Mending the Line (2014)

Tough as nails gentle as a poet and determined as a badger 90yearold Frank Moore has always loved to fly fish Back in 1944 he landed with 150000 other troops on the beaches of Normandy France for the DDay invasion Despite the war around him he couldnt help but notice the fishing potential of the rivers he and his fellow troops crossed as they made their way into France Seventy years later reflecting on his life Moore is compelled to return to Normandy this time armed not with a gun but with fly rod and reel Wallers inspirational film follows Moore on his arduous physical and emotional journey from home on the North Umpqua River where for years he has fished and tended the famed Steamboat Inn to the battlefields of his youth