Bill was born the fifth of six children to Alvin and Florence Spicer on the tenth of August 1952 in Hamilton Ontario Canada. Bill is married to his best friend Kathi and has one daughter named Melissa, and a grandson named Cody.
Bill has been fishing for more that 35 years. He discovered fly-fishing 25 years ago and has never looked back. Bill is now an accomplished fly tier, author, guide, lecturer, and teacher and is an FFF Certified Master Fly Casting Instructor.
Bill is the Host of The New Fly Fisher Television Show and is a regular writing contributor to The Canadian Fly Fisher Magazine with his casting articles. Bill has traveled extensively throughout North America fly fishing for most species including saltwater. Bill is a passionate angler and a fixture on most area streams and symposiums, lecturing and at tying tables. Bill has a great love for casting and would sometimes rather teach than fish. Bill’s easy going nature and his ways of making his students understand has given him a reputation as a teacher's teacher. His love is stalking trout in cold water streams of southern Ontario and eastern United States, but his specialty is migratory steelhead and salmon.
Six Pound Labrador Brook Trout
Bill with his wife Kathi on the Ganaraska river.
My fishing buddy Cody
My daughter Melissa and her man Mike