Episode 9: Capt. Skip Smith Part 2 - Globetrotter, Author, Billfishing Legend

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Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 72 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 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 a career this man has had…

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0:00.0	Last week we spoke with Captain Skip Smith from the famed Madam and the Hooker, which
0:07.0	traveled the world for 13 years catching a pile of world record billfish on light,
0:11.9	very light Line.
0:14.4	I felt we had left a lot of his world on the table,
0:17.4	and with his story being so compelling,
0:19.9	we needed to get him back on ASAP.
0:23.4	So today here we go, part two with Captain Skip Smith.
0:29.2	We broke everything, we broke lines we broke
0:35.2	cooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke marriages we broke the whole thing. We came up the idea of going out that night and chasing girls
0:48.1	and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's, when the pot. I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way
0:54.1	and I shot him going through the other way.
0:55.9	So I double-lung them both ways.
0:58.7	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress
1:00.9	out into government cut. I got him on.
1:04.0	All right now, we're going to teach him a lesson.
1:07.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.
1:11.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:16.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:18.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well preserved body but rather
1:25.2	skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke thoroughly torn out thoroughly used up proclaiming
1:32.1	wildly wow what are thoroughly use up proclaiming wildly. Wow! What a ride!
1:37.0	There's something fizzy going on here. So you sat here and came up with a bunch more questions when you, did you listen to the last podcast?
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