Clay dyer speaking schedule

For nearly two decades, Mercury Marine Pro Clay Dyer has been a professional bass fisherman.

Clay dyer video fishing Clay Dyer, a professional fisherman and motivational speaker who overcame physical limitations, will speak at the annual Greater Gardendale Chamber of Commerce Banquet Jan. Tools Tools. He is sponsored by O. Clay Dyer.

His dedication and love for the water isn’t unlike his peers, but what is unlike his peers is what sets Dyer apart from anyone else on the water.

“I was born without any lower limbs, no arm on the left side and a partial arm on the right,” said Dyer. “My whole life I’ve been told what I can’t do, but I’m here to tell you what I can do.”

What Dyer can do is fish.

Growing up in the small town of Hamilton, Alabama, Dyer has always been attracted to the outdoors. It was at his grandfather’s farm where he developed a passion for fishing. Not only did he find something that he loved, but he found something that he wanted to make a career out of.

Clay dyer biography Clay currently fishing the Bassmaster Southern Open series. That year, he took all the money he had and competed in the Alabama state championship bass tournament. He made a profession of faith that night and has never looked back. While he loves fishing, he says it's more important to know he is in the center of God's will for his life.

He became a professional angler in and fished in the “major leagues” on the FLW Tour for four years. Today, Dyer is sponsored by Mercury Marine and currently fishes the Bassmaster Open Series.

“The first time I told him he couldn’t do something, he proved me wrong,” said Kim Dyer, Clay’s wife of three years. “He is bigger than that wheelchair.”

“I’ve always wanted to be a professional athlete,” Dyer said.

“I got my first boat at 14 and never looked back.”

Dyer says he is constantly driven to prove people wrong.

Clay dyer youtube Clay currently fishing the Bassmaster Southern Open series. He talks at leadership presentations, charities and churches. He's had 25 first-place finishes and another to top finishes during his career — quite an accomplishment for a guy who ties lures many times each day using only his lips and tongue. Dyer started fishing for catfish and bream at age 5 and began fishing in tournaments at about

When he’s not fishing, he’s coaching. During football season, you’ll find Dyer on the sidelines at Hamilton High School in Alabama where he serves as the team’s special teams coach.

When someone asks how he does what he does, it takes only a matter of seconds to understand that it’s not about the “how,” it’s about the “why.”

“As much as I want to win on the tournament trail and break records, to me, when you help others and help the world be a better place, that’s what life is all about,” Dyer said.

So how does he do what he does?

For Dyer, it’s pretty simple actually.

“I wedge my fishing rod between my neck and shoulder,” said Dyer. “Once I cast the line, it’s just fishing, like anyone else. I don’t look at it as if I’m handicapped, I look at it as if you have faith and you believe, you can accomplish anything.”

That faith Dyer has on the water is because he has partners around him who are reliable and dependable.

That means his boat and engine must be on-point.

“Competing at a level, I wanted something that I could believe in and depend on,” Dyer said. “Not only that, but in my 19 years of fishing, I’ve always said I’ve wanted my partners to believe in my vision to make the world a better place.

Clay dyer testimony By 15 years old, he was competing in fishing tournaments, and in he became a professional angler. One question Dyer often gets asked is whether he was ever angry at God for the body he was given. He casts by tucking the rod under his jaw and whipping it around with a quick left-to-right twist. He also is a volunteer athletic coach at Hamilton High School in Alabama.

Mercury has always been that company.”

Turning what many call disadvantages into advantages, or disabilities into abilities, Dyer has shown the world that no obstacle is too big to prevent him from doing what he loves and preaching his mission, “If I can, you can.”