Joseph Monninger

“...These stars will be gone one day for you. They will be for me, too. The Raven promises me I will turn…

— Joseph Monninger

I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better…

— Joseph Monninger

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

— Joseph Monninger

Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown…

— Joseph Monninger

I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go…

— Joseph Monninger

Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies…

— Joseph Monninger

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

— Joseph Monninger

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

— Joseph Monninger

“We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.”

— Joseph Monninger

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

— Joseph Monninger

“...'My father called me an enthusiast. I am enthusiastic about things. A lot of things.' - Mary”

— Joseph Monninger

I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is…

— Joseph Monninger

I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the…

— Joseph Monninger

“In a universe, on a continent, in a country, in a state, in a county, on a river, in a small yellow…

— Joseph Monninger

I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but…

— Joseph Monninger

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and…

— Joseph Monninger

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

— Joseph Monninger

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place,…

— Joseph Monninger

I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera…

— Joseph Monninger