This is a really good read. So hop on over to the Orvis website and take this in!
It’s written by Paul Fersen.
https://m.orvis.com/subject/tom-rosenbauer
“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 elevates him to legendary status in the fly-fishing world—a statement to which he will most assuredly cringe and yet is true whether he likes it or not.
Tom is a self-proclaimed geek whose desk has long disappeared under stacks of books, papers, and flytying materials in mad-scientist disarray. 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 is the kid who spent his youth capturing reptiles and amphibians, and while the other kids played sports, he was fishing on a pond near the school and discovering wild brook trout in a suburban Rochester stream. A bicycle to local streams evolved to a car headed to the Catskills and Adirondacks. He was a commercial fly tier at age 14.”
