"wolfagain" wrote in message
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Though I really doubt Brad Pitt could throw a line 65-70 feet! Not
with the fly lines of the day. Rods used were bamboo; correct. Line
was was brown-yellow also accurate. Fish were Rainbows; accurate. No
salmon in Montana!

Brad couldn't, but he had experienced stand-ins, actually three,
Jerry Siem, Jason Borger and John Dietsch. In the scene where Pitt
is casting 65-70 ft., the rod was a modern made to look like bamboo,
and the line was also modern. The final fish scene was a mechanical fish.
You can read more about it in "Casting a Spell" by George Black,
under the chapter Brad Pitt's Waders.

"He called it Shadow Casting, keeping his line above water long enough
and low enough to make a rainbow rise".
I'm not sure if the Shadow Cast was an actual cast.
Borger had to combine three different cast, the galway, the pendulum,
and the climbing hook to fit the description Norman Maclean used in
novel describing the cast.
"Then I realized that in the time I was away, my brother had become an
artist".
I thought it was a great movie, but I enjoyed the novel even more.
-tom