Wicked Tuna (2012–…): Season 5, Episode 9 - Take It to the Bank - full transcript
The Gloucester fleet captains all face a familiar decision: whether to take the long, high-risk journey to Georges Bank to increase their chances of a big bluefin haul - or possibly come ...
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
NARRATOR: On this
episode of Wicked Tuna.
When captains get desperate.
DAVE: Dammit!
NARRATOR: They chase tuna
a hundred and seventy
miles out to sea.
DAVE: Hard reverse.
Get it, hard reverse.
Oh!!
TIM: Why you
letting it back out?
NARRATOR: Risking their safety.
JARRETT: These Georgy Banky
fish kick your ass, man.
NARRATOR: And big money.
GEORDIE: Grab the harpoon!
DAVE: Team Tuna
is on another one!
NARRATOR: Will their
gamble pay off?
BRAD: Stick him right here!
PAUL: Go ahead get him! Get him!
JASON: This fish is crazy!
NARRATOR: In one of the most
regulated fisheries
in the world.
JASON: Attaboy, Joe, attaboy!
NARRATOR: These fishermen
fight to earn a living.
DAVE: Got him!
TJ: Whoo!
MIKE: Oh, I got him!
NARRATOR: Catching.
DAVE: Whoo!
SANDRO: We are on to something!
NARRATOR: Wicked Tuna.
TJ: Papow!
NARRATOR: At the start of week
9, last season's champion,
Hard Merchandise,
leads the fleet,
and Hot Tuna languish in
the middle of the pack.
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DAVE: Georges Bank.
It's home to some of the best
fishing on the East Coast.
Fishermen have been trying their
luck here for hundreds of years.
But many, unfortunately,
have found only
the bottom of the ocean.
It's the ultimate gamble.
Hundred and seventy
miles from Gloucester.
Expenses for a round-trip are
far over a thousand dollars.
And if anything goes wrong,
you're stranded a
long way from home.
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I've taken the gamble
to head to Georges.
Right now, we're in third place,
and that's not where I wanna be.
Last couple of weeks, we've
been picking away inshore.
Fishing inshore, you may
get one here and there
but we need to make
something happen now.
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SANDRO: Right there! Right
there! Right there! Right there!
Stop!
DAVE: We're on.
SANDRO: Hey, stop.
DAVE: Geordie, go forward right,
forward right, forward right.
GEORDIE: Forward right.
We're good.
SANDRO: Whoo! Baby!
DAVE: That's good.
If the fish are here, we can
catch four in a single trip
and jump ahead of everyone else.
I wanna catch the limit,
I wanna catch four,
I wanna move back
into first place.
Come on, we gotta get it.
GEORDIE: This first fish
will cover expenses,
but if we want to make a profit,
we need to get a bit more.
DAVE: Whoo! Come on, man,
we need this boys.
Ready?
GEORDIE: Yeah.
SANDRO: Fish should stop
running, dumped a pile of line.
That's how we want it
to bite every time.
DAVE: Eighty feet
he's right here.
SANDRO: Trying to get
the fish in a pinwheel.
Get him on his side.
Give me some reverse.
Swivel!
You know it's a big boy.
DAVE: Oh, yeah, he's big.
Lot of money on the
end of that line.
GEORDIE: Color!
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DAVE: Get on! Get on! Come on!
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SANDRO: And neutral.
DAVE: My driving force is
to prove that we can be
the number one boat
in the fleet again.
Got him!
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Good job.
SANDRO: And lift.
GEORDIE: One, two, three.
DAVE: Yeah.
GEORDIE: There we go!
SANDRO: Oh!
GEORDIE: That was
almost a broken arm.
That is, getting
that out of there.
DAVE: Sandro, are you excited?
SANDRO: Not really.
Still got a long way to go.
Coming out to Georges Bank,
I wanna catch four fish,
so as far as I'm concerned,
we got three more to go.
DAVE: Eighty-eight! Nice.
That's a big fish.
You know, as a fisherman,
you always want,
you always want more.
Going to Georges is a gamble.
But I really hope it pays off.
JASON: Wait and wait
and think positive.
And, you know, these fish are
known to travel in schools.
JOE: Yeah.
JASON: We caught
that 800 pounder.
JOE: Yep. There's definitely
bigger fish around.
JASON: There's definitely a
nice big class of fish around.
DAVE: It's week nine, and right
now, we're in first place.
JASON: Whoo-hoo!
DAVE: Last week, we landed the
biggest fish in the season.
JASON: That's almost a
10 foot fish right there!
DAVE: Without a doubt, this fish
here, he's pushing 800 pounds.
This is why we do it.
We've been hot inshore.
So, we're gonna stick it out
at Jeffrey's Ledge this week.
One of the oldest
rules of fishing is;
you don't leave
fish to find fish.
That's one of the first things
you learn as a boat owner.
We're catching fish,
they're big fish,
and we're gonna find some really
big fish if we stick it out.
JOE: Let's go get them.
JASON: Let's go get them.
[BEEPING SOUND]
DAVE: Oh, oh, there they are.
Wow, is he, is he
coming back up, Geordie?
GEORDIE: No.
DAVE: Any minute.
[BEEPING SOUND]
Yup, I thought I saw that.
I saw that.
That's him, that's
him, that's him.
No! I saw that rod tip go.
All right, guys.
GEORDIE: We're on, baby.
SANDRO: Easy, easy.
DAVE: We need this
fish right now.
Wow, he's pretty wild, huh?
SANDRO: Psycho.
DAVE: Yeah, oh, yeah.
He's gonna go clockwise.
If we never invented time, would
there be such thing as called
clockwise and counter clockwise?
SANDRO: Stop it.
DAVE: No, that's,
that's a good question.
SANDRO: Can you reverse? Wow.
He is rolling.
DAVE: Nice, nice, nice.
SANDRO: Watch that
swivel, watch that swivel.
DAVE: There you go.
Nice, Geordie!
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You're okay.
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SANDRO: Hit him!
DAVE: Got one! Yeah!
He ain't a monster,
but he's a keeper.
Oh, he's not a keeper yet.
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I don't have him that good.
GEORDIE: Tail
rope's on the deck.
DAVE: Gaff the head again.
Yeah, gaff him.
SANDRO: I'll get the
tail, you got him.
DAVE: Got one!
GEORDIE: Got one!
SANDRO: Got one!
DAVE: Yeah!
GEORDIE: Tie that one up!
DAVE: Way to go.
Money in the bank.
SANDRO: In we go.
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Oh, he's a little
bigger than I thought.
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DAVE: Over the top, 76.
I am the winner!
SANDRO: It's about time you won.
[LAUGHING]
MAN: The bite's on at Georges.
Dot Com's already got
like two fish out there.
LANCE: Getting some
chatter in here.
Sounds like they're starting to
get them out there on Georges.
PAUL: Yeah, they're gonna
be talking like that.
LANCE: Sounds pretty good.
BRAD: We're not gonna run
around like a bunch of chickens
with our heads cut off, Lance.
We can't.
PAUL: We gotta
stay to the grind.
BRAD: We gotta stick
to our game plan here.
PAUL: It's week nine, the Wicked
Pissah has caught 7 fish so far.
We've been on a good roll,
and we done it inshore.
It's close to home.
We're on Stellwagen.
I know there's fish here.
I do not wanna gamble and
go offshore, 170 miles.
I feel it in my gut that we
can make it happen inside.
LANCE: They're
really talking it up.
Better than sitting in
here catching nothing.
I thought Paul was a
hardcore fisherman.
But with not heading
out to Georges,
I'm starting to question that.
I think he's kind of a wimp.
I think he's scared
to go out there.
BRAD: I know he
wants to catch fish.
PAUL: We all do, that's
why we're doing this.
If we be patient, we're
gonna get them right here.
Lance, it, it aggravates me
that he doesn't trust me.
LANCE: It's, it's frustrating
not having any say at all in
where we fish.
