Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (winston59) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:16:16 GMT

It's not the "Best", but I like it.

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (Hardy Guy) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:07:37 GMT

For some reason this Hunters catalog has always been a big favorite, even though i am a Salmon man and have several Salmon related magazine covers i could choose. I know this isn't a 'mag" but it's awesome, and just a very classy move on Hunters part.

Hardy Guy

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (Flyman615) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:06:09 GMT

I agree completely. Great covers and a great magazine--FFM during the Zahner years, that is.

I still have them all since Vol. 1 No. 1 and my plan is to re-savor each and every one after I retire. As a curmudgeon in training, all I can say is that today's FFM is too much "bling" and too high tech, IMO.

Great topic and comments!

Best,
Flyman

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (nativebrownie) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:00:44 GMT

Greendrake,

Great background on a great shot - I have heard Mr. Swope's name quite a bit. Interesting as my first day waving along rod was under the sponsorship of The Brothers of the Junglecock - about 12 years before the photo - at the Pond after the park boundary. Now, i recognize the pool in the shot - I believe.

NB

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (DT4F) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:46:23 GMT

This cover with Voelker on the cover inspired me to do this bronze sculpter of him sitting, smoking his Italian cigar and drinking bourbon out of an old tin cup out there.

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (Shoeless Joe) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:31:05 GMT

Armchair Angler wrote:
I wonder if, in the future, this cover will be viewed with the same reverence as the Robert Traver cover?

Perhaps it boils down to geography ... in this neck of the woods, some see the future as now

A personal favorite

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (Armchair Angler) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:18:24 GMT

I wonder if, in the future, this cover will be viewed with the same reverence as the Robert Traver cover?

You guys are right, all the words slathered over the picture really does disrupt the story the picture is telling. Can't imagine that the words help sell magazines. There's usually not more than two f.f. magazines to choose from on your typical news stand rack and...

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (rstrouts) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:33:58 GMT

I have around 27 years of FFman magazine dating back to 1972 (some years missing), of which three magazines have the covers above and I agree that Voelker's is one of the best covers of all. Many of the early FFman covers are worthy of such an acknowledgement.
I still do enjoy the articles. I'm now reading articles in the early years about the old stoneflies, inspired by my recent pteranarcys californica encounters of the gigundo kind.

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (baunvivant) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:17:26 GMT

I liked this one quite a bit even though its probably staged.

And going back a little further......

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (thegubster) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:06:12 GMT

greendrake ll wrote:
I was about 20 yards behind the photographer when that photo was taken.Irv Swope of Frederick,Md. was the photographer.Irv was well known for his photography and did the photo illustrations for books by Lefty Kreh and several other authors.We were members of the Potomac Valley Fly Fishermen and were on a club outing that day with about a dozen other members attendending also.The angler in the photo is...

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (lstshkr) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:14:49 GMT

I posted this one last year, I think, and it still is one of my favorite covers.

Dean

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (amazingwoody) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:53:12 GMT

Freestoner, I'm not sure of which bronze bust you refer to. When we renamed a small lake here in Ishpeming to Voelker Lake, we used the picture on page 43 of Anatomy of a Fisherman for the bronze tablet. Both pictures (pages 34 and 43) are the favorites of the family. There is also another taken of him, on a stream, in the early thirties that is my favorite. I should scan it and print it for the forum.
Woody

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (bswild) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:20:50 GMT

Yes, I miss those bygone years where there was an innocence and humility in the sport. Look at that picture of Voelker...it just sums up the whole aesthetic that is often missing in the way the sport is presently approached. And I loved reading those old articles in Fly Fisherman. I believe that those of us who love bamboo have the passion, in part, because we love the tradition--the solitude, beauty, adventure, discovery--that is often lost in the beadhead-and-indicator world in which we...

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (greendrake ll) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:48:23 GMT

I was about 20 yards behind the photographer when that photo was taken.Irv Swope of Frederick,Md. was the photographer.Irv was well known for his photography and did the photo illustrations for books by Lefty Kreh and several other authors.We were members of the Potomac Valley Fly Fishermen and were on a club outing that day with about a dozen other members attendending also.The angler in the photo is Raleigh Boaze Jr. who invented the latex bodied caddis nymph.The photo was shot in the fall...

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (tedgolden) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:08:55 GMT

Don Zahner was a truly wonderful gentleman. Leaving his job at 7up to start a magazine on a shoestring before it became fashionable took a lot of moxie. Gathering the best writers in the sport assured the success of his venture. After he sold the magazine and returned to St. Louis we fished together on several memorable occasions and such ventures are among my favorite memories. With a wonderful self effacing sense of humor and the ironic, Don made a hell of a martini. He did more...

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (gmflyfish) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:58:40 GMT

There is something to be said for the Don Zahner years. A differnet magazine. It started off in St. Louis. Anglish Spoken here and Nick Lyons to close. It did not get any better than that. Also the classic bamboo article - it put howells on the map.

Gregg

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (quashnet) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:39:56 GMT

It's a great photo, and not merely because Robert Traver appears to be equipped with a Paul Young rod. The photo is all about creating a mood, a feeling, an impression. The photo is only indirectly about fishing: there is no river, and no trout to be seen. We learn that being a fly fisher is more than casting a rod and catching a fish. Sometimes it's just about the fine art of sitting on a log, out in the woods. Just imagine this photo covered with all the promotional text that is...

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (Greg Reynolds) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:00:50 GMT

It gets my vote...

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (freestoner) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:24:49 GMT

I think someone around here used that photo as the inspiration for their cast brass sculpture of Mr. Voelker/Traver.

Re: best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (bobbeegee) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:29:17 GMT

That is a great photo of Mr. Voelker!

I like this one. Field and Stream, 1932 I believe. Posted from Gary Lacey's website.......hope you don't mind?
Anyone know where you can find this in poster form?

http://laceyflyrods.com/granger_home2.jpg

Bob

best magazine cover ever?

feeds@yuku.com (the abandoned brane) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:38:43 GMT

I think so. I've got this framed and hanging up in my office at work.