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Welcome!
Welcome to the Parks' Fly Shop blog! This blog is going to replace our awkward and seldom-used River Journal page. We hope it will be more user-friendly and intend to get all of our employees to post...
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Belated Trip Report: Yellowstone River, Tues March 24
I fished the Yellowstone Riverin the run below a tributary stream on Tuesday. Fishing was weird. The winter ice changed the configuration of the tributary mouth considerably, preventing the river from...
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Dougie takes a break and goes fishing...
Hi, my name is Doug Korn, I'm a guide for PFS shop during the fishing season and tie flies for the shop during the winter back home here in New York. Well the other day I had a chance to get out and...
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Beetlemania
Beetlemania officially begins April 5Unfortunately, no rock and roll is in the offing. I just get to sit down to tie about 65 dozen foam beetles. We don't like how most commercial beetles look (they're...
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Float Report, Monday April 13
Richard, Don McCue, and I floated from Pine Creek to the 9th Street Bridge Monday. Fishing wasn't particularly fast, though not terrible, and we each boated at least one fish in the 17-19" class. Don...
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Double Wing
Well, like Wally, I'm still tying flies too, right now it's my version of Gary Lafontaine's Double Wing pattern. Lafontaine’s Double Wing... tied Dougies’ way... with help from my friend Bill...
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Streamers for the upcoming week.
Right now the weather outside is frightful (35 plus snow), but when it's not so nasty and the river has at least 18-24" of visibility, the streamer bite is on in a big way. This should remain true for...
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Signs of Spring
The other day somebody asked the inevitable question, “Ready for summer yet?” Well, in one sense yes, I think we are all getting just a little bit of cabin fever waiting for the snow to stop. On the...
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Opening Day Reports
Here are four quick mini-reports from Yellowstone Park's openeing day.Yellowstone RiverAngler: Walter WieseLocations: Tower Falls area and upstream from the Roosevelt BridgeTime: 11:15-4:45Weather: 70...
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New pages about our custom flies, request for Youtube video suggestions.
Two items today. First, I've updated our Custom Flies page to have a photo and description of ALL of our currently-available custom and local fly patterns. Some of these are both tied and designed...
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Trout Lake
The 15th of June is really when our "big fish drought" officially ends. There's Yellowstone Lake, with its monster cutthroat and chance at lake trout to help the cutts and fill the smoker, but the...
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Tying for 2010
We are now tying flies in ernest for the 2010 fly fishing season, so I thought I'd share one of the flies I've been tying with a little twist. This is our "Korn's Spent Wing Caddis" a great fly and one...
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Yellowstone Park currently seeking comments on native trout restoration
Yellowstone National Park is currently seeking public comments on ways to restore/reestablish/protect native trout populations. Readers familiar with the park should submit concerns/suggestions. Here...
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New website!
Parks' Fly Shop now has a brand-new and super-snazzy site! Still at www.parksflyshop.com, but all other addresses have changed. Much of the information is the same, but some new things have been added,...
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Conservation issues at the MT legislature
As some of you know I have been active on conservation issues for a long time. That activism is primarily done as a member of the Northern Plains Resource Council and our local affiliate here in...
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New Podcast
I have finally gotten around to actually making a podcast that listeners can subscribe to. It is hosted at Podomatic for now. We'll see how many subscribers we get and how much bandwidth we use to...
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Graphic Caddis anyone?
My version of Barr's Graphic Caddis - I am tying a bunch of these in olive and tan, #14 and #16's for the shop. Pictured here is the olive version... I use pheasant after-shafts instead of ostrich herl...
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Spring Cleaning
It doesn’t always look or feel like it but spring is coming to the mountains. One of the things that means is spring cleaning. Time to fire up the rigs that have been sitting all winter, hitch up the...
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