Contact Info
Email pmichaelcarl@yahoo.com
Phone (650) 726-7312
Freelance Work
Web Development The Endless Run
Writing
Article published in the July/August 2007 issue of Southwest Fly Fishing
and
Short article published in the July/August 2007 issue of Northwest Fly Fishing.
I wrote a feature story for the January/February 2008 issue covering the upper
Merced River in Yosemite Valley flowing down through
the Merced Canyon until it meets the South Fork of the Merced.
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:
- Carson River, East Fork - Hangman's Bridge & Below
- Carson River, East Fork - Carson Iceberg Wilderness Section
- Clavey River
- Convict Creek
- Cottonwood Lakes
- Crowley Lake
- Eagle Lake
- Feather River, North Fork
- Hat Creek
- Heenan Lake
- Hot Creek
- Kern River - Johnsondale Bridge & Below
- Kern River - Heritage Trout Section
- Kings River - Lower Section
- Kings River - Upstream of Pine Flat
- Kinney Lakes
- Klamath River
- Lake Alpine
- McCloud River
- McGee Creek
- Merced River - Below Yosemite N.P.
- Merced River - Yosemite National Park
- 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, Lower
- Sacramento River, Upper
- Saint Joes River
- Salmon River, Middle Fork
- San Joaquin River
- Smith River
- Stanislaus River, Lower
- Stanislaus River, North Fork
- Trinity River
- Tule River
- Walker River, East Fork
- Williamson River
- Wood River
- Yuba River, Lower
- Yuba River, North Fork
California Heritage Trout Challenge Certificate
Fly Fishing Articles
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 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
