Making the fly fishing scenes in the film "A River Runs Through It" was like moving a mountain (using the most green techniques of the day) and then moving the mountain back again. It took a team of 15 people to make up the fly fishing unit alone which I headed up. The credit for the film goes to Robert Redford and Patrick Markey who produced it, and whom I reported to as the department head for the Fly Fishing unit (see
http://www.hook.tv/player.php?key=54a279cebbed38687275c2443fc35751). As it always is in Fly Fishing, being from a place like Los Angeles (even though I guided in Aspen for nearly a decade) meant that I had little street cred -- or river cred as it were. John Bailey was the local that I brought into our unit and being a Montana native, in particular, he got a lot of press for his involvement -- and we relied a lot on his input as well as others like Jerry Siem and my assistant at the time, Jason Borger (the latter two did most of the gorgeous casting). I did double for all three main characters on the water as well and came up with the idea for the final fishing scene.... To your point, in some ways I have become the "Bob Denver" of Fly Fishing, and my new TV series and this broadband website are ways to move out from the "shadow" that the movie cast over me. But then again, being associated with "Shadowcasting" (which I actually conceptualized as a Reverse Pendulum cast for the film) is not all bad (and you can buy my book "Shadowcasting" at
http://www.amazon.com/Shadowcasting-Introduction-Flyfishing-Gary-Hubbell/dp/1893740021/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254250281&sr=8-1). Who me? A shameless promoter? Thanks for sharing. And just because I cannot help myself be sure to check out the "
A River Runs Through It Channel" here on Hook.tv if you haven't yet (
http://www.hook.tv/flyfishing/channel/ARRTI)!!! JD
