JEREMY SMITH

Where do you spend most of your time fishing?

Upper Midwest and Northwest  Ontario.

What is your favorite species to fish?

Anything that’s biting, but I really like muskies.

When you’re not fishing, what’s something you love to do?

I love hunting morel mushrooms.

What's the most underrated fishing technique that more people should be using?

The small jerkbait bite for crappies is absolutely insane. If you've not tried it you have to. There are so many times when a suspending jerkbait in spring and fall is the best bait around. Crappies go nuts for it!

What’s one fish you still have on your bucket list?

I'd love to catch a colored-up Arctic Char.

If you could fish with any angler, past or present, who would it be?

I'd like to spend a day fishing muskies on the Canadian Shield with Dick Pearson.

What life lessons has fishing taught you that apply beyond the water?

Well fishing certainly teaches you patience and persistence.

If you had to build the ultimate tackle box with only five lures, what’s in it?

X-Rap, Black Hair Jig, Jig and Plastic Minnow, Jig & 3" swimbait, and a bucktail so I can muskie fish.

How do you stay motivated and focused, even during tough seasons?

I'm just always looking forward to what's next and if the bite it tough I really enjoy trying to learn more about that body of water and just enjoy looking at different type of habitat in lakes that might pay off in the future.

What's your hidden talent?

I'm a calendar model.