Wicked Tuna (2012–…): Season 5, Episode 1 - Episode #5.1 - full transcript
A new fishing season begins, and everyone is angling to bring in the first catch. Captain Dave Marciano is desperate to recover his finances after a bad season down south, while bitter ...
NARRATOR: On the season premiere
of Wicked Tuna...
TYLER: Ahh!
MIKE: Oh, my God, I got him,
I got him.
NARRATOR: This year, every
captain has something to prove.
MARCIANO: What we accomplished
last season wasn't a fluke.
TYLER: A lot of the fleet
have questioned
my ability as a captain,
but this season,
that all changes.
DAVE: My driving force
is to prove
that we can be the number one
boat in the fleet again.
TJ: We've been an average boat
for the last few seasons,
and we don't want to be
just the average boat anymore.
TYLER: Woo-hoo-hoo, wow.
NARRATOR: But to land
the ocean's most prized catch,
giant bluefin tuna...
TYLER: How do you like that,
baby?
Woo!
JARRETT: Oh, my God!
SANDRO: Yes!
NARRATOR:
Gloucester's best fishermen
will have to fight the elements.
MAN: Whoa!
DAVE: Get back, you better
get down here!
NARRATOR: And each other.
TYLER: No one likes you, bro!
ERIN: Woo, shots fired!
NARRATOR:
Every trip is a gamble.
MARCIANO: Damn it!
PETE: Oh, ah!
NARRATOR:
But the rewards can be huge.
JARRETT: Yeah!
NARRATOR: If they can catch
Wicked Tuna.
Last season, family operation
Hard Merchandise
was the top-earning boat
in the fleet,
followed closely by Pinwheel.
and Hot Tuna languished behind.
But on opening day
of the new season,
it's a clean slate
for all the boats.
♪ ♪
[horn blows]
[seagulls squawking]
♪ ♪
MARCIANO:
My name is Dave Marciano,
and I'm the captain
of the Hard Merchandise.
♪ ♪
My entire life I've been fishing
out of Gloucester,
Massachusetts.
It's America's oldest seaport,
and for almost 400 years,
fishing has been
the lifeblood of this town.
[seagulls squawking]
[church bells ringing]
Are you ready for the first trip
of the season?
The opening day
of the bluefin tuna season
is something we always
look forward to.
It's official, the turtle
has entered the race.
Everyone wants to be first
to land one of these
big money fish.
TYLER: Grab that fin, come on!
MARCIANO: They're the most
prized fish in the world.
ALL: Yeah! Woo!
MARCIANO: Those first fish
can get as much as $20,000.
TJ: Oh!
MARCIANO: Wow!
But first,
you've got to find 'em.
You get tips
from other fishermen,
from fish buyers,
anywhere you can find 'em.
This week, they've been spotted
in the cold waters
up off of Maine,
so that's where we're heading.
But once we're there,
we still have to lure them in.
We might have them in the chum.
♪ ♪
[beeping]
One shot up above 10, coming up
right on the bow rod.
Come on.
Stick with me, baby.
Got three of them, four of them!
Come on, bite me.
Damn!
[reel ticking]
[reel unspooling]
JAY: We're getting a bite;
we're getting a bite!
JOE: Alright, we're on!
We're on!
MARCIANO: Alright, I'm coming,
I'm coming.
There's nothing like the feeling
when the line goes off.
JAY: He's a screamer!
MARCIANO: You can feel
the adrenaline rush.
JAY: First fish
of the season, Joe!
JOE: First fish of the season,
it's a great start.
Seems like a good one.
Oh, yeah, he's taking some line.
MARCIANO: There's just one goal,
land this fish.
♪ ♪
Color! We got color!
First fish of the season, boys!
The pressure is intense.
Come on, fish!
In the boat!
♪ ♪
[snap]
We lost him.
And that's fishing for ya.
But you keep your chin up
and you keep it going.
At least we know there's fish
up here in Maine.
Let's get back there and see
if we can get a keeper.
Fishing is not an easy way
to make a living,
but this is what I do, and I
wouldn't have it any other way.
♪ ♪
DAVE: This is it, boys.
Let's make it happen.
It's the first day
of the season,
and I could not be more excited.
Nothing's stopping us this year,
and we are going on a warpath.
We're going to Maine,
and we got to get it done.
Maine is where all the bait is,
and that's why these
bluefin tuna go there:
to feed and to fatten up.
From Gloucester, it's an 80-mile
trip to Maine waters.
It's a big gamble,
we're gonna burn some fuel,
but no risk, no reward.
You got to be in the right place
at the right time,
and that's not luck.
Last year we were not on top,
It's definitely the best
tuna boat out there right now.
I got to catch fish in order
for me to keep this boat,
otherwise I can go belly up.
SANDRO: Rock and roll.
Let's do this.
DAVE: Sandro's gonna be my guy,
and then I'm gonna have Geordie
as my deckhand.
We're here to prove
that we can be
the number one boat
in the fleet, period.
Put our head down
on the grindstone.
Stay dialed in, stay out,
get it done.
Season's on.
Let's get it done.
This boat will be on top
again this year.
You can count on that.
TJ: Alright, bluefin,
here we come, baby.
It's gonna be extremely
competitive this year.
We want to win this thing,
there's no sitting at the dock,
there's no playing games.
We've been kind of
middle-of-the-pack guys,
and we don't want to finish in
the middle of the fleet anymore.
We're just gonna have to grind,
grind, grind, grind, grind.
This year,
more than any other year,
I really feel like I need
to prove
that we're still one of the best
boats in this Gloucester fleet.
JARRETT: What do you think? Huh?
You ready, Ripple?
TJ: We got to stick to our game,
and at the end of the season,
I know it's gonna put us
at the top.
There's a lot at stake for us.
The guys need to make money,
I need to make money.
We're going for first
this season.
Drop the anchor.
TYLER: We are ready.
It's tuna time, baby.
We got a lot riding
on this season.
Last year, we had
a really good year,
caught a lot of fish,
made a lot of money,
Marciano beat us out
there at the end.
I'm really hungry and
I want to be the winner.
And I want to be the number one
boat in Gloucester,
that's what it's all about.
The last two seasons,
I haven't been able
to keep a consistent crew
from one year to the next,
and a lot of the fleet
has criticized my leadership
because of it.
But this season, I finally have
a salty mate on board.
Take the stick and cleat it off
to the wheelhouse or whatever.
TYLER:
I got a lot of work to do,
and I'm really counting on Drake
to help me get to the top.
DRAKE: I'm 19 years old,
but I've been fishing
for bluefin since I was 12.
Tyler reached out to me
to come fishing this year,
and I think he did that because
he knows I can get the job done.
TYLER: He knows what I expect
from a mate this season,
and he can deliver.
So I'm confident that we're
gonna be a force
to be reckoned with.
Let it go!
DAVE: Look at this,
look at all the life here.
SANDRO: It's unbelievable.
DAVE: There's got to be
tunas in here.
Couple feeds going on
in front of us.
SANDRO: Doesn't get much more
better-looking than this.
[barking]
TJ: We stopped here 'cause we
noticed some whales were diving,
like they were actively feeding.
You know, they were
pretty aggressive,
so, see what we mark.
I hope we get one
to bend the rod.
GEORDIE: Whoa, coming up!
SANDRO: Whoa.
GEORDIE: There's two there.
DAVE: Yeah, a pair.
SANDRO: Watch that one.
There's three of them now.
GEORDIE: Look at it,
it came all the way up to 80.
[beeping]
TJ: There they are, 100 feet.
Oh, God, watch the down rods.
Oh, baby.
[beeping]
TYLER: That's him right there,
dude, at 22 fathoms.
Alright, let's get serious.
DRAKE: Yeah, it's him.
That's a nice mark right there.
Getting up on that bait.
That's a good mark.
DAVE: On the down, on the down,
on the down.
GEORDIE: He's up above it now.
DAVE: This is the moment
that we've been waiting for
since the end of last season.
It's game time.
GEORDIE: Still coming, 90 feet.
Still coming.
[beeping]
TJ: Oh, they're coming up, baby,
in your chum, man.
TIM: Watch our down rod.
Oh, my God.
I just threw a ton of chum, too.
Keep an eye out, man.
This is a streak and a half.
TJ: If we can get
this first fish to bite,
it would put us way ahead
of the rest of the fleet.
MIKE: 100 feet, coming up to 50.
[beeping]
TYLER: That's him, bro.
That's why we are here.
We're marking more and more.
One of these rods is gonna
go off any second.
DAVE: There he is, there he is.
TYLER: Come on, tunas.
Come on, man!
Why can't we get a bite?
[dog barking]
BRANDON: We're on, we're on,
we're on.
Oh, we're on.
TJ: Someone's hooked up?
BRANDON: Yeah, we're on, baby!
We're on!
TYLER: Who is that?
PETE: Damn it, man.
DAVE: It's the Erin & Sarah.
It's Pete Speeches.
He's hooked up.
PETE: Erin, get on the controls.
BRANDON: Alright.
PETE: My name is Pete Speeches;
I'm the owner and captain
of the Erin & Sarah.
I've been fishing
out of Portland, Maine,
for over 25 years, and I've
caught hundreds of bluefin.
Straighten it out.
I'm here this season to show
the guys in Gloucester
that I'm a force
to be dealt with on the water.
That I'm in it to win it.
I could be a problem for them.
And I think they know it.
Good. Neutral.
PETE: There he is.
Having this fish hooked up
amongst the fleet is great.
If we can land this fish,
it'll be the first one landed,
and it could be a good shot
in the arm financially.
DAVE: If he gets that fish,
it's gonna be the first fish
of the season.
