Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

If you haven’t heard of tube flies yet you will. We are working with Eumer to put together an order of tube flies and tube fly materials which will be in the store in the coming weeks.
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Please plan on attending the 2010 Toronto Sportsmen’s Show March 17-21. This year the show is relocating to the Toronto Convention Centre on Front Street beside Union Station and we are delighted that there will be a 150′ long fly casting lane to test rod outfits.
In addition, there will be a fundraising event for [...]

We often have fly anglers come into our store looking for information on where to fly fish in and around the Greater Toronto Area and we are more than happy to steer them in the right direction – but we always leave it to the each person to figure out exactly where to fly fish. [...]

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 was at a real estate shindig last night in the CBC building in downtown Toronto for NAIOP, a commercial real estate organization, and had the honour and privilege of listening to one of the most humble speeches I have heard in a very long time. The money raised at this dinner goes to [...]

We are delighted to announce that Tim O’Sullivan, one of Ontario’s better known fly fishing guides who focusses on the Grand River, has donated a day of guiding as one of our prizes. In addition, MAC Cosmetics has kindly donated a gift basket worth $250 ! We still have 3 weeks to go before [...]

The Canadian Angling Hall of Fame inducted 4 new members at last week’s Toronto Spring Fishing & Boat Show. This year’s inductees include John Kerr, conservationist, outdoorsman, Toronto Sun outdoors columnist and editor of Ontario Out of Doors magazine; Bruce Park, founding president of Muskies Canada; and Angelo and Reno Viola, founders of Barklays [...]

Esma Wilson passed away from non-hodgkins lymphoma in August 2008 and her “Cast for Cancer” on the fly casting lane at the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show is being organized by her youngest son Jim Wilson of WILSON’S Fly Shop in Toronto in partnership with the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. For a recommended minimum $5 donation [...]

Grant Roberton is a writer for the Globe & Mail and his article in yesterday’s paper on the gold medal winning performance of Christine Nesbitt is worth sharing because in my mind his article strikes to the heart of what winning is about.
Robertson wrote the story behind Nesbitt’s gold medal – “a come-from-behind triumph [...]

“Esma Wilson’s Cast for Cancer” is a fund raising initiative that will be taking place on the fly casting lane at the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show March 17-21 to benefit the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. Named after Jim’s mother who passed away in August 2008 from non-hodgkins lymphoma, everyone who makes a minimum recommended [...]