Please join us at the Holiday Inn Oakville at 590 Argus Road (Trafalgar & the QEW) on Wednesday April 13 for an evening with Filippo Invernezzi of Avalon to learn about fly fishing in Cuba. Doors open at 6:30pm and the presentation begins at 7pm. Tickets are $20 in advance ($25 at the door) and all money raised after expenses will be donated to TU Canada.

In addition to the seminar there are 2 door prizes to be won: the first is a guided fly fishing trip in southern Ontario with Paul Castellano of Cast Adventures, Ken Chandler of Ontario Drift Boat Guides, Rob Heal of The Home Pool or Mike Verhoef of Fly Fitters and the second ‘Grand Prize’ is a free trip with Avalon in Cuba!*

We are having this event in Oakville to make it accessible for as many people as possible so we hope you will join us! For those coming from outside the immediate area please note that the Holiday Inn Oakville is just off the QEW and only a 3 minute walk from the Oakville Trafalgar GO station which is also a VIA Rail Station.

Tickets are available at WILSON’S and seating is limited so purchase your ticket today! For more details Cuba Fly Fishing Seminar April 13, 2011

*Flights not included

Happy Thanksgiving !

I gotta say there is going to be one huge sigh of relief from our team when our new site goes live… immediately followed by a Homer moment when we look at something stupid on the site that we missed that will be painfully obvious to everyone (except of course to those who have been immersed in it). You know the moment. You look at something you have been laboring over for what seems like forever and think, “…oh crap.” Hopefully there won’t be too many of them but we will appreciate you letting us know if you see any!

We are finishing up loose ends today and look forward to hearing what you think of our new site… we’re down to counting the hours!

Fly Fish Ontario Magazine is a free ‘ezine’ that focuses on fly fishing in Ontario (funny how that works). The latest issue has articles on the Niagara River, local guide Mike Verhoef of Fly Fitters, fly tying, steelheading, fly fishing tattoos & classic salmon flies and we hope you enjoy looking through it as much as we did.

Check it out at onlinemag.flyfishontario.ca

If you read our website last week you saw that we are hosting a free “Open Vise” every Saturday afternoon from 12:30 until 5:00 pm. What we forgot to mention is that we are also hosting another free Open Vise fly tying session every Tuesday evening from 5:30 until 8:00 pm.

If you are interested in attending either session all you have to do is show up – but space is limited so get here earlier rather than later !

It is important to note that the Tuesday evening Open Vise session will commence at 6:00pm or earlier if you are in the store but if no one shows up (or calls to say they are on the way) by 6:10 then our friend Ian McLeod will lock the door and head home for dinner. Although there is no cost to attend we are thinking of asking everyone who shows up to throw a few dollars into a pot to order in some pizza and beverages so no one starves.

Let us know if this is an idea that interests you. If it is of interest but another time/date works better let us know. What we want to do is provide a free location on a regular basis for fly tiers to trade tips and techniques – and have fun doing it!