Contact Info

Email pmichaelcarl@yahoo.com

Phone (650) 726-7312

 

Freelance Work

Web Development The Endless Run

Writing Southwest Fly Fishing logo Article published in the July/August 2007 issue of Southwest Fly Fishing

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Northwest Fly Fishing logo 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?

The wading boots 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:

California Heritage Trout Challenge Certificate

California Heritage Trout Challenge Certificate

Fly Fishing Articles

Northwest Fly Fishing

Northwest Fly Fishing Article featuring the Wild & Scenic Merced River

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.

Northwest Fly Fishing Magazine Cover 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

Southwest Fly Fishing Article featuring Golden Trout Wilderness and Kern River Rainbow

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