Paul Puckett was born in 1975 in Dallas, Texas. He was the son of a Chemistry teacher at Highland Park High School who also moonlighted as a musician and a student of the traditional musical art of Flamenco guitar. He was also influenced by is his mother, who passed on a different creative outlet through her passion for quilting and patchwork design. Some of his greatest memories and experiences came from spending his childhood summers in Tyler, Texas, fishing with his grandfathers on East Texas bass lakes thus changing his life forever.
Paul went on to study art at The University of North Texas while working in a Fly Shop in Dallas, Texas, called Westbank Anglers (Blue Drake Outfitters). There, he gained further knowledge of the Fly Fishing world. He went on to finish school in 2000 and moved to Jackson, Wyoming, for 4 years, where he soaked in some of the most beautiful scenery and trout that a 25-year-old could. During a brief time in Atlanta, Paul worked at The Fish Hawk and was determined to make art in the fishing world his life. Finally, moving to Charleston, South Carolina, where he currently makes his home, he is constantly pursuing the next creative challenge and gets distracted by the Low Country tides and tailing Redfish. Paul has been fortunate to fish all over the world with some of his good friends in places such as The Seychelles, Honduras, The Bahamas, Argentina, Cuba, Yucatan of Mexico and the greater US.
With his wife, Sara, daughter, Piper and their two furry kids, Norman and Willie Nelson, he doesn’t plan on going anywhere anytime soon.
