Wicked Tuna (2012–…): Season 5, Episode 4 - Pissed Off on Pissah - full transcript
NARRATOR: On this episode
of Wicked Tuna...
BRAD: We're on, we're on,
we're on!
TIM: Watch his anchor.
TJ: Get a gaff, get a gaff!
NARRATOR: For one crew...
LANCE: I can't be
working for free.
NARRATOR: Tensions reach
a boiling point...
LANCE: Asked you
one simple thing
and you flip the [bleep] out.
PAUL: Hold on, boss.
NARRATOR:
While on other boats...
MIKE: We got our nephew
on board this trip.
DANIEL: What!?
NARRATOR: It's happy families.
MARCIANO: Food fight.
[laughing]
GEORDIE: There we go.
NARRATOR: And two rival
harpooners...
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
GREG: Go take care
of your own business.
NARRATOR: ...face off.
HOLLYWOOD: I hope you have
a stroke tomorrow.
NARRATOR: In one of the most
regulated fisheries
in the world...
MARK: Blue pill!
NARRATOR: These fisherman
fight to earn a living...
GREG: Man down!
Hit him, hit him!
JARRETT: Color, color, color!
NARRATOR: Catching...
DANIEL: Pa-pow.
HOLLYWOOD: Woo!
MIKE: Watch out, watch out,
watch out!
JARRETT: Forward,
forward, forward!
NARRATOR: Wicked Tuna.
At the start of week four,
of last season's champion,
Hard Merchandise.
Meanwhile Hot Tuna and
Wicked Pissah trail the fleet.
♪ ♪
PAUL: Yeah?
BRAD: Trust me.
LANCE: We've caught three fish
so far this season,
and we still haven't seen
a paycheck from Paul.
He's got money in the bank,
so his family's fine.
But Brad and I have families
to feed, too.
In order to support my
five-year-old daughter Scarlet
I need to be consistently
catching fish
and bringing home a paycheck.
PAUL: I'll get around
to paying them,
but if we don't catch fish,
we don't get paid.
That's why we grind and grind.
I haven't had the time to
sit down and write checks.
BRAD: I'm fishing for my family
to try to keep a roof
over their heads.
A good captain not only
has to put us on the meat,
but he's got to pay us
in a timely manner.
A responsible leader
finds a balance.
If he doesn't do that,
crew's gonna leave.
[beeping]
PAUL: Hey, we're marking
on here.
[reel unspooling]
BRAD: Here we go, here we go,
tuna right.
PAUL: Here we go.
BRAD: Fish on.
PAUL: Here we go.
LANCE: Yeah, baby.
We will take you.
BRAD: Taking it to the house.
Tuna on, right there, baby.
Good bite, good bite.
Alright.
Move that rod over
one space, Lance.
[snap]
Ah!
PAUL: Gone?
BRAD: It's off.
PAUL: What happened?
BRAD: It just came off,
I don't know.
PAUL: Pull the hook.
BRAD: Son of a bitch.
That is terrible.
You finally get a bite,
then you lose him.
You get a pit in your stomach
and you just feel sad.
PAUL: You're always gonna
pull a hook,
always, always, always,
always, always, always.
BRAD: I hate that, that is
the worst. Beautiful tuna. Ah.
PAUL: Yep.
LANCE: I can't be working
for free. I need money.
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
[laughs]
I'm the captain
of the harpoon boat Lily.
Most people call me
Captain Hollywood
'cause I'm such a star.
Anyone can reel a tuna fish up.
Not everybody can
harpoon a tuna.
Unlike the rod-and-reel boats,
we're warriors,
not lazy thumb-suckers.
We go out and hunt down
the tuna.
MARK: They're out jumping
over there, jumping now.
HOLLYWOOD: Marky flies overhead,
spots the fish,
and directs Jimmy
to drive towards them.
I take my place on the pulpit,
I have to choose
the perfect moment
to throw the harpoon
to hit the tuna.
My goal this season is to catch
a lot of bluefin tuna,
make a lot of money and
annihilate the Kristiana.
GREG: Team Kristiana is here
to kick Hollywood's ass.
He's one cocky guy.
Everybody's tired of hearing
Hollywood trash talk
and brag about himself.
My job is to put the boat
on the fish.
Gibbs is a great harpooner.
His eyes are like an eagle.
GIBBS: Come on, where is he?
GREG: This year we have
brought on a new crewmember,
Joel Finley, he'll jump right on
and do whatever
I need him to do.
JOEL: That fish over here?
GREG: How far you looking?
JOEL: I've been in the fishery
for 30 years,
and I'm here on the Kristiana
to help the Gregs
shut Hollywood up.
Let's pound 'em!
HOLLYWOOD: Hey, look at this!
JIMMY: Coming up
on the Kristiana.
HOLLYWOOD: Look at Marky
coming in!
JIMMY: He's coming down,
he's gonna buzz us.
[laughs]
GREG: Here comes Mark
coming in low.
GIBBS: Yeah, there you go.
He's trying to get
under our skin.
Here he comes,
he's coming right on us.
♪ ♪
[laughs]
HOLLYWOOD: Apparently Greg
can't function
without his little blue pills,
so this season I'm calling him
Captain Blue Pill.
GIBBS: There's Hollywood
over there.
JOEL: He is coming
right up on us.
GIBBS: Yeah.
JOEL: Apparently he's not shy.
HOLLYWOOD: Hi, Blue Pill!
GREG: Tell your pilot
to stay off the roof.
HOLLYWOOD: He wasn't
on your roof.
He's coming to say hello,
he loves you.
GREG: Go home.
Go take care
of your own business.
HOLLYWOOD: Those guys
on the Kristiana
think they're competition,
but they're not.
They're not even in our league.
[laughs]
I'll see you later!
JOEL: Feel that hot air?
Big talker, that guy.
GREG: We need to put Lily
in its place.
Catch some today.
HOLLYWOOD: We're going
to run circles
around those guys this year.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
TJ: Whoa.
DANIEL: Hey.
TJ: Dan the man.
TIM: What's happening?
TIM: Ready to go fishing.
TJ: You ready, Danny,
you ready to roll?
DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: You look excited.
DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: We've got two really nice
fish so far this season,
we're definitely trailing
some of the other guys
in the earning department.
We definitely need to
shake things up a little bit,
and we could certainly use
a little bit of luck,
so I'm bringing my nephew Daniel
on board this trip.
You think we're going
to catch one?
DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: Yeah?
TIM: Yeah, man.
TJ: Alright, we need that
positive motivation.
Daniel's eight years old and
he absolutely loves fishing.
We've waited quite a few years
for him to get to this age
before we brought him offshore
on one of these tuna trips.
DANIEL: I'm really excited
to go tuna fishing,
because this would be
my first one to catch ever,
and I hope it's
a thousand-pounder,
and I hope it's gonna be
really fun.
TJ: You ready to roll or what?
DANIEL: Yeah.
TIM: This is Danny's first
bluefin trip on board.
It's very exciting to me,
I mean, for us to be able
to catch a fish with him
would be probably one
of the best things
I've done in my life, besides
catching with my boys, you know.
TJ: What you guys talk about
on the way up?
DANIEL: How we're gonna
catch a big tuna.
TJ: Really?
DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: Poppy fart at all
in the truck?
DANIEL: No.
TJ: No?
TIM: We're here,
let's go fishing. I'm ready.
TJ: Alright, let's go.
Go ahead, Danny,
go start the motor, bud.
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
Like I say, surely isn't
Captain Blue.
I don't know, I want to get
into him now, I can't wait here.
Killing me.
This is our first day
out on the water.
Unlike the rod and reel guys,
we can't fish every day because
of the weather conditions.
And the harpoon season
is a limited season.
As the water temperature
gets warmer,
the fish start diving deep for
the rod-and-reel guys to catch.
MARK: I got 'em over here,
come, come right a touch.
Once I see the tuna,
I guide Jimmy to sneak up
to them from behind.
So they don't know
they're being chased.
We don't want them
to dive or scatter.
Pick up the power a little bit,
that's it,
you got to pick up the speed,
you're going downwind here.
HOLLYWOOD: There they are.
I see them!
You can see 'em.
There, set your speed, Jimbo.
We got 'em, right?
JIMMY: Once Marky
finds the fish,
I line the boat up
so Hollywood can harpoon them.
It's a lot to it,
because the fish are moving
and the boat's moving.
MARK: Ten boat lengths,
eleven boats.
MARK: Looking good right now.
Three boat lengths.
MARK: I usually zero in
on the biggest fish
'cause that means more money.
I'm the guy that's gonna get
you that bigger fish, too.
Yeah, that's the one, Billy,
right there.
Come on, baby.
HOLLYWOOD: Bingo! Bingo!
Hit him, hit him!
HOLLYWOOD: Hit him!
JIMMY: Got him!
HOLLYWOOD: Got him, got him.
Nice action. Look at that thing.
JIMMY: That's fast action
there, Cap.
HOLLYWOOD: Nice one, too.
Look at this thing coming,
like a submarine.
How's the Greg and Greg Show
doing?
JOEL: Damn it, it looks like
Billy caught a tuna.
GIBBS: Right in front of us
way out there.
GREG: I'm thinking right here.
GIBBS: I don't understand,
we're nice guys, and he's
a douche to everybody.
Mouthy, and the prick
still catches fish.
Ugh, blows my mind.
HOLLYWOOD:
Ah, he's a freaking slob.
Alright, here we go,
take him right.
How's that, Greg and Greg?
Look at the size of that thing.
Jeez, what a shot.
MARK: I see a fishy.
Nice one.
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
Who's better than
Captain Hollywood?
Just tell me.
JIMMY: Go ahead, Cap.
HOLLYWOOD: We got 96.
Probably a $10,000 tuna.
Yeah, baby!
[laughs]
JIMMY: Beautiful way
to start the season.
PAUL: We're over it, yeah, we
lost a fish and we're over it.
That's it; we're over it.
You know, I've lost more tuna
than this whole fleet will catch
in a lifetime by the age of 15.
LANCE: Joke.
Pathetic.
We've already lost
one fish today,
so it's really hard to listen
to Paul go on and on and on,
especially since
he hasn't paid us
for the first three tuna
we've caught this season.
[beeping]
We got a streaker.
We got one coming right up
at the bait right now.
PAUL: Two of 'em.
LANCE: Two of 'em.
Come on, baby!
BRAD: Keep coming.
[reel unspooling slowly]
[beeping]
[reel unspooling]
LANCE: We're on, we're on,
we're on, we're on!
PAUL: Here we go.
LANCE: Just hooked up, baby,
that's when the chumming
pays off!
Oh, this is a big fish,
screaming line out right now.
We got him on,
we got him on, baby.
PAUL: He's big, he's
an 800-pound fish, this fish.
20 grand.
BRAD: We really need this,
we're gonna try hard,
we're gonna get it.
