Contact Info
Email pmichaelcarl@yahoo.com
Phone (650) 726-7312
Philosophy
Early on, I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me how to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.
... The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.
The Longest Silence by Thomas McGuane
Who's Behind the Ecological Angler?
Michael Carl - an angler and self-taught biologist and ecologist. A dozen years of fly fishing around Northern California and the Western U.S., including:
- Blackfoot River, North Fork
- Carson River, East Fork - Hangman's Bridge & Below
- Carson River, East Fork - Carson Iceberg Wilderness Section
- Clavey River
- Clavey River -Headwater Trib
- Convict Creek
- Cottonwood Lakes
- Crowley Lake
- Deer Creek
- Eagle Lake
- Feather River, North Fork
- Golden Trout Creek
- Green River
- Hat Creek
- Heenan Lake
- Hot Creek
- Jones Hole Creek
- Kelly Creek
- Kern River - "Forks" Confluence of Little Kern River and the North Fork
- Kern River - Johnsondale Bridge to Rincon Trailhead
- Kern River - Heritage Trout Section
- Kern River - Upper South Fork
- Kings River - Lower Section
- Kings River - South Fork
- Kings River - Upstream of Pine Flat
- Kinney Lakes
- Klamath River
- Lake Alpine
- McCloud River
- McGee Creek
- Merced River - Below Yosemite N.P.
- Merced River - South Fork
- Merced River - Yosemite National Park
- Mill Creek, California
- Owens River, Upper and Lower
- Mokelumne River, North Fork below Salt Springs dam
- Pit River
- Rock Creek
- Rogue River, Middle
- Rogue River, Upper
- Sacramento River, Balls Ferry to Red Bluff
- Sacramento River, Redding
- Sacramento River, Upper
- Sagehen Creek
- Saint Joes River
- Salmon River, Middle Fork
- San Joaquin River, Middle Fork
- Smith River
- South Warner Wilderness
- Stanislaus River, Lower
- Stanislaus River, North Fork
- Trinity River
- Tule River
- Tuolumne River, Lyell Fork
- Uintas Small Stream
- Walker River, East Fork
- Williamson River
- Wood River
- Yuba River, Lower
- Yuba River, North Fork
Fly Fishing Articles
American Angler
Look for my feature article - Secrets of the Sierras 4 Classic Walk-In Trips appearing
in the May/June 2010 issue of American Angler.
You'll discover some terrific the wild trout fisheries of the Central Sierra Nevada.
Northwest Fly Fishing
I wrote a feature story for the January/February 2008 issue of Northwest Fly Fishing. The article covers the upper Merced River in Yosemite Valley flowing down through the Merced Canyon until it meets the South Fork of the Merced.
Another, shorter article I wrote appeared in the July/August 2007 issue of Northwest Fly Fishing. It's a piece about one of my favorite still-water destinations in the entire Sierra Nevada - Heenan Lake.
Southwest Fly Fishing
I contributed a story for the January/February 2009 issue of Southwest Fly Fishing focusing on the Wishon Fork of the Tule River of California.
Arising from the high granite slopes of Moses and Maggie mountains in the Golden Trout Wilderness, this segment of the Tule River flows south and then west through a portion of the former Sequoia National Forest ...
I contributed a feature story for the November/December 2008 issue of Southwest Fly Fishing focusing on the Kings River of California.
Broken down into two classic reaches: the lower Kings River below Pine Flat Dam, and the upper Kings River above Pine Flat Reservior.
It's ultimately a story of two different fisheries. Each reach impacted by vastly different management practices.
I wrote a feature story for the July/August 2007 issue of Southwest Fly Fishing. The article details a five day span spent angling for Kern River rainbow trout along the upper Kern River within the Golden Trout Wilderness.
References
- P. Moyle. 2002. Inland Fishes of California
- J. Voshell, Jr. 2002. A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrate of North America
- The Writing Workbench
