Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

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 [...]

“We’re not going to make any headway until you stop asking your fly fishing guide what he thinks…”

I have a cartoon pinned to my desk that I have been looking at on a regular basis since the economy tanked in September 2008. The cartoon is from a playbill I picked up at the Shaw Festival when I took a girlfriend to see “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” at Niagara-on-the-Lake in the late 1980s. [...]

If you are looking for a great place to fly fish for brook trout you should consider setting your sites on the Beaver Valley. I’m not talking about catching trophy brook trout per se but rather rewarding opportunities to fly fish water that has very little angling pressure. The number of places [...]

This afternoon I am driving from Toronto to the Falls Inn in Walter’s Falls where I will meet 9 fellow fly fishers for a weekend exploring the Trout Hollow Trail on the Bighead River. This weekend is the culmination of a few months of planning and our goal is simply to help people [...]

I don’t know about you but I’m having difficulty choosing…

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 [...]

One of the ongoing problems of running a small business – and a fly shop in particular – is finding the right staff. Unlike a shoe store or clothing store in your local mall, a fly fishing store can not hire just anyone off the street. The staff in a fly shop need [...]

This is Fly is another ezine that is getting some great press for a very good reason – the stories, the photos and the cinematography make this site worthy of bookmarking. The new issue is the first of This is Fly on a new media platform that allows you to download the issue in [...]

There are two days left until the opening of trout season in Ontario and many of us are wondering where to go. If you are looking to do some fly fishing a bit off the beaten track you should check out the Beaver River. This river is one of the prettiest in Southern [...]