PAUL: This is a big fish.
I can tell by how much line
he's got out.
I know, I've caught one before.
[laughs]
Let Brad take it, Lance.
LANCE: Ready, Brad?
BRAD: Yup.
LANCE: Take your time, Brad-o.
PAUL: Push it, push it!
[laughs]
Reel, reel.
BRAD: He's a giant.
Giant Atlantic bluefin tuna.
LANCE: Yeah, baby.
BRAD: I've been catching tuna
for 36 years now.
And I know we have to put
extra pressure on a big fish
by increasing the tension
on the line.
Keeping pressure on him.
We're getting a few inches
of line, but that's all.
We need to let him tow the boat,
let him wear down.
We really got to take our time
and nail it the right way.
15,000-pound boat, and he's
pulling the stern right to him.
LANCE: Get him, Brad-o.
PAUL: He's coming up on top
right now,
he's going to break the surface,
and I'm trying to back up on him
so we can get on him.
BRAD: Paul, don't back down
on him.
We'll never wear him down
this way.
PAUL: I like to back down on 'em
to get over them,
to get 'em down where you can
get him on his side,
it's the only way you're
gonna take a fish.
BRAD: Stop backing down.
Now there's slack in the line.
That fish can run free
and make evasive moves.
When he does that, the hook hole
in his mouth will get bigger,
and he could pull the hook
at any time.
PAUL: I want to get on him.
I've fought fish a thousand
times just like this before.
BRAD: We want to stop him,
we don't want to keep
letting him breathe.
The more we let this guy
run around,
the more chances he's got
to pull the hook.
We should have stopped the boat
and let him really pull.
90% of the fish
that I've caught,
I don't even start the boat.
We're gonna lose him.
Hey, I want to,
I want to slow down here.
PAUL: I'm not stopping, Brad.
♪ ♪
BRAD: Stop backing down.
PAUL: Want to get on him.
BRAD: We want to stop him,
we don't want to keep
letting him breathe.
We're fighting a monster tuna,
but Paul's backing down on him
and letting him run
wherever he wants.
The more we let this fish run,
the more slack he's got,
the more chances he's got
to get free.
We're gonna lose him.
Hey, I want to,
I want to slow down here.
PAUL: I'm not stopping, Brad!
BRAD: He's running out
on top again.
We got to put the brakes on him.
LANCE: I know I'm not
the tuna expert,
but what Brad's saying
makes perfect sense to me.
BRAD: He's swimming as fast
as the boat away.
Just swimming away
from us pretty hard.
He's paddling.
Oh!
PAUL: Ugh! He's gone.
BRAD: I'm so pissed off
right now.
I think we lost it 'cause
we backed down too much.
That fish swam around
wherever he wanted to go
and finally pulled the hook.
LANCE: It, it popped off.
Paul brought Brad on
because he's one of the best
fishermen that he knows.
I can't understand why
he won't take advice from him.
I don't know if Paul's
just trying to show
he's the boss or what.
[laughs]
PAUL: What are you gonna do?
Go home and cry?
Cry in your milk?
I'm the one
with the $200,000 boat.
They got nothing on the line.
My whole life is
on the line here.
This is my boat, my way,
I'm the captain,
I'm the boss, and that's that.
BRAD: I've caught a ton of tuna.
He should at least listen to me.
I don't, I don't, I don't,
I don't back down.
There's just certain things
we got to change
or this is not gonna work out
on this boat.
DAVE: We gonna tear them up now?
We're in second place
in the earnings this week,
and I don't like being second.
Hard Merchandise,
he's leading the fleet,
and we lost to him last season.
I want to be the best boat
in the fleet.
My number one goal this week
is to move into the top spot.
A lot of life here,
a lot of whales.
SANDRO: Definitely bait
on the bottom.
DAVE: Got a pretty good shot
right here.
Tons of bait, tons of whales.
We'll see what we can do.
Got to get one here.
GIBBS: They're right in here
somewhere.
JOEL: Yep, looked pretty
interesting right there.
Birds are a good sign of life.
Where's there's birds,
there's bait,
where there's bait,
there's tuna.
GIBBS: Lily caught a tuna
earlier,
but we haven't had any luck yet.
The advantage Hollywood has over
us is he's got Mark flying.
He thinks he's a lot better
than he really is.
If he didn't have Mark,
he wouldn't catch half as many
fish as he catches.
We don't have a spotter pilot.
We have to watch for signs of
tuna pushing through the water.
Water just pours off their back,
so we call it making water.
Whale, as well. Look,
there's fish in there, too.
GREG: Whales in there with them.
Right here, right here, right
here, right here, right here.
It's fish, it's fish, it's fish.
GIBBS: Alright, let me down,
let me down, let me down.
80 feet.
GREG: They're making water,
Greg.
GIBBS: Yep, I see 'em.
GREG: I think they're going
a little 11, little 11!
Point 'em out!
JOEL: Right here,
go right, go right.
GIBBS: Look over here,
over here, over here.
JOEL: Go right.
GREG: Come on, Neptune,
give us a chance here.
GIBBS: Over here!
GREG: Up and down
under his feet.
GIBBS: Right here, right here,
come on, come on,
come on, come on!
GREG: Right here on your left,
your left! 10 o'clock.
JOEL: 10 o'clock, right there.
GREG: Oh, is that a...
JOEL: No, it's a whale.
GREG: That's a whale, sorry.
Aww.
The whale spooked 'em.
Hopefully, they're gonna
pop back up here,
we're gonna get a chance.
This is looking real fishy
in here right now.
HOLLYWOOD:
Yeah, go ahead, Marky.
MARK: Yeah, I got a line
running out to the east.
HOLLYWOOD: Alright,
I'm coming that way.
Our first trip out,
we're up by one fish,
go try to get another one.
Those guys on the Kristiana,
we're gonna crush 'em.
MARK: 20 boats,
maybe a little less now.
HOLLYWOOD: We need another one.
MARK: You can see the water
from them there.
Your 11:30.
Eight boats and a touch left.
Yep. Steady like that.
Four boat lengths.
HOLLYWOOD: Right here!
MARK: Three, four boat lengths.
Come left again a little. Left.
They're swimming from your left
to your right, right now.
1 o'clock, two boat lengths
or so.
Yep, steady like that.
HOLLYWOOD: Tell me when!
JIMMY: Hit him!
MARK: Two boat lengths or so.
Yep, steady like that.
HOLLYWOOD: Tell me when!
JIMMY: Hit him!
HOLLYWOOD: Hit him!
That's two!
JIMMY: Bingo!
HOLLYWOOD: Ha!
There's another one, Cap,
right in the head!
Whacked another one.
MARK: Good boys!
HOLLYWOOD: Take the pole
right on.
I'm gonna measure him up
right now.
JIMMY: Oh, yeah.
HOLLYWOOD: 75, Jimbo.
JIMMY: Nice!
Number two.
Little fish, big check.
It's all good.
MARK: Big belly.
HOLLYWOOD: It's two more
than Captain Blue.
MARK: I got 'em over here,
they're coming back up,
coming back up.
HOLLYWOOD: See if we can
get another one.
One more would be nice.
Go ahead, Jimmy.
I don't want to jinx myself and
start thinking I'm wonderful,
but who's better than me?
The Gregs?
I don't even want to pick
on them, they're so pathetic!
MARK: 12 o'clock,
probably six boats going
dead away from you right now.
Paddling, paddling.
Hold that steady.
Four boats or so now.
Right, right, right,
boat length and a half.
Like that.
HOLLYWOOD: Hit him!
JIMMY: Boom, baby!
Yes, yes, yes!
HOLLYWOOD: Reach out
and touch somebody!
[laughs]
We got three.
Come on, take him, take him.
Here, watch out, will you?
I'm on the rail.
Watch out, yeah, I got him.
I'm gonna hand him to you, okay?
JIMMY: Can't get him.
HOLLYWOOD: Pull him
right over here.
Another one! Matching model.
Ha!
Right here, baby!
It's our lucky day.
78, right there.
JIMMY: You're back!
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
[laughs]
Take that, Kristiana.
♪ ♪
DANIEL: I want to catch one!
TJ: Yeah, me too, bud.
We're off to a little bit
of a slow start
on Daniel's first bluefin trip,
but he's having a blast.
TIM: Watch out, watch out!
TJ: He has so much energy.
MIKE: He's up and down,
he's all over the place.
He's giving us a workout.
Be careful.
TJ: I'll never forget
what it was like
to catch that first bluefin
with my father.
To see one of those things
and to watch that rod bend,
and it was, you know,
an amazing experience,
and I want Daniel to experience
that as well.
DANIEL: Can I do it?
I want to catch some bait.
MIKE: Hold it just like that.
Just go up and down.
You'll feel them hitting it.
I remember the feeling I had
the first time
I caught one of these beautiful
bluefins, I was hooked.
I wanted to catch these things
for the rest of my life.
And there would be
no better feeling
than sharing that with Daniel.
Boom!
DANIEL: What!
MIKE: Got 'em.
DANIEL: I bet this bait is gonna
get my first bluefin.
Now if the tuna would just
hurry up and get here.
♪ ♪
HOLLYWOOD: Nice way to start,
huh, PJ?
First day I come in with three
fish, who's better than me?
PJ: No one, man.
No one's better than you.
HOLLYWOOD: I got to feed
my family, Cap.
PJ: 152 dresser.
It's tiny.
HOLLYWOOD: I know.
What are you gonna do?
The buyer's looking for
good color and lots of fat.
The higher the fat content,
the higher price per pound.
What do we got, PJ?
PJ: It's, uh, a little
on the dark side.
It does have some
harpoon damage on it.
That's gonna be
a little deduction.
HOLLYWOOD: There's always
some excuse with you.
PJ: It's a no-fat fish.
Can't put fat in them.
It's gonna be, uh, $6 a pound.
HOLLYWOOD: Ah, God.
JIMMY: That's alright.
PJ: Let's see what the other
ones look like.
HOLLYWOOD: Alright,
let's look at number two.
What do we got, PJ?
PJ: 176! 176 pounds.
JIMMY: Nice!
HOLLYWOOD: Nice.
PJ: Where are the big ones?
HOLLYWOOD: I don't know.
What do you think?
PJ: Well, it's another
red meater.
There's no fat at all,
$7 a pound.
HOLLYWOOD: Alright.
It's the best you can do?
PJ: Something. One more?
HOLLYWOOD: What do you think
of this one, PJ?
A little better than
the last few, huh?
PJ: 353-pounder.
JIMMY: That's a little better.
HOLLYWOOD: Let's see
what we got, PJ.
PJ: Where's the fat?
Where's the fat?
I don't see any fat.
HOLLYWOOD: Come on.
PJ: This one here, $8 a pound.
HOLLYWOOD: It's not
28 bucks a pound,
but it's something, right?
We made $5,000 today.
I'm not totally excited,
but I'm happy.
