BONUS EPISODE: Tom Rosenbauer on 50 Years at Orvis, Great Outdoor Writers, and a Little Bird Hunting
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Recently, Tom took time to chat with Reid on the Orvis Hunting and Shooting Podcast about his 50 years at Orvis. If you're interested in hunting, shooting, or the great outdoors in general, consider subscribing to Reid's show, too!
(Crosspost from the Orvis Hunting and Shooting Podcast)
"Tom Rosenbauer, longtime Orvis employee, writer, and host of the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast, joins Reid for a wide-ranging conversation about his nearly 50 years with the company. They talk about the early days at Orvis, the great outdoor writers who shaped the culture around Manchester, Vermont, and how a lifelong fly fisherman found his way, occasionally, behind a shotgun. Along the way Tom shares stories, history, and a perspective on the outdoors that few people still carry."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to the podcast. It's Reid Bryant. I am excited to welcome on the podcast today. |
| 0:16.5 | My friend, colleague, coworker here at the Orvis Company, Tom Rosenbauer. |
| 0:21.1 | Tom is a legend in the fly fishing world, a legend at Orvis. |
| 0:24.9 | He's been at Orvis for almost 50 years. |
| 0:27.4 | Incredible career. |
| 0:29.8 | Incredible career within the fly fishing space. |
| 0:32.1 | Incredible story, really, that is Tom Rosenbauer. |
| 0:35.9 | Started at the Orvis Company, really just out of I guess just |
| 0:39.1 | out of college as an avid young angler worked in all different capacities at the company and he's |
| 0:45.6 | probably best known likely at this point well his podcast is tremendous the Orvis fly fishing |
| 0:50.9 | podcast that he hosts alongside the other Orvis podcast, his being |
| 0:55.2 | much bigger than this one. But also he's written a volume of work. I think he told me about 20 |
| 1:02.3 | books. He says so in the podcast. Has written extensively for our learning center on Orvis.com. |
| 1:07.2 | He's just a wealth of knowledge about fly fishing and a tremendous teacher and resource within |
| 1:12.9 | the fly fishing space. |
| 1:14.7 | What's interesting in this conversation is we talked to Tom a little bit about his hunting |
| 1:18.2 | and shooting, which was also a part of his, I don't want to say a part of his career |
| 1:23.2 | at Orvis, but certainly a part of his evolution in and around the Orvis ecosystem. |
| 1:28.7 | Became an avid duck hunter, duck hunted a lot locally with some other folks that worked at the company, got really |
| 1:34.9 | into woodcock and grouse hunting locally. And certainly his first love, and he says this in the podcast, |
| 1:41.2 | is fly fishing. But he got a lot of time in the field as well over the years and has some great perspective not only on that, but on Orvis as a wing shooting company, a hunting company, and just what it was like back in the day working at Orvis and what he's seen happen, what he's seen transpire over those 50 years of working for the company. So very cool conversation. I would encourage you to listen to his |
| 2:02.5 | podcast if you haven't checked it out, the Orvis Fly Fishing podcast with Tom Rosenbauer. Again, |
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