financially secure from his writing, voelker resigned from the michigan supreme court, telling governor williams, "other people can write my opinions, but none can write my books. i have learned that i can't do both so regretfully i must quit the court." he continued writing, publishing several books on fishing or legal themes. the first was "trout madness" in 1960, followed by the political drama "hornstein's boy" in 1961. he returned to fishing with "anatomy of a fisherman" in 1964, a picture book that included the soliloquy "testament of a fisherman", which to a vast number of trout anglers, voelker's piece best exemplifies the love of this sport. voelker continued to write about fishing or the courtroom through 1960s and 1970s. he authored a column called "the traver treatment" in the "detroit news sunday magazine" in 1967-68. his last book was "people versus kirk" in 1981, and the last short story of his that was published was titled "dangling angling genes" and appeared in the may–june 1990 issue of "rod & reel" magazine. several of his fishing books were anthologies of short stories he had written, some of which had already been printed in magazines like "field & stream".