The best part about this is,
Captain Blue,
you know, Greg and Greg,
your buddies.
PJ: Yeah. I know 'em, yeah.
HOLLYWOOD: They didn't even
get no fish. We got three.
NARRATOR: Lily's three
low-quality fish give them
a disappointing payday.
[bird squawks]
[snoring]
MARCIANO: You know
Jay's not worried
about making a big deal
about his birthday.
JOE: Yeah.
MARCIANO: But I got him
a cake anyway.
JOE: Alright.
MARCIANO: So when he wakes up,
we'll, you know, make fun of him
a little bit.
JOE: Alright, cool.
MARCIANO: 'Cause he's getting
to be an old man like me.
The last few weeks,
our luck really turned around.
And now, we're back at the top
of the fleet.
How do you write
'Happy Birthday' in shorthand?
JOE: Just do it 'HBD.'
Perfect!
MARCIANO: Alright.
JOE: Hopefully, it tastes
better than it looks.
MARCIANO: Without the crew,
I can't catch fish.
I'm nothing more
than a glorified,
two-bit, half-wit
tour bus driver.
Joe and I baked you a cake
while you were sleeping.
JAY: Did you really?
MARCIANO: Well, we didn't
really bake it, but...
It is important to show him
my appreciation,
but you don't want him
to get used to it.
JOE: Oooh!
JAY: H-B-D-J, happy face.
MARCIANO: Alright.
Are you gonna cut the cake?
JAY: Aw, jeez.
Dig in.
[laughs]
[laughing]
MARCIANO: Food fight!
[laughing]
They can make the biggest mess
they want.
Heck, they're the ones that are
gonna clean it up, anyway.
[laughing]
It's only the captain who gets
to have his cake
and eat it, too.
[laughing]
Uh-uh!
JAY: Thanks, man!
JOE: Happy birthday, Jay.
JAY: Thank you.
[beeping]
GEORDIE: He came all the way
up to 75 feet.
DAVE: There he is.
That's him.
We've been fishing, and we have
nothing to show for it.
It's absolutely terrible.
To top it off, we've been
marking for two hours,
and the tuna just will not bite.
GEORDIE: There's one coming up.
There's one coming up.
DAVE: There's two there.
[beeping]
GEORDIE: Yep.
DAVE: Wow, look at that.
X marks the spot, right there,
look at that.
SANDRO: Those are big.
DAVE: Yeah, you got two corkers
under the boat right now.
Here we are, we got all the fish
under the boat,
we can't get a bite.
We've heard others have been
catching tuna this week,
and that makes me even
more frustrated
that we haven't caught.
First here.
[beeping]
SANDRO: Sometimes the fish
just don't bite,
no matter what you put
in front of their face.
DAVE: Can't buy a bite.
[beeping]
SANDRO: There, there!
We're on, we're on, we're on!
DAVE: Now we have one!
About freaking time.
Get him, get him, get him!
Don't let him go!
DAVE: Here we are, we got all
the fish under the boat,
we can't get a bite.
[beeping]
SANDRO: There, there!
We're on, we're on, we're on!
DAVE: Now we have one.
Keep cranking, keep cranking.
SANDRO: About time.
GEORDIE: He's coming!
DAVE: Out of the way.
Fish on the machine, too, look!
[beeping]
About freaking time.
All we have to do is
hold on to him now.
SANDRO: Now we got to try
and bring him to the boat.
DAVE: Sandro, you want to get
on the rod, have Geordie drive?
We designed the boat
specifically
so we have controls in the back,
so the guy driving the boat
always knows where the tuna is.
This will definitely increase
our chances of losing less fish
and catching more.
SANDRO: Swivel.
♪ ♪
Nail it! Nail it!
Hurry up!
DAVE: Got him.
♪ ♪
Gaff him in the head.
SANDRO: Got him.
DAVE: Alright, drag is off.
I'm coming with the tail rope.
GEORDIE: Woo! Alright.
There we go!
DAVE: Nice, yeah, nice going,
nice job, bro.
GEORDIE: Atta boy, Dave.
DAVE: This was an extremely
short fight.
Perfect.
The shorter the fight,
the higher the probability
you're gonna get him.
GEORDIE: Are you ready?
DAVE: Bring him in.
SANDRO: One, two, three.
GEORDIE: 77, we could call that.
DAVE: This fish will probably
dress out around 300 pounds.
Let's go get another one.
This new boat is the ultimate
tuna-catching machine.
LANCE: What do you think of
a nice tuna check when we go in?
PAUL: Oh, write one out?
Alright.
I think we were fishing
every day.
LANCE: Really?
Hmm.
So far on this trip,
we've already lost
two paychecks.
And to top it off,
I still haven't been paid
for the first three fish
we caught this season.
PAUL: Weren't we out to sea
every day? We weren't on land?
LANCE: Why are you
busting my balls?
All I said it would be nice
to get a fish check!
PAUL: We go in today.
We'll stay in and
I'll write checks.
Okay? We'll stay in for the day
and we'll go the next day.
BRAD: Oh, Jesus.
Paul's acting like a jerk.
Being a good captain is not just
about putting fish on the boat.
It's also about honoring your
commitments to your crew,
which includes
paying them on time.
PAUL: We'll miss a day's fishing
so we can write checks.
LANCE: I didn't know
it takes a whole day
to write a check, Paul.
I usually write a little
quicker than that.
PAUL: I'll go in right now.
That's what we'll do.
I ain't gonna deal
with this bull no more.
I'm over it, Lance.
LANCE: I ask you
one simple thing
and you flip the [bleep] out.
Every time I bring up money,
you get all mad.
Like, I'm just talking to you.
Is it wrong for me to worry
about how I'm gonna feed
my daughter, Paul?
Is that wrong?
There's no way you can go home
and tell
your five-year-old daughter
that Daddy didn't make
any money this week,
so she'll have to go
without dinner.
PAUL: Lance wants his money
right now
to feed his daughter, so...
LANCE: Right, man.
I want my money.
PAUL: I've never, ever had
anyone question me with money
in my life.
LANCE: I'm starting to see
a different side of Paul,
and it's a side of Paul
that I don't like.
BRAD: This is getting bad.
♪ ♪
[snoring]
[beeping]
JARRETT: It's the first time
like that in, like, three hours.
I 100% feel like I'm part
of the Ott family.
By all means, I do.
So, right now, I'm super pumped
having little Danny on the boat.
It's 3 o'clock in the morning.
I've been up all night long
trying to get this bite.
I'm gonna see to it that
this kid sees a tuna tonight.
[beeping]
The screen just turned blue,
so I just started dumping chum.
[beeping]
[reel unspooling slowly]
Oh! We're on!
We're on! We're on!
♪ ♪
We're on, dude.
TIM: Daniel!
DANIEL: Yeah?
TIM: We got them on, come on.
There's no way I'm gonna
let Daniel miss this,
and I want him to see this,
because I want him to have the
experience of seeing a bluefin
or catching a bluefin
like we have.
DANIEL: We're hooked up, pa-pow!
I'm tired and excited
at the same time.
JARRETT: It's heavy as [bleep].
Watch out, TJ, it's going
in front of the boat.
TJ, watch out!
Forward, forward, forward.
DANIEL: It's really exciting,
because I never caught a tuna
in my life that is really big.
JARRETT: It's in front
of the boat!
TJ: Swing back to the left.
DANIEL: Whoa!
JARRETT: Watch out, watch out,
watch out, watch out!
Forward, forward,
forward, forward!
TIM: It's gonna go
around the anchor!
Hurry up!
JARRETT: Look out!
TIM: Hurry! Hurry!
JARRETT: Watch out, TJ,
it's going in front of the boat.
TJ, watch out!
Forward, forward, forward!
It's in front of the boat!
TJ: Swing back to the left!
DANIEL: Whoa!
JARRETT: Watch out, watch out,
watch out, watch out,
forward, forward,
forward, forward!
TIM: It's gonna go
around the anchor!
Hurry up!
JARRETT: Look out!
TIM: Hurry! Hurry!
JARRETT: Watch this anchor.
They're right here!
TJ: Get a gaff! Get a gaff!
DANIEL: He's almost under!
He's getting under the boat.
TIM: Reel, Jarrett! Come on!
♪ ♪
JARRETT: Now, we just need to
get this fish to the boat
and give Danny
his first bluefin tuna.
Color, color, color.
TJ: Look at your bluefin, buddy.
TIM: See him, Dan? Look.
DANIEL: I see him, I see him.
TIM: You see him glowing?
DANIEL: It's huge.
It's the biggest fish
I ever seen.
TJ: Come on, Dad! Take a shot.
TIM: I can see him.
Believe me, I see him.
It's too deep, too deep.
One more turn, one more turn,
come on.
Look at this fish.
TJ: Nail it!
TIM: Got him.
TJ: Get him!
TIM: Got him!
Forward, forward, forward!
Back up.
Come on! I got him good,
I got him right in the back.
TJ: We got him.
JARRETT: Coming up, coming up.
TJ: Come on!
TIM: Get ahead, get ahead!
Get ahead.
JARRETT: I got him!
TIM: Got him!
TJ: Get a tail gaff!
TIM: Where is it? The gaff?
TJ: Right behind you!
DANIEL: Right here, right here!
TIM: I got one, I got one.
Where is it?
JARRETT: Get ready,
he's right here!
TIM: Where is he?
I don't see him!
JARRETT: Over here.
TIM: I got him, I got him,
I got him.
TJ: Come here, Dan!
Over here, over here.
Perfect, perfect.
TIM: Oh, we got him, man!
[cheering]
[bleep]
[cheering]
JARRETT: Atta boy!
MIKE: There's your first tuna,
brother.
TJ: That's a tuna, baby.
Oh! Thank you.
TIM: Whoa-ho!
TJ: Look at that!
JARRETT: That's a good one
right there!
DANIEL: He's fat.
TIM: Yeah, he's fat, baby.
DANIEL: It was really cool
to catch my first fish.
Jarrett, my uncles, and my pa,
they all helped me and stuff,
'cause they helped me
reel in that fish,
and they harpooned it
for me and stuff.
TJ: Give me a pa-pow!
DANIEL: Pa-pow.
TIM: It was the greatest feeling
in the world for me.
So, now he's part of the club.
He's part of the clan.
TJ: Look up. Look at Michael!
TIM: Hopefully he gets to do it
a lot more
over the rest of his life.
TJ: You got him, Danny! Woo!
At the end of the day,
it's great we caught a fish.
We needed a payday.
But I think more importantly,
this family time is
the greatest gift of all.
Want to measure him,
get a measurement?
95, alright, nice!
MIKE: Nice!
JARRETT: Yeah! Nice work!
Nice one.
TIM: Good job, Jarrett.
TJ: We needed this one, man,
we needed this one bad.
DANIEL: Pa-pow!
♪ ♪
BUBBA: What's going on, Dave?
