![]() ![]() ![]() I also witnessed it a few weeks ago while helping a new fly fisher with his casting. “Until a man is redeemed he will always take a fly rod too far back, just as natural man always overswings with an ax or golf club and loses all his power somewhere in the air.”īeen there, done that. Maclean and how he would have frowned on this. The funny thing is, I was looking at high-end Orvis rods in a fly shop a few weeks ago, and the clerk (obviously a newbie) said, “Those are some really pricey poles you looking at.” I bit my tongue, but thought of the Rev. ![]() If someone called it a pole, my father looked at him as a sergeant in the United States Marines would look at a recruit who had just called a rifle a gun.” Here are a few of my favorites, along with my musings about them. There are, of course, several other lines worth pondering. “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.” Both the first and last lines are classic. The first paragraph captivated me, and I found that the book touched me deeply. Guthrie, and other Montana authors would have to wait. The movie had not yet popularized the novella, but a friend had recommended “A River Runs Through It.” So I picked up a copy. I was browsing in a little bookstore in Last Chance Gulch, looking for the next Montana author to read. In 1987, shortly after I moved to Helena, Montana, I bought a copy of “A River Runs Through It” by Norman Maclean. ![]()
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