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The American Fly Fisher Journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing Stories and Histories and Books Foster Bam Frederick S. Polhemus Dave Beveridge Roger Riccardi Peter Bowden Robert G. Scott Mark Comora Ronald B. Stuckey a good story? If so, and publishing, fishing and friendships, Ronald Gard Tyler S. Thompson you’re in luck—we’ve got several and history and generosity—are offered Gardner Grant Jr. Richard G. Tisch for you. up in “Speaking Volumes: The Sparse and D John Hadden Andrew Ward A year ago, we announced the rebirth the Nick Book.” You’ll find “Part I: ‘The of the Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Award. Sparse’” on page and “Part II: A Lyons Karen Kaplan Patricia Watson Created in by Nick Lyons and the Triptych” on page . Woods King III Thomas Weber Voelker Foundation to encourage and In , twelve affluent Philadelphia Walter T. Matia Frankie Wolfson recognize “distinguished original stories Jews—after being denied admission to Robert A. Oden Jr. James C. Woods or essays that embody the implicit love of numerous country clubs—purchased Annie Hollis Perkins Alan Zakon fly fishing, respect for the sport, and the acres in the Poconos and established their Leigh H. Perkins Nancy W. Zakon natural world in which it takes place,” the own club, the Brodheads Forest and award disappeared with the folding of Fly Stream Association. By the turn of the Rod & Reel magazine in . Thanks to century, the BFSA had accepted a number writer David Van Wie, whose Storied of non-Jewish members, and in , it Waters () road trip connected him accepted its first female member: Susan with both the museum and the Voelker Brozena. Fascinated with the history not James Hardman Foundation, a relationship was forged only of the club but of those who occu- James Heckman, MD between our organizations to get it going pied the property before them, Brozena David B. Ledlie again. In this issue we present the took it upon herself to write a book about Paul Schullery winner, “A Wet World That Burns” by it: A History of the Brodheads Forest and Jimmy Watts (page ). Two stories receiv- Stream Association, which reaches back to ing honorable mention can be read online before the time that William Penn settled (www.amff.org/traver-winners-), and Pennsylvania. Tom Wolf, a third-genera- a call for submissions for can be tion BFSA member, summarizes some of Karen Kaplan found on page . But hurry—the deadline this compelling story for us in “Brodheads: President is May . The History of a Storied Fishing Club” Of course, in an issue reinstating an (page ). Gardner Grant Jr. award he helped to create, it’s a thrill to In recent happy news, the museum Vice President/Treasurer include a story by Nick Lyons himself, as honored outdoorsman Flip Pallot with its Robert A. Oden Jr. well as one about Nick Lyons by a good Izaak Walton Award at the Ocean Reef Vice President friend of his. Club in Key Largo in February. Coverage Andrew Ward No doubt some of you already know, of the event can be found on page . Vice President perhaps from having read Lyons’s My Sadly, we lost a great friend when econo- Secret Fishing Life (), the story of “The mist Paul Volcker, our Heritage James C. Woods Sparse,” a one-of-a-kind leather-bound Award honoree, died last December. Joan Secretary book presented to Nick by Sparse Grey Salvato Wulff remembers him on page . Hackle. You may also have picked up a Each spring we take a moment to copy of Bob DeMott’s Astream: American thank everyone who helped us out during Writers on Fly Fishing (), which the previous calendar year with dona- DeMott dedicated to one of those writers: tions of money, resources, and time. Our Kathleen Achor Nick Lyons. Astream, thanks to Tony list of Museum Contributors begins Editor Lyons, also got an extremely limited on page . Sarah May Clarkson deluxe treatment. Today both unique vol- And now, let us tell you some stories. Copy Editor umes are held in the collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing. The K A Sara Wilcox stories of these books—stories of writing E Design & Production ’ Foster Bam and Sallie Baldwin Robert McGraw Dave Beveridge Johnny and Jeanie Morris Peter Bowden David and Margaret Nichols Mark Comora Leigh and Annie Hollis Perkins Gardner Grant Jr. Robert and Karen Scott Summerfield Johnston Ronald and Joan Stuckey Jill Joyce Marye and Richard G. Tisch Karen Kaplan Alan and Nancy Zakon Journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing Nick Dawes Janet Mavec and Wayne Nordberg Charles Patrick Durkin Jr. W. Bruce McNae The Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Tom Evans Tyler and Francis Thompson Award Winner: Alan and Linda Gnann Andrew and Elizabeth Ward A Wet World That Burns...................... John Hadden Patricia Watson Jimmy Watts Paul Tudor Jones Tom Weber Art and Martha Kaemmer Robert Wilson Wendy and Woods King III Tom Wolf The Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award: