March 2, 2013 Special Appearance - Bill Dance Special Appearance march 6 from 2pm - 6pm. Join us and visit with this fishing legend and TV show fishing celebrity Bill Dance during our Spring Fishing Classic Event. Autographs, pictures and our brand new line of Bill Dance aparrel & fishing gear will be available. 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 grizzly 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.