Dave "Smifster" Smith

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Southern California

32 Years

Surface fishing

27lb Mirror - Blackfoot, Idaho

36lb 6oz UK

Castaic Lagoon, California

Andy Smith and fellow Team Scorpion International member Mark Worbey. Without doubt these 2 guys changed the way I fish and made me think about the way I fished.

These guys made me realise you had to get to know a venue, and if the alarms were silent then get off your ass and find the fish.

In their words "They haven't gone on holiday, they are still in there somewhere". Don't sit behind static rods.

Item of tackle you would
not want to be without:

Marker Float - It makes no sense to me just to chuck out a bait when you have no idea what lies below