Mikey Wier

Mike E. Wier (Mikey) was born on the South Island of New Zealand and moved to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada at age 2. By age 7, Mikey discovered his two favorite sports, skateboarding and fly fishing. When Mikey wasn’t trying to jump off of something on a skateboard, he spent much of his childhood chasing around bass and trout in the Hwy 88 region of Amador County. Growing up in one of the most rural settings California had to offer led Mikey to a deeper appreciation for Nature and a life-long passion for the outdoors, wildlife and conservation of our last remaining wild places.

Mikey moved to Lake Tahoe in 1996 to pursue his other passion in life, snowboarding. He got a job in the Snowboard Park at Kirkwood Ski Resort and began designing jumps and maintaining the features. By his second year in Tahoe, he had a sponsorship deal and began competing. Within another year, he went pro and landed sponsorship deals with some of the best companies in the industry. He spent a good deal of his seasons riding for videos and doing shoots for magazines, as well as traveling around competing, doing product demos and working events.

In the summers, Mikey maintained a close connection to his old friend, fly-fishing. He started out as a shop employee with the Tahoe Fly Fishing Outfitters his first summer in Tahoe. By his second season, he had worked his way up to guiding full time and sharing his passion with others. Fly fishing became a great source of pleasure and relaxation and a good way to stay outdoors and connected with the rivers throughout the summer. Over the years, Mikey also developed interests in painting, surfing, traveling and environmental activism.

In addition to guiding and snowboarding, Mikey started and runs Burl Productions. Burl fuses the ski/surf style of video making with the blossoming sport of fly-fishing and environmental awareness. Burl Productions is the first fishing-oriented production to bring non-instructional fishing highlights and entertainment-based videos to the market. Their first release was FISH EYE Fly Fishing Video Magazine in 2001. They then filmed and released FISH EYE 2 the next season. In 2003, Mikey traveled to South America with a couple of up-and-coming fly fisherman from the North West and filmed the first Trout Bum Diaries. In 2006, Burl embarked on a set of trips around the globe to film the ultimate fly-fishing adventure video. They filmed in Mongolia, Brazil, Christmas Island, Belize, Utah, California, Louisiana and the Florida Keys, with some of the most talented anglers on the planet, in search of the "soul of fly-fishing." The result was SOULFISH, which has been dubbed fly fishing's answer to the Bruce Brown surf classic, The Endless Summer. With Mikey still in charge, Burl Productions continues to pride itself on producing the most exciting fishing, conservation and lifestyle videos available today.

For more information about Mikey or some of his latest projects, check out: www.fisheyevideos.com and www.burlproductions.com.

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