Bill Campbell has fished since he was seven years old and been fishing with a fly rod for more than 30 years. He knows the waters of his home state of Virginia like the back of his hand; he has also spent countless hours fishing for trout and warmwater species in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. Campbell is an old hand on numerous Montana waterways,  New York’s Catskills, and even Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island. He worked for almost 20 years as a volunteer fishing education specialist for the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources, teaching fly-fishing basics, fly casting, and fly tying. In 2019 Campbell graduated from Clearwater Travel Company’s Sweetwater Guide School in Livingston, Montana, where he presented a curriculum developed by Dr. Tamar Franklin of NYU on understanding and working with people with disabilities and limitations.

Campbell has volunteered for Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing since 2013, where he has taught fly tying, fly casting, and fishing techniques; guided program participants on day trips and overnight outings; conducted annual regional training seminars for volunteers on guiding the disabled; and developed online training modules for a PHWFF instructor certification course.

We’re excited to have Bill Campbell teach Guiding Those with Disabilities as a new class offering at the 2026 Virginia Fly & Wine.