Joseph Monninger Quotes & Sayings

“I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange.”

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

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

“Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.”

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

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

“I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.”

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

“Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a stream, the odds are good that the waterway is in excellent condition.”

“I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.”