Episode 8: Capt. Skip Smith - Globetrotter, Author, Billfishing Legend

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Capt. Skip Smith is a world renowned offshore captain who dedicated a large part of his life seeking record marlin in over 25 different countries. His incredible book, The Tales of A Hooker and Her Madam, documented his and boat owner Jerry Dunaway’s breathtaking 11 year adventure chasing the migrations of the oceans premier game fish. Their innovations and success was profound amassing a total of 49 IGFA World Records. For the past 25 years Skip has been the President of Smith-Merritt Insurance, Inc. in Pompano Beach, Florida, he continues to maintain the day-to-day operations of a multi-million dollar yacht insurance company while serving on several industry boards, including Chair of the IGFA’s along with the prestigious Tommy Gifford Award - which is presented to legendary captain and crew nominees who are selected by a committee of internationally-renowned captains and mates. With Smith’s tight connection to custom-built sport boats, he helped create the Custom Shootout in 2002 - presenting the industry an opportunity to give back and benefit many charitable organizations for the past 14 years. Captain Skip Smith was inducted into the Broward Sports Hall of Fame in 2003 as a fisherman. What career this man has had… In this episode, Skip talks about his harrowing encounters at sea and on land, great wins, and the battle scars of being an offshore captain in the 70’s & 80’s.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Millhouse Podcast. Today we have the chance to talk to Captain
0:07.0	Skip Smith from the famed Madam and the Hooker, a mother ship which traveled the world for 13 years.
0:13.6	We spoke of big ocean crossings,
0:16.2	his early years as a longliner,
0:18.4	and the techniques used to catch big Marlin on four pound test.
0:23.1	This is an incredible story.
0:28.2	We broke everything, we broke lines lines we broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke
0:39.0	marriages we broke the whole thing we came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's went to pot.
0:50.0	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way so I double-lunged him both ways.
0:57.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:01.0	I got him on.
1:03.0	All right now, we're going to teach him a lot so.
1:06.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish.
1:09.0	I'm not quitting yet.
1:10.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:14.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:17.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body body but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke
1:26.4	thoroughly torn out thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly wow Wow! What a ride!
1:34.4	There's something fishy going on here. All right, skip. Welcome to the mill house in my house. Thank you very much.
1:52.1	You know, it's know it's your book came out at a 15, 2015. I had
1:57.8	read this Ron Hamlin's book a long time ago, tournament.
2:02.6	And I saw, I read this book and I thought,
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