That's gonna be a money fish,
if he gets it.
I know Pete.
I've met him a few times
on the water, and I know this:
he's probably not all that happy
to see all of us up here
in Maine.
What about Tyler and TJ?
SANDRO: They're watching
just like us.
TYLER: Aw, Pete's
got him on, man.
He's got a bent rod, dude.
Damn it!
PETE: Go hard right.
ERIN: Let's go, boys.
I'm Erin Speeches.
Pete is my dad.
I've never worked for my dad
as a full-time mate,
so this is new to me.
This is taking it
to a whole new level.
I'm not just going out
for the ride;
I'm going out here
because this is my job.
PETE: Okay, 10 degrees
to the right.
BRANDON: My name
is Brandon Pierce,
and I'm the first mate
on the Erin & Sarah.
I do the grunt work on the rod,
and I'm here to put fish
on the boat.
PETE: Forward bump,
five degrees left.
This ain't gonna work.
Gonna walk him past TJ.
♪ ♪
[reel unspooling]
TJ: Wait a minute, are we on?
Are we on?
MIKE: We on?
JARRETT: Got it!
[dog barking]
TJ: Got him on, baby!
Nice and easy, guys.
If we can land this fish,
not only will it put us
at the top of the fleet,
but it could also be a huge
payout to start the season.
Every boat is after that
right now.
TIM: Don't run up on him, TJ.
TIM: Good sign, I like this
when they really run out hard
like this.
[reel unspooling]
DAVE: TJ, and he is down
and tight, backing down.
We got to get a bite here.
TYLER: Kind of sucks, man,
TJ and Pete both,
and it's like a joke.
DRAKE: I know, dude; it sucks!
♪ ♪
BRANDON: TJ's tight, too, now.
PETE: He is, or you think he is?
BRANDON: I don't know,
like he just turned,
I don't know if he is.
PETE: I hope we can get
out of this intact.
'Cause if the lines get twisted,
one person or the other
is probably gonna lose a fish,
or both.
So it's a very dangerous,
very stressful situation.
We got to get that fish
out of the way
so we can just settle in
on the fight.
ERIN: Nice job, Brandon.
Good job.
PETE: I'm tight here, I don't
know what's going on with you.
[dog barking]
TIM: Yup.
TJ: Both fish are swimming
toward each other.
And if their fish
crosses lines with ours,
the tension could snap our line,
and our paycheck could be gone.
PETE: He's got
a nice rod bend going.
Now we just got to have
good luck from the tuna gods,
be able to land 'em.
Let's go, Brandon.
Nice and smooth.
Nice and smooth.
BRANDON: Pete, the fish
is running hard.
PETE: Yeah.
BRANDON:
It's going straight for TJ.
TJ: Where's your fish?
Go get height. Go! Go!
PETE: Trying to get him
out of here,
just going right for ya.
TJ: Chase it down,
chase it down!
BRANDON: We're losing it!
BRANDON: Keep it tight,
keep it tight, keep it tight!
Pete, the fish is running hard.
PETE: Yeah?
BRANDON:
He's going straight for TJ!
ERIN: Our fish is headed
directly towards TJ's boat.
They're fighting a fish as well.
So we're trying to move our fish
out of the way.
So the lines don't cross
and snap.
TJ: Go get height, go, go!
PETE: Trying to get him
out of here,
just going for right for you.
TJ: Chase it down!
Chase it down!
BRANDON: We're losing it!
PETE: Let's go, Brandon.
Good job, good job.
Keep him tight.
Keep him tight!
Yeah, keep going.
TIM: Forward, forward.
TJ: Hopefully, you know,
he's hooked right
and get him close to the boat
and pray to God we can get him.
Stay down. Stay down.
PETE: Keep it tight,
keep it tight, keep it tight!
Alright, we're clear.
Good job, Brandon.
ERIN: Nice job, Brandon.
BRANDON: I got the fish paddling
on the surface right now.
He hasn't really gone down much,
so, like, he's not playing
by the rules.
The longer he's on,
the better chance we have
of bad things happening.
ERIN: Let's go! Reel!
PETE: Quick one in and out.
Okay, stop, neutral.
♪ ♪
Got him. Yep.
ERIN: Nice shot.
BRANDON: Nice.
PETE: Gaff, Erin.
BRANDON: I got it.
PETE: Tail rope.
ERIN: Hurry up, we need to get
a tail rope on.
PETE: Tail rope, left side.
BRANDON: Other side?
PETE: Left side.
MARCIANO: First fish of the
season is not on the Dot Com.
SANDRO: Very, very, very early
in the season.
DAVE: Pete has probably
caught more fish
than any of us have, ever.
And I know this:
he's all about business.
He's been fishing for bluefin
out of Maine for decades.
He knows the waters up here
better than anyone.
And even if you take him out of
Maine and you put him elsewhere,
he could still adapt
and he could still execute.
BRANDON: 91.
ERIN: Hell, yeah. Woo.
PETE: Good job.
DAVE: That guy
is definitely top-notch,
he's one of the best
fishermen around.
He's good, man.
He's good.
[reel cranking]
TJ: He's probably
40, 50 feet away.
Get him.
Get the harpoon.
Swing him to your right.
Swing him to your right.
Looks like the Erin & Sarah
might have landed their fish.
So, I've got to concentrate
on making sure we land ours.
It'll come right back at you.
Right here, Dad.
♪ ♪
Yeah.
TIM: Got him!
Watch your feet, watch your
feet, watch your feet.
TJ: Take your time.
JARRETT: I'm trying, man!
TJ: Don't lose our fish.
JARRETT: Want to get
another dart in it?
MIKE: Yeah, I'm coming around!
JARRETT: I got to push.
TIM: Come on over here,
right here, Michael, here!
MIKE: I'm trying.
I'm trying.
JARRETT: He's coming in
right there.
TIM: Get the tail gaff.
Tail gaff!
JARRETT: Grab a tail gaff,
I got it.
TJ: I got to get a tail--
I'm trying to help you.
Yeah. Here!
Jarrett! Jarrett!
TIM: I got him.
JARRETT: TJ's left.
TJ's left!
TJ: Jarrett's got him.
TIM: He's gonna come off.
JARRETT: He's got it!
Jeez.
TJ: Good job.
JARRETT: Woo-hooo!
TJ: Alright!
JARRETT:
Three on the dart shots, huh?
Oh, thank God.
TJ: Anytime you catch a fish,
it's a great feeling.
Especially one that we had
to work this hard for.
But to catch a fish
in front of all these guys
definitely sends a message.
JARRETT: Got him! We needed
that one big time, man.
TYLER: Come on.
We got to get our first fish.
It's a bummer, dude.
I can't believe that TJ
and Pete both have fish.
That's not how I wanted
to start the season out.
We got to catch some fish
like that ourselves.
♪ ♪
MARCIANO: One little blurp
of fish and that's it?
We'll sit here another hour.
And then we'll bug out
to catch--
you know unless we catch a--
if we catch a keeper, that'll
change the plan but, uh...
JAY: Yeah.
MARCIANO: We'll sit there until
sunset and see what happens.
Last year, we finished
at the top of the fleet.
But then we went fishing
down south in North Carolina,
and we didn't catch
a single keeper tuna.
We lost a lot of money.
So we really need
to turn this around,
and we need
to turn it around fast.
There's a fish.
Trick seems to be
hooking them now.
Let's just hope
he sticks with us.
Right up there,
up and down, up and down.
[beeping]
JAY: Uh, we're on something.
MARCIANO:
One up high, one down low!
MARCIANO: I'm on it. Alright.
[reel unspooling]
JAY: Hook, we're on!
JOE: Here we go.
Here we go!
MARCIANO: We're on!
We're on!
MARCIANO:
I'll get you some gloves.
JAY: Oh, it just hooked up
on the outside rod!
It's way out on top!
Hopefully it's a nice fish.
MARCIANO: Clip?
JOE: Yep.
JAY: Keep reeling,
keep reeling.
Right through it,
right through it,
right through it,
right through it!
I got the wheel turned over
'cause he's going
that way, okay? Hard over.
MARCIANO: I'm here.
JOE: Ready?
JAY: Yep.
JOE: Go!
MARCIANO: A little over.
JOE: He's taking some more line
so hopefully it's a keeper.
If we can get
at least a 73-inch fish,
get some money in our pocket.
MARCIANO: If he's a nice little
200-pound butterball, you know,
he could be worth five grand.
That's our expenses
right out of the starting gate.
Jay, you're reeling it
the wrong way.
The line's supposed to come in,
not go out.
JAY: Ha-ha!
JAY: We need a keeper, Joe.
JOE: Yeah, hopefully.
JAY: It'll be the first fish
of the season for us.
JOE: Yeah.
MARCIANO:
Maybe we'll get lucky here.
But it's really hard to tell.
MARCIANO: Watch the line.
Watch the line!
He's gonna cut the line.
We're gonna lose him!
Let's go! Let's go!
You're losing it!
MARCIANO:
He's going under the boat.
Watch the line.
It's the first day of the season
and we're hooked up
for the second time.
We've got to get this fish.
We can't let two get away
in one day.
He's gonna cut the line.
We're gonna lose him.
Let's go, let's go,
we're losing it.
JAY: Ah!
JAY: Alright, line's clear.
We're good, Dave, we're good.
MARCIANO: Atta boy,
you guys doing great,
you make a good team.
JAY: Yup.
JAY: He's right there.
Just saw him.
MARCIANO: Ah, we got deep color.
JAY: Got color!
MARCIANO: It's really close.
JAY: That's a short.
MARCIANO:
Alright, let's release him.
Alright.
