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1. JK | Dec 24, 2009 | Reply

   It was actually a mechanical fish… so no fish were harmed in the making of this movie. For years you could go to Seeley Lake, Montana to see the “fake fish” from the movie. I am not sure if it is still there.

   This is an excerpt from Montana Pioneer interviewing John Dietsch about his work with the movie,
   “….as it were, so that a major motion picture shot by a superstar like Redford might authen-tically convey the author’s vision to the entire world. That meant teaching actors how to credibly represent, in the fly fishing sense, the reality-based characters in Maclean’s book, and choreographing realistic fly fishing scenes, some of which, as it turned out, required the use of a mechanical fish.Dietsch was originally brought into the project as a consultant to help Redford with various aspects of fly fishing depicted in the screenplay.”

   http://www.mtpioneer.com/2009-August-cover-river.html

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