Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

I am pleased to see more frequent references to fly fishing in both advertising and mainstream media and the latest story to appear was an article in Saturday’s National Post entitled “Just You and the Trout” by Shelley Bindon. www.nationalpost.com/Just+trout/3453918/story.html

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 [...]

WILSON’S is looking for a full-time employee to join our team starting September 1. If you are interested or know someone who might be please have them forward a resume including fly fishing experience to our manager Vasilios “Bill” Katraouras at manager@wilsonstoronto.com. We’ll be right up front: the hours are long, the pay [...]

Fly fishers in Ontario spend a significant part of the year staring at ice-covered rivers and lakes pining for the spring. Opportunities to fly fish are not always physically available year round in our neck of the woods so when the summer weather finally warms up it is hard to keep many of us [...]

I was heading to a meeting in Meadowvale yesterday morning when I found myself with some time to kill beforehand. Instead of heading to a coffee shop to read the paper I drove my car north of Old Derry Road along 2nd Line West, parked and walked to the Credit River where I spent [...]

I decided to start my weekend early yesterday afternoon and left the office at 3:30 pm in order to join 2 friends and end the work week fly fishing the Upper Credit River. We decided to meet at the Dominion Street Bridge at the Forks of the Credit so whoever arrived first could fish [...]

I was speaking with a client the other day about the importance of hatch charts in fly fishing. He said that while they may not be the ‘Holy Grail’ of our sport they might just qualify as our ‘Ark of the Covenant’ because within these charts can be found the keys to creating [...]

This is a short post because I am attending a funeral today. My girlfriend’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer last week and he passed away this week from a heart attack. One week. The family is still reeling. Ed was 78 and while I did not get an opportunity to [...]

We thought we should let our customers know about an event coming up in September that will affect access to Georgian Bay tributaries on September 18 & 19. Centurian Cycling is organizing a pretty cool event that will close roads from Collingwood to the Beaver Valley for a series of road races that are [...]

I am driving north today on business and am bringing my fly fishing gear. If everything goes according to Hoyle I will be on Hwy 400 by 2 o’clock and Hwy 11 North by 3 pm. Other than attending some business meetings on Friday, one of my goals will be to fish my [...]