We can't sell the shorts,
but the shorts are what sustains
the fishery.
Yeah, that fish is gonna live,
he's gonna spawn
once or twice more
before he's big enough
for us to keep.
You just get that wet pack
quick, that's all.
JAY: Should I cut
the leader off?
MARCIANO: Yeah.
JAY: It really sucks that
that was a, a short
'cause we all got bills to pay.
You know, I just actually
bought a house,
just sucks that could have been
a money fish.
But what are you gonna do?
♪ ♪
JARRETT: That's a good-looking
sized fish.
TJ: Oh, God!
Nice.
We tail-roped our fish
this season before sundown,
and we've had it hanging
behind the back of the boat
to cool down the meat.
We're super, super blessed
that we have him right now.
Because he very easily
could have chased us off.
Your first tuna, huh?
What do you think, Rip?
Do you like him?
Do you want to catch
more of those?
I've got another Rottweiler
this year, her name is Ripple.
This is Ripple's
first tuna ever,
so I'm very curious to see
how she reacts to it.
Hopefully she takes to it
like Reba did.
You guys want to measure him
and get a tape on him?
JARRETT: Yeah. Here we go.
TJ: Here we go.
Ooh, look at that.
JARRETT: 91.
Reba's licking her chops.
You want to, uh, give Reba
a tail cut, see if she likes it?
TJ: Let's check him out,
see what we got.
We're gonna get it to a buyer
and see what she's worth.
Damn. You want this? Huh?
You been a good girl?
You want this?
Give me a high five.
There you go, good girl.
Uh-oh, uh-oh.
You got to share
with your little sister.
JARRETT: Nice work!
TJ: First one
of the season, baby.
Good job, Bubby.
JARRETT: Nice work.
TJ: Many more to come, dude,
many more.
♪ ♪
PETE: My dad died when I was 14,
in an accident,
in our own garage at home.
And then my mom
was in the hospital,
and then within a few weeks,
they told her she only had, uh,
a month or two to live
'cause her cancer was terminal.
Her goal was to try to see me
get out of high school.
That's when she passed away.
She didn't make it.
I think losing my parents early
gave me the belief
that I could do it myself.
It toughened me up early
is what it did.
I've been accused of being
driven and being a hard ass,
and that's probably true.
I know when it comes
to fishing, especially,
I am driven.
I'm driven to be the best,
to excel, to be a high liner,
so I think I've tried to teach
my daughters, Erin and Sarah,
that there's no substitute
for hard work
in achieving your goals.
And that's why I've tried
to integrate them
into the boat business
so they knew that they
were important.
You know, naming the boat,
having them go with me,
that they see
how much it means to me
to earn my living
that way for them.
ERIN: He really wants to be able
to give us a life
and experiences that he didn't
get to have as a kid.
I think it's because of that
that I don't really take things
for granted.
Life doesn't always come easy,
and you really got to have
thick skin.
[motor revving]
♪ ♪
[beeping]
GEORDIE: Oh, there's maybe one.
DAVE: Eat it!
GEORDIE: Coming up.
DAVE: Is he still?
SANDRO: He's still there.
DAVE: Come on.
SANDRO: Still there.
DAVE: Come on.
SANDRO: 100 feet.
DAVE: Two boats already
have fish,
the Erin & Sarah
and the Hot Tuna,
and that's not a good start
for the Dot Com.
SANDRO: Another one
on the outside there?
GEORDIE: Came all the way up
to 75 feet.
[beeping]
[reel ticking]
[reel unspooling]
DAVE: We're on, we're on,
we're on, we're on, we're on!
Woo-hoo-hoo, here we go!
He's pissed off, man.
He's the real deal.
He's got some meat to him.
SANDRO: I'd say
he's definitely a keeper.
DAVE: Oh, yeah.
He's a keeper, alright.
TYLER: Kidding me, man?
The Dot Com's got him on, man.
DRAKE: Oh, yeah, dude,
they're off the anchor, bro.
TYLER: Dude, that sucks!
DAVE: Got color, here we go.
Got color.
GEORDIE: Thank you.
Come back, come back, come back,
come back, come back.
DAVE: Take the shot!
DAVE: Woo-hoo-hoo!
GEORDIE: Line going out.
DAVE: Here we go.
He's pissed off, man.
He's the real deal.
He's got some meat to him.
The Erin & Sarah and
the Hot Tuna already have fish,
so I want nothing right now
more so than to put this fish
on the deck.
Got color.
GEORDIE: Come back, Dave.
Come back! Come back!
Come back! Come back!
DAVE: Take the shot!
DAVE: You're allowed to miss.
DAVE: Good job, Geordie.
DAVE: Here he comes.
Here we go!
GEORDIE: Right to you,
this one, Sancho.
DAVE: Here we go.
Here we go!
GEORDIE: Coming at you, buddy.
DAVE: Stick 'em in, Sanchi!
Hit that!
SANDRO: Got him.
DAVE: Yeah, baby!
Woo-hoo-hoo!
Look at that,
he's pissed off now.
He's pissed off.
DAVE: Careful! Careful!
Watch out! Watch out! Watch out!
No, no, no, no, no!
DAVE: We just pulled the hook
on him or we chafed him off.
Right now we got him
on the dart line,
we're gonna have to
hand line him, but slowly.
Just like the hook pulled,
the dart can pull.
This battle is not over.
There's no celebration until
the tail rope is on him.
DAVE: He's a-coming.
Come on.
Keep pulling.
DAVE: He's got a spear
through his belly,
and he's still fighting.
And unfortunately,
if that dart pulls, nobody wins.
GEORDIE: But I got color.
DAVE: Here he comes.
Get ready, Geordie.
SANDRO: Put that tail rope
right on her tail.
DAVE: There we go.
Yeah.
Who's your daddy?
You know what I got to say?
Got one!
Woo-hoo-hoo!
We got him!
GEORDIE: Oh!
Nice work, buddy!
DAVE: We got our first fish of
the season; couldn't be better.
This is the first of what's
gonna be many fish to come
on this new boat.
TYLER: Oh, they got him, dude.
Damn, man, I'd love to have
that fish.
DAVE: One, two, three.
Good job.
SANDRO: Nice-looking fish
here, bud.
DAVE: Measure him right now.
GEORDIE: 84 inches!
Woo!
Nice work, boys.
DAVE: First trip with the new
boat, that's a decent fish.
Slow and steady gets the worm.
Good job.
GEORDIE: Slow and steady
gets the worm?
We need to buy you a book, dude.
DAVE: Wait, isn't that
what it is?
SANDRO: Slow and steady
wins the race there, Davey boy.
GEORDIE: Slow and steady
gets the worm?
DAVE: Oh, no,
early bird gets the worm.
Let's go get another one.
PETE: Get ready, we're gonna
tie up on the opposite side.
Good job. Thanks, guys.
It's a great feeling.
We're stoked, we're coming in
with the first fish
of the season.
We caught it in front of
the other guys in the fleet.
We're just elated to be
in this position right now.
SCOTT: Hey, Pete.
How'd you make out today?
PETE: Ah, we got one for you.
SCOTT: First fish of the season!
Alright!
PETE: What do you got there?
BUYER: 367.
PETE: Alright.
Let's see what he looks like.
Get it cut.
The more fat and oil
in the meat of the fish,
the better the fish is gonna be,
the more money
we would get for it.
A poor quality fish can be
$5 to $7, $8 a pound.
A really good fish could be
20-plus dollars a pound.
I like that, huh?
SCOTT: Nice core.
PETE: What can you do for me
on this? Come on.
SCOTT: Mmmm...
On this one, give you $17.
PETE: Alright.
BRANDON: We like that.
PETE: We like that.
Okay, thanks, Scott.
We appreciate it.
ERIN: Payday!
PETE: We want to make
a lot of money,
catch a lot of fish,
and this is the first one,
this is priming the pump.
NARRATOR: Erin & Sarah's
six-grand tuna
gets the family operation
from Maine off to an early lead.
♪ ♪
TJ: We got one nice one
for you, bro.
Want to check him out?
SCOTT: Absolutely.
MIKE: Alright, Scott.
TJ: We're so happy
to be bringing
one of the first fish
of the season to our buyer.
It's an early season fish,
so we're anticipating
a good price per pound.
What do you got
for dress weight, Scotty?
SCOTT: 365.
TJ: Alright, awesome.
That's a nice fish.
JARRETT: Nice.
Very nice.
TJ: How we looking?
How we looking, bro?
BUYER: It's got the fat.
I can get you guys $15 a pound.
TJ: Pa-pow! Scott-so!
TIM: Go, Scott-so.
MIKE: Thanks, Scotty.
TJ: Awesome, bro.
MIKE: That's a good price.
Thanks.
TJ: We need a lot more fish
to be at the top of the fleet
when the season ends,
but this a great start.
NARRATOR: Hot Tuna's
good quality fish
pushes them to within striking
distance of Erin & Sarah.
TYLER: Man, we got to start
putting them in the boat.
We've been out here
for a few days now,
and we pretty much watched
everybody except for ourselves
catch a fish.
So we really got to get
a bite soon,
we just got to keep grinding.
Just gone through the spread,
everyone looks fishy as can be,
and we're killing it.
We get the right one,
we're gonna put a hook in it.
[beeping]
Oh, look at that.
Hell, yeah, alright.
We're marking!
DRAKE: I put off a semester
of college for this.
And if we don't catch fish,
it's not gonna be good.
[reel unspooling]
TYLER: See ya later, bye.
Come on, reel.
Reel, reel, reel, reel, reel.
Get him, Drake,
that a boy, brother.
Woo!
GEORDIE: He's yelling at us.
