Article: REBIRTH OF A RIVER MONTANA'S BLACKFOOT, ON ITS WAY BACK FROM SERIOUS DEGRADATION, IS FLY FISHER'S HEAVEN.(Sports)

Byline: Hugh Gardner Special to the Rocky Mountain News

MISSOULA, Mont. -- ``In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing,'' Norman Maclean wrote in A River Runs Through It. If so, the cathedral where they worshipped was the Big Blackfoot River.

To all who love fly fishing, the Blackfoot today is a holy shrine of classic pools, riffles and glides - and big wild trout - in a picture- postcard setting rich in wildlife and public access.

But the river was in desperate shape when Maclean died in 1990, some say of a broken heart. Spawning beds were suffocated in silt, adult trout poisoned with pollution. The big fish were ...

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