Dave Clark, Vice President
Hi, I am Dave Clark, Vice President and Membership Chairman of Boulder Flycasters. I am recently retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after 36 years with the Federal Government, including 5 years with the US Naval Oceanographic Office as a Marine Geophysicist and 31 years with the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder as Assistant Director. I am currently a visiting scientist with NGDC and am involved with establishing a World Data System for a major international scientific organization. I have been married to Marian Clark (who also is retired, fly fishes and has a passion for Middle Eastern dance) for 34 years and we have a daughter.
Fishing has been a way of life for me for over 50 years. My first experience was fishing for bluegills with bread and a bobber and soon graduated to fishing with my Dad on his boat on the Chesapeake Bay. We fished for Hardheads (Atlantic Croaker), Sea Trout (Speckled Trout) and Rock fish (Striped Bass). I graduated to serious fresh water fishing for Largemouth Bass during my elementary, junior and high school days. While at college at the University of Maryland, I got my first fly rod and began searching the foothills of the Appalachians for trout streams. My fly fishing began in earnest when I moved to Colorado, but I have only gotten serious about it in the last 7 years.
Besides fishing, working with Boulder Flycasters and Colorado Trout Unlimited, I like reading (especially cosmology, quantum mechanics and string theory), camping, traveling (international especially) and taking road trips around the good old US. I have also been known to play a computer game once and awhile.