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Items once belonging to John Voelker, AKA Robert Traver, including books, a notepad, manuscript pages, a green pen, and a tin cup.

The Lower Squall

by Paul KennebeckHe remembered his father telling him this was an act of grace:…

Items once belonging to John Voelker, AKA Robert Traver, including books, a notepad, manuscript pages, a green pen, and a tin cup.

Pretending to Listen

by Paige Wallace“I promise to pretend to listen when you talk about fly…

Items once belonging to John Voelker, AKA Robert Traver, including books, a notepad, manuscript pages, a green pen, and a tin cup.

Solitude

by Mike ChalmersI was still in C Block—before they put me on death row—when I…

A watercolor of a girl standing at the edge of woodland pool, holding a rod straight up in the air, a fish clearly on the other end of the line. A man stands next to her.

Simon's Daughter

by Jody MartinI let the truck coast to a stop a couple of hundred yards uphill…

Blue Lines

by Alexander BenoîtThe first map I made was of my grandfather’s garden, which I…

The Best Fish I Ever Caught

by David Gray-CloughA question sometimes asked in our angling club, usually…

Grace Note

by Michael ThaneAlthough I had fished this tailwater for twenty-seven years, it…

The 2020 Traver Award Winners

The John D. Voelker Foundation and the American Museum of Fly…

The 2019 Traver Award Winners

Changing Flies by Rod Crossman. Oil (24 x 30 inches). From the…

The Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award

John Voelker at Frenchman’s Pond in 1980. From the collection of…