I would like to voice my opinion
but that's just not how it works
on this boat.
PAUL: It's too dangerous
for this little boat.
If I told my father I have to
go 170 miles to catch a tuna,
he'd probably knock me out.
[LAUGHING]
What did you say? Whack!
It costs a fish to go out there.
The crew makes more money
catching two a week inshore
than we do catching
four fish out there.
LANCE: It's tough knowing that
somebody else is getting fish
and you're not.
PAUL: Be patient,
we're gonna catch 'em.
TJ: Georgy Banky
here we come baby!
MIKE: See ya later, Gloucester!
TJ: Oh, we're gonna be out
there a few days on this one.
JARRETT: Going far.
TJ: We need it now man.
We need it more than ever.
We're past the halfway
point of the season
and we're not doing
as well as I hoped.
So far we're riding in
the middle of the pack.
The strategy for this particular
trip is just to go out there
and give it hell.
Good reports coming
off Georges Bank.
so we're gonna take the trip.
We've been getting
the bites inshore,
but that's not really
what we wanna do.
We need a good shot right now.
We need to climb
the leaderboard,
gain our confidence.
Definitely a little
bit embarrassed
that we're not performing
as well as we should.
I mean, every year it's been
the same story, over and over,
and you know what? I'm sick
of the same story.
MAN: What's going on?
JARRETT: What's going on, man?
MAN: Doing the snow right?
JARRETT: Yeah,
we're gonna do snow.
TJ: When we head out to Georges,
we've got to make sure we
have lots of provisions.
One of the beautiful things
about fishing out of Gloucester
is you have a facility like
this, like Cape Pond Ice,
that you can come to and blow in
premium ice; you know, snow ice.
That holds real well,
it's real clean.
Especially when you're trying
to take care of your product.
JARRETT: That was refreshing.
TJ: Thank you, man.
MAN: Yeah, you bet.
TJ: Places like this are,
you know, a dying breed.
Gloucester's really been based
and built around the fishing
community, and Cape Pond Ice
has been a huge part of that.
Take care, guys, thanks again!
MAN: Yeah, thank you!
JARRETT: Have a good one, guys!
TJ: Hundred and
sixty miles of pain.
Georgy Banky, please
don't spank me.
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PAUL: There's a couple
fish roaming through;
which is really cool.
We haven't seen that yet.
LANCE: We're wasting
our time in here.
It's totally dead.
BRAD: We're gonna
catch fish here.
It's looking very
promising here.
PAUL: We're inshore and
we're already fishing,
we didn't travel a
hundred and seventy miles.
If we had gone to Georges
with everyone else,
follow the leader, we'd
still be steaming out there.
Right place, right time.
That's all it is.
What's on that floater?
Tuna?
BRAD: Something.
PAUL: Right there,
something's on it.
BRAD: Tuna, I hope.
LANCE: Here we go!
PAUL: Here we go!
BRAD: I think it's a tuna.
Got weight to him.
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PAUL: All right, I
need to see, okay?
Everyone needs to let
me watch, see the line.
It's nighttime, we
can't see the line.
It's important everyone's
on the game, on everything.
BRAD: All right, easy. Easy.
He's right here.
PAUL: Do you see what it is?
BRAD: It's a tuna.
I see him right here.
PAUL: Just go easy,
Brad, all right?
BRAD: I'm going easy, man.
PAUL: You gotta let me know
where he's going. I cannot see!
BRAD: Yeah, go right!
Go right! Good!
You might be able to dart
him right there, Paul!
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Give me the harpoon
ready, Lance.
PAUL: It's ready, it's ready!
DAVE: Well, we're about to get
started here for the night.
For some reason these fish
have been night bites.
It's a little tough,
it's hard on the crew,
we're burning the
candle at both ends;
being up day and night
pretty much, but,
hey, the bottom line is,
we're catching fish,
and we're getting nice fish.
And I've seen some really
big fish here on my machine.
I don't think we've got the
biggest fish out of here yet.
A lot of the guys are
headed outside to Georges.
I think there's plenty
of fish to catch inshore.
[BEEPING SOUND]
JOE: Coming up for it.
DAVE: You gotta be careful
when you follow the masses.
The M is silent. [LAUGHS]
JOE: Shooting straight
up, shooting straight up.
Oh yeah!
DAVE: Yeah.
JASON: That's what we like!
JOE: He's coming up
still, right at 10.
Going back down.
DAVE: He's on it.
JOE: You got it?
DAVE: We're on!
Try and get him up here, Joe.
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There he goes.
Now he's screaming!
Now he figured
out he was hooked.
JASON: That's a screamer!
DAVE: That's what he
was supposed to do!
JASON: That's a screamer!
DAVE: Team Tuna
is on another one!
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DAVE: I ain't seen a
mark like that in years.
JOE: Tag you.
DAVE: Stay in the bait.
That's right, reel,
Joe, he's still there.
One more fish, if we
can land this guy.
And I know from the mark,
this is a good fish.
JOE: Yup.
DAVE: It's another five
to six grand in the bag.
It definitely makes me feel
good to know it was a good call
not to go to Georges.
Reel. Reel. Reel.
We just got to get
this fish in the boat.
PAUL: Let's go, Brad,
reel this sucker in.
BRAD: Lance, come
reel this fish.
PAUL: No, wait. Wait.
BRAD: Come reel the
fish, I'll harpoon it.
PAUL: Wait. Just wait, hold on.
Wait, Brad.
LANCE: He's coming.
We'll get him, Brad,
we'll get him, dude.
PAUL: Hold on.
Here we are inshore, hooked up,
I am so happy I followed
my gut instinct.
Hopefully, Lance will
learn to trust my judgment.
I can't see.
Where is he? Can't see.
BRAD: Easy, Lance, easy, Lance.
PAUL: Can't see. Can't see!
Loosen up, go around.
LANCE: He's coming around.
BRAD: I'm gonna stick
him, right here.
PAUL: Go ahead, get him.
LANCE: No, no, no.
PAUL: Get him! Get him!
LANCE: No, wait. Wait, coming
around. There he is, Brad.
Hit him!
Got him.
BRAD: Hey, I got him.
He's got him.
PAUL: See! Told you.
We got nothing.
LANCE: Never have him until
the tail wraps on man,
a lot of things could go wrong.
PAUL: I've had two
harpoons in a fish;
pulled both darts
and broke the line.
Doesn't matter 'till he's
tail roped to the boat.
DAVE: Charging it.
Hook.
You don't want to
pop him up, right?
This one's a tricky one.
Let's hope our
lucks holds, guys.
JOE: I'm ready to fight
him all day if I have to.
LANCE: He's giving us
everything he's got.
He's not giving up easy.
PAUL: He's all over the place.
Lance, you go by the
wheel, all right?
BRAD: He's good. He's
gonna circle right again.
He's circling nice, man.
PAUL: He's coming,
Brad, he's coming.
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Ah, Jesus.
Nailed him.
Neutral. Neutral. Neutral.
Neutral. Neutral.
Don't pull this dart.
Give him to me over here.
Over here. Over here, don't,
give him to me.
Let me have him.
I got him. Come on.
Easy, easy, get him now!
Gaff him!
Tail rope, Brad.
Hold him up.
Come on, Brad.
LANCE: [Inaudible].
PAUL: Keep wrapping
around, around, around.
BRAD: I got him. [Inaudible].
PAUL: Yeah. We got him! Yay!
BRAD: Yeah! Sweet!
PAUL: Nice!
BRAD: Payday, baby!
Ha, ha, ha....
Whoo! Yeah!
PAUL: We finally caught the
fish, and it's a huge fish.
I knew it was a good
decision to stay inshore.
Beautiful.
BRAD: 105!
PAUL: 105!
LANCE: 105?
PAUL: No way, dude! Good one!
LANCE: Nice job guys!
105, dude! Nice one!
PAUL: That's nice.
BRAD: He's a nice fish.
We love him.
God blessed us with
his life today.
He's a beautiful fish.
