No one can blame Clay Dyer if he has some trouble remembering what town he’s in or what time it is.

Dyer competed last week in an FLW Series bass tournament on Florida’s Lake Okeechobe, which is in the Eastern time zone. After a brief stopover at his Hamilton home, in the Central time zone, Dyer boarded an airliner and flew to Glendale, Ariz., which is in the Mountain time zone, to participate in pregame festivities for the Super Bowl.

He’ll return to Hamilton next week, speak at Killen United Methodist Church on Feb. 17, and then return to Florida for an FLW Tour bass tournament on Lake Toho that begins Feb. 26.

“It’s going wide open, and I’m going in a hundred different directions,” Dyer said in a telephone interview while traveling down Interstate 65 to the Birmingham airport for his flight to Arizona.

“We’re busy, but life is great and God is great,” said the deeply religious fisherman.

While at the Super Bowl, Dyer, who is national spokesman for the C.A.S.T. for Kids Foundation, is helping with pregame activities that encourage children to discover the outdoors. He also is promoting a new book about his life, “The View From Down Here is Just Fine.”

Dyer, 29, who was born without legs, a left arm and a portion of his right arm, is only 40 inches tall. He does not let his physical limitations get in the way of living his dream of being a professional angler. He drives his bass boat, ties lures to his fishing line using his lips and tongue and casts bait casting reels with ease.

“Clay is a true inspiration to everyone who meets him,” said Dyer’s sports agent, Elvin Smith, of Dallas. “He travels like crazy and works all the time, which is a testament to his stamina.”

During today’s activities at the Super Bowl, Smith and Dyer will spend two hours teaching children with disabilities how to fish and encouraging them to pursue their dreams.

Smith said a large trout tank has been erected in an outdoors expo at the Super Bowl. He said numerous government agencies have displays at the expo that encourage Super Bowl fans to explore the outdoors.

Dyer has been helping at the expo since Thursday and will work until game time Sunday, meeting fans who stop by before entering the stadium.

Dyer doesn’t mind the long hours spent in airplanes and on the road traveling back and forth across the country competing in bass tournaments, giving motivational speeches and working for his sponsors.

“I love meeting people and helping influence them to possibly make life-changing decisions,” Dyer said. “I feed off of that. It’s what keeps me going.”

Dyer’s motto for life is, “If I can, you can.”

As a child, Dyer played football, baseball and other sports. He began fishing when he was five and started competing in bass tournaments at 15. Dyer became a professional angler in 1995.

Dyer has fished in more than 200 tournaments, winning 20 state level competitions. His goal is to win either an FLW Series or FLW Tour event.

He said when God is ready for him to win a major tournament, he will.

“It’s all in God’s hands,” he said. “I just have to go out there every tournament and work just as hard as I can and when I get the opportunity to win one, I have to knock it out of the park.”

Dyer attributes his success to God.

“God made this happen,” he said. “If you had told me 12 years ago it would happen this quick, I would have told you I hope so, but I doubt it will.”

Dennis Sherer can be reached at 740-5746 or dennis.sherer@timesdaily.com.