DAVE: We got one.
BUBBA: Let's get it up here.
DAVE: How much, Bubba?
BUBBA: 291 pounds dressed.
GEORDIE: 291, not bad.
SANDRO: Nice.
DAVE: We got $17 a pound
for the fish last week.
I need this fish to fetch
at least that much.
BUBBA: Shade, a bit lighter
than we like.
Let's take a look at the core.
DAVE: Come on, Bubba.
BUBBA: Not bad.
Can do $12 a pound.
DAVE: We didn't get what we were
looking for, but we'll take it.
It's a paycheck.
SANDRO: Thanks, bud.
BUBBA: I'll see you later.
Good luck, guys.
GEORDIE: Thanks, buddy.
mediocre bluefin
is enough to put them ahead
of last season's champion,
Hard Merchandise.
♪ ♪
GREG: Come on, fish.
Where are you?
Conditions are not ideal
for harpooning today.
There's a lot of wind
and rough seas.
But we need to take
a chance to catch up.
The Lily got lucky
and got three fish.
The Lily really put
a little distance
between him and ourselves, and
we need to get it going here.
GIBBS: This huge ocean
and guess who shows up.
HOLLYWOOD: Kristiana's
on his way out,
going to the party, Jimbo.
You know, Captain Blue Pill,
there ain't much left in him.
I think he can barely
get in the tower.
Those guys on the Kristiana,
I know they're gonna have
a tough time catching up.
Wind was really howling
this morning,
so walking out on that pulp
was like walking out on
a balance beam in a gymnasium.
JIMMY: Hey, at least in a gym,
the ground ain't moving.
HOLLYWOOD:
No surprises, I know.
GIBBS: We got color. Right
there, right there, right there.
GREG: How many boats?
HOLLYWOOD: Five, six boats.
JOEL: Go ahead, I got them.
GIBBS: See 'em?
You got 'em, Joel?
JOEL: Yep.
GIBBS: Going to the,
down south, downwind.
GREG: Right here.
Right here, Jimmy.
Right here, right here.
They're running.
HOLLYWOOD: Something going here,
Mark,
you've gone too far
from us here.
MARK: Yeah. I'm coming.
JIMMY: Go, they're right there,
Joel, see 'em?
2 o'clock, they're making water,
2 o'clock.
Everybody hold on tight so
it doesn't rock back and forth.
MARK: Making a wake, Jim,
making a wake.
Going into the sun
here right now.
About five boat lengths.
GREG: Three boats, Greg,
three boats!
JOEL: Nice fin, right there.
MARK: Come left now, Jimmy.
12 o'clock.
JIMMY: There you go. 12 o'clock!
MARK: One boat length!
JOEL: There's a slob
right there!
GREG: Nail his ass, Greg,
nail his ass.
JIMMY: Get him, Hollywood.
GREG: Nail his ass!
MARK: One boat length.
JOEL: There's a slob
right there.
GREG: Nail his ass, Greg,
nail his ass.
JIMMY: Get him, Hollywood.
HOLLYWOOD: Damn, I missed him.
GREG: Got him, got him!
[bleep]
Yeah!
JOEL: Woo! Woo!
[laughing]
Gibbsy!
GREG: Yeah!
HOLLYWOOD: Got him?
The Kristiana just caught one.
I'm still not gonna lose
no sleep over it.
MARK: Got caught up
in the glare,
but it looked like
they went away.
HOLLYWOOD: I thought
we were gonna get him.
GREG: That's what
it's all about!
GIBBS: Yeah!
GREG: Nice job, Gibbs!
What do you got?
GIBBS: 77.
GREG: Okay!
We'd take one more
just like him.
I might, I might have
another bunch.
I saw the color.
Hey!
Rig up, I got them!
GIBBS: Here we go, they're up.
GREG: Right there,
big, big bunch, big bunch!
JOEL: Hang on, Greg, hang on.
Still got him?
GIBBS: Yes! Yes! 12 o'clock!
GREG: See him, Joel?
JOEL: Oh, yeah.
Here they come, here they come!
They're coming right at us.
GREG: Get it in your hand!
Get it in your hand!
Look for a big one!
JOEL: Ooh, hang on!
GREG: Hang on!
GIBBS: There's a big one
right there.
JOEL: Got him.
GREG: You got him like
half a boat, Greg!
GIBBS: Oh, Jesus.
GREG: Hang on!
JOEL: Look at your 1!
Look at your 1!
GREG: 1 o'clock!
[bleep]
Ready?
GIBBS: Yep.
Come right more, then come left!
JOEL: Right there at your 11.
GIBBS: Swing me around.
GREG: Hit him. Hit him!
GREG: He got him, he got him.
GIBBS: Back her down.
Now we've got two fish,
we only need one more,
and we'll be tied
three-to-three with the Lily.
Hurry up.
GREG: Nice one.
GIBBS: One, two, three.
GREG: Yeah, baby!
JOEL: Nice one, Gibbsy.
[laughing]
GREG: Gibbs!
You can't make them
on a flat-ass, calm day,
but, boy, you're showing us
how to do it today, boy!
JOEL: 78, boys.
[laughs]
GIBBS: Take that, Hollywood.
GREG: I got 'em. I got 'em.
I got fish.
They're still right
in front of you.
GIBBS: Right at like
2:30, 3 o'clock,
making a circle, see 'em, Joel?
JOEL: Yup, I got them.
GREG: Yup, got 'em, Greg. Greg?
GIBBS: I'm right here,
I'm going down.
GREG: You ready?
GIBBS: Yup.
GREG: One boat, 12 o'clock,
going right to left!
JOEL: I'm going to go down
a little and swing you up left.
GREG: Whoa, nice one
right there.
JOEL: They might be milling.
GREG: Hang on, Greg.
JOEL: Right in front of you.
Yeah, Gibbsy.
GREG: Gibbsy!
GIBBS: Spin the boat, someone,
spin the boat, spin the boat.
GREG: Which way you want me
to spin it?
GIBBS: This way.
GREG: I'm really, really happy
with what, what we've done.
GIBBS: Ready?
JOEL: Here it comes.
JOEL: Slammer!
GIBBS: One, two, three.
JOEL: Three.
GREG: Yeah, baby!
[laughs]
Nice work, boys.
How big is the last one?
GIBBS: 88, boys, 88.
JOEL: Nice, nice work, Gibbsy.
GREG: Welcome to the Kristiana.
You, you can't leave now.
GIBBS: Oh, no.
Three keepers!
We've caught up to the Lily,
we're tied now.
Yes!
♪ ♪
HOLLYWOOD: What's up, Greg?
Another boatload, huh, buddy?
Other way, other way,
back it up.
Is this your first time
backing in here?
GREG: If I had two mates
that would throw the lines,
it wouldn't be a screw-up.
HOLLYWOOD: So it isn't
just me, Gibbsy,
he's like this all day, right?
He's out of control,
look at him.
He's out of control!
GREG: Go mind your own business.
Tell your pilot he flies over
my top again like that,
there's going to be
a big problem.
HOLLYWOOD: Oh, geez.
GREG: Oh, yeah, oh, geez,
you can say whatever you want.
HOLLYWOOD: He's got three fish
and he's still miserable.
Have a good night and I hope you
have a stroke tomorrow.
GIBBS: Oh, boy.
GREG: Wow.
Let's take a look
at the first fish.
273 pounds, we have a winner.
PJ: Nice job, guys.
Got a nice fish here,
nice shape,
nice oily, beautiful color.
This fish here, $14 a pound.
GREG: Alright.
JOEL: Nice.
GREG: $14 a pound,
thank you very much.
JOEL: Good job, guys.
PJ: Good job, Cap.
PJ: Let's see what
the other ones look like.
GREG: Now for the second fish.
What do you got there, PJ?
PJ: 212 pounds.
Nice-looking fish, guys.
GREG: Feels good,
look at the fat.
PJ: Nice texture to the meat.
GREG: What do you think,
what are we gonna get?
PJ: $15 on this one.
GIBBS: Nice, nice.
JOEL: Nice.
GREG: Okay, one more.
Let's see how
our third fish looks.
PJ: 285 pounds dressed.
GREG: Nice!
JOEL: Nice.
GREG: Thank you!
I mean, that core looks good,
it's nice and firm.
PJ: Yeah, the core is okay.
The tail color is a little dull.
I'm gonna go...
$12 a pound on that.
GREG: Yeah, we'll take that.
PJ: Great job, guys.
GIBBS: Thank you very much.
GREG: Great day today.
PJ: Good job, Greg.
GREG: Alright, thanks.
GREG: Hollywood definitely got
off to an early lead on us.
You know, brand new crew, we've
only been going a few days,
we finally are gelling.
The goal is to beat him
and dethrone him.
NARRATOR: Kristiana's
10-grand payday
pushes them ahead of rival Lily.
SCOTT: What's up, guys?
TJ: We got our nephew
on board this trip.
Daniel, man.
Got his first bluefin.
SCOTT: Congratulations.
TJ: Maybe you'll be buying fish
from him one day.
SCOTT: Yeah!
DANIEL: When I grow up,
I want to get the Hot Tuna
and fish out there.
I want to be in a,
like, position
when you catch that tuna, too,
on that boat
and give it on
when I have kids one day.
TJ: You want us to get this
thing out, get a look at it?
SCOTT: Let's do it.
TJ: Dan, make sure he doesn't
shave any pounds off.
SCOTT: Got 403 pounds.
TIM: That's a nice one, Dan.
SCOTT: We're going to
check out the grade,
see how much this thing
is worth.
TJ: Ooh, that's a nice one, huh?
SCOTT: Yeah, it is.
Plenty of fat, good color.
Let's check out the core.
ALL: Ooh!
TJ: Nice, perfect core.
SCOTT: You guys definitely
found your diamond.
DANIEL: Let's talk bucks.
SCOTT: Alright.
$22 a pound.
[cheering]
TJ: Nice, Scott-so!
SCOTT: Nice job.
TJ: We've been struggling
this year,
and the fact that I was able
to leave the dock this trip
with my father and my nephew
on board
and catch an absolute diamond
made it probably
the most memorable trip
I've had in a long time.
NARRATOR: Hot Tuna's
top quality fish
launches them into the lead.
Meanwhile, at the end
of week four,
Wicked Pissah's two fish losses
have put them further behind the
rest of the rod-and-reel fleet.
LANCE: ♪ Never gonna see
my fish money for my honey ♪
♪ Need my fish money ♪
I've had about as much
as I can take from Paul,
because he's not
a very good captain.
This might be my last trip.
♪ Got to feed my dogs,
feed my cats ♪
BRAD: I don't know, man.
That's just bad.
With Paul's lack
of leadership skills,
I'm not sure if I can
keep fishing with him.
PAUL: You can't cry
over spilt milk,
there's no crying
in tuna fishing.
You can't give up.
