Richard Parks | Walter Wiese | Ben Jewell | Wilson Eich | Other Guides

Other Guides

        When Richard, Walter, and Ben are already booked or are too exhausted from recent trips to take another, we usually turn to our three part-time independent guides.  All three are held to the same high standards as our other guides, but for a variety of reasons they do not guide full time for us.  Brief bios follow.

Don McCue

Don McCue lives in Paradise Valley.  He has been teaching others to fly fish and tie flies since high school, and has been guiding full-time since 2002.  He spends over a hundred days a year in his drift boat, both on the Yellowstone and the Big Horn.

Mike Leach

Rob Olson

Rob Olson began working for Parks' Fly Shop in 2006 on an emergency basis when Walter Wiese went down with a knee injury, leaving us with more bookings than guides.  He operates his own independent guide service based out of Livingston in the summer and works at Bridger Bowl in the winter.  He does many trips for us on the "big fish/hard fish" section of the Yellowstone downstream of Livingston.

Others

Former Parks' Fly Shop full-timers Pat Straub and Phil Sgamma now usually guide elsewhere.  Straub has his own outfitting business on the Missouri River and Sgamma is guiding on the Snake drainage in Idaho.  Pat occasionally guides for us (or we guide for him) during the summer, while Phil is available in the fall when we have large group bookings.