DAVE: Tyler's on.
SANDRO: Baloney.
I don't know why Tyler
acts the way he does.
You know, if he could be
a more mature captain
and keep a solid crew,
he'd be a lot more respected.
TYLER: Oh, yeah!
GEORDIE: Dave and Tyler
definitely have a history
between each other,
TYLER: Woo!
It's all over the place
on top, dude.
Definitely
an early season gladiator.
Big fish, been hooked before.
He definitely knows
what he's doing.
DRAKE: He's shaking his head
out there.
He's a-racing.
TYLER: We need this fish bad.
Come on, Drake.
Get him, get him.
DRAKE: We got him,
like, 30 feet.
TYLER: Good job, Drake.
You're doing
freakin' great, dude.
This is what I need.
I need a solid deckhand
on the boat this year
to help us make a lot of money.
Take out the fleet.
DRAKE: I got color.
Oh, my God.
Oh, it's a sea monster.
TYLER: Oh, my God,
he's a sea monster!
He's a sea monster!
Ooh!
TYLER: We need this fish bad.
Come on, Drake.
Get him, get him.
DRAKE: We got him,
like, 30 feet.
TYLER: We're hooked up
next to Dot Com,
and he's already got
a fish on board.
So, we really got to put
this one in our boat.
Oh, my God.
DRAKE: It's a sea monster.
TYLER: Oh, my God,
he's a sea monster!
He's a sea monster!
Woo!
DRAKE: We got to put
this one away.
TYLER: I feel like I have
a $5,000 fish right here.
DRAKE: Easily.
TYLER: I know
he's freaking out,
because he's only got
one fish on board,
and we're about to tie him.
We got to get this one, dude.
DRAKE: I got you right now,
I got you right now.
Ready, Ty?
TYLER: I'm ready, brother.
Swing him right out.
♪ ♪
Bang!
I got him good, too, man.
DRAKE: Yeah, you smoked him.
Let me get the tail gaff.
TYLER: Here, brother.
Coming your way.
Nice!
Woo-hoo!
Yeah, baby! Woo!
DRAKE: Game over!
Game over!
TYLER: 450-pounder, dude?
Hells yeah!
DRAKE: Yeah, yeah, buddy!
Wow, dude, damn.
Butterball, man.
How's that feel, baby?
TYLER: Yeah, what you guys
saying now?
DRAKE: Yeah.
TYLER: Dude, this is gonna be
so sick.
DAVE: What the hell is he doing?
DRAKE: Hold up.
[Tyler laughs]
DAVE: In past years, Tyler and I
have had a lot of history.
And I don't need all the drama.
I don't need him trying to get
into our heads.
So we're gonna ignore,
we're gonna fish,
and we're gonna do what we do.
Don't even look at him.
DRAKE: Boom, we're done.
TYLER: Hey, brother!
Congratulations on the new boat.
You'll always be second fiddle.
DAVE: Loose cannon.
Something wrong with him.
MARCIANO: Tyler and Dave
on the Dot Com,
for those two,
it's the same old story.
They're all worried about
who's gonna be first
or blah, blah, blah.
It's kind of like being in
the locker room in high school.
They're trying to figure out
whose is bigger.
That's all it is
with them two guys.
To me, that's just
a distraction.
I'll let them guys fight it out,
and we're gonna be busy
catching fish.
DRAKE: You good?
TYLER: Have to take a tail cut
of that one.
That one's a good one.
DRAKE: Oh, that's a nice shape.
TYLER: Woo!
DRAKE: Swinging tuna.
TYLER:
This could be a better fish
than anything that's
been caught so far.
We're gonna take this fish in
and get it weighed.
DRAKE: Where you going, fishy?
Nowhere.
Oh!
86, baby.
TYLER: Ah, good, ah,
I had that, huh?
DRAKE: Let's pack him away?
TYLER: Yeah, pack him away.
SANDRO: Whale.
There's slick. Whales.
SANDRO: Here comes the tail.
DAVE: Amazing.
We've already got one fish,
but you know what?
So do some of the other boats
in the fleet.
So we've decided
to stay out longer
and try and get a second one.
[beeping]
SANDRO: There he is.
There he is.
[beeping]
DAVE: Come on, come on.
We're right on it.
There he is, there he is.
Start it up!
We're on.
SANDRO: We're on.
DAVE: Clear!
GEORDIE: No.
GEORDIE: Now we're out.
DAVE: Okay.
SANDRO: There he goes.
DAVE: I'm gonna fall off.
That's the real deal.
We're on again, huh?
DAVE: Nice.
DAVE: Oh, yeah.
He's a big boy.
DAVE: Having a fish
on the boat right now
will put us on the top
of the fleet.
So now, it's more important
than ever
that we land this fish
on the deck.
The pressure's on.
DAVE: Take your time.
Fish we think is gut-hooked.
He's heavy, but he's not
doing much.
So that means he swallowed it,
it's in his gut.
When he's gut-hooked,
the line is raking
across the teeth,
and it is possible, in time,
we could break him off.
Big fish right here.
GEORDIE: Right here, Dave.
DAVE: We've already got
one fish, but you know what?
Having a second fish
on the boat right now
will send a clear message
that we are the boat to beat
this season.
[reel squeaking]
He's doing these
gigantic pinwheels.
He's pissed off right now.
I don't like this.
[squeaking]
GEORDIE: Yup.
DAVE: I got deep color.
SANDRO: Yup.
DAVE: Look at that rod tip.
Little bit of reverse here.
DAVE: Nice, nice, nice, nice.
Get him, Sandro, get him,
get him, get him, get him!
GEORDIE: Yeah, there you go,
buddy, there you go!
DAVE: You got it, you got it,
own it, own it.
Come on, go get it, Geordie.
SANDRO: Okay, keep coming,
just keep coming back.
I don't want to stop
this momentum.
Alright, Geordie?
GEORDIE: Yup.
DAVE: Reverse, reverse, reverse.
GEORDIE: Okay, you're okay.
DAVE: Yup, yup, yup, nice.
DAVE: Nice job, Geordie.
Beautiful freakin' work.
DAVE: All you.
Coming right up.
There he is.
Look at the color on him, huh?
He's big.
Swivel's on!
Here you go, Sanchi.
GEORDIE: Comin' at ya.
DAVE: Here you go, Sanchi.
SANDRO: Got him.
DAVE: Yeah, you nailed it!
DAVE: You got him?
SANDRO: Yeah, yeah, I got him.
GEORDIE: We've got one!
Holy cow.
SANDRO: Woo-hoo-hoo!
DAVE: That's what I'm
talking about.
GEORDIE:
We got that one, too, boys.
DAVE: That's what
I'm talking about!
That one looks
pretty freakin' good, man.
Let's keep it going, man.
There's no stopping,
there's no stopping us now.
Took a gamble,
to get ahead of the fleet,
it's paid off.
We've got our second fish
of the season.
Neither the Erin & Sarah,
the Pinwheel or the Hot Tuna
are gonna be able to keep up
with the Tuna Dot Com.
GEORDIE: One, two three.
DAVE: Two three!
Ah, my hands.
SANDRO: Woo!
DAVE: 93.
GEORDIE: Wow.
DAVE: We got some big fish.
Dot Com style. Get her done.
♪ ♪
BOB: Hey, Dave, how are you?
DAVE: Had a really, really good
first trip, two fish.
BOB: How do you like the rig?
DAVE: Love it.
BOB: You ready?
DAVE: Yeah, let's do it.
What do you got, Bob?
BOB: 347 dressed, Dave.
DAVE: It's...
it's not a fatty.
BOB: Here it is, Dave.
It's pretty red.
DAVE: Yep.
BOB: There's no fat,
the shape is horrible.
DAVE: What do ya think?
How much?
BOB: $7 a pound.
DAVE: $7 a pound really isn't
what we were hoping for,
but I'm just hoping right now
the second fish
is of higher quality
so we can get the paycheck
that we're used to.
What do ya got, Scott?
SCOTT: We got 276 pounds
dressed.
DAVE: Alright,
let's check him out.
BOB: Okay.
All red meat.
DAVE: Yeah.
BOB: It's not even
a vibrant red,
but I would say $8 a pound.
Alright?
SANDRO: Wow.
DAVE: We brought in two fish,
more than any other boat
in the fleet,
put in all that effort,
all that time,
and walk away with those prices,
it's not easy.
two low quality fish
have them trailing
the fleet's leaders.
SCOTT: Hey!
What's going on, Tyler?
TYLER: We got our first fish
of the season.
SCOTT: Nice!
TYLER: What's it dressed, Scott?
SCOTT: 265 dressed.
We'll take a look at it
real good and...
TYLER: Let's check this thing
out, what we got here.
BUYER: Nice skin fat up in here.
Going in the majors,
real nice core.
Mmmm...$15.
TYLER: Hell yeah, oh, yes!
Gimme some skin, Gut.
That's a good way
to start out our season.
Now we're gonna get back out
there, and make it happen again.
We're gonna go grind our way
to the top spot.
NARRATOR: Pinwheel's
good quality fish puts them
PETE: We're at the top
of the fleet right now,
and I'm really optimistic
about the season.
These guys are coming up here
to anchor on my grounds.
I know they're gunning for me,
but I'm gunning for them.
DAVE: Pete Speeches, he's gonna
be a tough competitor to beat.
He's got the perfect recipe
for a successful boat,
but we're gonna beat his ass.
MARCIANO: I've been playing
this game long enough
to know that one week
doesn't make a season.
TYLER: Got to remember,
it's a marathon, not a sprint.
I'm gonna be atop the fleet
at the end of the season,
and we're gonna put more fish
across the dock
than anyone else.
