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AT News: Film Has Changed Fly Fishing

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Mar 25, 2026
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Film Has Changed Fly Fishing

I am a magazine editor and writer by trade, so I admit to having a bias for the written word. As such, I’d posit that, as good as you might think the movie A River Runs Through It was/is (and I think it was/is a truly great picture), it isn’t nearly as good as the novella itself.

Don’t get me wrong. I think Robert Redford did …

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