We'll take him.
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DAVE: Sun's coming up.
We'll be able to see
him in a little while.
Sunrise tuna bite.
JASON: Keep it up,
Joe, keep it up!
DAVE: All right, we're just
gonna let him swim now, guys.
JASON: Nice and easy.
Nice and easy.
DAVE: You got to let
him tire himself out.
We've been fighting
this fish for hours,
and we might have to
fight him all day.
But he's a giant, and we're
not giving up on this one.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
[YAWNING SOUND]
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Good work, boys.
We can get him.
We can get him.
JASON: Ready?
JOE: Yep.
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JASON: Attaboy, Joe! Attaboy!
This fish is crazy!
We need a little bit of
luck, that's all I can say.
Good job, Joe!
DAVE: Good job, boys!
JASON: I wanna see what
this one looks like.
Oh, gone!
Gone!
Gone.
Pulled the hook. Gone.
JOE: Damn it.
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JASON: Four hour
of disappointment.
JOE: I mean, that's
a kick in the nuts.
I mean, I don't know how else,
how else to describe is.
We've been up all night.
Just, it really sucks right now.
TIM: We're just getting up
to, uh, Georgy Bank here,
Georges Bank.
I haven't seen any whales
yet but, a lot of bird life,
which is a good sign.
We've been in the middle of
the pack and, when I feel,
I come on a boat, I think,
I bring a lot of drive.
I believe in TJ as a captain
and I believe in the Hot Tuna.
I think we can be the
top boat in the fleet.
And there's still time to
make it happen this season.
[BEEPING SOUND]
TJ: Think that's a mark or you
think that's his jig? I don't.
JARRETT: He's
coming up right now.
TJ: Yeah, but he wasn't
that high a minute ago.
Right?
Oh, watch that whiting,
watch that whiting!
Watch that whiting.
Oh I got one all
over the down rod.
JARRETT: I think
we're marking one.
TIM: Are we?
JARRETT: I think so.
TJ: Oh, eat it.
Why doesn't he pile on that?
TIM: We're on! We're on!
[BARKING DOG]
TJ: Got him on, baby.
Got him on!
The reel is turning baby.
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JARRETT: Back, back, back, back.
TIM: All right, baby.
Got him on, got him on.
Seeing the rod lap over,
just need to keep, move
him a little bit over.
Rail the reel on him. Got tight.
Got some magic going on.
Bag that first bite. We need it.
TJ: Something big,
whatever it is, man.
TIM: That looks like the
Dot Com right over there.
TJ: And we're yanking on
one right next to them, so,
it's a good feeling.
Fingers crossed, man.
We really need this one.
Get the stink off the boat,
man, get the mood right.
JARRETT: Whoo!
Wow.
TIM: Big Tim hooks the real one.
That is a big Bluefin
is what that is.
Here we go, Jarrett,
that's what we came for.
JARRETT: All right!
TIM: Hundred fifty
miles for this.
This is a good-sized fish.
Pulled all that mono out, right?
TJ: Yeah.
JARRETT: He'll, yeah, it did.
TIM: Yeah.
There's a swivel.
Oh, bubba, go ahead just...
Forward, forward, forward,
TIM: Forward, forward.
TJ: Gotta be right there.
MIKE: Right there. There he is.
TIM: Forward, forward.
TJ: Missed him. Missed him.
TIM: Missed him. I got
him. I got him. I got him.
TJ: [Inaudible] right here.
MIKE: Come on.
TIM: I thought I got him.
You said you.
TJ: I don't have a gaff.
TIM: I got him. I got him.
Come on. Gaff, gaff. Come on.
Gaff. Perfect, perfect shot.
Come on. Let's get him.
TJ: Where is it?
TIM: Tail up, tail up.
I got the rope.
Got the rope, Jarrett?
MIKE: Heave-ho.
TJ: On my right, on my right.
TIM: Right behind me,
Jarrett, right here.
Hoo, hoo, hoo!
Yeah, baby! That's it!
JARRETT: Nice [inaudible].
TIM: Got him, baby.
JARRETT: That was a good throw.
TJ: He finally surrendered to
the flow and now he's hanging
from the cleat, baby. Whoo!
Papow!
JARRETT: First Georgy
Banky fish of the year!
TIM: Yeah, baby!
JARRETT: Hell yeah.
TJ: All right.
MIKE: All right. We're good.
JARRETT: Watch out Ripple.
TIM: Oh.
Fat tail, big fat belly.
Big fat paycheck.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
TJ: Ninety.
TIM: Wow.
MIKE: It's a good
looking 90 incher.
TIM: Beautiful 90 incher.
TJ: We'll take him.
Welcome aboard, baby.
TIM: Welcome to the jungle.
TJ: From Georgy Banky back
to Gloucester Harbor you go.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
[CHIGA, CHIGAPOW, CHIGAPOW!]
[LAUGHING]
This could be the turning point
of our season right here,
no doubt about it.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PJ: What's up, Paul?
Got another one?
BRAD: Fish number eight.
PJ: You're in the right
spot getting the bites.
That's the main thing.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PAUL: What do you got?
LANCE: Beauty.
PJ: Four hundred and
seven pounds dressed.
PAUL: All right.
BRAD: Whoo.
PAUL: Nice!
LANCE: Thanks, brother.
PJ: Not bad.
LANCE: Thank you.
PAUL: You can't go
to Georges every day.
PJ: Right.
PAUL: It's a five-day process.
They're spending a
thousand dollars a trip,
I'm spending a
hundred and fifty.
Let's see what he looks like.
The tuna buyer looks at
the fat content, the shape,
and the color of the meat.
That's how they determine
the price per pound
that we get.
BRAD: Nice color.
That's a ruby red.
PJ: Oh, man.
Tail color's good.
This fish here, you guys are
gonna do good with this one.
LANCE: Come on, dude.
PJ: How about $19 a pound?
PAUL: You got it.
BRAD: Whoo!
PAUL: We'll take it. Thank you.
LANCE: Thank you very much.
PAUL: The decision to stay
inshore pays off for us.
The bottom line, I just wanna
make these guys some money.
I don't want to butt heads.
We need to push
hard and go forward.
BRAD: That's good, Lance.
That it? Good.
GEORDIE: Got one on
the screen, Dave, 60.
DAVE: You got one
on the machine?
GEORDIE: Yeah.
DAVE: Come on, lap over.
We've got two fish already, so
our bills right now are covered.
We're still on Georges and we're
still looking for a third bite.
TJ's in there,
he's marked a few.
If we got a bite, I dunno,
we'll see what happens.
SANDRO: You're gonna need
a heater [inaudible].
DAVE: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey!
SANDRO: We're on! We're on!
GEORDIE: No way.
SANDRO: That's not a shark.
That's no shark.
We're on.
We're on to something here.
We're on to something here!
DAVE: We're on! We're on!
Whoo!
SANDRO: We are on to something!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Uh-oh. This isn't good.
This reel is not tight.
DAVE: Oh yeah!
It's not, come on here.
Get, uh, get that strap wrench.
GEORDIE: Okay.
DAVE: Our rods come in
many different parts,
and before we go fishing it's
important we assemble them,
and assemble them right.
We didn't tighten
it down enough.
GEORDIE: Ugh!
DAVE: It came lose and now the
reel is ready to fall off
of the base of the rod and if
it does, this fish is gone.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
It's taking a lot of line!
Geordie, you get
on the rod here!
Hurry up!
The reel is falling off the rod!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: This reel is not tight.
This reel is
falling off the rod.
We're hooked up on fish
number three
but this reel is falling apart.
I could feel it twisting every
time the fish starts to run.
Geordie you can get
on the rod here.
Come on, Geordie, get on.
Got it?.
[Inaudible]
SANDRO: Which one is it?
DAVE: Yeah, it's in the thing,
the red, the red handle there.
That's good. Tie it
both down like that.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
GEORDIE: Come on press,
put a lot of pressure.
