Meet+Bill+Dance

Bill Dance is a proffesional fisherman and he is my real-world expert.

Here are some questions i asked Bill:

Question: So Bill, who influenced you and taught you how to fish?

Answer: My Grandfather taught me how to fish when I learned how to walk.

Question: Do you have any lucky piece of clothes or something you take whenever you go fishing?

Answer: Yes I do, I always wear my orange and white University of Tennessee cap. In about every show and picture of me, I'm wearing that hat. I've been wearing it for about 40 years!

Other information about Bill:

Bill Dance, one of the world’s most famous fishermen, always planned to be a doctor like his father, grandfather and three other generations of Dances. Then, driving home one night while enrolled in medical school in Memphis, Tenn., in the early 1960s, he came upon a horrific motorcycle crash. The grisly encounter changed his life. “I was the first person on the scene,” Dance recalls. “It was very traumatic and it affected me deeply. At that moment I knew I didn’t want to be a doctor anymore.” What did he want to be? “Well,” says Dance in his down-home Southern drawl, “I’d always loved to fish.” And fish he did. He began competing—and winning—in bass tournaments and landed a lure manufacturer for a sponsor. The sponsor encouraged Dance to start a TV show to help promote the product. Bill Dance Outdoors premiered on a Memphis ABC affiliate in 1968 and has been growing in popularity ever since. Today the show is televised nationwide and its host has achieved celebrity status among the nation’s 45 million anglers.