I think he might be talking about Elkhorn Creek (which flows into Willow Creek, and from there the Missouri) just north of the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness Area, but I could be mistaken. To be honest, I don’t know what he’s referring to. Courtesy: Įlkhorn River-Norman describes at length a day of fishing on the Elkhorn River with his brother and brother-in-law.

He spends most of his time at the bar of the Montana Cub, the oldest still operating private club west of the Mississippi. Helena-Norman’s brother Paul works a news report in Helena. Seven miles north, the fishing mecca of Craig celebrates the opening of fishing season with the annual Craig Caddis Festival. The little town is an extremely popular basecamp for people hoping to fish the Missouri. Wolf Creek-In 1937, when the story takes place, Norman lives in Wolf Creek, near his wife’s family. If you love fishing (even if you’re terrible) and love A River Runs through It, then you’ll love this list A River Runs through It’s Southwest Montana places: I much prefer spending my time tramping through the willows, falling into creeks and eating sandwiches to perfecting a cast that achieves the perfect unity of theology and art, but that’s just me. Unfortunately, my outdoorsmanship evokes more Patrick MacManus (who once said his casting technique has “the exact same motions as those of an old lady fighting off a bee with a broom handle”) than Maclean. Whenever I read A River Runs through It, I get the urge to scurry into the woods and maybe try my hand at fly-fishing. So it only makes sense that I would write another post about the greatest of fishing books: A River Runs through It. Southwest Montana’s creeks and streams open for general fishing this Saturday, May 17th.

The book a river runs through it