I think so. I've got this framed and hanging up in my office at work.
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Posts: 319 07/04/2008 07:32 |
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Posts: 1778 07/04/2008 08:29 |
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 |
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Posts: 489 07/04/2008 12:24 |
I think someone around here used that photo as the inspiration for their cast brass sculpture of Mr. Voelker/Traver.
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Posts: 1739 07/04/2008 15:00 Orvis Database Founder |
It gets my vote...
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Posts: 2037 07/05/2008 03:39 Moderatus Muscae |
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 splashed across today's typical magazine cover. It's unthinkable.
Here's another Fly Fisherman cover from 1977. After marveling at the opalescent quality of the leaves and the juxtaposition of the tiny, bright trickle of water against the huge pile of rocks, you finally notice that in this picture someone is actually trying to catch a fish. Will it be a six-inch trout, the leviathan of the pool, or only a four-incher? The question is meaningless; the answer doesn't matter at all. 
Quashnet's Paul H. Young Rod Database has photos and descriptions of 290 PHY Co. rods, plus catalogs, accessories,
etc. Thank you to all who continue to send me PHY rod photos and info.
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Posts: 1048 07/05/2008 08:58 |
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.
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Posts: 2539 07/05/2008 10:08 Moderator |
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 for popularizing sport than just about anyone I can think of.
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Posts: 770 07/05/2008 10:48 |
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 of 1976 on Big Hunting Creek in Thurmont,Md.Jimmy Carter fished this stream on many occassions when he stayed at the Presidential
retreat,Camp David,which was about a 10 minute drive away.Other notables that wet a line on this stream on more than one occassion were Pres.Eisenhower,Lefty
Kreh,Joe Brooks(there is a monument to Brooks on this stream for his part in starting The International Brotherhood of the Junglecock,an organisation that
teaches kids to fish) among others.Thanks for posting that photo and all the memories that it caused to come flooding back from my younger days(I was 28 when
that photo was taken,60 now)! Will
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Posts: 328 07/05/2008 14:20 |
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 presently fish. Confession: I've been known to tie on a beadhead now and then. So, please, no Bronx cheers from
the peanut gallery!
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Posts: 162 07/07/2008 07:53 |
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.
"Far from being able to tie a fly, I can barely unzip one." John Voelker
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Posts: 163 07/07/2008 20:14 |
I posted this one last year, I think, and it still is one of my favorite covers.
Dean
"I used to be clueless, but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees."
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Posts: 1311 07/09/2008 08:06 |
greendrake ll wrote: Wow, that was really cool to read! (It made me go back. I was 26, never to touch a fly rod until 22 yrs later. I missed much ...and never knew it. Still feeling lucky!) Jeremy. |
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Posts: 144 07/10/2008 01:17 |
I liked this one quite a bit even though its probably staged. 
And going back a little further......
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Posts: 34 07/10/2008 01:33 |
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.
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Similar figure in a similar setting | #15 | ||
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Posts: 74 07/10/2008 20:18 |
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 how long does it take to read the
contents to decide?
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Posts: 813 07/12/2008 21:31 Moderator |
Armchair Angler wrote: Perhaps it boils down to geography ... in this neck of the woods, some see the future as now
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