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

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 got a call from Ken Collins of Grand River Troutfitters last Friday asking if I would be interested in partnering with him on Saturday to help raise money for the 2010 edition of “Grand Opportunities”. Organized by the Friends of the Grand, this event raises money for conservation initiatives focussed on the Grand [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bellingham, WA – The Flyfish Journal issue #2.1 is shipping just in time to shake the invernal doldrums and enjoy hatches, sun, and spring runs. With the same stellar photography and compelling edit that led to a complete sell-through on the premiere issue, FFJ #2.1 features a conservation essay on Malibu Creek by resident [...]

We often get calls from writers and television reporters asking if they can interview us or photographers asking if they can borrow gear for a photo shoot. We always help with media inquiries in any way we can because we want to make more people aware of fly fishing (and of course you can [...]

In the category of “truth is stranger than fiction”, the following story is courtesy of yesterday’s Globe and Mail.
On Sunday morning, Tom Badeau set out to his local Hamilton-area pond expecting to snap photos of birds and otters – the usual critters he sees on his regular nature jaunts.
But a shot of a [...]