TJ: We know we've got our work
cut out for us.
We're just gonna have to keep
our knuckles down
and maintain our focus
to be on the top
at the end of the season.
of Wicked Tuna...
TYLER: Ahh!
MIKE: Oh, my God, I got him,
I got him.
NARRATOR: This year, every
captain has something to prove.
MARCIANO: What we accomplished
last season wasn't a fluke.
TYLER: A lot of the fleet
have questioned
my ability as a captain,
but this season,
that all changes.
DAVE: My driving force
is to prove
that we can be the number one
boat in the fleet again.
TJ: We've been an average boat
for the last few seasons,
and we don't want to be
just the average boat anymore.
TYLER: Woo-hoo-hoo, wow.
NARRATOR: But to land
the ocean's most prized catch,
giant bluefin tuna...
TYLER: How do you like that,
baby?
Woo!
JARRETT: Oh, my God!
SANDRO: Yes!
NARRATOR:
Gloucester's best fishermen
will have to fight the elements.
MAN: Whoa!
DAVE: Get back, you better
get down here!
NARRATOR: And each other.
TYLER: No one likes you, bro!
ERIN: Woo, shots fired!
NARRATOR:
Every trip is a gamble.
MARCIANO: Damn it!
PETE: Oh, ah!
NARRATOR:
But the rewards can be huge.
JARRETT: Yeah!
NARRATOR: If they can catch
Wicked Tuna.
Last season, family operation
Hard Merchandise
was the top-earning boat
in the fleet,
followed closely by Pinwheel.
and Hot Tuna languished behind.
But on opening day
of the new season,
it's a clean slate
for all the boats.
♪ ♪
[horn blows]
[seagulls squawking]
♪ ♪
MARCIANO:
My name is Dave Marciano,
and I'm the captain
of the Hard Merchandise.
♪ ♪
My entire life I've been fishing
out of Gloucester,
Massachusetts.
It's America's oldest seaport,
and for almost 400 years,
fishing has been
the lifeblood of this town.
[seagulls squawking]
[church bells ringing]
Are you ready for the first trip
of the season?
The opening day
of the bluefin tuna season
is something we always
look forward to.
It's official, the turtle
has entered the race.
Everyone wants to be first
to land one of these
big money fish.
TYLER: Grab that fin, come on!
MARCIANO: They're the most
prized fish in the world.
ALL: Yeah! Woo!
MARCIANO: Those first fish
can get as much as $20,000.
TJ: Oh!
MARCIANO: Wow!
But first,
you've got to find 'em.
You get tips
from other fishermen,
from fish buyers,
anywhere you can find 'em.
This week, they've been spotted
in the cold waters
up off of Maine,
so that's where we're heading.
But once we're there,
we still have to lure them in.
We might have them in the chum.
♪ ♪
[beeping]
One shot up above 10, coming up
right on the bow rod.
Come on.
Stick with me, baby.
Got three of them, four of them!
Come on, bite me.
Damn!
[reel ticking]
[reel unspooling]
JAY: We're getting a bite;
we're getting a bite!
JOE: Alright, we're on!
We're on!
MARCIANO: Alright, I'm coming,
I'm coming.
There's nothing like the feeling
when the line goes off.
JAY: He's a screamer!
MARCIANO: You can feel
the adrenaline rush.
JAY: First fish
of the season, Joe!
JOE: First fish of the season,
it's a great start.
Seems like a good one.
Oh, yeah, he's taking some line.
MARCIANO: There's just one goal,
land this fish.
♪ ♪
Color! We got color!
First fish of the season, boys!
The pressure is intense.
Come on, fish!
In the boat!
♪ ♪
[snap]
We lost him.
And that's fishing for ya.
But you keep your chin up
and you keep it going.
At least we know there's fish
up here in Maine.
Let's get back there and see
if we can get a keeper.
Fishing is not an easy way
to make a living,
but this is what I do, and I
wouldn't have it any other way.
♪ ♪
DAVE: This is it, boys.
Let's make it happen.
It's the first day
of the season,
and I could not be more excited.
Nothing's stopping us this year,
and we are going on a warpath.
We're going to Maine,
and we got to get it done.
Maine is where all the bait is,
and that's why these
bluefin tuna go there:
to feed and to fatten up.
From Gloucester, it's an 80-mile
trip to Maine waters.
It's a big gamble,
we're gonna burn some fuel,
but no risk, no reward.
You got to be in the right place
at the right time,
and that's not luck.
Last year we were not on top,
It's definitely the best
tuna boat out there right now.
I got to catch fish in order
for me to keep this boat,
otherwise I can go belly up.
SANDRO: Rock and roll.
Let's do this.
DAVE: Sandro's gonna be my guy,
and then I'm gonna have Geordie
as my deckhand.
We're here to prove
that we can be
the number one boat
in the fleet, period.
Put our head down
on the grindstone.
Stay dialed in, stay out,
get it done.
Season's on.
Let's get it done.
This boat will be on top
again this year.
You can count on that.
TJ: Alright, bluefin,
here we come, baby.
It's gonna be extremely
competitive this year.
We want to win this thing,
there's no sitting at the dock,
there's no playing games.
We've been kind of
middle-of-the-pack guys,
and we don't want to finish in
the middle of the fleet anymore.
We're just gonna have to grind,
grind, grind, grind, grind.
This year,
more than any other year,
I really feel like I need
to prove
that we're still one of the best
boats in this Gloucester fleet.
JARRETT: What do you think? Huh?
You ready, Ripple?
TJ: We got to stick to our game,
and at the end of the season,
I know it's gonna put us
at the top.
There's a lot at stake for us.
The guys need to make money,
I need to make money.
We're going for first
this season.
Drop the anchor.
TYLER: We are ready.
It's tuna time, baby.
We got a lot riding
on this season.
Last year, we had
a really good year,
caught a lot of fish,
made a lot of money,
Marciano beat us out
there at the end.
I'm really hungry and
I want to be the winner.
And I want to be the number one
boat in Gloucester,
that's what it's all about.
The last two seasons,
I haven't been able
to keep a consistent crew
from one year to the next,
and a lot of the fleet
has criticized my leadership
because of it.
But this season, I finally have
a salty mate on board.
Take the stick and cleat it off
to the wheelhouse or whatever.
TYLER:
I got a lot of work to do,
and I'm really counting on Drake
to help me get to the top.
DRAKE: I'm 19 years old,
but I've been fishing
for bluefin since I was 12.
Tyler reached out to me
to come fishing this year,
and I think he did that because
he knows I can get the job done.
TYLER: He knows what I expect
from a mate this season,
and he can deliver.
So I'm confident that we're
gonna be a force
to be reckoned with.
Let it go!
DAVE: Look at this,
look at all the life here.
SANDRO: It's unbelievable.
DAVE: There's got to be
tunas in here.
Couple feeds going on
in front of us.
SANDRO: Doesn't get much more
better-looking than this.
[barking]
TJ: We stopped here 'cause we
noticed some whales were diving,
like they were actively feeding.
You know, they were
pretty aggressive,
so, see what we mark.
I hope we get one
to bend the rod.
GEORDIE: Whoa, coming up!
SANDRO: Whoa.
GEORDIE: There's two there.
DAVE: Yeah, a pair.
SANDRO: Watch that one.
There's three of them now.
GEORDIE: Look at it,
it came all the way up to 80.
[beeping]
TJ: There they are, 100 feet.
Oh, God, watch the down rods.
Oh, baby.
[beeping]
TYLER: That's him right there,
dude, at 22 fathoms.
Alright, let's get serious.
DRAKE: Yeah, it's him.
That's a nice mark right there.
Getting up on that bait.
That's a good mark.
DAVE: On the down, on the down,
on the down.
GEORDIE: He's up above it now.
DAVE: This is the moment
that we've been waiting for
since the end of last season.
It's game time.
GEORDIE: Still coming, 90 feet.
Still coming.
[beeping]
TJ: Oh, they're coming up, baby,
in your chum, man.
TIM: Watch our down rod.
Oh, my God.
I just threw a ton of chum, too.
Keep an eye out, man.
This is a streak and a half.
TJ: If we can get
this first fish to bite,
it would put us way ahead
of the rest of the fleet.
MIKE: 100 feet, coming up to 50.
[beeping]
TYLER: That's him, bro.
That's why we are here.
We're marking more and more.
One of these rods is gonna
go off any second.
DAVE: There he is, there he is.
TYLER: Come on, tunas.
Come on, man!
Why can't we get a bite?
[dog barking]
BRANDON: We're on, we're on,
we're on.
Oh, we're on.
TJ: Someone's hooked up?
BRANDON: Yeah, we're on, baby!
We're on!
TYLER: Who is that?
PETE: Damn it, man.
DAVE: It's the Erin & Sarah.
It's Pete Speeches.
He's hooked up.
PETE: Erin, get on the controls.
BRANDON: Alright.
PETE: My name is Pete Speeches;
I'm the owner and captain
of the Erin & Sarah.
I've been fishing
out of Portland, Maine,
for over 25 years, and I've
caught hundreds of bluefin.
Straighten it out.
I'm here this season to show
the guys in Gloucester
that I'm a force
to be dealt with on the water.
That I'm in it to win it.
I could be a problem for them.
And I think they know it.
Good. Neutral.
PETE: There he is.
Having this fish hooked up
amongst the fleet is great.
If we can land this fish,
it'll be the first one landed,
and it could be a good shot
in the arm financially.
DAVE: If he gets that fish,
it's gonna be the first fish
of the season.
That's gonna be a money fish,
if he gets it.
I know Pete.
I've met him a few times
on the water, and I know this:
he's probably not all that happy
to see all of us up here
in Maine.