BRAD: ♪ Me and Lance
will go away ♪
of Wicked Tuna...
BRAD: We're on, we're on,
we're on!
TIM: Watch his anchor.
TJ: Get a gaff, get a gaff!
NARRATOR: For one crew...
LANCE: I can't be
working for free.
NARRATOR: Tensions reach
a boiling point...
LANCE: Asked you
one simple thing
and you flip the [bleep] out.
PAUL: Hold on, boss.
NARRATOR:
While on other boats...
MIKE: We got our nephew
on board this trip.
DANIEL: What!?
NARRATOR: It's happy families.
MARCIANO: Food fight.
[laughing]
GEORDIE: There we go.
NARRATOR: And two rival
harpooners...
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
GREG: Go take care
of your own business.
NARRATOR: ...face off.
HOLLYWOOD: I hope you have
a stroke tomorrow.
NARRATOR: In one of the most
regulated fisheries
in the world...
MARK: Blue pill!
NARRATOR: These fisherman
fight to earn a living...
GREG: Man down!
Hit him, hit him!
JARRETT: Color, color, color!
NARRATOR: Catching...
DANIEL: Pa-pow.
HOLLYWOOD: Woo!
MIKE: Watch out, watch out,
watch out!
JARRETT: Forward,
forward, forward!
NARRATOR: Wicked Tuna.
At the start of week four,
of last season's champion,
Hard Merchandise.
Meanwhile Hot Tuna and
Wicked Pissah trail the fleet.
♪ ♪
PAUL: Yeah?
BRAD: Trust me.
LANCE: We've caught three fish
so far this season,
and we still haven't seen
a paycheck from Paul.
He's got money in the bank,
so his family's fine.
But Brad and I have families
to feed, too.
In order to support my
five-year-old daughter Scarlet
I need to be consistently
catching fish
and bringing home a paycheck.
PAUL: I'll get around
to paying them,
but if we don't catch fish,
we don't get paid.
That's why we grind and grind.
I haven't had the time to
sit down and write checks.
BRAD: I'm fishing for my family
to try to keep a roof
over their heads.
A good captain not only
has to put us on the meat,
but he's got to pay us
in a timely manner.
A responsible leader
finds a balance.
If he doesn't do that,
crew's gonna leave.
[beeping]
PAUL: Hey, we're marking
on here.
[reel unspooling]
BRAD: Here we go, here we go,
tuna right.
PAUL: Here we go.
BRAD: Fish on.
PAUL: Here we go.
LANCE: Yeah, baby.
We will take you.
BRAD: Taking it to the house.
Tuna on, right there, baby.
Good bite, good bite.
Alright.
Move that rod over
one space, Lance.
[snap]
Ah!
PAUL: Gone?
BRAD: It's off.
PAUL: What happened?
BRAD: It just came off,
I don't know.
PAUL: Pull the hook.
BRAD: Son of a bitch.
That is terrible.
You finally get a bite,
then you lose him.
You get a pit in your stomach
and you just feel sad.
PAUL: You're always gonna
pull a hook,
always, always, always,
always, always, always.
BRAD: I hate that, that is
the worst. Beautiful tuna. Ah.
PAUL: Yep.
LANCE: I can't be working
for free. I need money.
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
[laughs]
I'm the captain
of the harpoon boat Lily.
Most people call me
Captain Hollywood
'cause I'm such a star.
Anyone can reel a tuna fish up.
Not everybody can
harpoon a tuna.
Unlike the rod-and-reel boats,
we're warriors,
not lazy thumb-suckers.
We go out and hunt down
the tuna.
MARK: They're out jumping
over there, jumping now.
HOLLYWOOD: Marky flies overhead,
spots the fish,
and directs Jimmy
to drive towards them.
I take my place on the pulpit,
I have to choose
the perfect moment
to throw the harpoon
to hit the tuna.
My goal this season is to catch
a lot of bluefin tuna,
make a lot of money and
annihilate the Kristiana.
GREG: Team Kristiana is here
to kick Hollywood's ass.
He's one cocky guy.
Everybody's tired of hearing
Hollywood trash talk
and brag about himself.
My job is to put the boat
on the fish.
Gibbs is a great harpooner.
His eyes are like an eagle.
GIBBS: Come on, where is he?
GREG: This year we have
brought on a new crewmember,
Joel Finley, he'll jump right on
and do whatever
I need him to do.
JOEL: That fish over here?
GREG: How far you looking?
JOEL: I've been in the fishery
for 30 years,
and I'm here on the Kristiana
to help the Gregs
shut Hollywood up.
Let's pound 'em!
HOLLYWOOD: Hey, look at this!
JIMMY: Coming up
on the Kristiana.
HOLLYWOOD: Look at Marky
coming in!
JIMMY: He's coming down,
he's gonna buzz us.
[laughs]
GREG: Here comes Mark
coming in low.
GIBBS: Yeah, there you go.
He's trying to get
under our skin.
Here he comes,
he's coming right on us.
♪ ♪
[laughs]
HOLLYWOOD: Apparently Greg
can't function
without his little blue pills,
so this season I'm calling him
Captain Blue Pill.
GIBBS: There's Hollywood
over there.
JOEL: He is coming
right up on us.
GIBBS: Yeah.
JOEL: Apparently he's not shy.
HOLLYWOOD: Hi, Blue Pill!
GREG: Tell your pilot
to stay off the roof.
HOLLYWOOD: He wasn't
on your roof.
He's coming to say hello,
he loves you.
GREG: Go home.
Go take care
of your own business.
HOLLYWOOD: Those guys
on the Kristiana
think they're competition,
but they're not.
They're not even in our league.
[laughs]
I'll see you later!
JOEL: Feel that hot air?
Big talker, that guy.
GREG: We need to put Lily
in its place.
Catch some today.
HOLLYWOOD: We're going
to run circles
around those guys this year.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
TJ: Whoa.
DANIEL: Hey.
TJ: Dan the man.
TIM: What's happening?
TIM: Ready to go fishing.
TJ: You ready, Danny,
you ready to roll?
DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: You look excited.
DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: We've got two really nice
fish so far this season,
we're definitely trailing
some of the other guys
in the earning department.
We definitely need to
shake things up a little bit,
and we could certainly use
a little bit of luck,
so I'm bringing my nephew Daniel
on board this trip.
You think we're going
to catch one?
DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: Yeah?
TIM: Yeah, man.
TJ: Alright, we need that
positive motivation.
Daniel's eight years old and
he absolutely loves fishing.
We've waited quite a few years
for him to get to this age
before we brought him offshore
on one of these tuna trips.
DANIEL: I'm really excited
to go tuna fishing,
because this would be
my first one to catch ever,
and I hope it's
a thousand-pounder,
and I hope it's gonna be
really fun.
TJ: You ready to roll or what?
DANIEL: Yeah.
TIM: This is Danny's first
bluefin trip on board.
It's very exciting to me,
I mean, for us to be able
to catch a fish with him
would be probably one
of the best things
I've done in my life, besides
catching with my boys, you know.
TJ: What you guys talk about
on the way up?
DANIEL: How we're gonna
catch a big tuna.
TJ: Really?
DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: Poppy fart at all
in the truck?
DANIEL: No.
TJ: No?
TIM: We're here,
let's go fishing. I'm ready.
TJ: Alright, let's go.
Go ahead, Danny,
go start the motor, bud.
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
Like I say, surely isn't
Captain Blue.
I don't know, I want to get
into him now, I can't wait here.
Killing me.
This is our first day
out on the water.
Unlike the rod and reel guys,
we can't fish every day because
of the weather conditions.
And the harpoon season
is a limited season.
As the water temperature
gets warmer,
the fish start diving deep for
the rod-and-reel guys to catch.
MARK: I got 'em over here,
come, come right a touch.
Once I see the tuna,
I guide Jimmy to sneak up
to them from behind.
So they don't know
they're being chased.
We don't want them
to dive or scatter.
Pick up the power a little bit,
that's it,
you got to pick up the speed,
you're going downwind here.
HOLLYWOOD: There they are.
I see them!
You can see 'em.
There, set your speed, Jimbo.
We got 'em, right?
JIMMY: Once Marky
finds the fish,
I line the boat up
so Hollywood can harpoon them.
It's a lot to it,
because the fish are moving
and the boat's moving.
MARK: Ten boat lengths,
eleven boats.
MARK: Looking good right now.
Three boat lengths.
MARK: I usually zero in
on the biggest fish
'cause that means more money.
I'm the guy that's gonna get
you that bigger fish, too.
Yeah, that's the one, Billy,
right there.
Come on, baby.
HOLLYWOOD: Bingo! Bingo!
Hit him, hit him!
HOLLYWOOD: Hit him!
JIMMY: Got him!
HOLLYWOOD: Got him, got him.
Nice action. Look at that thing.
JIMMY: That's fast action
there, Cap.
HOLLYWOOD: Nice one, too.
Look at this thing coming,
like a submarine.
How's the Greg and Greg Show
doing?
JOEL: Damn it, it looks like
Billy caught a tuna.
GIBBS: Right in front of us
way out there.
GREG: I'm thinking right here.
GIBBS: I don't understand,
we're nice guys, and he's
a douche to everybody.
Mouthy, and the prick
still catches fish.
Ugh, blows my mind.
HOLLYWOOD:
Ah, he's a freaking slob.
Alright, here we go,
take him right.
How's that, Greg and Greg?
Look at the size of that thing.
Jeez, what a shot.
MARK: I see a fishy.
Nice one.
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
Who's better than
Captain Hollywood?
Just tell me.
JIMMY: Go ahead, Cap.
HOLLYWOOD: We got 96.
Probably a $10,000 tuna.
Yeah, baby!
[laughs]
JIMMY: Beautiful way
to start the season.
PAUL: We're over it, yeah, we
lost a fish and we're over it.
That's it; we're over it.
You know, I've lost more tuna
than this whole fleet will catch
in a lifetime by the age of 15.
LANCE: Joke.
Pathetic.
We've already lost
one fish today,
so it's really hard to listen
to Paul go on and on and on,
especially since
he hasn't paid us
for the first three tuna
we've caught this season.
[beeping]
We got a streaker.
We got one coming right up
at the bait right now.
PAUL: Two of 'em.
LANCE: Two of 'em.
Come on, baby!
BRAD: Keep coming.
[reel unspooling slowly]
[beeping]
[reel unspooling]
LANCE: We're on, we're on,
we're on, we're on!
PAUL: Here we go.
LANCE: Just hooked up, baby,
that's when the chumming
pays off!
Oh, this is a big fish,
screaming line out right now.
We got him on,
we got him on, baby.
PAUL: He's big, he's
an 800-pound fish, this fish.
20 grand.
BRAD: We really need this,
we're gonna try hard,
we're gonna get it.
PAUL: This is a big fish.
I can tell by how much line
he's got out.
I know, I've caught one before.
