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In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. we lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western montana, and our father was a presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. he told us about christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and i did, that all first-class fishermen on the sea of galilee were fly fishermen and that john, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

-Norman Maclean

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In Our Family, There Was No Clear

Norman Maclean

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. we lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western montana, and our father was a presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. he told us about christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and i did, that all first-class fishermen on the sea of galilee were fly fishermen and that john, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

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He told us about christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the sea of galilee were fly fisherman and that john, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

The sea of galilee and the dead sea are made of the same water. it flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of herman and the roots of the cedars of lebanon. the sea of galilee makes beauty of it, the sea of galilee has an outlet. it gets to give. it gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the jordan plain. but the dead sea with the same water makes horror. for the dead sea has no outlet. it gets to keep.

Such a nice day - out all day up in the carter notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. it was a lovely brook and i caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. it was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

Christ be with me, christ within me, christ behind me, christ before me, christ beside me, christ to win me, christ to comfort me and restore me, christ beneath me, christ above me, christ in quiet, christ in danger, christ in hearts of all that love me, christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

Of course, now i am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course i usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think i shouldn't. like many fly fishermen in western montana where the summer days are almost arctic in length, i often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. then in the arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the big blackfoot river and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.

There is definitely global warming, and man is definitely contributing to it. go out to, say, montana and talk to some pretty conservative people, hunters and fishermen. they know that in the trout stream they fished when they were growing up, the trout are stressed because the water temperature is going up. they know the hunting season has been delayed because the snows are coming later, and therefore the elk aren't coming down from the mountains.

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