Tag: Tom Rosenbauer

John Juracek, former owner of Blue Ribbon Flies in West Yellowstone, Montana, could easily pass for an ex-Marine.   He stands tall in a crowd of unkempt fly fishing experts.   And when he speaks, it's with a certain natural authority that folks of his kind seem born with. "All right," he intoned on a cool morning on the banks of what is by any measure...

Tom Rosenbauer is a veteran of the fly fishing industry. And in this profile piece, “The Tom Rosenbauer Story,” Paul Fersen writes about the man and the legend. “It’s appropriate that a river runs through Tom’s backyard given his love of flowing water, and while he is proficient in so many things, his desire to share what he loves most is what...

Labrador has long been famous for the size and number of its brook trout, which is why Tom Rosenbauer always had it on his “bucket list.” Tom is a passionate small stream trout angler, and previous to his trip to Three Rivers Lodge his largest Brook Trout brought to hand was fifteen inches. Colin McKeown, host of The New Fly Fisher TV series, has been...

The American Museum of Fly Fishing has announced Tom Rosenbauer will receive the 2019 Izaak Walton Award. Rosenbauer will be honored at a dinner event at The Anglers’ Club in New York City, on March 12, 2019. Read more in the press release below.   Tom Rosenbauer to Receive the 2019 Izaak Walton Award Tom Rosenbauer, host of the Orvis Fly Fishing...

In his latest podcast, Tom gives a bunch of fly tips then talks about the challenges of getting that first 30 feet of fly line out of the rod tip. "It's a problem that everybody has. Getting the line out to 30 feet is not pretty for most us. I'll give you a little background on why. Fly line sizes are a standard that were adopted back in the 1960s when they...