Lots of Listener Questions and Tom Interviews Orvis Chairman Leigh Perkins

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

He’s the Everready Bunny—at 85 years old, and a recently replaced hip, Leigh Perkins still fishes and hunts 300 days a year. Although he retired as CEO of the Orvis Company in 1992, he’s still chairman of the board and one of our best field testers. He’s always the first one up in the morning and the last one to go to bed, and he lives his life surrounded by a bunch of hunting dogs. I was recently in Florida hunting wild quail and ducks with Leigh and got a chance to get some wisdom from him for a podcast. You’ll note by his answers that he’s one of the most optimistic people you’ll ever meet.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.
0:11.5	Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing
0:14.6	enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.
0:17.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. This is your host Tom Rosenbauer
0:22.2	and we have a very special podcast this week.
0:25.0	I will be interviewing a legend of the fly fishing world, Lee Perkins, chairman of the Board of the Oris Company, who retired in 1992, but still
0:39.2	hunts and fishes about 300 days a year, even with a new hip at 85 years old so lots of history there
0:47.0	and lots of knowledge to be learned from from this truly larger than life
0:58.0	individuals from this truly larger than life individual who's been so instrumental in many aspects of fly fishing. And he's a fun guy to hunt and fish with doing a wonderful host.
1:06.4	So without further ado let's get on to the podcast section which is where I try to answer try to answer short questions from you on various topics. I get some crazy ones. I get sometimes I get
1:18.8	the same one over and over again. And by the way, if you want to ask a question of the podcast and you send either an
1:31.8	email to podcast at Orvis.com
1:35.0	or you call the podcast request line at 802 362 8800
1:42.0	and you don't get an answer. It could be because I've answered this question on a
1:46.2	podcast before. And if you want to search the podcasts, we have a great function on our learning center now. The learning
1:56.1	center is at HTTP colon backslash how to fly fish. colon Each podcast has a keyword index.
2:13.4	There are about 15 to 20 keywords to each podcast
2:18.6	so that you can search on other things besides the title of the podcast.
2:26.4	There may be some things that are hidden in a podcast
2:28.6	that the title isn't gonna tell you about,
2:30.9	but we have established keywords for those. So that's the only place the
2:35.0	podcast is searchable. You can't do that on the Orvis site and you can't do that on
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