Beverly and Julia Landstreet Frankie Wolfson A Call for Submissions ....................... Speaking Volumes: The Sparse and the Nick Book ’ Part I: “The Sparse” ....................... Louis Bacon Walter and Pam Matia Nick Lyons Eugene Conroy Patrick McEvoy Part II: A Lyons Triptych .................... Anthony Davino Bradford and Pamela Mills Robert DeMott Alan Guarino Robert Oden Jr. James and Susan Heckman Jason and Shachar Scott In Memoriam: Paul Volcker ................... Ben Juergens Chris Smith Joan Salvato Wulff Anne Lovett and Steve Woodsum George Stark James Woods AMFF Honors Flip Pallot with the Izaak Walton Award .................. ’ Brodheads: The History of a Storied Fishing Club ..... Parker Corbin Woods King IV Thomas Wolf Bailey Hallingby Jason M. Scott Museum Contributors ...................... Museum News ........................... Sarah Foster Executive Director Contributors ............................ Yoshi Akiyama Deputy Director : Changing Flies by Rod Crossman. Oil ( x inches). Alex Ford From the collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing. Digital Marketing Coordinator Ava Freeman Collections Manager Clay Livingston Gallery Assistant The American Fly Fisher (ISSN -) is published four times a year by the museum at P.O. Box , Kelsey McBride Manchester, Vermont . Publication dates are winter, spring, summer, and fall. Membership dues include the Administrative Assistant cost of the journal () and are tax deductible as provided for by law. Membership rates are listed in the back of each issue. All letters, manuscripts, photographs, and materials intended for publication in the journal should be Samantha Pitcher sent to the museum. The museum and journal are not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, drawings, photo- Assistant Director of Development graphic material, or memorabilia. The museum cannot accept responsibility for statements and interpretations that are wholly the author’s. Unsolicited manuscripts cannot be returned unless postage is provided. Shane Quintana Contributions to The American Fly Fisher are to be considered gratuitous and the property of the museum unless Gallery Assistant otherwise requested by the contributor. Copyright © , The American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, Vermont . Original material appearing may not be reprinted without prior permission. Periodical postage Patricia Russell paid at Manchester, Vermont ; Manchester, Vermont ; and additional offices (USPS ). The Business Manager American Fly Fisher (ISSN -) : [email protected] : www.amff.org : Send address changes to: Sara Wilcox The American Fly Fisher Director of Visual Communication P.O. Box Manchester, Vermont A Wet World That Burns by Jimmy Watts Changing Flies by Rod Crossman. Oil ( x inches). From the collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing. The John D. Voelker Foundation and the American Museum of Fly Sometimes the water is cold and clear and falling down free- Fishing are pleased to present the Robert Traver Fly-Fishing stones, and sometimes it’s the boiling black water from a fire Writing Award to Jimmy Watts of Bellingham, Washington. This is hose cascading back down a dark stairwell with flames rolling his winning entry, which first appeared in the Summer issue overhead. The black water in the hose first fell from clouds over of the Drake. the Cascades. It flowed down the Cedar River and into the big city’s water mains before being pumped from the corner like this one I’ll collapse into bed, still hydrants. Oftentimes after leaving the firehouse I’ll fish this dressed and dirty and too tired to change. I smell of river that flows into our hydrants. Sometimes I fish it before Owoodsmoke and bamboo, and my long sleeves are and it becomes a river I stand in twice. soaked wet with creek water. Most of the time, these bedtime Sometimes, though, the river itself catches fire and evaporates stories of mine tell themselves. Nights often end this way after into the sky and I can never seemingly stand in it again. This is countless days saturated by water and fire, which together have such a story. Of course, the beginning of any story is arbitrary, held an elemental stay over my forty-one years. I’ve been weath- and tonight’s bedtime tale is no different. It picks up around the ered by them both, these two old gods, wrinkled and blistered time my two halves became acquainted, years ago, though I was and polished. In their joint custody, they raised me and brought then unaware that a storyboard was piecing itself together. It me up in a wet world that burns. begins when a creek back home caught fire, in Bellingham, For quite some time I’ve been a fireman in a big city and a Washington, and a young man is standing in it casting his fly rod. bamboo fly-rod maker in a small one. Two halves of one whole, His name is Liam Wood. His story is one we should all remem- and it is a life lived with both feet always in the water.

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