This movie is a life i lived. I spent years teaching tying, casting, and fly fishing to so many wounded military/veterans that this point of the movie really hits in my soul. "Mending the Line" is a great movie. I have to thank Chuck Tye who kept me into this. It almost never happened if he wouldn't have showed up to Madigan. I have so many friends and family for living this movie.
This part of the movie is so true. I just wish I could find the scene literally seconds after this one. So I added that plus last part they didn't add.
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Ike) Wet your hands.
And now we let him go.
Colter)What?
I)We let him go.
C)Are you serious?
I)Yeah.
Thank you.
C)Why don’t you keep the fish?
Isn’t that the point?
I)Is it?
C)Isn’t it?
I)Ah, there are lots of reasons:
Conservation, management.
But frankly, I decided a long time ago I was done killing.
C)Does it ever get any easier?
I)Nope.
Alcohol helps, for a time.
But this…
This is the place for me.
Here is where I come…
when all else fails.
If the river gods ever created a perfect spot, this is it.
I call it Bear’s Run.
Bear’s Run.
C)What do they call where I fished?
I)The kiddie pool.
