Bill Dance Outdoors Blog

I recently had the opportunity to spend a couple of days fishing with my good friend and Zebco/Quantum_VP of Marketing Bob Bagby. He was in town to shoot new commercials for 2008. One of these is hilarious and will bring you out of your chair, but I’m sworn to secrecy about it. You’ll have to wait until 2008 to see it.

When we were fishing and it was hotter than a jug of red ants. We bass fished one day and caught 59 by noon.  Bob had one 8 and one 7 in 107 degree heat!!!!! Ughhhhh!

The next day we catfished with my buddy James “Big Cat” Patterson on the mighty Mississippi river, and caught about 18 blue cats ranging up to 45 lbs. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Bob  who caught it…Ha ha! He did catch one about 25 lbs. though, and so this doesn’t sound so bad for him, let me tell you that he has caught a 63 pounder here fishing with us a couple of years ago.

Despite the heat, like I’ve always said,  this proves that the best time to go fishing is anytime  you can go.

I often receive requests for copies of our Bill Dance Outdoors theme song,  however we are forbidden by copyright and contract from distributing it in any way except when it is broadcast on our show. 

Why?

At one time, the original music in our theme was marketed by it’s writer/producer, David Muir, in a song called “Gone Fishing!” 

Our theme version, which includes the words “I’ve gone fishing with Bill Dance” was a shorter variation of David’s original piece which he performed and licensed to us to be used exclusively as the theme of Bill Dance Outdoors. 

Surprising to us, we have fulfilled several requests from funeral directors over the years who have been asked by family members to play our theme at the final services of loved ones who were ardent viewers of our show.

I can absolutely think of no greater compliment that anyone could pay me!