'Home Waters' connects fly-fishing with family: 'It brings out the best in people'

Home waters conjure up a specific place for a fly-fisher.

My home waters are the small brook trout streams in the mountains of the Shenandoah National Park. They are rivers by name — the Hughes, the Piney, the Rapidan, the Conway, the Thornton — but a world-class long jumper could clear bank to bank without a problem in most stretches.

"Home Waters" is the title of the new book by John N. Maclean, the son of Norman Maclean who wrote the classic fly fishing novella "A River Runs Through It," which was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt.

Maclean’s book isn’t a sequel or a follow-up to his dad’s story, a work of fiction combined with autobiographical details centered around the family’s history of fly-fishing the Blackfoot River in Montana and the murder of Norman’s brother, Paul.