Dave Skok is a Boston-based fly tier, shore guide and casting instructor with nearly twenty years of fresh and saltwater fly fishing experience. He is a two-time winner of the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby and has held the IGFA 6-lb tippet record for Atlantic Bonito since 1994. His fly tying skills have received national recognition in several magazines and were highlighted in Bob Veverka's Innovative Saltwater Flies (Stackpole, 1999.) David's signature fly is the Mushmouth, a series of deadly and quick-to-tie saltwater baitfish imitations that have become extremely popular on the East Coast.

David can be reached at dwskok@msn.com