Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

As January draws to a close many fly fishers in Ontario spend their time tying flies, thinking about the season behind us and dreaming about the fly fishing season to come. As the owner of a fly shop I also try to take a step back from the business side of things as often [...]

Gary Christie, President of the Nottawasaga Steelheaders recently sent me an email about an article that appeared in the “Sunday Star” on December 6th. According to this article an individual has been buying up farmland in the Shelburne headwaters with the intention of developing a 2,400 acre quarry and this quarry will likely have [...]

If you have not attended the Grand River Spey Clave we encourage you to mark your calendars to do so. Organized by Randy Wilson, this event is free to attend and in its short history has grown to become one of the best fly fishing events in Ontario.
The list of instructors for this [...]

At the risk of sounding like a bunch of over-zealous fly fishers, this is a great opportunity !
If you want to catch more fish you should plan on coming to our store on Saturday 21 November between 10 am and 1 pm for a fly fisherman’s entomology workshop with aquatic biologist Ian [...]

[Richard VanderMeer, Oil on Canvas]
I was sitting at a table in a Tim Horton’s recently and while reviewing our recently completed year I was quickly building up to having a conniption (one of my mother’s favorite terms). While sales in our fly shop are not down drastically, sales are down. I had just [...]

The above picture is of a drift boat trip I did on the Bow River in Alberta a while back but this is about a day I spent with a guide in a drift boat on the Saugeen River this past Friday. If you have never booked a drift boat trip do yourself or [...]

For brown trout fly fishers in Ontario this last weekend of August heralds what many consider to be the beginning of the end of the season. But those anglers who feel that way are the ones who think the glass is half empty because we have another month of great fishing left ! [...]

The Grand River is widely recognized as the crown jewel of Ontario fly fishing destinations and I for one am extremely thankful it is a short drive from downtown Toronto ! If you have not fished the Grand of late then you are missing a great experience. With lots of room on the [...]

The inaugural meeting of the Fly Fishing Club is meeting at WILSON’S on Aug 19 at 6:30 pm. For more information please see www.meetup.com/Fly-Fishing-Club/

Click here for the Grand River Conservation Authority river data:
www.grandriver.ca/index/Agreement.cfm?sec=2
Click here for hatch information:
www.discoverflyfishing.ca/hatch-charts