Many customers and friends of the store do not yet know that if you book your fly fishing vacation through us you pay the same price as booking direct with the lodge but we give you a gift card worth 10% of the trip value to spend in our store.

How it works is simple: we have to make the introduction so just e-mail us your destination and the dates you want to go and we then arrange with the lodge for you to pay your deposit directly to them and once we receive the booking referral from the lodge we give you a credit worth 10% of the trip to spend with us.

It’s that simple! One final point – if you want to go to a lodge that you do not see listed on our site the same applies. We will contact them on your behalf and if they agree to participate in our program the gift certificate is yours!

Check out our growing list of fly fishing destinations at www.canadasflyfishingoutfitter.com/travel.php

If you are an angler for Atlantic Salmon in New Brunswick yesterday’s announcement may affect you.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/06/29/nb-miramichi-river-salmon-policy-8181.html

It’s official. Jencor owner of The New Fly Fisher has purchased The Canadian Fly Fisher magazine. The magazine name will change to The New Fly Fisher magazine and it will be international and not just Canadian. The magazine will also become an e-Zine which will dramatically reduce the price of subscription. Just an FYI – watch for details in the coming weeks.

www.canflyfish.com

Each Labor Day weekend, the village of Telluride, Colorado triples in size as people flock to the Telluride Mountain Film Festival. Like its cousins in Banff and Toronto, the TFF chooses a number of films to headline the festival and this year one of those chosen was by Felt Soul Media.

“Eastern Rises” is simply fly fishing cinematography at its best…

Eastern Rises | teaser from felt soul media on Vimeo.

WILSON’S is pleased to announce that Sheldon Seale has joined our team as our in-house fly tying instructor. Knowledgeable, friendly, a patient teacher and a consummate team player, Sheldon is a welcome addition to our team. Sheldon is a past president of the Izaak Walton Fly Fishing Club, a contributing editor to Canadian Fly Fisher magazine and a well known fixture in the national fly fishing community. He will be teaching our beginner and advanced courses and we are signing students up for courses beginning this month. As in previous years, our fly tying classes are held in the store on Saturday mornings from 9:30 until 12:20 and the cost is $50 per session plus applicable taxes. Classes are restricted to 6 people per session so please email the store to reserve your spot as soon as possible. We will be publishing a full course outline on our site very shortly.

Once you have taken the beginner’s course you can join Sheldon and learn to tie some of his favourite dry fly patterns for the Grand River and Credit River. From the Hendrickson’s to the last of the emerging Caddis, Sheldon will teach you the patterns you need for every major hatch including mayflies, caddis and crane flies as well as a couple of terrestrials for those days when nothing else seems to work. By scaling the patterns and changing the material colours, you will be able to adapt these patterns to many of the insects in the Grand.

NOTE: After each class we are hosting open vice fly tying sessions for customers every Saturday afternoon through the winter. Watch our site for details on guest tyers !