DAVE: Back in action,
nice job guys, good job.
Hey, Geordie, take
a breather come on.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Swivel!
Forward right, forward
right, forward right.
First, forward right, hard.
[Inaudible] now.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Neutral, neutral.
SANDRO: Neutral.
DAVE: I can't see anything.
I'm right in the glare.
Harder right, get harder right.
SANDRO: Okay.
Easy, easy, easy, easy.
DAVE: Geordie, go forward
right, forward. That's right.
SANDRO: Oh, watch
the line, Dave.
GEORDIE: Take the shot!
DAVE: I got him.
SANDRO: Forward right, forward.
DAVE: No, neutral, neutral!
Neutral!
Hey, take the, uh, kick it
around, go forward left.
Just neutral, neutral left.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
SANDRO: Gaff that tail.
DAVE: All right, come
right, I got him good.
No other gaff required.
SANDRO: Yeah!
Woo!
DAVE: Yes. Now we can celebrate!
SANDRO: Now one more!
DAVE: High five camera.
Fish number three.
We came to Georges to
catch our limit of four,
now we've only got
one more to go.
Eighty, eighty and a half.
SANDRO: Nice!
DAVE: Dot Com on fire.
JASON: Watch the rod.
Watch the rod.
DAVE: No! No, no!
Damn, it's a shark.
What the [bleep] are
you [bleep] kidding me?
[Bleep] you.
We came so close to landing a
monster early in this week.
But now all we're
seeing is sharks.
Aw [bleep] dammit [bleep].
Ugh!
Dammit!
Dammit!
[Melancholic Music]
Ugh.
When you reel this one up Jay,
see if we can find a clean
bucket to, uh, what?
JOE: I thought, he thought.
JASON: Nothing, sorry.
We, we didn't, we
didn't wanna, uh,
we didn't wanna talk to you
until we were talked to.
DAVE: You wanna get
your head bit off?
JASON: But now since
you said something, uh,
with a smile it just
makes me feel better.
You gotta let Dave
do his little.
DAVE: If you put anymore
sharks on my hook though,
I'm gonna kill you.
JASON: I'm going
to go down below.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PAUL: What's that, bubba?
PAUL: Who did it?
BRAD: Lance Romance.
PAUL: Really? Lance? Come here.
It's week nine and Lance is
still making rookie mistakes.
I want Lance to learn these
things because if he learns them
our whole crew benefits from it.
BRAD: I think we gotta spread it
out a little bit more, you know,
that's all.
LANCE: I know, I know you're not
supposed to stack the lineup,
it's all supposed to be even
without crossovers, I know that.
You guys are such pros
you never make mistakes.
PAUL: No, it's not a mistake,
BRAD: No we make mistakes.
PAUL: that's a losing fish.
You gotta spread it out.
LANCE: From now on I'll put my
[bleep] name on all the reels
I reel up 'cause it's 3
guys reeling a [bleep]
I know you guys...
PAUL: I would never
do that in my life. Ever.
definitely wouldn't do
it I know.
Nobody would ever do it,
I know, except for me.
PAUL: No, no, I
would never do that.
All's he's gotta do just
listen and not,
Yeah, I know. I know. I know.
I know. You can't do that.
Same thing every year,
everybody knows everything.
LANCE: That's fine
Paul, then fire me,
if that's the
[bleep] issue do it.
PAUL: I can't teach you
'cause you know everything.
LANCE: Yeah, okay dude,
that's [bleep] insane,
that's the most stupid
thing I ever heard
out of somebody's mouth.
PAUL: This is a
happy boat. Okay?
LANCE: I get it dude, so stop
making it unhappy and we'll be,
we'll be that way.
PAUL: All right, so
now you're blaming me.
LANCE: I'm going in a
good direction, Paul.
If you keep talking, this ain't
going in a good direction.
PAUL: I don't wanna,
I don't wanna lose.
LANCE: It's over. End it.
It's over.
PAUL: It's my [bleep]
boat you hear me,
don't talk to me
like that on my boat.
LANCE: I know whose boat it is.
PAUL: Ever!
LANCE: I understand it.
PAUL: Okay?
LANCE: Threatening me?
PAUL: No, promising you.
LANCE: All right. Exactly.
BRAD: I don't get bothered as
easily by things on the boat
because I know you have to kinda
relax to make it out there.
Being away from your family,
your loved ones, your relatives,
your friends.
If you don't try to control
some of your emotions,
it's just all gonna go to hell.
LANCE: I worked twenty-two
hours yesterday,
slept for two hours that was it.
I worked way too hard
to be treated like that.
I've just had
enough, just enough.
BRAD: I think this is what
we've seen a thousand times.
I don't think he can hack being
away from his wife and his kid.
PAUL: Yeah...
BRAD: He just lost it.
You have to be a certain
person to do this.
PAUL: Oh, yeah!
LANCE: I know I'm getting to
the breaking point and I'm sure
I'll get screwed on my tuna
money but it is what it is.
I'll take not getting paid
just to get away from this
catastrophe that he
calls the Wicked Pissah!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: We got a few fish.
I'm happy with that, but the
guys inside got 'em, too.
We were happy with,
uh, one, somewhat.
A little happier with two,
and even more so with three.
But we'll be, uh, we'll be
ecstatic if we get four.
The limit for the
trip is four fish.
We came to Georges to catch
four and now we've only got
one more to go.
GEORDIE: Whoa!
DAVE: Oh, yeah!
SANDRO: Wow, that's a nice fish.
DAVE: Look, here we are
talking about those guys.
And we're marking a
jumbo, right there!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Nice!
SANDRO: Let's rock and roll.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
That's it. We're on!
Hopefully we get this
one and we're outta here.
On again, number four.
When you're hot, you're hot.
When you're not, you're not.
SANDRO: Way out on top! Whoa!
It's way out there, I see him.
Wait, I see him on the surface.
Wow! Look at him go.
This fish is nuts.
DAVE: This one's wild.
SANDRO: Good color.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Number four on
the line right now.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Forward right, again.
Spin him around.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
That might be a
quick shot, here.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Missed him. Neutral, neutral!
Take it out of the rod
hole, out of the rod hole.
SANDRO: No, no, no, no, no!
DAVE: Grab the harpoon!
Don't let it go!
SANDRO: Watch the line!
Watch the line!
DAVE: Neutral! All right,
he's out, he's out.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
GEORDIE: There you go.
Right at ya.
DAVE: Got 'em.
GEORDIE: I can't
see, talk to me.
SANDRO: Forward, forward.
DAVE: Grab me a gaff.
Tail, tail rope,
left to Geordie.
GEORDIE: Nice, they're in.
DAVE: Yes.
Freakin' [inaudible] oh, yeah!
Yeah, heh, heh! That's four.
GEORDIE: Woo-hoo!
DAVE: Yeah!
Now we can celebrate.
We got our fourth.
Just like that.
That's Dot Com style, boys!
Get 'er done!
101 and a half.
Look at that, huh?
SANDRO: I think we
had a pretty good day.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Boy, that does take
the wind out of your sails,
though doesn't it. No matter how
many years you've been doing it,
it takes the wind
out of your sails.
All right, Joe. Let's wrap
it up and get to the dock.
And then come back out and see
if we can get that big one back.
It seems like inshore
fishing has dried up.
From what we're hearing it
sounds like Georges Bank was hot
We may have made the
wrong call this week.
DAVE: For now, we're
still empty. But,
we're not giving up, yet.
We'll just keep plugging away.
Sooner or later, it's
not a question of if.
Sooner or later,
those rods will bend.
Them's the breaks
in tuna fishing.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
JARRETT: This is our
drift right here guys.
This is the drift, we're
gonna get a bite on this one.
Come on!
TJ: Sounds good.
We've got one fish already,
so our expenses are paid for.
There's a lot of fish out
here on Georges though.
And to turn our season around,
we need some big paychecks.
JARRETT: Give us a bite?
MIKE: Ooh, that's a big mark.
