Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON’S

In a word – ‘wow!’ The folks in the fly fishing department at Patagonia were read the riot act by Yvon Chouinard a while ago because they were not doing as well as he thought they could. Well, having spent a few hours going over the new product lines we can say with [...]

We were contacted a while ago by a group that wants to set up a new fly fishing club for downtown Toronto. We are of course happy to help promote the sport so hope the inaugural meeting goes well.
The first meeting is tonight at the Madison Avenue Pub near Bloor and Spadina [...]

Dick and Ricky Hoyt are a father and son who compete in the Ironman Triathalon. This was originally posted on YouTube in February 2007 but if you are not familiar with their story this video is certainly worth watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64A_AJjj8M4&feature=related

Deb Freele, a friend of many in the Ontario fly fishing community and of WILSON’S, is recovering in hospital in Cody, Wyoming today having had the misfortune of being attacked by a grizzly at the Sode Butte Campground in Montana yesterday morning. Our thoughts go out to Deb and we hope she has a [...]

I don’t usually comment on politics but I recently received a letter from Jerry Ouellette (MPP for Oshawa and a former Minister of Natural Resources for the Province of Ontario) that included a copy of the Special Purpose Account Annual Report from the Ministry of Natural Resources Fish and Wildlife Branch for the years 1999-2000 [...]

I have met a lot of people in municipal, provincial and federal levels of government and can count on one hand the number of people who are the right person in the right position committed to doing the right thing instead of doing the right thing for themselves… The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO) [...]

A few people probably have their knickers in a knot because comments they have kindly provided to some of our daily postings have not appeared. Turns out the software at our end was a bit screwed up and we were not aware that these comments were in a file waiting to be reviewed – [...]

WILSON’S is looking for a full time employee to start with us in September. If you are interested please forward a resume to our store manager Vasilios “Bill” Katraouras via manager@wilsonstoronto.com. Those who may be interested should note that working in a fly shop is not necessarily what you might think… In order [...]

I had the pleasure last night of catching up with my friend Naoto Aoki and his girlfriend Julie O’Brien in Banff, Alberta. Naoto is the kind of guy that I seldom speak with as he is usually out fly fishing and/or hunting but I always welcome seeing because he is one of the nicest [...]

It’s funny how you notice little things while on vacation. The first one was how the passengers on the flight deplaned in Edmonton. Unlike Toronto where there is a mad rush by passengers to get out of their seats only to stand until the door of the plane is opened which commences another [...]