In the spring of 2008 Todd flew to Scotland to study loch-style fly fishing tactics and techniques with John Buchannan (Scottish national champion and coach), and later that month he made a second trip to the UK to study loch-style fly fishing on Chew Valley Lake with John Horsey of Team England (England's highest capped international angler).
He actively promotes and instructs fly fishing for trout and salmon and teaches fly casting. Todd founded a fly fishing club at a high school in his home town, where he shares his passion for fly casting, fishing and fly tying with its students and teachers. His ultimate goal is to encourage growth and participation in the sport of fly fishing, while providing educated and responsible fly fishers for the future.
Todd Oishi resides in the town of Maple Ridge, which is located in the Fraser River Valley near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Throughout the year he pursues rainbow, cutthroat, brook and brown trout, as well as whitefish, grayling, steelhead and salmon. Todd has a passion for outdoor photography and writing, and has had his photography and several of his articles published online and in BC Outdoors and The Canadian Fly Fisher Magazine. He has presented a series of ongoing fly fishing clinics/seminars and has been a guest speaker at several fly fishing clubs and symposiums. He also headlined as a featured fly-tyer at B.C.'s largest outdoors and fishing show.
Todd has been selected ten times to compete as a member of the Canadian National Fly Fishing Team (Team Canada), which has traveled around the globe to attend various international competitions. During 2006 Todd flew to the Czech Republic to attend the Czech Nymphing Masterclass, which was taught by Jiri Klima (coach of the Czech national team), and in 2007 he traveled to southeastern Poland to study Polish Nymphing technique through Vladi Trzebunia, a past world champion and international Polish nymphing coach.
Recent News:
Todd and his team won the team gold medal at the 2011 America Cup International Fly Fishing Tournament, which was held in Vail, Colorado (September 2011)
Todd and his team won the team Ggold medal at the 2011 B.C. Loch-Style
Fly Fishing Championship, which was held in Logan Lake, B.C. (June 2011)
Todd won the Individual Bronze Medal and a Team Gold Medal at the
2010 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships, which was held in the Parklands of Manitoba.
In the world of competitive fly fishing...
2005 Canadian NFFC
Individual & Team Gold Medalist
Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament
2007 Canadian NFFC Gold Medalists -
Team Stillwater Solutions
2009 Canadian NFFC
Individual Bronze and Team Gold Medalist
Trojan Pond Tournament's
Largest Catch Award
2009 Canadian NFFC Team Gold Medalists - Team Cormorants
2010 Canadian NFFC Gold Medalist - Team Cormorant
2010 Canadian NFFC Individual Medalists
Todd is very active and involved in the world of competitive fly-fishing. He has competed at the Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament for the past ten years, where his teams have consistently placed within the top three positions and finished in 1st place on four occasions (out of a field of 40 – 50 two-man teams).
At the Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships, Todd won the Individual Gold Medal in 2005; the Individual Bronze Medal in 2009; the Individual Bronze Medal in 2010; as well as four Team Gold Medals and one Team Bronze Medal over the past seven years of competing at the national level.
Todd has competed internationally a total of twelve times, and served as a member of the Canadian National Fly Fishing Team for the North American (2 times), Commonwealth (2 times) and World Fly Fishing Championships (5 times), and competed at a heat of the 2008 Lexus European Fly Championships in Chew Valley Reservoir near Bristol, England, where he caught the largest trout and qualified for the finals (the first North American to ever accomplish this feat), which he attended later that same year. In 2011 he competed at the America Cup Fly Fishing Tournament as a member of Team Emerger and won a Team Gold Medal.
Todd's most fulfilling role was serving as the Captain of Team Canada at the 2009 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships in Islay, Scotland, where Team Canada sat in 3rd place for nearly half the competiton, but in the end finished in a respectable 4th place overall, which remains as Team Canada's highest finish at any international fly fishing competition.
Todd's achievements at National and International Fly Fishing Championships:
2005 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Individual Gold Medal
2005 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Team Gold Medal (Team Mustang)
2007 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Team Gold Medal (Team Stillwater Solutions)
2009 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Individual Bronze Medal
2009 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Team Gold Medal (Team Cormorant)
2010 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Individual Bronze Medal
2010 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Team Gold Medal (Team Cormorant)
2011 B.C. Loch-Style Fly Fishing Championships - Team Gold Medal (Team Cormorant)
2011 America Cup International Fly Fishing Tournament, Vail Colorado - Team Gold Medal (Team Emerger)
2011 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Team Bronze Medal (Team Cormorant)
International fly fishing championships and events that Todd has attended:
2005 World Fly Fishing Championships - Lycksele, Sweden
2006 North American Fly Fishing Championships, Boulder, Colorado
2006 World Fly Fishing Championships - Coimbra, Portugal
2006 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships - Llangollen, Wales
2006 Czech Nymphing Masterclass, Jiri Klima - North Bohenia, Czech Republic
2007 World Fly Fishing Championships - Kemi, Finland
2007 North American Fly Fishing Championships - Boulder Colorado
2007 Polish Nymphing Masterclass, Vladi Trzebunia - Lesko, Poland
2008 World Fly Fishing Championships - Rotorua, New Zealand
2008 Loch-style Fly Fishing Masterclass, John Horsey - Somerset, England
2008 Lexus European Fly Fishing Championships - Chew Valley, England
2009 World Fly Fishing Championships - Drymen, Scotland
2009 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships - Isle of Islay, Scotland
2011 B.C. Loch-Style Fly Fishing Championships - Logan Lake B.C.
2011 America Cup International Fly Fishing Tournament - Vail, Colorado
A summary of Todd's competitive fly fishing achievements:
2002 Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament, Kamloops, British Columbia - 1st place Team
2003 Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament, Kamloops, British Columbia - Tied for 1st place
2005 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Individual Gold Medal
2005 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Team Gold Medal (Team Mustang)
2005 Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament, Kamloops, British Columbia - 'Largest Catch' award
2005 Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament - 4th place Team
2006 Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament, Kamloops, British Columbia - 1st place Team
2007 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships - Team Gold Medal (Team Stillwater Solutions)
2007 Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament, Kamloops, British Columbia - 1st place Team
2008 Lexus European Fly Fishing Championships, England - qualified for finals
2008 Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament, Kamloops, British Columbia - 3rd place Team
2009 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships, Scotland - 4th place Team
2009 Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament, Kamloops, British Columbia - 3rd place Team
2009 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships, Fernie, BC - Individual Bronze Medal
2009 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships, Fernie, BC - Team Gold Medal (Team Cormorant)
2010 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships, Roblin, Manitoba - Individual Bronze Medal
2010 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships, Roblin, Manitoba - Team Gold Medal (Team Cormorant)
2011 B.C. Loch-Style Fly Fishing Championships - Team Gold Medal (Team Cormorant)
2011 Trojan Pond Fly Fishing Tournament, Kamloops, British Columbia - 2nd place Team
2011 America Cup International Fly Fishing Tournament, Vail Colorado - Team Gold Medal (Team Emerger)
2011 Canadian National Fly Fishing Championships Montebello Quebec- Team Bronze Medal (Team Cormorant)
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2005 Canadian NFFC Gold Medalists - Team Mustang
2011 B.C. Loch-Style Fly Fishing Championship
Gold Medalists - Team Cormorant
2011 America Cup International Fly Fishing Tournament
Gold Medalists - Team Emerger
(lt to rt): Sandro Soladarin - Italy, Todd Oishi - Canada, Michael Drinan - Ireland, Marek Walczek - Poland, and Rob Kolanda - USA
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