What about Tyler and TJ?
SANDRO: They're watching
just like us.
TYLER: Aw, Pete's
got him on, man.
He's got a bent rod, dude.
Damn it!
PETE: Go hard right.
ERIN: Let's go, boys.
I'm Erin Speeches.
Pete is my dad.
I've never worked for my dad
as a full-time mate,
so this is new to me.
This is taking it
to a whole new level.
I'm not just going out
for the ride;
I'm going out here
because this is my job.
PETE: Okay, 10 degrees
to the right.
BRANDON: My name
is Brandon Pierce,
and I'm the first mate
on the Erin & Sarah.
I do the grunt work on the rod,
and I'm here to put fish
on the boat.
PETE: Forward bump,
five degrees left.
This ain't gonna work.
Gonna walk him past TJ.
♪ ♪
[reel unspooling]
TJ: Wait a minute, are we on?
Are we on?
MIKE: We on?
JARRETT: Got it!
[dog barking]
TJ: Got him on, baby!
Nice and easy, guys.
If we can land this fish,
not only will it put us
at the top of the fleet,
but it could also be a huge
payout to start the season.
Every boat is after that
right now.
TIM: Don't run up on him, TJ.
TIM: Good sign, I like this
when they really run out hard
like this.
[reel unspooling]
DAVE: TJ, and he is down
and tight, backing down.
We got to get a bite here.
TYLER: Kind of sucks, man,
TJ and Pete both,
and it's like a joke.
DRAKE: I know, dude; it sucks!
♪ ♪
BRANDON: TJ's tight, too, now.
PETE: He is, or you think he is?
BRANDON: I don't know,
like he just turned,
I don't know if he is.
PETE: I hope we can get
out of this intact.
'Cause if the lines get twisted,
one person or the other
is probably gonna lose a fish,
or both.
So it's a very dangerous,
very stressful situation.
We got to get that fish
out of the way
so we can just settle in
on the fight.
ERIN: Nice job, Brandon.
Good job.
PETE: I'm tight here, I don't
know what's going on with you.
[dog barking]
TIM: Yup.
TJ: Both fish are swimming
toward each other.
And if their fish
crosses lines with ours,
the tension could snap our line,
and our paycheck could be gone.
PETE: He's got
a nice rod bend going.
Now we just got to have
good luck from the tuna gods,
be able to land 'em.
Let's go, Brandon.
Nice and smooth.
Nice and smooth.
BRANDON: Pete, the fish
is running hard.
PETE: Yeah.
BRANDON:
It's going straight for TJ.
TJ: Where's your fish?
Go get height. Go! Go!
PETE: Trying to get him
out of here,
just going right for ya.
TJ: Chase it down,
chase it down!
BRANDON: We're losing it!
BRANDON: Keep it tight,
keep it tight, keep it tight!
Pete, the fish is running hard.
PETE: Yeah?
BRANDON:
He's going straight for TJ!
ERIN: Our fish is headed
directly towards TJ's boat.
They're fighting a fish as well.
So we're trying to move our fish
out of the way.
So the lines don't cross
and snap.
TJ: Go get height, go, go!
PETE: Trying to get him
out of here,
just going for right for you.
TJ: Chase it down!
Chase it down!
BRANDON: We're losing it!
PETE: Let's go, Brandon.
Good job, good job.
Keep him tight.
Keep him tight!
Yeah, keep going.
TIM: Forward, forward.
TJ: Hopefully, you know,
he's hooked right
and get him close to the boat
and pray to God we can get him.
Stay down. Stay down.
PETE: Keep it tight,
keep it tight, keep it tight!
Alright, we're clear.
Good job, Brandon.
ERIN: Nice job, Brandon.
BRANDON: I got the fish paddling
on the surface right now.
He hasn't really gone down much,
so, like, he's not playing
by the rules.
The longer he's on,
the better chance we have
of bad things happening.
ERIN: Let's go! Reel!
PETE: Quick one in and out.
Okay, stop, neutral.
♪ ♪
Got him. Yep.
ERIN: Nice shot.
BRANDON: Nice.
PETE: Gaff, Erin.
BRANDON: I got it.
PETE: Tail rope.
ERIN: Hurry up, we need to get
a tail rope on.
PETE: Tail rope, left side.
BRANDON: Other side?
PETE: Left side.
MARCIANO: First fish of the
season is not on the Dot Com.
SANDRO: Very, very, very early
in the season.
DAVE: Pete has probably
caught more fish
than any of us have, ever.
And I know this:
he's all about business.
He's been fishing for bluefin
out of Maine for decades.
He knows the waters up here
better than anyone.
And even if you take him out of
Maine and you put him elsewhere,
he could still adapt
and he could still execute.
BRANDON: 91.
ERIN: Hell, yeah. Woo.
PETE: Good job.
DAVE: That guy
is definitely top-notch,
he's one of the best
fishermen around.
He's good, man.
He's good.
[reel cranking]
TJ: He's probably
40, 50 feet away.
Get him.
Get the harpoon.
Swing him to your right.
Swing him to your right.
Looks like the Erin & Sarah
might have landed their fish.
So, I've got to concentrate
on making sure we land ours.
It'll come right back at you.
Right here, Dad.
♪ ♪
Yeah.
TIM: Got him!
Watch your feet, watch your
feet, watch your feet.
TJ: Take your time.
JARRETT: I'm trying, man!
TJ: Don't lose our fish.
JARRETT: Want to get
another dart in it?
MIKE: Yeah, I'm coming around!
JARRETT: I got to push.
TIM: Come on over here,
right here, Michael, here!
MIKE: I'm trying.
I'm trying.
JARRETT: He's coming in
right there.
TIM: Get the tail gaff.
Tail gaff!
JARRETT: Grab a tail gaff,
I got it.
TJ: I got to get a tail--
I'm trying to help you.
Yeah. Here!
Jarrett! Jarrett!
TIM: I got him.
JARRETT: TJ's left.
TJ's left!
TJ: Jarrett's got him.
TIM: He's gonna come off.
JARRETT: He's got it!
Jeez.
TJ: Good job.
JARRETT: Woo-hooo!
TJ: Alright!
JARRETT:
Three on the dart shots, huh?
Oh, thank God.
TJ: Anytime you catch a fish,
it's a great feeling.
Especially one that we had
to work this hard for.
But to catch a fish
in front of all these guys
definitely sends a message.
JARRETT: Got him! We needed
that one big time, man.
TYLER: Come on.
We got to get our first fish.
It's a bummer, dude.
I can't believe that TJ
and Pete both have fish.
That's not how I wanted
to start the season out.
We got to catch some fish
like that ourselves.
♪ ♪
MARCIANO: One little blurp
of fish and that's it?
We'll sit here another hour.
And then we'll bug out
to catch--
you know unless we catch a--
if we catch a keeper, that'll
change the plan but, uh...
JAY: Yeah.
MARCIANO: We'll sit there until
sunset and see what happens.
Last year, we finished
at the top of the fleet.
But then we went fishing
down south in North Carolina,
and we didn't catch
a single keeper tuna.
We lost a lot of money.
So we really need
to turn this around,
and we need
to turn it around fast.
There's a fish.
Trick seems to be
hooking them now.
Let's just hope
he sticks with us.
Right up there,
up and down, up and down.
[beeping]
JAY: Uh, we're on something.
MARCIANO:
One up high, one down low!
MARCIANO: I'm on it. Alright.
[reel unspooling]
JAY: Hook, we're on!
JOE: Here we go.
Here we go!
MARCIANO: We're on!
We're on!
MARCIANO:
I'll get you some gloves.
JAY: Oh, it just hooked up
on the outside rod!
It's way out on top!
Hopefully it's a nice fish.
MARCIANO: Clip?
JOE: Yep.
JAY: Keep reeling,
keep reeling.
Right through it,
right through it,
right through it,
right through it!
I got the wheel turned over
'cause he's going
that way, okay? Hard over.
MARCIANO: I'm here.
JOE: Ready?
JAY: Yep.
JOE: Go!
MARCIANO: A little over.
JOE: He's taking some more line
so hopefully it's a keeper.
If we can get
at least a 73-inch fish,
get some money in our pocket.
MARCIANO: If he's a nice little
200-pound butterball, you know,
he could be worth five grand.
That's our expenses
right out of the starting gate.
Jay, you're reeling it
the wrong way.
The line's supposed to come in,
not go out.
JAY: Ha-ha!
JAY: We need a keeper, Joe.
JOE: Yeah, hopefully.
JAY: It'll be the first fish
of the season for us.
JOE: Yeah.
MARCIANO:
Maybe we'll get lucky here.
But it's really hard to tell.
MARCIANO: Watch the line.
Watch the line!
He's gonna cut the line.
We're gonna lose him!
Let's go! Let's go!
You're losing it!
MARCIANO:
He's going under the boat.
Watch the line.
It's the first day of the season
and we're hooked up
for the second time.
We've got to get this fish.
We can't let two get away
in one day.
He's gonna cut the line.
We're gonna lose him.
Let's go, let's go,
we're losing it.
JAY: Ah!
JAY: Alright, line's clear.
We're good, Dave, we're good.
MARCIANO: Atta boy,
you guys doing great,
you make a good team.
JAY: Yup.
JAY: He's right there.
Just saw him.
MARCIANO: Ah, we got deep color.
JAY: Got color!
MARCIANO: It's really close.
JAY: That's a short.
MARCIANO:
Alright, let's release him.
Alright.
We can't sell the shorts,
but the shorts are what sustains
the fishery.
Yeah, that fish is gonna live,
he's gonna spawn
once or twice more
before he's big enough
for us to keep.
