Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast this is Tom Rosemar and this week

I'd like to

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. Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast.

This is Tom Rosenbauer and this week I'd like to talk

about access to rivers and shorelines. That's a question that's come up as a request for a podcast on our Facebook page and I think it's although it's a complicated topic

It's also a fascinating one and it's of interest to all of us. So I'd like to give you five

tips on access to fishing places. Tip number one is the most important and it is to know the riparian and

littoral access laws of your own particular state.

Riparian laws of your own particular state.

Riparian laws, riparian access or riparian easement refers to access along flowing waters and littoral access is usually used to describe

access to shoreline areas either on large lakes or on the ocean.

Very early on in the founding of our country

and in the Constitution, it was very clear

that the founding fathers wanted all moving waters, all surface waters,

to be held in trust by the state for the use of all the people. And that right has really been

upheld throughout the history of our country with varying degrees of interpretation and unfortunately for us it's up to the state to interpret

just to interpret and also make laws to determine how you can get to those waters.

And that's the issue that comes up often.

And there are a lot of different interpretations

of riparian law.

To give you an example of how different access laws can be from state to state,

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