Paul Puckett
Paul
Puckett grew up in Dallas, Texas, and although he is an artist, he
will always be an angler first and foremost. He often talks
about his first memory of being out on the water; he was captivated
by the poetry of the line, the subtleness of the flies and the
action of the rod. He did not start painting until years
later, but despite the time lapse, his passion for painting quickly
emerged as the other central part of his life. By the time
Paul graduated high school, it was only logical that both passions
had combined to create the Art of Paul Puckett.
the fish, the fly, the hands, the fly rod and
whatever else the client desired. In a world of catch and
release fishing, these ‘fish portraits’ were the best alternative to
mounting the fish. When Paul graduated from
college he moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and there continued his
life as an angling artist.
Paul currently resides in 
recreating
people’s trophy catches from rivers all over the world. As
Paul states, “Catch and release paintings to me are so much more
than the actual fish. They reflect the feeling that comes with
catching your first rainbow on a fly rod; the rush that comes from
an Alaskan salmon burning line from your reel. When the client
sees these paintings s/he remembers the weather that day, the
coolness of the water, the way it felt when the fish finally sipped
the fly …. A catch and release painting is a way to capture the
memory, and everything extraordinary that goes along with it.”