Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

There are a lot of attention grabbers in our sport that waste a lot of our time but Fly Fusion magazine is not one of them. This is a publication that is well illustrated, informative and entertaining and worth picking up if you have not yet done so.
Check it out at http://flyfusionmag.com/

One of the pleasures in life that I relish is reading the newspaper in the morning over a coffee. Now, this doesn’t come close to matching a morning on the river but on those days when the only thing I have to look forward to is a 10 hour day in bad air with [...]

I have had a business partner in my ‘other’ career for 17 years and you won’t find a nicer guy on the planet. He is someone whose main shortcoming as a businessman is that he is too often fair to everyone but himself. One of his passions in life is to jump on [...]

Issue #12 is now live – enjoy !
www.catchmagazine.net/blast-jul10.html

WILSON’S has a new fly fishing travel program which is aimed at putting more money back in our customer’s pockets. You pay the same rate whether you book a trip direct with a lodge or through our store but because we are a retailer we are paid a referral not available to the general [...]

We currently promote over 2 dozen lodges from Alaska to Argentina and right across Canada and are in the process of identifying other quality destinations that we think might be of interest to our customers. The price points range from what we would term an ‘entry level’ trip to 5 star lodges and the [...]

The Orvis Representative for Eastern Canada, Tom Zemianek, will be in our store on Monday March 23rd to meet with customers and answer any questions you may have. If you would like to spend some time speaking with someone from the Orvis Head office in Manchester Vermont this is your opportunity. Tom [...]

I had to speak with a friend of the store the other day and was able to reach him on his cell phone.   He works construction and with the wind chill the radio was saying that it was -23 C so when I reached him I wanted to keep our conversation to a minimum so he wouldn’t freeze [...]

Trout season in Ontario opens this year on Saturday April 25th and for those who are starting to count the days the following link will either give you something to get you through the current cold spell we are experiencing or drive you right up the friggin’ wall with jealousy. I love what the [...]

A customer came into our store last Saturday who had not been in for quite some time. He entered, stopped for more than a few seconds at the front door, looked around and then he did something that made my day – he smiled. He didn’t smile at me, he smiled at himself [...]