Michael Carl is a lifelong angler as well as a freelance writer and photographer. As a native Californian who has lived in the Sierras, the Central Valley, and on the Coast, he's fished most of California's rivers and caught all the state's unique species of trout. His writing and photography have been published in American Angler, Bay Nature, Earth Island Journal, Fly Fisherman, Northwest Fly Fishing, Outdoor Life, Salmon & Steelhead Journal, Salon, Smithsonian Ocean Portal, Southwest Fly Fishing, and TROUT. He lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Debbie and a coonhound named Walker.