Fly-Fishing in Missoula, Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It

"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing." That’s how Norman Maclean began "A River Runs Through It," his revered 1976 autobiographical novella about his life in Missoula, Mont., as the son of a Presbyterian minister and devout angler in the years before World War II.

On a Sunday morning in June, on the Big Blackfoot River, it was not hard to see how the Macleans came by their faith. Although the family’s home stream runs just outside of Missoula, a town of some 71,000, it remains remarkably unspoiled, tucked away from the surrounding hallmarks of civilization like a secret world.

By JON GLUCK

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