[laughs]
Let Brad take it, Lance.
LANCE: Ready, Brad?
BRAD: Yup.
LANCE: Take your time, Brad-o.
PAUL: Push it, push it!
[laughs]
Reel, reel.
BRAD: He's a giant.
Giant Atlantic bluefin tuna.
LANCE: Yeah, baby.
BRAD: I've been catching tuna
for 36 years now.
And I know we have to put
extra pressure on a big fish
by increasing the tension
on the line.
Keeping pressure on him.
We're getting a few inches
of line, but that's all.
We need to let him tow the boat,
let him wear down.
We really got to take our time
and nail it the right way.
15,000-pound boat, and he's
pulling the stern right to him.
LANCE: Get him, Brad-o.
PAUL: He's coming up on top
right now,
he's going to break the surface,
and I'm trying to back up on him
so we can get on him.
BRAD: Paul, don't back down
on him.
We'll never wear him down
this way.
PAUL: I like to back down on 'em
to get over them,
to get 'em down where you can
get him on his side,
it's the only way you're
gonna take a fish.
BRAD: Stop backing down.
Now there's slack in the line.
That fish can run free
and make evasive moves.
When he does that, the hook hole
in his mouth will get bigger,
and he could pull the hook
at any time.
PAUL: I want to get on him.
I've fought fish a thousand
times just like this before.
BRAD: We want to stop him,
we don't want to keep
letting him breathe.
The more we let this guy
run around,
the more chances he's got
to pull the hook.
We should have stopped the boat
and let him really pull.
90% of the fish
that I've caught,
I don't even start the boat.
We're gonna lose him.
Hey, I want to,
I want to slow down here.
PAUL: I'm not stopping, Brad.
♪ ♪
BRAD: Stop backing down.
PAUL: Want to get on him.
BRAD: We want to stop him,
we don't want to keep
letting him breathe.
We're fighting a monster tuna,
but Paul's backing down on him
and letting him run
wherever he wants.
The more we let this fish run,
the more slack he's got,
the more chances he's got
to get free.
We're gonna lose him.
Hey, I want to,
I want to slow down here.
PAUL: I'm not stopping, Brad!
BRAD: He's running out
on top again.
We got to put the brakes on him.
LANCE: I know I'm not
the tuna expert,
but what Brad's saying
makes perfect sense to me.
BRAD: He's swimming as fast
as the boat away.
Just swimming away
from us pretty hard.
He's paddling.
Oh!
PAUL: Ugh! He's gone.
BRAD: I'm so pissed off
right now.
I think we lost it 'cause
we backed down too much.
That fish swam around
wherever he wanted to go
and finally pulled the hook.
LANCE: It, it popped off.
Paul brought Brad on
because he's one of the best
fishermen that he knows.
I can't understand why
he won't take advice from him.
I don't know if Paul's
just trying to show
he's the boss or what.
[laughs]
PAUL: What are you gonna do?
Go home and cry?
Cry in your milk?
I'm the one
with the $200,000 boat.
They got nothing on the line.
My whole life is
on the line here.
This is my boat, my way,
I'm the captain,
I'm the boss, and that's that.
BRAD: I've caught a ton of tuna.
He should at least listen to me.
I don't, I don't, I don't,
I don't back down.
There's just certain things
we got to change
or this is not gonna work out
on this boat.
DAVE: We gonna tear them up now?
We're in second place
in the earnings this week,
and I don't like being second.
Hard Merchandise,
he's leading the fleet,
and we lost to him last season.
I want to be the best boat
in the fleet.
My number one goal this week
is to move into the top spot.
A lot of life here,
a lot of whales.
SANDRO: Definitely bait
on the bottom.
DAVE: Got a pretty good shot
right here.
Tons of bait, tons of whales.
We'll see what we can do.
Got to get one here.
GIBBS: They're right in here
somewhere.
JOEL: Yep, looked pretty
interesting right there.
Birds are a good sign of life.
Where's there's birds,
there's bait,
where there's bait,
there's tuna.
GIBBS: Lily caught a tuna
earlier,
but we haven't had any luck yet.
The advantage Hollywood has over
us is he's got Mark flying.
He thinks he's a lot better
than he really is.
If he didn't have Mark,
he wouldn't catch half as many
fish as he catches.
We don't have a spotter pilot.
We have to watch for signs of
tuna pushing through the water.
Water just pours off their back,
so we call it making water.
Whale, as well. Look,
there's fish in there, too.
GREG: Whales in there with them.
Right here, right here, right
here, right here, right here.
It's fish, it's fish, it's fish.
GIBBS: Alright, let me down,
let me down, let me down.
80 feet.
GREG: They're making water,
Greg.
GIBBS: Yep, I see 'em.
GREG: I think they're going
a little 11, little 11!
Point 'em out!
JOEL: Right here,
go right, go right.
GIBBS: Look over here,
over here, over here.
JOEL: Go right.
GREG: Come on, Neptune,
give us a chance here.
GIBBS: Over here!
GREG: Up and down
under his feet.
GIBBS: Right here, right here,
come on, come on,
come on, come on!
GREG: Right here on your left,
your left! 10 o'clock.
JOEL: 10 o'clock, right there.
GREG: Oh, is that a...
JOEL: No, it's a whale.
GREG: That's a whale, sorry.
Aww.
The whale spooked 'em.
Hopefully, they're gonna
pop back up here,
we're gonna get a chance.
This is looking real fishy
in here right now.
HOLLYWOOD:
Yeah, go ahead, Marky.
MARK: Yeah, I got a line
running out to the east.
HOLLYWOOD: Alright,
I'm coming that way.
Our first trip out,
we're up by one fish,
go try to get another one.
Those guys on the Kristiana,
we're gonna crush 'em.
MARK: 20 boats,
maybe a little less now.
HOLLYWOOD: We need another one.
MARK: You can see the water
from them there.
Your 11:30.
Eight boats and a touch left.
Yep. Steady like that.
Four boat lengths.
HOLLYWOOD: Right here!
MARK: Three, four boat lengths.
Come left again a little. Left.
They're swimming from your left
to your right, right now.
1 o'clock, two boat lengths
or so.
Yep, steady like that.
HOLLYWOOD: Tell me when!
JIMMY: Hit him!
MARK: Two boat lengths or so.
Yep, steady like that.
HOLLYWOOD: Tell me when!
JIMMY: Hit him!
HOLLYWOOD: Hit him!
That's two!
JIMMY: Bingo!
HOLLYWOOD: Ha!
There's another one, Cap,
right in the head!
Whacked another one.
MARK: Good boys!
HOLLYWOOD: Take the pole
right on.
I'm gonna measure him up
right now.
JIMMY: Oh, yeah.
HOLLYWOOD: 75, Jimbo.
JIMMY: Nice!
Number two.
Little fish, big check.
It's all good.
MARK: Big belly.
HOLLYWOOD: It's two more
than Captain Blue.
MARK: I got 'em over here,
they're coming back up,
coming back up.
HOLLYWOOD: See if we can
get another one.
One more would be nice.
Go ahead, Jimmy.
I don't want to jinx myself and
start thinking I'm wonderful,
but who's better than me?
The Gregs?
I don't even want to pick
on them, they're so pathetic!
MARK: 12 o'clock,
probably six boats going
dead away from you right now.
Paddling, paddling.
Hold that steady.
Four boats or so now.
Right, right, right,
boat length and a half.
Like that.
HOLLYWOOD: Hit him!
JIMMY: Boom, baby!
Yes, yes, yes!
HOLLYWOOD: Reach out
and touch somebody!
[laughs]
We got three.
Come on, take him, take him.
Here, watch out, will you?
I'm on the rail.
Watch out, yeah, I got him.
I'm gonna hand him to you, okay?
JIMMY: Can't get him.
HOLLYWOOD: Pull him
right over here.
Another one! Matching model.
Ha!
Right here, baby!
It's our lucky day.
78, right there.
JIMMY: You're back!
HOLLYWOOD: Who's better than me?
[laughs]
Take that, Kristiana.
♪ ♪
DANIEL: I want to catch one!
TJ: Yeah, me too, bud.
We're off to a little bit
of a slow start
on Daniel's first bluefin trip,
but he's having a blast.
TIM: Watch out, watch out!
TJ: He has so much energy.
MIKE: He's up and down,
he's all over the place.
He's giving us a workout.
Be careful.
TJ: I'll never forget
what it was like
to catch that first bluefin
with my father.
To see one of those things
and to watch that rod bend,
and it was, you know,
an amazing experience,
and I want Daniel to experience
that as well.
DANIEL: Can I do it?
I want to catch some bait.
MIKE: Hold it just like that.
Just go up and down.
You'll feel them hitting it.
I remember the feeling I had
the first time
I caught one of these beautiful
bluefins, I was hooked.
I wanted to catch these things
for the rest of my life.
And there would be
no better feeling
than sharing that with Daniel.
Boom!
DANIEL: What!
MIKE: Got 'em.
DANIEL: I bet this bait is gonna
get my first bluefin.
Now if the tuna would just
hurry up and get here.
♪ ♪
HOLLYWOOD: Nice way to start,
huh, PJ?
First day I come in with three
fish, who's better than me?
PJ: No one, man.
No one's better than you.
HOLLYWOOD: I got to feed
my family, Cap.
PJ: 152 dresser.
It's tiny.
HOLLYWOOD: I know.
What are you gonna do?
The buyer's looking for
good color and lots of fat.
The higher the fat content,
the higher price per pound.
What do we got, PJ?
PJ: It's, uh, a little
on the dark side.
It does have some
harpoon damage on it.
That's gonna be
a little deduction.
HOLLYWOOD: There's always
some excuse with you.
PJ: It's a no-fat fish.
Can't put fat in them.
It's gonna be, uh, $6 a pound.
HOLLYWOOD: Ah, God.
JIMMY: That's alright.
PJ: Let's see what the other
ones look like.
HOLLYWOOD: Alright,
let's look at number two.
What do we got, PJ?
PJ: 176! 176 pounds.
JIMMY: Nice!
HOLLYWOOD: Nice.
PJ: Where are the big ones?
HOLLYWOOD: I don't know.
What do you think?
PJ: Well, it's another
red meater.
There's no fat at all,
$7 a pound.
HOLLYWOOD: Alright.
It's the best you can do?
PJ: Something. One more?
HOLLYWOOD: What do you think
of this one, PJ?
A little better than
the last few, huh?
PJ: 353-pounder.
JIMMY: That's a little better.
HOLLYWOOD: Let's see
what we got, PJ.
PJ: Where's the fat?
Where's the fat?
I don't see any fat.
HOLLYWOOD: Come on.
PJ: This one here, $8 a pound.
HOLLYWOOD: It's not
28 bucks a pound,
but it's something, right?
We made $5,000 today.
I'm not totally excited,
but I'm happy.
