Informative Essay On Fishing

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If I could spend any of my time with a famous person it would definitely have to be Bill Dance. I chose Bill Dance because he is one that has made my fishing life easier and taught me many things on fishing as well. Bill Dance is someone almost any other fisherman would look up to. Bill knows anything and everything there is to know about bass fishing and more. I chose Bill because being able to fish with someone as skilled as he is would be a dream come true not only because he knows how to fish as well as anyone else, if not better, and he knows where to catch huge bass all over the world. Bill has traveled more places around the world than you could ever imagine going. He has caught so many big fish I would not be surprised if he held the record for almost every mouth of water he has fished in his past years.

I would give anything to fish with an honest and respectable man as Bill has been known to be. Bill is the kind of man who helps ones when they are in need of most help, such as helping them learn what to use for fishing at certain times of the year or where and the depth of
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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. Dance, 67, and his three-man camera crew may spend as much as four days fishing and filming to get the 25 minutes of edited footage necessary for each of his 26 shows each year. The half-hour programs are broadcast on NBC Sports and the original shows are then rerun year-round. Each episode features Dance catching fish and chatting all the while as he explains how he does it. He talks to the viewers, to himself, and even to the fish. All his catches are

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