Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

Just a reminder that hatch charts for many of the rivers in southern Ontario are available on our blog and all of the flies you need for the upcoming season are feverishly being tied in our store by our in-house production fly tier James Wachiuri under the watchful eye of our manager Vasilios “Bill” Katraouras. [...]

If you are looking for the best flies available for Ontario rivers you should come in and speak with James Wachiuri. Originally from Kenya, James has been a production fly tyer for over 20 years and his focus in our store is to tie fly patterns for our local rivers.
James ties his [...]

WILSON’S is pleased to announce that Sheldon Seale has joined WILSON’S to head up our fly tying program. Sheldon has been fishing for most of his life and fly fishing and tying for more than twenty years. As an instructor and guide, he has introduced hundreds of people to the sport and the art [...]

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The weather forecast in the Toronto area this weekend is calling for sunny skies and temperatures approaching 10C (which for our American friends is about 50F). While we haven’t had a lot of snow this winter in Toronto the temperature has been cool so I am looking forward to getting out for a [...]

I had a long conversation this week with a friend who has been in the fishing industry for a very long time. He does not own a fly shop but does own a company in the fishing industry and many of his comments are worth sharing but one in particular got me thinking…
This person [...]

This one is easy: buy a day with an Ontario Fly Fishing Guide or Outfitter on one of Ontario’s rivers. Be it a walk & wade, a drift boat trip or a day on a power boat in the Niagara gorge, Ontario has some great fly fishing guides and outfitters who are worth their [...]

Simply put, if you are an avid fly fisher and are not planning on attending this event, change your plans ! This is a great event that will teach you more in a day than you will learn in a month of classes. The Clave will be held at Bean Park in Paris [...]

The fishing on the Grand has finally started to heat up with the weather with blue winged olives and hendricksons seen on the lower and middle stretches. We encourage you to check out our hatch chart for the Grand & Conestogo (which is being updated with better pictures – watch our website in the [...]

If you haven’t been checking out our travel section we encourage you to do so as we are adding new destinations on a regular basis. You will see new lodges for Newfoundland & Labrador, British Columbia and the Bahamas and we have a handful more that will be posted in the coming days. [...]