Joseph Monninger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.
-- Joseph Monninger

#Fishing
I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself
-- Joseph Monninger

#Lakes #Sea #Fishing
I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable to the fish at hand. Even the best fishermen catch fish only a small percentage of the time, which means we persevere in a sport that features failure as its main ingredient. Truly great days, when the fish hammer the fly as soon as it lands on the water are rare.
-- Joseph Monninger

#Sports #Mean #Makeup
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
-- Joseph Monninger

#Swim #Trout #Doe
As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.
-- Joseph Monninger

#Community #Would Be #Moved
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.
-- Joseph Monninger

#Reading #Fishing #Hiking
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.
-- Joseph Monninger

#Beautiful #Rivers #Bakers
I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!
-- Joseph Monninger

#Believe #Moving #Wife

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.
I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.
Ill paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.
My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.

Joseph Monninger famous quotes

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