JARRETT: Come on baby!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
TIM: we're on,
we're on, we're on!
That's what I'm talking.
TJ: Here we go.
Fight him off, bubby.
TIM: Beautiful, baby!
We got him on.
I was reeling in, it
hit it on the way in.
[BARKING DOG]
JARRETT: Whoo!
That fish is taking out a
lot of line right there.
It's the most line that's been
taken out on any fish yet
this season.
In this Georgey Banky, these
fish kick your ass man.
TIM: We got a lot of pressure
on it, man. I tell ya.
TJ: This is a sea monster, man.
This is definitely a jumbo.
TIM: I'd say that's it, come on.
JARRETT: Oh, god. No, no, no!
TIM: Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa!
JARRETT: Man I got you! Man
I got you! It's going down.
TIM: Oh, my god.
JARRETT: Wow.
TIM: Wow.
It's still going.
Holy [bleep] everything
we just gained,
he took right back again.
Want me to get on it?
JARRETT: Whoo-wee!
A big fish, man, he's got
a lot of power to him.
He's kicking my ass I know that.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
TJ: Oh, what a tough fish, man.
Trying to jockey the boats, stay
on top of him, he runs at us.
We're just trying to
stay tight on him.
And one minute he's 300
yards behind the boat,
the next minute he's
coming at us wide open.
TIM: Uh-oh [bleep]
there's a leader.
JARRETT: We got him.
TIM: Go with him! Go with him!
JARRETT: Watch these lines!
MIKE: Watch the lines.
Watch out. The dog's inside.
TIM: TJ, what the [bleep]
[bleep] thing, come on,
what are you gonna start crying?
MIKE: Not good at that one.
JARRETT: Get that
camera outta here, dude!
TIM: Why you letting
him back down?
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
JARRETT: Got him.
TIM: Go with him! Go with him!
JARRETT: Watch these lines!
MIKE: Watch the lines.
Watch out. The dog's inside.
TIM: TJ, what the [bleep]?
He got the [bleep] thing.
Come on, oh, you
gonna start crying?
TJ: Not good on that one.
JARRETT: Get that
camera outta here, dude!
TIM: Why you letting
him back down?
TJ: I'm not. I, dad, I said
I was gonna get him.
He was coming right at me.
TIM: See when you're hitting me?
I'm right in his back.
MIKE: It's wrapped
around the rod, Jarrett,
I can't do too much.
JARRETT: Get it out.
TIM: It's right, it's
wrapped around the rod hole.
TJ: Well, I don't know
this, I can't see it.
TIM: Well, we're
telling you it is!
Stop arguing and pay attention.
TJ: Mike, bring this
basket over here.
TIM: Watch Jarrett, get that
bucket up the, get that bucket.
TJ: Stand up, bubby.
TIM: Go around the
rod with the bucket.
TIM: The other
way, the other way.
Go around Jarrett, go around
Jarrett. Oh, around, around...
TIM: It's gonna go under his,
his feet again. Hold on.
TJ: There you go, buddy.
There you go.
TIM: Make sure you got
that tail gaff down too.
He's coming up right here.
TJ: He's coming.
TIM: We got him at, uh, 50 feet.
TJ: I got him, I got him.
TIM: He's right here.
TJ: I gotta take the [inaudible]
TIM: There he is, there he is!
We've got him.
He's coming to the boat.
He's coming to the boat.
JARRETT: Come on, TJ.
Move your ass.
MIKE: Watch out, watch
out, watch out, watch out.
Come one, TJ, hit him.
TIM: Yes, get him, get him.
Hold him tight, Mikey,
where's the gaff?
Where's your tail gaff?
MIKE: Yeah, I got him.
TJ: No [inaudible]
you have rope.
TJ: You have rope,
you have rope.
MIKE: [Inaudible].
JARRETT: I got him!
MIKE: I gotta lose ten, TJ.
Just get a, get
him, holy [bleep].
Look at the size of this!
TIM: Come on, Jarrett!
Right behind you!
JARRETT: Holy
[bleep] it's a jumbo.
[Inaudible] yeah!
MIKE: Hold on!
We don't got him just yet.
Help, help him tie him up.
TIM: Oh, my God!
JARRETT: TJ, tie him up.
I'm gonna stick a rope on it.
TIM: Oh [bleep] yeah.
JARRETT: Yeah!
TIM: Holy [bleep]
is he big, man!
TJ: Oh, nice one boys.
TIM: Wow!
This thing is huge!
MIKE: Watch yourself,
watch yourself.
Watch that clip, man.
TJ: Get back Ripple whoa.
ALL: Whoo-hoo!
JARRETT: Oh, my God, man!
TIM: I think he's
bigger than 115.
MIKE: Holy [bleep]
JARRETT: Oh, my God!
TIM: Wow!
That is a big boy!
TJ: 121, Mike!
TIM: Oh, yeah!
JARRETT: Holy [bleep].
TJ: 121, Jesus.
TIM: 121, baby.
MIKE: Holy.
TJ: Oh, my god.
TIM: That's a grand right there.
TJ: That's a thousand-pounder.
TIM: Wow.
JARRETT: Whew!
TJ: You ready for this?
One hundred and
twenty-one inches.
DAVE: No way.
TJ: And about 95 inches, around.
DAVE: Hey!
TJ's fish, a hundred
and twenty-one inches.
SANDRO: Come on!
DAVE: Yeah.
JARRETT: That's the biggest
fish we ever caught.
I've never seen a fish
that big in my life.
I've never even seen one out of
the water that big in my life.
It's huge!
TJ: It's super-special,
because we've been struggling.
Our year hasn't been
going that great,
and to catch a sea
monster like that, I,
I don't have much more to say
other than, you know, thank God.
Thank the grateful
dead, and thank my guys
for doing a great job, man.
To land a monster fish like
this after making the trek
all the way out to Georges,
it's definitely a sweet feeling.
We made the gamble then
it paid off in a big way.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: We're gonna run
over and go see TJ.
He's got a hundred
and twenty-one inch.
We're coming over.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
TJ: Slammer, huh?
DAVE: Man.
TJ: Dude, he's a hundred
and twenty-one inches.
He's bigger than the tank.
SANDRO: That's big.
TJ: It might be
800 dressed, bro.
DAVE: Wow.
We got four, TJ's only got two
but he's got a jumbo on board.
Went to Georges for the big
score, mission accomplished.
Well, hey we got a
good trip, all of us.
TJ: Yeah.
JARRETT: Nice work, guys.
DAVE: You too.
Nice work, gang.
JARRETT: Those Georgey Banky
fish, man, they're monsters.
DAVE: Big ass fish right there.
What's up, PJ?
PJ: What's up, Dave?
DAVE: From Georges Bank run.
PJ: That's a long way to go; you
guys came home with a boatload.
DAVE: We did what we
were supposed to do.
SANDRO: Yeah, yeah.
PJ: Nice.
Good job, guys.
DAVE: What do you got?
PJ: Two hundred
and seven dressed,
two hundred and
thirty-one pounds,
three hundred and six pounds,
four hundred and seventy-five
pounds dressed.
PJ: Nice fish!
DAVE: Yeah!
SANDRO: Yes, sir.
DAVE: We started
small, we went bigger.
There's one.
PJ: Tail color I like.
It's just, it doesn't
have much fat.
This fish here, $11 a pound.
DAVE: All right.
GEORDIE: Yeah, right?
He's 11 bucks!
SANDRO: Yeah! There we go!
GEORDIE: Nice!
PJ: Next!
SANDRO: That's a little better.
PJ: Yeah, it's got
some fat to it, huh?
Core color is a little
cloudy but not terrible.
Sixteen dollars on this one.
SANDRO: Nice!
GEORDIE: Nice!
SANDRO: Yes, sir!
PJ: Hey, keep them coming, cap.
This fish got some fat
in them out there, huh?
Nice color.
Eighteen dollars on this one.
GEORDIE: Eighteen? Nice.
DAVE: All right.
