Contact Info

Email pmichaelcarl@yahoo.com

Phone (650) 726-7312

 

Freelance Work

Photography

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Altitude Network Logo

Water Education Foundation Logo

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Elkhorn Slough Foundation

Web Development The Endless Run

Writing American Angler Magazine

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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:

Fly Fishing Articles

American Angler

American Angler MagazineLook 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

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 Magazine Cover 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 ...

Southwest Fly Fishing Magazine Cover 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.

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