Backcountry fly fishing, by necessity, requires a lot of hiking. Your legs are the primary vehicle you'll use to access the wild places we love to fish, and that means it pays to know how to be a good hiker.

In this episode, Maggie Peikon from the American Hiking Society joins us to talk about what to bring, how to stay safe, how to share the trail, how to deal with wildlife, and various other topics that will help elevate your hiking game.

If you want to learn more about AHS and their amazing work, or if you want to get involved (and you should), you can visit the organization's website at https://americanhiking.org/. 

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Fall has officially arrived! It's definitely not time to stop fly fishing, but the arrival of changing leaves and cooler weather does require some changes in where and how we fish after a beautiful, long summer of hiking to various alpine lakes and other high-elevation locales. 

In this episode, Ross walks you through how to stay on the water through the first month of autumn and have an absolute blast banging fish on your favorite backcountry creeks. If you're a small-stream aficionado, you're going to like this one. 

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In this episode, Colorado Parks and Wildlife aquatic biologists Ben Swigle and Gage Dean join Ross to discuss their work with and management of high-alpine lakes in Colorado's wilderness areas. They discuss the history and current state of alpine stocking programs, how CPW backcountry teams survey these lakes, competition between native and non-native species, fishing tips, and how anglers can go about finding, researching, and accessing these incredibly beautiful places.

If you're interested in high-alpine fishing for cutthroats (or anything else), this is the episode for you. 

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Gear is one thing, but what about clothing and apparel? It can be very difficult to find good information about what you should wear for backcountry fly fishing, which sets you up for a frustrating (and expensive) trial-and-error approach. 

In this episode, Ross walks you through what he wears for wilderness fly fishing trips in the summer and fall. 

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What do you need for a backcountry fly fishing trip? What should you carry? What should you leave behind? In this episode, Ross walks you through what he carries for day trips into the wilderness.

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In this episode, we define backcountry fly fishing, talk about difficulty ratings for various types of fishing, and walk through my "guiding principles" of backcountry fly fishing. 

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Who the heck is Ross Izard, and why should you listen to him talk about fly fishing? This episode is an introduction to yours truly. I share my personal background, talk about how I got into fly fishing, and explain how I developed into a wilderness junkie who spends his free time chasing trout in remote locations.

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This is the first-ever episode of The Backcountry Fly Fishing Podcast. Host Ross Izard lays out why the world needs a podcast dedicated to wilderness fly fishing and talks about where we go from here.

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