You just get that wet pack
quick, that's all.
JAY: Should I cut
the leader off?
MARCIANO: Yeah.
JAY: It really sucks that
that was a, a short
'cause we all got bills to pay.
You know, I just actually
bought a house,
just sucks that could have been
a money fish.
But what are you gonna do?
♪ ♪
JARRETT: That's a good-looking
sized fish.
TJ: Oh, God!
Nice.
We tail-roped our fish
this season before sundown,
and we've had it hanging
behind the back of the boat
to cool down the meat.
We're super, super blessed
that we have him right now.
Because he very easily
could have chased us off.
Your first tuna, huh?
What do you think, Rip?
Do you like him?
Do you want to catch
more of those?
I've got another Rottweiler
this year, her name is Ripple.
This is Ripple's
first tuna ever,
so I'm very curious to see
how she reacts to it.
Hopefully she takes to it
like Reba did.
You guys want to measure him
and get a tape on him?
JARRETT: Yeah. Here we go.
TJ: Here we go.
Ooh, look at that.
JARRETT: 91.
Reba's licking her chops.
You want to, uh, give Reba
a tail cut, see if she likes it?
TJ: Let's check him out,
see what we got.
We're gonna get it to a buyer
and see what she's worth.
Damn. You want this? Huh?
You been a good girl?
You want this?
Give me a high five.
There you go, good girl.
Uh-oh, uh-oh.
You got to share
with your little sister.
JARRETT: Nice work!
TJ: First one
of the season, baby.
Good job, Bubby.
JARRETT: Nice work.
TJ: Many more to come, dude,
many more.
♪ ♪
PETE: My dad died when I was 14,
in an accident,
in our own garage at home.
And then my mom
was in the hospital,
and then within a few weeks,
they told her she only had, uh,
a month or two to live
'cause her cancer was terminal.
Her goal was to try to see me
get out of high school.
That's when she passed away.
She didn't make it.
I think losing my parents early
gave me the belief
that I could do it myself.
It toughened me up early
is what it did.
I've been accused of being
driven and being a hard ass,
and that's probably true.
I know when it comes
to fishing, especially,
I am driven.
I'm driven to be the best,
to excel, to be a high liner,
so I think I've tried to teach
my daughters, Erin and Sarah,
that there's no substitute
for hard work
in achieving your goals.
And that's why I've tried
to integrate them
into the boat business
so they knew that they
were important.
You know, naming the boat,
having them go with me,
that they see
how much it means to me
to earn my living
that way for them.
ERIN: He really wants to be able
to give us a life
and experiences that he didn't
get to have as a kid.
I think it's because of that
that I don't really take things
for granted.
Life doesn't always come easy,
and you really got to have
thick skin.
[motor revving]
♪ ♪
[beeping]
GEORDIE: Oh, there's maybe one.
DAVE: Eat it!
GEORDIE: Coming up.
DAVE: Is he still?
SANDRO: He's still there.
DAVE: Come on.
SANDRO: Still there.
DAVE: Come on.
SANDRO: 100 feet.
DAVE: Two boats already
have fish,
the Erin & Sarah
and the Hot Tuna,
and that's not a good start
for the Dot Com.
SANDRO: Another one
on the outside there?
GEORDIE: Came all the way up
to 75 feet.
[beeping]
[reel ticking]
[reel unspooling]
DAVE: We're on, we're on,
we're on, we're on, we're on!
Woo-hoo-hoo, here we go!
He's pissed off, man.
He's the real deal.
He's got some meat to him.
SANDRO: I'd say
he's definitely a keeper.
DAVE: Oh, yeah.
He's a keeper, alright.
TYLER: Kidding me, man?
The Dot Com's got him on, man.
DRAKE: Oh, yeah, dude,
they're off the anchor, bro.
TYLER: Dude, that sucks!
DAVE: Got color, here we go.
Got color.
GEORDIE: Thank you.
Come back, come back, come back,
come back, come back.
DAVE: Take the shot!
DAVE: Woo-hoo-hoo!
GEORDIE: Line going out.
DAVE: Here we go.
He's pissed off, man.
He's the real deal.
He's got some meat to him.
The Erin & Sarah and
the Hot Tuna already have fish,
so I want nothing right now
more so than to put this fish
on the deck.
Got color.
GEORDIE: Come back, Dave.
Come back! Come back!
Come back! Come back!
DAVE: Take the shot!
DAVE: You're allowed to miss.
DAVE: Good job, Geordie.
DAVE: Here he comes.
Here we go!
GEORDIE: Right to you,
this one, Sancho.
DAVE: Here we go.
Here we go!
GEORDIE: Coming at you, buddy.
DAVE: Stick 'em in, Sanchi!
Hit that!
SANDRO: Got him.
DAVE: Yeah, baby!
Woo-hoo-hoo!
Look at that,
he's pissed off now.
He's pissed off.
DAVE: Careful! Careful!
Watch out! Watch out! Watch out!
No, no, no, no, no!
DAVE: We just pulled the hook
on him or we chafed him off.
Right now we got him
on the dart line,
we're gonna have to
hand line him, but slowly.
Just like the hook pulled,
the dart can pull.
This battle is not over.
There's no celebration until
the tail rope is on him.
DAVE: He's a-coming.
Come on.
Keep pulling.
DAVE: He's got a spear
through his belly,
and he's still fighting.
And unfortunately,
if that dart pulls, nobody wins.
GEORDIE: But I got color.
DAVE: Here he comes.
Get ready, Geordie.
SANDRO: Put that tail rope
right on her tail.
DAVE: There we go.
Yeah.
Who's your daddy?
You know what I got to say?
Got one!
Woo-hoo-hoo!
We got him!
GEORDIE: Oh!
Nice work, buddy!
DAVE: We got our first fish of
the season; couldn't be better.
This is the first of what's
gonna be many fish to come
on this new boat.
TYLER: Oh, they got him, dude.
Damn, man, I'd love to have
that fish.
DAVE: One, two, three.
Good job.
SANDRO: Nice-looking fish
here, bud.
DAVE: Measure him right now.
GEORDIE: 84 inches!
Woo!
Nice work, boys.
DAVE: First trip with the new
boat, that's a decent fish.
Slow and steady gets the worm.
Good job.
GEORDIE: Slow and steady
gets the worm?
We need to buy you a book, dude.
DAVE: Wait, isn't that
what it is?
SANDRO: Slow and steady
wins the race there, Davey boy.
GEORDIE: Slow and steady
gets the worm?
DAVE: Oh, no,
early bird gets the worm.
Let's go get another one.
PETE: Get ready, we're gonna
tie up on the opposite side.
Good job. Thanks, guys.
It's a great feeling.
We're stoked, we're coming in
with the first fish
of the season.
We caught it in front of
the other guys in the fleet.
We're just elated to be
in this position right now.
SCOTT: Hey, Pete.
How'd you make out today?
PETE: Ah, we got one for you.
SCOTT: First fish of the season!
Alright!
PETE: What do you got there?
BUYER: 367.
PETE: Alright.
Let's see what he looks like.
Get it cut.
The more fat and oil
in the meat of the fish,
the better the fish is gonna be,
the more money
we would get for it.
A poor quality fish can be
$5 to $7, $8 a pound.
A really good fish could be
20-plus dollars a pound.
I like that, huh?
SCOTT: Nice core.
PETE: What can you do for me
on this? Come on.
SCOTT: Mmmm...
On this one, give you $17.
PETE: Alright.
BRANDON: We like that.
PETE: We like that.
Okay, thanks, Scott.
We appreciate it.
ERIN: Payday!
PETE: We want to make
a lot of money,
catch a lot of fish,
and this is the first one,
this is priming the pump.
NARRATOR: Erin & Sarah's
six-grand tuna
gets the family operation
from Maine off to an early lead.
♪ ♪
TJ: We got one nice one
for you, bro.
Want to check him out?
SCOTT: Absolutely.
MIKE: Alright, Scott.
TJ: We're so happy
to be bringing
one of the first fish
of the season to our buyer.
It's an early season fish,
so we're anticipating
a good price per pound.
What do you got
for dress weight, Scotty?
SCOTT: 365.
TJ: Alright, awesome.
That's a nice fish.
JARRETT: Nice.
Very nice.
TJ: How we looking?
How we looking, bro?
BUYER: It's got the fat.
I can get you guys $15 a pound.
TJ: Pa-pow! Scott-so!
TIM: Go, Scott-so.
MIKE: Thanks, Scotty.
TJ: Awesome, bro.
MIKE: That's a good price.
Thanks.
TJ: We need a lot more fish
to be at the top of the fleet
when the season ends,
but this a great start.
NARRATOR: Hot Tuna's
good quality fish
pushes them to within striking
distance of Erin & Sarah.
TYLER: Man, we got to start
putting them in the boat.
We've been out here
for a few days now,
and we pretty much watched
everybody except for ourselves
catch a fish.
So we really got to get
a bite soon,
we just got to keep grinding.
Just gone through the spread,
everyone looks fishy as can be,
and we're killing it.
We get the right one,
we're gonna put a hook in it.
[beeping]
Oh, look at that.
Hell, yeah, alright.
We're marking!
DRAKE: I put off a semester
of college for this.
And if we don't catch fish,
it's not gonna be good.
[reel unspooling]
TYLER: See ya later, bye.
Come on, reel.
Reel, reel, reel, reel, reel.
Get him, Drake,
that a boy, brother.
Woo!
GEORDIE: He's yelling at us.
DAVE: Tyler's on.
SANDRO: Baloney.
I don't know why Tyler
acts the way he does.