The best part about this is,
Captain Blue,
you know, Greg and Greg,
your buddies.
PJ: Yeah. I know 'em, yeah.
HOLLYWOOD: They didn't even
get no fish. We got three.
NARRATOR: Lily's three
low-quality fish give them
a disappointing payday.
[bird squawks]
[snoring]
MARCIANO: You know
Jay's not worried
about making a big deal
about his birthday.
JOE: Yeah.
MARCIANO: But I got him
a cake anyway.
JOE: Alright.
MARCIANO: So when he wakes up,
we'll, you know, make fun of him
a little bit.
JOE: Alright, cool.
MARCIANO: 'Cause he's getting
to be an old man like me.
The last few weeks,
our luck really turned around.
And now, we're back at the top
of the fleet.
How do you write
'Happy Birthday' in shorthand?
JOE: Just do it 'HBD.'
Perfect!
MARCIANO: Alright.
JOE: Hopefully, it tastes
better than it looks.
MARCIANO: Without the crew,
I can't catch fish.
I'm nothing more
than a glorified,
two-bit, half-wit
tour bus driver.
Joe and I baked you a cake
while you were sleeping.
JAY: Did you really?
MARCIANO: Well, we didn't
really bake it, but...
It is important to show him
my appreciation,
but you don't want him
to get used to it.
JOE: Oooh!
JAY: H-B-D-J, happy face.
MARCIANO: Alright.
Are you gonna cut the cake?
JAY: Aw, jeez.
Dig in.
[laughs]
[laughing]
MARCIANO: Food fight!
[laughing]
They can make the biggest mess
they want.
Heck, they're the ones that are
gonna clean it up, anyway.
[laughing]
It's only the captain who gets
to have his cake
and eat it, too.
[laughing]
Uh-uh!
JAY: Thanks, man!
JOE: Happy birthday, Jay.
JAY: Thank you.
[beeping]
GEORDIE: He came all the way
up to 75 feet.
DAVE: There he is.
That's him.
We've been fishing, and we have
nothing to show for it.
It's absolutely terrible.
To top it off, we've been
marking for two hours,
and the tuna just will not bite.
GEORDIE: There's one coming up.
There's one coming up.
DAVE: There's two there.
[beeping]
GEORDIE: Yep.
DAVE: Wow, look at that.
X marks the spot, right there,
look at that.
SANDRO: Those are big.
DAVE: Yeah, you got two corkers
under the boat right now.
Here we are, we got all the fish
under the boat,
we can't get a bite.
We've heard others have been
catching tuna this week,
and that makes me even
more frustrated
that we haven't caught.
First here.
[beeping]
SANDRO: Sometimes the fish
just don't bite,
no matter what you put
in front of their face.
DAVE: Can't buy a bite.
[beeping]
SANDRO: There, there!
We're on, we're on, we're on!
DAVE: Now we have one!
About freaking time.
Get him, get him, get him!
Don't let him go!
DAVE: Here we are, we got all
the fish under the boat,
we can't get a bite.
[beeping]
SANDRO: There, there!
We're on, we're on, we're on!
DAVE: Now we have one.
Keep cranking, keep cranking.
SANDRO: About time.
GEORDIE: He's coming!
DAVE: Out of the way.
Fish on the machine, too, look!
[beeping]
About freaking time.
All we have to do is
hold on to him now.
SANDRO: Now we got to try
and bring him to the boat.
DAVE: Sandro, you want to get
on the rod, have Geordie drive?
We designed the boat
specifically
so we have controls in the back,
so the guy driving the boat
always knows where the tuna is.
This will definitely increase
our chances of losing less fish
and catching more.
SANDRO: Swivel.
♪ ♪
Nail it! Nail it!
Hurry up!
DAVE: Got him.
♪ ♪
Gaff him in the head.
SANDRO: Got him.
DAVE: Alright, drag is off.
I'm coming with the tail rope.
GEORDIE: Woo! Alright.
There we go!
DAVE: Nice, yeah, nice going,
nice job, bro.
GEORDIE: Atta boy, Dave.
DAVE: This was an extremely
short fight.
Perfect.
The shorter the fight,
the higher the probability
you're gonna get him.
GEORDIE: Are you ready?
DAVE: Bring him in.
SANDRO: One, two, three.
GEORDIE: 77, we could call that.
DAVE: This fish will probably
dress out around 300 pounds.
Let's go get another one.
This new boat is the ultimate
tuna-catching machine.
LANCE: What do you think of
a nice tuna check when we go in?
PAUL: Oh, write one out?
Alright.
I think we were fishing
every day.
LANCE: Really?
Hmm.
So far on this trip,
we've already lost
two paychecks.
And to top it off,
I still haven't been paid
for the first three fish
we caught this season.
PAUL: Weren't we out to sea
every day? We weren't on land?
LANCE: Why are you
busting my balls?
All I said it would be nice
to get a fish check!
PAUL: We go in today.
We'll stay in and
I'll write checks.
Okay? We'll stay in for the day
and we'll go the next day.
BRAD: Oh, Jesus.
Paul's acting like a jerk.
Being a good captain is not just
about putting fish on the boat.
It's also about honoring your
commitments to your crew,
which includes
paying them on time.
PAUL: We'll miss a day's fishing
so we can write checks.
LANCE: I didn't know
it takes a whole day
to write a check, Paul.
I usually write a little
quicker than that.
PAUL: I'll go in right now.
That's what we'll do.
I ain't gonna deal
with this bull no more.
I'm over it, Lance.
LANCE: I ask you
one simple thing
and you flip the [bleep] out.
Every time I bring up money,
you get all mad.
Like, I'm just talking to you.
Is it wrong for me to worry
about how I'm gonna feed
my daughter, Paul?
Is that wrong?
There's no way you can go home
and tell
your five-year-old daughter
that Daddy didn't make
any money this week,
so she'll have to go
without dinner.
PAUL: Lance wants his money
right now
to feed his daughter, so...
LANCE: Right, man.
I want my money.
PAUL: I've never, ever had
anyone question me with money
in my life.
LANCE: I'm starting to see
a different side of Paul,
and it's a side of Paul
that I don't like.
BRAD: This is getting bad.
♪ ♪
[snoring]
[beeping]
JARRETT: It's the first time
like that in, like, three hours.
I 100% feel like I'm part
of the Ott family.
By all means, I do.
So, right now, I'm super pumped
having little Danny on the boat.
It's 3 o'clock in the morning.
I've been up all night long
trying to get this bite.
I'm gonna see to it that
this kid sees a tuna tonight.
[beeping]
The screen just turned blue,
so I just started dumping chum.
[beeping]
[reel unspooling slowly]
Oh! We're on!
We're on! We're on!
♪ ♪
We're on, dude.
TIM: Daniel!
DANIEL: Yeah?
TIM: We got them on, come on.
There's no way I'm gonna
let Daniel miss this,
and I want him to see this,
because I want him to have the
experience of seeing a bluefin
or catching a bluefin
like we have.
DANIEL: We're hooked up, pa-pow!
I'm tired and excited
at the same time.
JARRETT: It's heavy as [bleep].
Watch out, TJ, it's going
in front of the boat.
TJ, watch out!
Forward, forward, forward.
DANIEL: It's really exciting,
because I never caught a tuna
in my life that is really big.
JARRETT: It's in front
of the boat!
TJ: Swing back to the left.
DANIEL: Whoa!
JARRETT: Watch out, watch out,
watch out, watch out!
Forward, forward,
forward, forward!
TIM: It's gonna go
around the anchor!
Hurry up!
JARRETT: Look out!
TIM: Hurry! Hurry!
JARRETT: Watch out, TJ,
it's going in front of the boat.
TJ, watch out!
Forward, forward, forward!
It's in front of the boat!
TJ: Swing back to the left!
DANIEL: Whoa!
JARRETT: Watch out, watch out,
watch out, watch out,
forward, forward,
forward, forward!
TIM: It's gonna go
around the anchor!
Hurry up!
JARRETT: Look out!
TIM: Hurry! Hurry!
JARRETT: Watch this anchor.
They're right here!
TJ: Get a gaff! Get a gaff!
DANIEL: He's almost under!
He's getting under the boat.
TIM: Reel, Jarrett! Come on!
♪ ♪
JARRETT: Now, we just need to
get this fish to the boat
and give Danny
his first bluefin tuna.
Color, color, color.
TJ: Look at your bluefin, buddy.
TIM: See him, Dan? Look.
DANIEL: I see him, I see him.
TIM: You see him glowing?
DANIEL: It's huge.
It's the biggest fish
I ever seen.
TJ: Come on, Dad! Take a shot.
TIM: I can see him.
Believe me, I see him.
It's too deep, too deep.
One more turn, one more turn,
come on.
Look at this fish.
TJ: Nail it!
TIM: Got him.
TJ: Get him!
TIM: Got him!
Forward, forward, forward!
Back up.
Come on! I got him good,
I got him right in the back.
TJ: We got him.
JARRETT: Coming up, coming up.
TJ: Come on!
TIM: Get ahead, get ahead!
Get ahead.
JARRETT: I got him!
TIM: Got him!
TJ: Get a tail gaff!
TIM: Where is it? The gaff?
TJ: Right behind you!
DANIEL: Right here, right here!
TIM: I got one, I got one.
Where is it?
JARRETT: Get ready,
he's right here!
TIM: Where is he?
I don't see him!
JARRETT: Over here.
TIM: I got him, I got him,
I got him.
TJ: Come here, Dan!
Over here, over here.
Perfect, perfect.
TIM: Oh, we got him, man!
[cheering]
[bleep]
[cheering]
JARRETT: Atta boy!
MIKE: There's your first tuna,
brother.
TJ: That's a tuna, baby.
Oh! Thank you.
TIM: Whoa-ho!
TJ: Look at that!
JARRETT: That's a good one
right there!
DANIEL: He's fat.
TIM: Yeah, he's fat, baby.
DANIEL: It was really cool
to catch my first fish.
Jarrett, my uncles, and my pa,
they all helped me and stuff,
'cause they helped me
reel in that fish,
and they harpooned it
for me and stuff.
TJ: Give me a pa-pow!
DANIEL: Pa-pow.
TIM: It was the greatest feeling
in the world for me.
So, now he's part of the club.
He's part of the clan.
TJ: Look up. Look at Michael!
TIM: Hopefully he gets to do it
a lot more
over the rest of his life.
TJ: You got him, Danny! Woo!
At the end of the day,
it's great we caught a fish.
We needed a payday.
But I think more importantly,
this family time is
the greatest gift of all.
Want to measure him,
get a measurement?
95, alright, nice!
MIKE: Nice!
JARRETT: Yeah! Nice work!
Nice one.
TIM: Good job, Jarrett.
TJ: We needed this one, man,
we needed this one bad.
DANIEL: Pa-pow!
♪ ♪
BUBBA: What's going on, Dave?
DAVE: We got one.