That's beautiful.
PJ: We got one more?
DAVE: Yeah, one more!
PJ: This is a big boy, huh?
DAVE: Uh-hmm.
PJ: Look at that,
nice pinkish color.
Good fat all the way through.
Oh, it's a nice fish, guys.
Let's go, 19 bucks on this one.
GEORDIE: Nineteen dollars. Yeah!
SANDRO: All right!
GEORDIE: Yeah.
SANDRO: Price gets
better and better!
PJ: Way to go, guys.
DAVE: Today we brought in
over 1200 pounds of fish.
We got the limit, this is a
Georges Tuna Fisherman dream.
Good payday guys.
GEORDIE: Payday baby!
SANDRO: Yes, sir!
TJ: We're anticipating a good
price 'cause it is a nice fish
and hopefully the
buyer agrees with us.
And if he doesn't, we're
gonna throw him in the water.
SCOTTY: So, I heard
you guys got a big one!
TJ: I hope we can get him on the
truck bro, it's gonna be a task.
SCOTTY: Let's see
what we can do.
MIKE: That's a good first one.
TJ: What you got, Scott-so?
SCOTTY: Three hundred
and forty-eight pounds.
TIM: The next one's bigger.
MIKE: It's [inaudible].
SCOTTY: Yeah, I'm a
little sketched out here.
TIM: Come on!
Have you seen anything
this big this year?
SCOTTY: I don't think I've
ever seen one this big.
TIM: What is it?
SCOTTY: Eight hundred and
seventy-nine pounds dressed.
TIM: Nice!
JARRETT: Yeah.
MIKE: That's a big one.
SCOTTY: Ooh!
TJ: Ooh.
SCOTTY: You guys got
yourself a good fish here.
TJ: It's a beauty, bro.
SCOTTY: It's amazing.
Good color. Loaded with fat.
TIM: Come on Scott-so,
take care of us here, man.
SCOTTY: Twenty dollars a pound.
TIM: Yeah! Yes, sir!
JARRETT: Yeah! All right!
TJ: All right!
JARRETT: Yeah! All right!
You're the man, bro.
TJ: There he is, a sea monster.
JARRETT: Woo-hoo!
TIM: Wow!
MIKE: Look at that color, bro!
SCOTTY: Monster.
TIM: Oh, whoa, crimson red.
SCOTTY: Perfect, too.
With the fat, and this color, we
can get you guys, $19 a pound.
MIKE: Whoa!
TJ: Scott-so!
MIKE: Yeah!
JARRETT: Oh, yeah! Woo!
MIKE: Woo!
TJ: We definitely took a major
risk going out to Georges,
but it certainly paid off.
We've got a beautiful
fish, giant sea monster.
It's fish like this
that make you realize
why you love to do this.
NARRATOR: At the
end of week nine,
Hot Tuna's monster George's trip
makes them the top earning boat
and pulls them to
within striking distance
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PAUL: Hey, Lance, wanna
come in for a minute?
LANCE: Let me just took
out [inaudible]
what's up?
PAUL: I'm, I'm having
a hard time this year.
I'm under a lot of pressure.
And, you've been my
friend for a long time.
It's my first year with the boat
and I'm just so stressed out.
Lance is a hard ass worker,
but the negativity that Lance is
bringing to the boat right now
is affecting the whole business.
I have to be the one that
makes the decisions this year.
But, you keep questioning me.
I'm the captain and
owner of my boat.
I can't have this against me.
It's like you're fighting
me the whole time
and it's just not working out.
It's not working out right now.
I'm gonna have to
let you go, Lance.
LANCE: Well, nobody knows
what the future holds.
PAUL: The future's
gonna hold good things.
I know that,
all right?
LANCE: All right, Cap.
PAUL: Thanks, Lance.
I'm positive Lance is gonna
land right on his feet.
It's hard to let Lance go,
but I think it's gonna
be better for the boat
if it's just Brad and I.
BRAD: End of the day, you gotta
cut your losses, and move on,
and we're gonna
catch plenty of fish.
PAUL: Brad and I, we will
turn this place upside down.
BRAD: It's a business.
It's a business.
PAUL: But I need you.
I need you now more
than ever, pal.
BRAD: Thanks.
PAUL: All right, let's
do this. Let's do this.
BRAD: Let's do it, man.
I love ya, man.
NARRATOR: On this
episode of Wicked Tuna.
When captains get desperate.
DAVE: Dammit!
NARRATOR: They chase tuna
a hundred and seventy
miles out to sea.
DAVE: Hard reverse.
Get it, hard reverse.
Oh!!
TIM: Why you
letting it back out?
NARRATOR: Risking their safety.
JARRETT: These Georgy Banky
fish kick your ass, man.
NARRATOR: And big money.
GEORDIE: Grab the harpoon!
DAVE: Team Tuna
is on another one!
NARRATOR: Will their
gamble pay off?
BRAD: Stick him right here!
PAUL: Go ahead get him! Get him!
JASON: This fish is crazy!
NARRATOR: In one of the most
regulated fisheries
in the world.
JASON: Attaboy, Joe, attaboy!
NARRATOR: These fishermen
fight to earn a living.
DAVE: Got him!
TJ: Whoo!
MIKE: Oh, I got him!
NARRATOR: Catching.
DAVE: Whoo!
SANDRO: We are on to something!
NARRATOR: Wicked Tuna.
TJ: Papow!
NARRATOR: At the start of week
9, last season's champion,
Hard Merchandise,
leads the fleet,
and Hot Tuna languish in
the middle of the pack.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Georges Bank.
It's home to some of the best
fishing on the East Coast.
Fishermen have been trying their
luck here for hundreds of years.
But many, unfortunately,
have found only
the bottom of the ocean.
It's the ultimate gamble.
Hundred and seventy
miles from Gloucester.
Expenses for a round-trip are
far over a thousand dollars.
And if anything goes wrong,
you're stranded a
long way from home.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
I've taken the gamble
to head to Georges.
Right now, we're in third place,
and that's not where I wanna be.
Last couple of weeks, we've
been picking away inshore.
Fishing inshore, you may
get one here and there
but we need to make
something happen now.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
SANDRO: Right there! Right
there! Right there! Right there!
Stop!
DAVE: We're on.
SANDRO: Hey, stop.
DAVE: Geordie, go forward right,
forward right, forward right.
GEORDIE: Forward right.
We're good.
SANDRO: Whoo! Baby!
DAVE: That's good.
If the fish are here, we can
catch four in a single trip
and jump ahead of everyone else.
I wanna catch the limit,
I wanna catch four,
I wanna move back
into first place.
Come on, we gotta get it.
GEORDIE: This first fish
will cover expenses,
but if we want to make a profit,
we need to get a bit more.
DAVE: Whoo! Come on, man,
we need this boys.
Ready?
GEORDIE: Yeah.
SANDRO: Fish should stop
running, dumped a pile of line.
That's how we want it
to bite every time.
DAVE: Eighty feet
he's right here.
SANDRO: Trying to get
the fish in a pinwheel.
Get him on his side.
Give me some reverse.
Swivel!
You know it's a big boy.
DAVE: Oh, yeah, he's big.
Lot of money on the
end of that line.
GEORDIE: Color!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Get on! Get on! Come on!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
SANDRO: And neutral.
DAVE: My driving force is
to prove that we can be
the number one boat
in the fleet again.
Got him!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Good job.
SANDRO: And lift.
GEORDIE: One, two, three.
DAVE: Yeah.
GEORDIE: There we go!
SANDRO: Oh!
GEORDIE: That was
almost a broken arm.
That is, getting
that out of there.
DAVE: Sandro, are you excited?
SANDRO: Not really.
Still got a long way to go.
Coming out to Georges Bank,
I wanna catch four fish,
so as far as I'm concerned,
we got three more to go.
DAVE: Eighty-eight! Nice.
That's a big fish.
You know, as a fisherman,
you always want,
you always want more.
Going to Georges is a gamble.