You know, if he could be
a more mature captain
and keep a solid crew,
he'd be a lot more respected.
TYLER: Oh, yeah!
GEORDIE: Dave and Tyler
definitely have a history
between each other,
TYLER: Woo!
It's all over the place
on top, dude.
Definitely
an early season gladiator.
Big fish, been hooked before.
He definitely knows
what he's doing.
DRAKE: He's shaking his head
out there.
He's a-racing.
TYLER: We need this fish bad.
Come on, Drake.
Get him, get him.
DRAKE: We got him,
like, 30 feet.
TYLER: Good job, Drake.
You're doing
freakin' great, dude.
This is what I need.
I need a solid deckhand
on the boat this year
to help us make a lot of money.
Take out the fleet.
DRAKE: I got color.
Oh, my God.
Oh, it's a sea monster.
TYLER: Oh, my God,
he's a sea monster!
He's a sea monster!
Ooh!
TYLER: We need this fish bad.
Come on, Drake.
Get him, get him.
DRAKE: We got him,
like, 30 feet.
TYLER: We're hooked up
next to Dot Com,
and he's already got
a fish on board.
So, we really got to put
this one in our boat.
Oh, my God.
DRAKE: It's a sea monster.
TYLER: Oh, my God,
he's a sea monster!
He's a sea monster!
Woo!
DRAKE: We got to put
this one away.
TYLER: I feel like I have
a $5,000 fish right here.
DRAKE: Easily.
TYLER: I know
he's freaking out,
because he's only got
one fish on board,
and we're about to tie him.
We got to get this one, dude.
DRAKE: I got you right now,
I got you right now.
Ready, Ty?
TYLER: I'm ready, brother.
Swing him right out.
♪ ♪
Bang!
I got him good, too, man.
DRAKE: Yeah, you smoked him.
Let me get the tail gaff.
TYLER: Here, brother.
Coming your way.
Nice!
Woo-hoo!
Yeah, baby! Woo!
DRAKE: Game over!
Game over!
TYLER: 450-pounder, dude?
Hells yeah!
DRAKE: Yeah, yeah, buddy!
Wow, dude, damn.
Butterball, man.
How's that feel, baby?
TYLER: Yeah, what you guys
saying now?
DRAKE: Yeah.
TYLER: Dude, this is gonna be
so sick.
DAVE: What the hell is he doing?
DRAKE: Hold up.
[Tyler laughs]
DAVE: In past years, Tyler and I
have had a lot of history.
And I don't need all the drama.
I don't need him trying to get
into our heads.
So we're gonna ignore,
we're gonna fish,
and we're gonna do what we do.
Don't even look at him.
DRAKE: Boom, we're done.
TYLER: Hey, brother!
Congratulations on the new boat.
You'll always be second fiddle.
DAVE: Loose cannon.
Something wrong with him.
MARCIANO: Tyler and Dave
on the Dot Com,
for those two,
it's the same old story.
They're all worried about
who's gonna be first
or blah, blah, blah.
It's kind of like being in
the locker room in high school.
They're trying to figure out
whose is bigger.
That's all it is
with them two guys.
To me, that's just
a distraction.
I'll let them guys fight it out,
and we're gonna be busy
catching fish.
DRAKE: You good?
TYLER: Have to take a tail cut
of that one.
That one's a good one.
DRAKE: Oh, that's a nice shape.
TYLER: Woo!
DRAKE: Swinging tuna.
TYLER:
This could be a better fish
than anything that's
been caught so far.
We're gonna take this fish in
and get it weighed.
DRAKE: Where you going, fishy?
Nowhere.
Oh!
86, baby.
TYLER: Ah, good, ah,
I had that, huh?
DRAKE: Let's pack him away?
TYLER: Yeah, pack him away.
SANDRO: Whale.
There's slick. Whales.
SANDRO: Here comes the tail.
DAVE: Amazing.
We've already got one fish,
but you know what?
So do some of the other boats
in the fleet.
So we've decided
to stay out longer
and try and get a second one.
[beeping]
SANDRO: There he is.
There he is.
[beeping]
DAVE: Come on, come on.
We're right on it.
There he is, there he is.
Start it up!
We're on.
SANDRO: We're on.
DAVE: Clear!
GEORDIE: No.
GEORDIE: Now we're out.
DAVE: Okay.
SANDRO: There he goes.
DAVE: I'm gonna fall off.
That's the real deal.
We're on again, huh?
DAVE: Nice.
DAVE: Oh, yeah.
He's a big boy.
DAVE: Having a fish
on the boat right now
will put us on the top
of the fleet.
So now, it's more important
than ever
that we land this fish
on the deck.
The pressure's on.
DAVE: Take your time.
Fish we think is gut-hooked.
He's heavy, but he's not
doing much.
So that means he swallowed it,
it's in his gut.
When he's gut-hooked,
the line is raking
across the teeth,
and it is possible, in time,
we could break him off.
Big fish right here.
GEORDIE: Right here, Dave.
DAVE: We've already got
one fish, but you know what?
Having a second fish
on the boat right now
will send a clear message
that we are the boat to beat
this season.
[reel squeaking]
He's doing these
gigantic pinwheels.
He's pissed off right now.
I don't like this.
[squeaking]
GEORDIE: Yup.
DAVE: I got deep color.
SANDRO: Yup.
DAVE: Look at that rod tip.
Little bit of reverse here.
DAVE: Nice, nice, nice, nice.
Get him, Sandro, get him,
get him, get him, get him!
GEORDIE: Yeah, there you go,
buddy, there you go!
DAVE: You got it, you got it,
own it, own it.
Come on, go get it, Geordie.
SANDRO: Okay, keep coming,
just keep coming back.
I don't want to stop
this momentum.
Alright, Geordie?
GEORDIE: Yup.
DAVE: Reverse, reverse, reverse.
GEORDIE: Okay, you're okay.
DAVE: Yup, yup, yup, nice.
DAVE: Nice job, Geordie.
Beautiful freakin' work.
DAVE: All you.
Coming right up.
There he is.
Look at the color on him, huh?
He's big.
Swivel's on!
Here you go, Sanchi.
GEORDIE: Comin' at ya.
DAVE: Here you go, Sanchi.
SANDRO: Got him.
DAVE: Yeah, you nailed it!
DAVE: You got him?
SANDRO: Yeah, yeah, I got him.
GEORDIE: We've got one!
Holy cow.
SANDRO: Woo-hoo-hoo!
DAVE: That's what I'm
talking about.
GEORDIE:
We got that one, too, boys.
DAVE: That's what
I'm talking about!
That one looks
pretty freakin' good, man.
Let's keep it going, man.
There's no stopping,
there's no stopping us now.
Took a gamble,
to get ahead of the fleet,
it's paid off.
We've got our second fish
of the season.
Neither the Erin & Sarah,
the Pinwheel or the Hot Tuna
are gonna be able to keep up
with the Tuna Dot Com.
GEORDIE: One, two three.
DAVE: Two three!
Ah, my hands.
SANDRO: Woo!
DAVE: 93.
GEORDIE: Wow.
DAVE: We got some big fish.
Dot Com style. Get her done.
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BOB: Hey, Dave, how are you?
DAVE: Had a really, really good
first trip, two fish.
BOB: How do you like the rig?
DAVE: Love it.
BOB: You ready?
DAVE: Yeah, let's do it.
What do you got, Bob?
BOB: 347 dressed, Dave.
DAVE: It's...
it's not a fatty.
BOB: Here it is, Dave.
It's pretty red.
DAVE: Yep.
BOB: There's no fat,
the shape is horrible.
DAVE: What do ya think?
How much?
BOB: $7 a pound.
DAVE: $7 a pound really isn't
what we were hoping for,
but I'm just hoping right now
the second fish
is of higher quality
so we can get the paycheck
that we're used to.
What do ya got, Scott?
SCOTT: We got 276 pounds
dressed.
DAVE: Alright,
let's check him out.
BOB: Okay.
All red meat.
DAVE: Yeah.
BOB: It's not even
a vibrant red,
but I would say $8 a pound.
Alright?
SANDRO: Wow.
DAVE: We brought in two fish,
more than any other boat
in the fleet,
put in all that effort,
all that time,
and walk away with those prices,
it's not easy.
two low quality fish
have them trailing
the fleet's leaders.
SCOTT: Hey!
What's going on, Tyler?
TYLER: We got our first fish
of the season.
SCOTT: Nice!
TYLER: What's it dressed, Scott?
SCOTT: 265 dressed.
We'll take a look at it
real good and...
TYLER: Let's check this thing
out, what we got here.
BUYER: Nice skin fat up in here.
Going in the majors,
real nice core.
Mmmm...$15.
TYLER: Hell yeah, oh, yes!
Gimme some skin, Gut.
That's a good way
to start out our season.
Now we're gonna get back out
there, and make it happen again.
We're gonna go grind our way
to the top spot.
NARRATOR: Pinwheel's
good quality fish puts them
PETE: We're at the top
of the fleet right now,
and I'm really optimistic
about the season.
These guys are coming up here
to anchor on my grounds.
I know they're gunning for me,
but I'm gunning for them.
DAVE: Pete Speeches, he's gonna
be a tough competitor to beat.
He's got the perfect recipe
for a successful boat,
but we're gonna beat his ass.
MARCIANO: I've been playing
this game long enough
to know that one week
doesn't make a season.
TYLER: Got to remember,
it's a marathon, not a sprint.
I'm gonna be atop the fleet
at the end of the season,
and we're gonna put more fish
across the dock
than anyone else.
TJ: We know we've got our work
cut out for us.
We're just gonna have to keep
our knuckles down
and maintain our focus
to be on the top
at the end of the season.