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

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 [...]

Just a reminder that hatch charts for many of the rivers in southern Ontario are available on our blog and all of the flies you need for the upcoming season are feverishly being tied in our store by our in-house production fly tier James Wachiuri under the watchful eye of our manager Vasilios “Bill” Katraouras. [...]

Produced by The Orvis Company and hosted by Tom Rosenbauer, author of The Orvis Fly Fishing Guide, this podcast will provide you with weekly tips on how to get the most of your time on the water (and if you are in Canada you should know that ordering Orvis products through WILSON’S saves you approximately [...]

The fishing on the Grand has finally started to heat up with the weather with blue winged olives and hendricksons seen on the lower and middle stretches. We encourage you to check out our hatch chart for the Grand & Conestogo (which is being updated with better pictures – watch our website in the [...]

I would be stocking up my fly box as follows:
Boyne, Credit, Mad, Noisy, Nottawasaga & Pretty Rivers:
Black Stone Fly, Blue Winged Olive, Hendrickson & Spotted Sedge
Conestogo & Grand Rivers:
Blue Winged Olive & Hendricksons
Beaver, Bighead & Saugeen Rivers:
Blue Winged Olives, Hendrickson, Tan Caddis & Black Quills
Whiteman’s Creek:
Blue Winged Olives, Green Caddis & Hendricksons
If you have [...]

All rivers are very high at the moment and still too cool for any significant hatches. If we can get things dried things out a bit and see a rise in temperatures conditions will be excellent.
Upper Credit
Temperature: 52 F – 11.1 C
Unfishable. The river is high, fast and stained.
Whiteman’s Creek
Unfishable. The [...]

Those of you who read our blog on a regular basis have probably noticed that the “Reviews” section has been blank since we started the blog. The reason is we have been re-thinking this part of the site. Well, we recently made up our minds on what we want to do… lol. [...]

If you haven’t done so yet we encourage you to download the Hatch Charts we have on our site. We have charts for the Grand River, Conestogo River, Saugeen River, Beaver River, Bighead River, Nottawasaga River, Mad River, Boyne River, Credit River and Whiteman’s Creek. These charts have been updated over the winter [...]