But I really hope it pays off.
JASON: Wait and wait
and think positive.
And, you know, these fish are
known to travel in schools.
JOE: Yeah.
JASON: We caught
that 800 pounder.
JOE: Yep. There's definitely
bigger fish around.
JASON: There's definitely a
nice big class of fish around.
DAVE: It's week nine, and right
now, we're in first place.
JASON: Whoo-hoo!
DAVE: Last week, we landed the
biggest fish in the season.
JASON: That's almost a
10 foot fish right there!
DAVE: Without a doubt, this fish
here, he's pushing 800 pounds.
This is why we do it.
We've been hot inshore.
So, we're gonna stick it out
at Jeffrey's Ledge this week.
One of the oldest
rules of fishing is;
you don't leave
fish to find fish.
That's one of the first things
you learn as a boat owner.
We're catching fish,
they're big fish,
and we're gonna find some really
big fish if we stick it out.
JOE: Let's go get them.
JASON: Let's go get them.
[BEEPING SOUND]
DAVE: Oh, oh, there they are.
Wow, is he, is he
coming back up, Geordie?
GEORDIE: No.
DAVE: Any minute.
[BEEPING SOUND]
Yup, I thought I saw that.
I saw that.
That's him, that's
him, that's him.
No! I saw that rod tip go.
All right, guys.
GEORDIE: We're on, baby.
SANDRO: Easy, easy.
DAVE: We need this
fish right now.
Wow, he's pretty wild, huh?
SANDRO: Psycho.
DAVE: Yeah, oh, yeah.
He's gonna go clockwise.
If we never invented time, would
there be such thing as called
clockwise and counter clockwise?
SANDRO: Stop it.
DAVE: No, that's,
that's a good question.
SANDRO: Can you reverse? Wow.
He is rolling.
DAVE: Nice, nice, nice.
SANDRO: Watch that
swivel, watch that swivel.
DAVE: There you go.
Nice, Geordie!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
You're okay.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
SANDRO: Hit him!
DAVE: Got one! Yeah!
He ain't a monster,
but he's a keeper.
Oh, he's not a keeper yet.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
I don't have him that good.
GEORDIE: Tail
rope's on the deck.
DAVE: Gaff the head again.
Yeah, gaff him.
SANDRO: I'll get the
tail, you got him.
DAVE: Got one!
GEORDIE: Got one!
SANDRO: Got one!
DAVE: Yeah!
GEORDIE: Tie that one up!
DAVE: Way to go.
Money in the bank.
SANDRO: In we go.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Oh, he's a little
bigger than I thought.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Over the top, 76.
I am the winner!
SANDRO: It's about time you won.
[LAUGHING]
MAN: The bite's on at Georges.
Dot Com's already got
like two fish out there.
LANCE: Getting some
chatter in here.
Sounds like they're starting to
get them out there on Georges.
PAUL: Yeah, they're gonna
be talking like that.
LANCE: Sounds pretty good.
BRAD: We're not gonna run
around like a bunch of chickens
with our heads cut off, Lance.
We can't.
PAUL: We gotta
stay to the grind.
BRAD: We gotta stick
to our game plan here.
PAUL: It's week nine, the Wicked
Pissah has caught 7 fish so far.
We've been on a good roll,
and we done it inshore.
It's close to home.
We're on Stellwagen.
I know there's fish here.
I do not wanna gamble and
go offshore, 170 miles.
I feel it in my gut that we
can make it happen inside.
LANCE: They're
really talking it up.
Better than sitting in
here catching nothing.
I thought Paul was a
hardcore fisherman.
But with not heading
out to Georges,
I'm starting to question that.
I think he's kind of a wimp.
I think he's scared
to go out there.
BRAD: I know he
wants to catch fish.
PAUL: We all do, that's
why we're doing this.
If we be patient, we're
gonna get them right here.
Lance, it, it aggravates me
that he doesn't trust me.
LANCE: It's, it's frustrating
not having any say at all in
where we fish.
I would like to voice my opinion
but that's just not how it works
on this boat.
PAUL: It's too dangerous
for this little boat.
If I told my father I have to
go 170 miles to catch a tuna,
he'd probably knock me out.
[LAUGHING]
What did you say? Whack!
It costs a fish to go out there.
The crew makes more money
catching two a week inshore
than we do catching
four fish out there.
LANCE: It's tough knowing that
somebody else is getting fish
and you're not.
PAUL: Be patient,
we're gonna catch 'em.
TJ: Georgy Banky
here we come baby!
MIKE: See ya later, Gloucester!
TJ: Oh, we're gonna be out
there a few days on this one.
JARRETT: Going far.
TJ: We need it now man.
We need it more than ever.
We're past the halfway
point of the season
and we're not doing
as well as I hoped.
So far we're riding in
the middle of the pack.
The strategy for this particular
trip is just to go out there
and give it hell.
Good reports coming
off Georges Bank.
so we're gonna take the trip.
We've been getting
the bites inshore,
but that's not really
what we wanna do.
We need a good shot right now.
We need to climb
the leaderboard,
gain our confidence.
Definitely a little
bit embarrassed
that we're not performing
as well as we should.
I mean, every year it's been
the same story, over and over,
and you know what? I'm sick
of the same story.
MAN: What's going on?
JARRETT: What's going on, man?
MAN: Doing the snow right?
JARRETT: Yeah,
we're gonna do snow.
TJ: When we head out to Georges,
we've got to make sure we
have lots of provisions.
One of the beautiful things
about fishing out of Gloucester
is you have a facility like
this, like Cape Pond Ice,
that you can come to and blow in
premium ice; you know, snow ice.
That holds real well,
it's real clean.
Especially when you're trying
to take care of your product.
JARRETT: That was refreshing.
TJ: Thank you, man.
MAN: Yeah, you bet.
TJ: Places like this are,
you know, a dying breed.
Gloucester's really been based
and built around the fishing
community, and Cape Pond Ice
has been a huge part of that.
Take care, guys, thanks again!
MAN: Yeah, thank you!
JARRETT: Have a good one, guys!
TJ: Hundred and
sixty miles of pain.
Georgy Banky, please
don't spank me.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PAUL: There's a couple
fish roaming through;
which is really cool.
We haven't seen that yet.
LANCE: We're wasting
our time in here.
It's totally dead.
BRAD: We're gonna
catch fish here.
It's looking very
promising here.
PAUL: We're inshore and
we're already fishing,
we didn't travel a
hundred and seventy miles.
If we had gone to Georges
with everyone else,
follow the leader, we'd
still be steaming out there.
Right place, right time.
That's all it is.
What's on that floater?
Tuna?
BRAD: Something.
PAUL: Right there,
something's on it.
BRAD: Tuna, I hope.
LANCE: Here we go!
PAUL: Here we go!
BRAD: I think it's a tuna.
Got weight to him.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PAUL: All right, I
need to see, okay?
Everyone needs to let
me watch, see the line.
It's nighttime, we
can't see the line.
It's important everyone's
on the game, on everything.
BRAD: All right, easy. Easy.
He's right here.
PAUL: Do you see what it is?
BRAD: It's a tuna.
I see him right here.
PAUL: Just go easy,
Brad, all right?
BRAD: I'm going easy, man.
PAUL: You gotta let me know
where he's going. I cannot see!
BRAD: Yeah, go right!
Go right! Good!
You might be able to dart
him right there, Paul!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Give me the harpoon
ready, Lance.
PAUL: It's ready, it's ready!
DAVE: Well, we're about to get
started here for the night.
For some reason these fish
have been night bites.
It's a little tough,
it's hard on the crew,
we're burning the
candle at both ends;
being up day and night
pretty much, but,
hey, the bottom line is,
we're catching fish,
and we're getting nice fish.
And I've seen some really
big fish here on my machine.
I don't think we've got the
biggest fish out of here yet.
A lot of the guys are
headed outside to Georges.
I think there's plenty
of fish to catch inshore.
