Maclean wrote that in the 1920s his father bought some early Bunyan Bugs tied by Paul Bunyan (born Norman Edward Lee Means in West Virginia in 1899). In the chapter 4, “The River of the Road to the Buffalo.” Maclean wrote this sentence as lead-in to the Bunyan Bug: “The most acclaimed fisher of the river in those days was an eccentric song-and-dance man, rod builder and fly tier who called himself Paul Bunyan and who on occasion hopped around Missoula on a pogo stick.” That may be the only sentence to include both “pogo stick” and “fly tier.” Take Maclean writing of the Bunyan Bug, a fly rugged enough to handle rushing big waters. Those historical details reminded me of Herman Melville recounting whaling minutiae in “Moby Dick.” Credit: John Maclean’s personal collectionīut Maclean takes a different tack than his father and writes more of a history with details of the Blackfoot and other Montana rivers, characters and fly fishing, as well as family facts.
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