David Blackburn Fly Fishing Archives

David Blackburn’s Kootenai Angler Montana

April 19, 2020April 17, 2020 by Jeff

It was a wild few days at home this week. The WorldCast Anglers online presentation I gave last week generated a ton of Cliff Fly Box art orders. Since Saturday afternoon I did 25 of them! Toss in my online Yellow Dog presentation, the usual projects like the blog, updates in social media and general … Read more

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I started fly fishing at age 7 in the lakes and ponds of New England cutting my teeth on various sunfish, bass, crappie and stocked trout. I went to Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where I graduated with a Naturalist Degree while I discovered new fishing opportunities for pike, muskellunge, walleyes and various salmonids found in Lake Superior and its tributaries.

From there I headed west to work a few years in the Yellowstone region to simply work as much as most people fish and fish as much as most people work. I did just that, only it lasted over 20 years working at the Jack Dennis Fly Shop in Jackson, WY where I departed in 2009. Now it’s time to work for "The Man", working for myself that is.

I pursue my love to paint fish, lecture on every aspect of fly fishing you can imagine and host a few trips to some of the most exotic places you can think of. My ultimate goal is to catch as many species of fish on fly possible from freshwater to saltwater, throughout the world. I presently have taken over 440 species from over 60 countries!