2024 Spring Fling
When: March 23, 2024
About Spring Fling
Tom Rosenbauer
Tom Rosenbauer has been with the Orvis Company for 44 years,
and while there has been a fishing school instructor, copywriter, public
relations director, merchandise manager, and was editor of The Orvis News for 10 years. He is currently their chief marketing
enthusiast, which is what they call people when they don’t know what else to do
with them.. As merchandise manager, web
merchandiser, and catalog director, the titles under his direction have won
numerous Gold Medals in the Multichannel
Merchant Awards.
Tom was awarded Fly
Rod & Reel’s “Angler of the Year Award” for 2011 for his educational
efforts through his books, magazine articles, and podcasts.
Tom has been a fly fisher for 50 years, and was a commercial
fly tier by age 14. He has fished extensively
across North America and has also fished on Christmas Island, the Bahamas, Belize,
in Kamchatka, Chile, and on the fabled English chalk streams . He is credited with bringing Bead-Head flies
to North America, and is the inventor of the Big Eye hook, Magnetic Net
Retriever, and tungsten beads for fly tying.
He has about 20 fly fishing books in print, including The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Reading Trout
Streams, Prospecting for Trout, Casting Illusions, Fly-Fishing in America,
Approach and Presentation, Trout Foods and Their Imitations; Nymphing
Techniques; Leaders, Knots, and Tippets, The Orvis Guide to Dry-Fly Techniques,
The Orvis Fly Fishing Encyclopedia, and
The Orvis Fly-Tying Guide, which won a 2001 National Outdoor Book Award. His collaboration with photographer
Andy Anderson, Salt, also won a
National Outdoor Book Award in 2014. He
has also been published in Field &
Stream, Outdoor Life, Catalog Age, Fly Fisherman, Gay’s Sporting Journal,
Sporting Classics, Fly Rod & Reel, Audubon, Men’s Journal, and others. His latest book, Fly Fishing for Trout—The Next Level, was published in November of
2016. Tom is the writer and narrator of
“The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide Podcast,” one of the top outdoor podcasts on
iTunes. He lives with his wife and son in southern
Vermont on the banks of his favorite trout stream.