When a biker in Pierce County purchased a new motorcycle, they’d often find a little fish hook drawn on its mirror. Rodger Smith, who went by Dean and also was known as “Fish Hook,” was the usual culprit.

“As soon as you went outside on the bike and looked in your mirror you realized Fish Hook was there,” Ryan Eaton, who considered Smith his best friend, told The News Tribune. “And there were places you would go and see little fish hooks.”

Eaton said seeing little fish hooks now is hard to take after Smith was killed over a week ago in a crash.

Smith and his wife were riding their motorcycles on 152nd Street East in South Hill when the driver of a Jeep Cherokee reportedly struck him. Before the crash, the driver’s vehicle reportedly went out of control when it exited a right-hand corner

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