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Bill Vanderford
Bill Vanderford With a Rare Shoal Bass From the Chattahoochee River
Seminars
National Freshwater Hall of Fame Legendary Guide, Bill Vanderford will be available during the show. Bill will be giving seminars on The Proper Use of Spinning Tackle and Lures for Both Rivers and Lakes.
Bill Vanderford, who owns and operates Lake Lanier's First Guide Service and the Oldest Fishing Guide Service in Georgia, will pass along secrets he has learned in his more than 40 years on Lake Lanier and the Chattahoochee River about the use of Spinning Tackle and Unique Fishing Lures. These revelations will certainly make you a better angler during 2012 and the future!
Bio
Bill Vanderford has lived his dream, and now earns his living by fishing, writing, or traveling. He also talks, teaches, and writes about those
favorite subjects, including road racing, throughout the country.
After a successful auto racing career in Europe, Bill turned to professional bass tournament fishing and simultaneously started his guide service in 1971. Though he won many local tournaments and placed well in national events sponsored by BASS, BCA, and Project Sports, Inc., his love was the slower-paced pleasure of taking other people fishing. So, in 1977, he gave up competitive fishing to concentrate on his flourishing guide business. Since then, Bill has become a fishing legend in this area. In fact, during 1993, he was inducted into the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward, Wisconsin as a legendary guide... the first southerner to receive this honor.
Though Bill is recognized everywhere as "The Expert" on Lake Lanier, he has also become well-known as a writer and photographer. His writing career has flourished, and today, Bill is an award-winning member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA), the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association (SEOPA), the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), and the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association (GOWA). Bill's byline and photography has appeared in many well-known publications, including Field and Stream, Sports Afield, Bassin', North American Fisherman, In-Fisherman, many outdoor, travel, and online magazines, numerous newspapers, and he served many years as the Georgia Editor for Outdoor Life Magazine. In addition, he has recorded fishing segments for national and local radio and television shows, and for four decades he taught an adult education class on fishing for local community schools. Bill has also produced educational video tapes on many facets of fishing. Some of these still appear on his you tube site at: http://www.youtube.com/user/fishyracer
In Bill's books, "Secrets of Fishing Lake Lanier" and the latest, "The New Guide To Bank Fishing on Lake Lanier", one will learn the habits and habitats of the most popular fish found in Lake Lanier. Throughout, the reader will discover many of the tricks and tactics that Bill has employed during his more than thirty-five years of fishing and guiding on Lake Lanier, which makes him uniquely qualified as Lanier's Most Knowledgeable Expert.
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