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Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisherman for over 30 years. He has authored several books, including Prospecting for Trout, the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide and Reading Trout Streams. Over the years his articles have been featured in every major outdoor magazine in the country. His works are known for offering anglers practical, valuable tactics for improving their fly fishing experience. The Senior VP of Marketing for the Orvis Company, Tom is a well-known leader in industry innovations and conservation. When not in his Orvis office, he can be found fishing in the Battenkill River at lunchtime.

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Creative writing meets the natural world in Bill Sherck’s stories. Television viewers know Bill as “The Man about the Woods.” Sherck hosts and reports as part of Ron Schara Enterprises, Minneapolis-based producers of several Emmy award-winning outdoor programs.

Bill got his television start along Lake Superior’s Wilderness North Shore reporting local news. During the next 10 years, he worked his way around the country, eventually landing jobs as a reporter for both Fox News in North Carolina and the main ABC affiliate back in Minneapolis. Bill earned dozens of journalism awards for his unique style of storytelling, including Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Awards. Now, his outdoor stories reach viewers on the Versus Network programs, “Backroads” and “Pheasants Forever Television.” He also reports weekly as part of the award-winning series, “Minnesota Bound.” Bill tackles a big project this year, hosting the Midwest’s newest outdoor program, “Due North” to be seen on Fox Sports Network.

Bill spends a good chunk of the year on the road traveling and reporting. Even so, his favorite fishin’ hole remains a quiet, pasture stream in Southeast Minnesota or a soft seat in his red walleye boat.

You can reach Bill at: www.mnbound.com or bill@mnbound.com

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Flip Pallott is the well-known host of the Walkers Cay Chronicles, the longest running fly fishing magazine on ESPN. In addition to his travels for filming new episodes, Flip can be found sharing his knowledge and love of fishing at clubs and trade shows. He has appeared on dozens of television shows and continues to author a wide variety of fishing-related articles for various publications. Flip holds numerous world record catches on a fly rod and he has been nominated for the 3M Scientific Anglers Hall of Fame. He is a U.S. Coast Guard Captain and a Guide for the U.S. Department of the Interior for the Everglades National Park. Flip is a dedicated conservationist, championing projects that protect wildlife habitats in his native Florida, preserving his well-loved sport of fly fishing for future generations.

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Editor and Outdoor Journalist

Phil writes the weekly “Ask the Expert” column on Midcurrent.Com, and his how-to and travel stories appear in many national sporting magazines. He was the editor of American Angler from 1998 through 2009. Before that, he was a senior associate editor at Outdoor Life and for most of the early 1990s, he was a slacker graduate student who spent his summers guiding fly fishers in Alaska and Montana. He is a native of New Hampshire who now lives in southwestern Vermont.

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Dave Maynard is the colorful host of Fishing Across America on the Outdoor Channel.  He grew up in the Florida Keys and learned to fish about the same time as he learned to walk. If his mom couldn’t find him, it was a good bet that his fishing rod was missing, too. Dave’s love of sport fishing began with his catching snapper, grouper, sharks and barracuda on the mangrove flats of Biscayne Bay.

Marriage brought Dave to Colorado where he learned the subtle art of fly fishing for skittish trout. After years of building homes, office buildings and hotels, Dave finally decided he was too serious about real estate and not serious enough about fishing. He entered a regional bass tournament and started meeting all kinds of fishing enthusiasts. One day in an airport, he met Jim Jones, a producer for Fishing Across America and invited him to fish for trout in Wyoming. A few months later they were pulling rainbows from Horse Creek and swapping stories (lies) about past catches. As their friendship developed, Jim asked Dave if he would be interested in hosting Fishing Across America.

Now Dave is happily building less and fishing more all over the world. This past season found him in Sweden, Mississippi, Mexico, Louisiana and Wyoming. Dave feels he can easily lie about all kinds of fish from anywhere on the planet.

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Chad Foster is one of America’s most sought after motivational speakers, reaching hundreds of thousands of students and educators each year through his ‘live’ presentations, books, and videos.  He spends most of his time on the road speaking to students and educators, but for the past eight years, he has hosted his own television show, Fly Fishing America, seen on ESPN.

Chad is also a best-selling author. Dear God, a nationally-acclaimed series of board books for children is co-authored by Chad and his wife, Paige. Providing a unique combination of prayer and education, all profits from the sale of Dear God are donated to charity. From the Umpqua to the San Juan, the Frying Pan to the Pere Marquette, Chad Foster has traveled the nation to bring the best fly-fishing locales in America right into your living room.

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Jason was raised in Wyoming and Montana, where he grew up fishing trout streams like the North Tongue River and the Bighorn River. Eventually he became a guide based in Livingston, Montana, working on the fabled Yellowstone River and Paradise Valley Spring Creeks. He learned the finer points of saltwater fly fishing at one of the best bonefish, tarpon, and permit destinations in the Caribbean while managing Orvis Endorsed Turneffe Flats Resort in 2003. In 2006 Jason moved from Montana to Vermont where he currently manages the fly fishing program for Orvis Travel. When not in the office providing friendly advice to customers, he’s in the field hosting trips and checking out fishing operations. He has fished extensively throughout the US, as well as Belize, the Bahamas, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Ireland, New Zealand, Palmyra and other destinations around the world.

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John Dietsch is known throughout the world as the leading fly fishing consultant for films and TV commercials. He has worked in a number of countries to ensure authenticity while keeping projects under budget. In the movie A River Runs Though It, Dietsch doubled for Brad Pitt during the final fly-fishing scene in the film where character Paul MacLean swims with the fish down the river, and worked with other cast members on developing their technical fly fishing skills.

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C. D. Clarke was born in Rochester, New York, and received his BFA in painting from Syracuse University in 1981. After living on the Eastern Shore of MD for 25 years, he now resides in Canandaigua, NY. His life-long interest in the outdoors, hunting and fishing in particular, has made it a subject for a substantial portion of his work. C. D. Clarke has traveled extensively, painting in the Caribbean, Scotland, England, Hawaii, the Bahamas, Canada, Alaska, Montana, and South America. His work captures the light and most importantly the feeling of sparkling bonefish flats, misty Scottish salmon rivers, raw windy marshes, icy Chilean alps, and warm sunny Argentinean pampas.

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Kirk Deeter is an accomplished fresh and salt water fly fisherman, circling the globe in search of exceptional fishing and his next story. His love of rivers and sharing information led down a natural path to guiding. He is the president of the Colorado Conservancy and is a well-known fly fishing author. His books include the artistic masterpieces Castworks and Tidelines. He is also editor of the fly fishing industry trade publication, and his articles regularly appear in Wild on the Fly, Fly Fisherman, and most notably, Field and Stream. Spending a day with Kirk, an angler can expect more than just expert guidance on the stream. Kirk’s easy-going personality, entertaining stories of fishing far away places, and carousing with fly fishing legends keep clients entertained for hours.

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