Staff and Guides
Steve Atocha
Steve is the owner of Middlebury Mountaineer and founder of Green Mountain Adventures. Steve is a father, paddle instructor, and fly fishing guide. He spends his free time hiking for fishing holes or backcountry skiing on the Lincoln Gap.
Marion Atocha
Marion is the co-owner and clothing buyer for Green Mountain Adventures. She divides her time between the shop and working as a nurse. An avid hiker, swimmer and nordic skier, Marion’s real passion is raising her three boys and working on her family farm.
Dave Konopke
I grew up in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, moving to Vermont in 1998. Soon finding the fishing to be excellent, I began to devote many hours to exploring local waters primarily for trout, but also bass and pike and other species. I really enjoy the places that chasing fish take me and always find something to learn on the slow and/or hard days. When not guiding or doing some personal fishing or tying flies, I work as a carpenter.
Min Brown
Min grew up fishing in the Middlebury area and just recently moved back to VT with his family. The local otter creek tributaries are his home away from home and more often than not he’ll be somewhere on the water.
Brewer Atocha
Brewer is a Junior at Carleton College in MN. In his free time he enjoys reading, hiking, playing pond hockey, golfing, mountain biking and skiing. Brewer currently works as the shop manager and guide for our kids summer adventure programs.
Craig MacDerment
Craig grew up in New York and found his passion for fly fishing when moving to the Green Mountain State after college. Craig is a full time teacher and also coaches lacrosse. When off the water his time is spent tying flies or planning the next fishing trip.
Abel Atocha
Abel works in the shop and keeps the day to day running smoothly. He enjoys running, road biking, hunting, hiking, playing football, nordic skiing, and being an academic weapon in his free time.
Evan Collins
Evan was born in Vermont and learned to fly fish from a guided trip through GMA and been addicted ever since. He loves all types of fly fishing from tight lining for trout to throwing big flys to pike and musky. His days off are spent behind the oars of his raft in search of his next adventure.
Lorenzo Atocha
Loren-T is a beast!
Jake Leamon
Jake is a local to Vermont who grew up exploring and fishing the green mountains. He’s a freshman at Middlebury College and an avid fly angler who also enjoys camping and canoeing.