Bill Dance Outdoors

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. Read more

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.' Read Less