● Growing up on the Bahia Mar docks in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Capt. Frank “Skip” Smith was baiting hooks on his father Capt. Frank Smith’s drift boat at the age of 5, spending every weekend and summer vacation working aboard that vessel until he turned 18. He moved up to charter fishing, caught a white marlin on his first day as a mate, and was hooked on bill-fishing. He later began swordfishing commercially until a longlining injury sidelined him in 1979. Smith then went to work for Jerry Dunaway aboard , where they went on to set a memorable string of world records together, rewriting