BUBBA: Let's get it up here.
DAVE: How much, Bubba?
BUBBA: 291 pounds dressed.
GEORDIE: 291, not bad.
SANDRO: Nice.
DAVE: We got $17 a pound
for the fish last week.
I need this fish to fetch
at least that much.
BUBBA: Shade, a bit lighter
than we like.
Let's take a look at the core.
DAVE: Come on, Bubba.
BUBBA: Not bad.
Can do $12 a pound.
DAVE: We didn't get what we were
looking for, but we'll take it.
It's a paycheck.
SANDRO: Thanks, bud.
BUBBA: I'll see you later.
Good luck, guys.
GEORDIE: Thanks, buddy.
mediocre bluefin
is enough to put them ahead
of last season's champion,
Hard Merchandise.
♪ ♪
GREG: Come on, fish.
Where are you?
Conditions are not ideal
for harpooning today.
There's a lot of wind
and rough seas.
But we need to take
a chance to catch up.
The Lily got lucky
and got three fish.
The Lily really put
a little distance
between him and ourselves, and
we need to get it going here.
GIBBS: This huge ocean
and guess who shows up.
HOLLYWOOD: Kristiana's
on his way out,
going to the party, Jimbo.
You know, Captain Blue Pill,
there ain't much left in him.
I think he can barely
get in the tower.
Those guys on the Kristiana,
I know they're gonna have
a tough time catching up.
Wind was really howling
this morning,
so walking out on that pulp
was like walking out on
a balance beam in a gymnasium.
JIMMY: Hey, at least in a gym,
the ground ain't moving.
HOLLYWOOD:
No surprises, I know.
GIBBS: We got color. Right
there, right there, right there.
GREG: How many boats?
HOLLYWOOD: Five, six boats.
JOEL: Go ahead, I got them.
GIBBS: See 'em?
You got 'em, Joel?
JOEL: Yep.
GIBBS: Going to the,
down south, downwind.
GREG: Right here.
Right here, Jimmy.
Right here, right here.
They're running.
HOLLYWOOD: Something going here,
Mark,
you've gone too far
from us here.
MARK: Yeah. I'm coming.
JIMMY: Go, they're right there,
Joel, see 'em?
2 o'clock, they're making water,
2 o'clock.
Everybody hold on tight so
it doesn't rock back and forth.
MARK: Making a wake, Jim,
making a wake.
Going into the sun
here right now.
About five boat lengths.
GREG: Three boats, Greg,
three boats!
JOEL: Nice fin, right there.
MARK: Come left now, Jimmy.
12 o'clock.
JIMMY: There you go. 12 o'clock!
MARK: One boat length!
JOEL: There's a slob
right there!
GREG: Nail his ass, Greg,
nail his ass.
JIMMY: Get him, Hollywood.
GREG: Nail his ass!
MARK: One boat length.
JOEL: There's a slob
right there.
GREG: Nail his ass, Greg,
nail his ass.
JIMMY: Get him, Hollywood.
HOLLYWOOD: Damn, I missed him.
GREG: Got him, got him!
[bleep]
Yeah!
JOEL: Woo! Woo!
[laughing]
Gibbsy!
GREG: Yeah!
HOLLYWOOD: Got him?
The Kristiana just caught one.
I'm still not gonna lose
no sleep over it.
MARK: Got caught up
in the glare,
but it looked like
they went away.
HOLLYWOOD: I thought
we were gonna get him.
GREG: That's what
it's all about!
GIBBS: Yeah!
GREG: Nice job, Gibbs!
What do you got?
GIBBS: 77.
GREG: Okay!
We'd take one more
just like him.
I might, I might have
another bunch.
I saw the color.
Hey!
Rig up, I got them!
GIBBS: Here we go, they're up.
GREG: Right there,
big, big bunch, big bunch!
JOEL: Hang on, Greg, hang on.
Still got him?
GIBBS: Yes! Yes! 12 o'clock!
GREG: See him, Joel?
JOEL: Oh, yeah.
Here they come, here they come!
They're coming right at us.
GREG: Get it in your hand!
Get it in your hand!
Look for a big one!
JOEL: Ooh, hang on!
GREG: Hang on!
GIBBS: There's a big one
right there.
JOEL: Got him.
GREG: You got him like
half a boat, Greg!
GIBBS: Oh, Jesus.
GREG: Hang on!
JOEL: Look at your 1!
Look at your 1!
GREG: 1 o'clock!
[bleep]
Ready?
GIBBS: Yep.
Come right more, then come left!
JOEL: Right there at your 11.
GIBBS: Swing me around.
GREG: Hit him. Hit him!
GREG: He got him, he got him.
GIBBS: Back her down.
Now we've got two fish,
we only need one more,
and we'll be tied
three-to-three with the Lily.
Hurry up.
GREG: Nice one.
GIBBS: One, two, three.
GREG: Yeah, baby!
JOEL: Nice one, Gibbsy.
[laughing]
GREG: Gibbs!
You can't make them
on a flat-ass, calm day,
but, boy, you're showing us
how to do it today, boy!
JOEL: 78, boys.
[laughs]
GIBBS: Take that, Hollywood.
GREG: I got 'em. I got 'em.
I got fish.
They're still right
in front of you.
GIBBS: Right at like
2:30, 3 o'clock,
making a circle, see 'em, Joel?
JOEL: Yup, I got them.
GREG: Yup, got 'em, Greg. Greg?
GIBBS: I'm right here,
I'm going down.
GREG: You ready?
GIBBS: Yup.
GREG: One boat, 12 o'clock,
going right to left!
JOEL: I'm going to go down
a little and swing you up left.
GREG: Whoa, nice one
right there.
JOEL: They might be milling.
GREG: Hang on, Greg.
JOEL: Right in front of you.
Yeah, Gibbsy.
GREG: Gibbsy!
GIBBS: Spin the boat, someone,
spin the boat, spin the boat.
GREG: Which way you want me
to spin it?
GIBBS: This way.
GREG: I'm really, really happy
with what, what we've done.
GIBBS: Ready?
JOEL: Here it comes.
JOEL: Slammer!
GIBBS: One, two, three.
JOEL: Three.
GREG: Yeah, baby!
[laughs]
Nice work, boys.
How big is the last one?
GIBBS: 88, boys, 88.
JOEL: Nice, nice work, Gibbsy.
GREG: Welcome to the Kristiana.
You, you can't leave now.
GIBBS: Oh, no.
Three keepers!
We've caught up to the Lily,
we're tied now.
Yes!
♪ ♪
HOLLYWOOD: What's up, Greg?
Another boatload, huh, buddy?
Other way, other way,
back it up.
Is this your first time
backing in here?
GREG: If I had two mates
that would throw the lines,
it wouldn't be a screw-up.
HOLLYWOOD: So it isn't
just me, Gibbsy,
he's like this all day, right?
He's out of control,
look at him.
He's out of control!
GREG: Go mind your own business.
Tell your pilot he flies over
my top again like that,
there's going to be
a big problem.
HOLLYWOOD: Oh, geez.
GREG: Oh, yeah, oh, geez,
you can say whatever you want.
HOLLYWOOD: He's got three fish
and he's still miserable.
Have a good night and I hope you
have a stroke tomorrow.
GIBBS: Oh, boy.
GREG: Wow.
Let's take a look
at the first fish.
273 pounds, we have a winner.
PJ: Nice job, guys.
Got a nice fish here,
nice shape,
nice oily, beautiful color.
This fish here, $14 a pound.
GREG: Alright.
JOEL: Nice.
GREG: $14 a pound,
thank you very much.
JOEL: Good job, guys.
PJ: Good job, Cap.
PJ: Let's see what
the other ones look like.
GREG: Now for the second fish.
What do you got there, PJ?
PJ: 212 pounds.
Nice-looking fish, guys.
GREG: Feels good,
look at the fat.
PJ: Nice texture to the meat.
GREG: What do you think,
what are we gonna get?
PJ: $15 on this one.
GIBBS: Nice, nice.
JOEL: Nice.
GREG: Okay, one more.
Let's see how
our third fish looks.
PJ: 285 pounds dressed.
GREG: Nice!
JOEL: Nice.
GREG: Thank you!
I mean, that core looks good,
it's nice and firm.
PJ: Yeah, the core is okay.
The tail color is a little dull.
I'm gonna go...
$12 a pound on that.
GREG: Yeah, we'll take that.
PJ: Great job, guys.
GIBBS: Thank you very much.
GREG: Great day today.
PJ: Good job, Greg.
GREG: Alright, thanks.
GREG: Hollywood definitely got
off to an early lead on us.
You know, brand new crew, we've
only been going a few days,
we finally are gelling.
The goal is to beat him
and dethrone him.
NARRATOR: Kristiana's
10-grand payday
pushes them ahead of rival Lily.
SCOTT: What's up, guys?
TJ: We got our nephew
on board this trip.
Daniel, man.
Got his first bluefin.
SCOTT: Congratulations.
TJ: Maybe you'll be buying fish
from him one day.
SCOTT: Yeah!
DANIEL: When I grow up,
I want to get the Hot Tuna
and fish out there.
I want to be in a,
like, position
when you catch that tuna, too,
on that boat
and give it on
when I have kids one day.
TJ: You want us to get this
thing out, get a look at it?
SCOTT: Let's do it.
TJ: Dan, make sure he doesn't
shave any pounds off.
SCOTT: Got 403 pounds.
TIM: That's a nice one, Dan.
SCOTT: We're going to
check out the grade,
see how much this thing
is worth.
TJ: Ooh, that's a nice one, huh?
SCOTT: Yeah, it is.
Plenty of fat, good color.
Let's check out the core.
ALL: Ooh!
TJ: Nice, perfect core.
SCOTT: You guys definitely
found your diamond.
DANIEL: Let's talk bucks.
SCOTT: Alright.
$22 a pound.
[cheering]
TJ: Nice, Scott-so!
SCOTT: Nice job.
TJ: We've been struggling
this year,
and the fact that I was able
to leave the dock this trip
with my father and my nephew
on board
and catch an absolute diamond
made it probably
the most memorable trip
I've had in a long time.
NARRATOR: Hot Tuna's
top quality fish
launches them into the lead.
Meanwhile, at the end
of week four,
Wicked Pissah's two fish losses
have put them further behind the
rest of the rod-and-reel fleet.
LANCE: ♪ Never gonna see
my fish money for my honey ♪
♪ Need my fish money ♪
I've had about as much
as I can take from Paul,
because he's not
a very good captain.
This might be my last trip.
♪ Got to feed my dogs,
feed my cats ♪
BRAD: I don't know, man.
That's just bad.
With Paul's lack
of leadership skills,
I'm not sure if I can
keep fishing with him.
PAUL: You can't cry
over spilt milk,
there's no crying
in tuna fishing.
You can't give up.
BRAD: ♪ Me and Lance
will go away ♪