’t heard of tube flies yet you will. We are working with Eumer to put together an order of tube flies and tube fly materials which will be in the store in the coming weeks.
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We are very pleased to announce that the grand prize for Esma Wilson’s Cast for Cancer at the 2010 Toronto Sportsmen’s Show will be a 3 day/2 night trip for 2 to the Restigouche River Lodge worth $5,000 !
For more information on Esma Wilson’s Cast for Cancer please see our FaceBook page or www.castforcancer.ca

The Canadian Angling Hall of Fame inducted 4 new members at last week’s Toronto Spring Fishing & Boat Show. This year’s inductees include John Kerr, conservationist, outdoorsman, Toronto Sun outdoors columnist and editor of Ontario Out of Doors magazine; Bruce Park, founding president of Muskies Canada; and Angelo and Reno Viola, founders of Barklays [...]

Esma Wilson passed away from non-hodgkins lymphoma in August 2008 and her “Cast for Cancer” on the fly casting lane at the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show is being organized by her youngest son Jim Wilson of WILSON’S Fly Shop in Toronto in partnership with the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. For a recommended minimum $5 donation [...]

Grant Roberton is a writer for the Globe & Mail and his article in yesterday’s paper on the gold medal winning performance of Christine Nesbitt is worth sharing because in my mind his article strikes to the heart of what winning is about.
Robertson wrote the story behind Nesbitt’s gold medal – “a come-from-behind triumph [...]

“Esma Wilson’s Cast for Cancer” is a fund raising initiative that will be taking place on the fly casting lane at the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show March 17-21 to benefit the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. Named after Jim’s mother who passed away in August 2008 from non-hodgkins lymphoma, everyone who makes a minimum recommended [...]

One of the best ways to get rid of the winter doldrums in Ontario is only 1 month away!
This year for the first time in its history the Toronto Sportsman’s Show is changing venues from the CNE grounds to the Toronto Convention Centre on Front Street beside Union Station. In addition there [...]

I am not a fan of government intervention nor am I a fan of or taxes. I am however a HUGE fan of common sense and social responsibility. What happened to the global economy in 2008/09 was a simple and direct result of unchecked greed in the banking industry and the world banking [...]

Fly-in fishing vacations are thought by many to be too expensive or difficult to arrange for the average angler but they are available just north of Toronto at rates that make what many consider ‘trips of a lifetime’ surprisingly affordable !
Founded in 1982, Stanton Air is a full service, custom air charter company that specializes [...]

This coming Monday is Family Day in Ontario and it is the first long weekend of 2010. This weekend also marks for many the beginning of the end of winter because it is also when the first fishing show of the season takes place !
The 2010 Toronto Spring Fishing & Boat Show [...]