Parks' Fly Shop Information

Parks' Fly Shop is a small shop with a small staff. Our full-time staff includes only five people. All of us guide and all of us work in the shop, to one degree or another, so you can be sure when visiting the shop that the clerk who is selling you flies has been on the water recently and knows exactly where and what the fish are eating. In addition to the full-timers, we use a handful of southwest Montana's best contract guides, all of whom have been guiding and living in the area for years. Even with our contract staff, we wind up fully booked most days in July, August, and September, and many days in June and October. Thus it's a good idea to book early. Full-timers Walter Wiese and Ben Jewell tie a substantial percentage of our flies. Many of the remainder are tied by former Parks' Fly Shop guide Doug Korn. Richard Parks still ties a few flies for stock, but mostly does custom orders these days, since being chained to the tying bench at age ten by one's father tends to make one balk at tying commercially in middle age. Click the tabs below for bios of our current staff members. Please note: all initial guided trip inquiries are handled by Walter or Richard. Please e-mail one of them or call the shop to book a trip, rather than contacting other staff members directly. You may make specific guide requests when you book.