[BEEPING SOUND]
JOE: Coming up for it.
DAVE: You gotta be careful
when you follow the masses.
The M is silent. [LAUGHS]
JOE: Shooting straight
up, shooting straight up.
Oh yeah!
DAVE: Yeah.
JASON: That's what we like!
JOE: He's coming up
still, right at 10.
Going back down.
DAVE: He's on it.
JOE: You got it?
DAVE: We're on!
Try and get him up here, Joe.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
There he goes.
Now he's screaming!
Now he figured
out he was hooked.
JASON: That's a screamer!
DAVE: That's what he
was supposed to do!
JASON: That's a screamer!
DAVE: Team Tuna
is on another one!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: I ain't seen a
mark like that in years.
JOE: Tag you.
DAVE: Stay in the bait.
That's right, reel,
Joe, he's still there.
One more fish, if we
can land this guy.
And I know from the mark,
this is a good fish.
JOE: Yup.
DAVE: It's another five
to six grand in the bag.
It definitely makes me feel
good to know it was a good call
not to go to Georges.
Reel. Reel. Reel.
We just got to get
this fish in the boat.
PAUL: Let's go, Brad,
reel this sucker in.
BRAD: Lance, come
reel this fish.
PAUL: No, wait. Wait.
BRAD: Come reel the
fish, I'll harpoon it.
PAUL: Wait. Just wait, hold on.
Wait, Brad.
LANCE: He's coming.
We'll get him, Brad,
we'll get him, dude.
PAUL: Hold on.
Here we are inshore, hooked up,
I am so happy I followed
my gut instinct.
Hopefully, Lance will
learn to trust my judgment.
I can't see.
Where is he? Can't see.
BRAD: Easy, Lance, easy, Lance.
PAUL: Can't see. Can't see!
Loosen up, go around.
LANCE: He's coming around.
BRAD: I'm gonna stick
him, right here.
PAUL: Go ahead, get him.
LANCE: No, no, no.
PAUL: Get him! Get him!
LANCE: No, wait. Wait, coming
around. There he is, Brad.
Hit him!
Got him.
BRAD: Hey, I got him.
He's got him.
PAUL: See! Told you.
We got nothing.
LANCE: Never have him until
the tail wraps on man,
a lot of things could go wrong.
PAUL: I've had two
harpoons in a fish;
pulled both darts
and broke the line.
Doesn't matter 'till he's
tail roped to the boat.
DAVE: Charging it.
Hook.
You don't want to
pop him up, right?
This one's a tricky one.
Let's hope our
lucks holds, guys.
JOE: I'm ready to fight
him all day if I have to.
LANCE: He's giving us
everything he's got.
He's not giving up easy.
PAUL: He's all over the place.
Lance, you go by the
wheel, all right?
BRAD: He's good. He's
gonna circle right again.
He's circling nice, man.
PAUL: He's coming,
Brad, he's coming.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Ah, Jesus.
Nailed him.
Neutral. Neutral. Neutral.
Neutral. Neutral.
Don't pull this dart.
Give him to me over here.
Over here. Over here, don't,
give him to me.
Let me have him.
I got him. Come on.
Easy, easy, get him now!
Gaff him!
Tail rope, Brad.
Hold him up.
Come on, Brad.
LANCE: [Inaudible].
PAUL: Keep wrapping
around, around, around.
BRAD: I got him. [Inaudible].
PAUL: Yeah. We got him! Yay!
BRAD: Yeah! Sweet!
PAUL: Nice!
BRAD: Payday, baby!
Ha, ha, ha....
Whoo! Yeah!
PAUL: We finally caught the
fish, and it's a huge fish.
I knew it was a good
decision to stay inshore.
Beautiful.
BRAD: 105!
PAUL: 105!
LANCE: 105?
PAUL: No way, dude! Good one!
LANCE: Nice job guys!
105, dude! Nice one!
PAUL: That's nice.
BRAD: He's a nice fish.
We love him.
God blessed us with
his life today.
He's a beautiful fish.
We'll take him.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Sun's coming up.
We'll be able to see
him in a little while.
Sunrise tuna bite.
JASON: Keep it up,
Joe, keep it up!
DAVE: All right, we're just
gonna let him swim now, guys.
JASON: Nice and easy.
Nice and easy.
DAVE: You got to let
him tire himself out.
We've been fighting
this fish for hours,
and we might have to
fight him all day.
But he's a giant, and we're
not giving up on this one.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
[YAWNING SOUND]
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Good work, boys.
We can get him.
We can get him.
JASON: Ready?
JOE: Yep.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
JASON: Attaboy, Joe! Attaboy!
This fish is crazy!
We need a little bit of
luck, that's all I can say.
Good job, Joe!
DAVE: Good job, boys!
JASON: I wanna see what
this one looks like.
Oh, gone!
Gone!
Gone.
Pulled the hook. Gone.
JOE: Damn it.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
JASON: Four hour
of disappointment.
JOE: I mean, that's
a kick in the nuts.
I mean, I don't know how else,
how else to describe is.
We've been up all night.
Just, it really sucks right now.
TIM: We're just getting up
to, uh, Georgy Bank here,
Georges Bank.
I haven't seen any whales
yet but, a lot of bird life,
which is a good sign.
We've been in the middle of
the pack and, when I feel,
I come on a boat, I think,
I bring a lot of drive.
I believe in TJ as a captain
and I believe in the Hot Tuna.
I think we can be the
top boat in the fleet.
And there's still time to
make it happen this season.
[BEEPING SOUND]
TJ: Think that's a mark or you
think that's his jig? I don't.
JARRETT: He's
coming up right now.
TJ: Yeah, but he wasn't
that high a minute ago.
Right?
Oh, watch that whiting,
watch that whiting!
Watch that whiting.
Oh I got one all
over the down rod.
JARRETT: I think
we're marking one.
TIM: Are we?
JARRETT: I think so.
TJ: Oh, eat it.
Why doesn't he pile on that?
TIM: We're on! We're on!
[BARKING DOG]
TJ: Got him on, baby.
Got him on!
The reel is turning baby.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
JARRETT: Back, back, back, back.
TIM: All right, baby.
Got him on, got him on.
Seeing the rod lap over,
just need to keep, move
him a little bit over.
Rail the reel on him. Got tight.
Got some magic going on.
Bag that first bite. We need it.
TJ: Something big,
whatever it is, man.
TIM: That looks like the
Dot Com right over there.
TJ: And we're yanking on
one right next to them, so,
it's a good feeling.
Fingers crossed, man.
We really need this one.
Get the stink off the boat,
man, get the mood right.
JARRETT: Whoo!
Wow.
TIM: Big Tim hooks the real one.
That is a big Bluefin
is what that is.
Here we go, Jarrett,
that's what we came for.
JARRETT: All right!
TIM: Hundred fifty
miles for this.
This is a good-sized fish.
Pulled all that mono out, right?
TJ: Yeah.
JARRETT: He'll, yeah, it did.
TIM: Yeah.
There's a swivel.
Oh, bubba, go ahead just...
Forward, forward, forward,
TIM: Forward, forward.
TJ: Gotta be right there.
MIKE: Right there. There he is.
TIM: Forward, forward.
TJ: Missed him. Missed him.
TIM: Missed him. I got
him. I got him. I got him.
TJ: [Inaudible] right here.
MIKE: Come on.
TIM: I thought I got him.
You said you.
TJ: I don't have a gaff.
TIM: I got him. I got him.
Come on. Gaff, gaff. Come on.
Gaff. Perfect, perfect shot.
Come on. Let's get him.
TJ: Where is it?
TIM: Tail up, tail up.
I got the rope.
Got the rope, Jarrett?
MIKE: Heave-ho.
TJ: On my right, on my right.
TIM: Right behind me,
Jarrett, right here.
Hoo, hoo, hoo!
Yeah, baby! That's it!
JARRETT: Nice [inaudible].
TIM: Got him, baby.
JARRETT: That was a good throw.
TJ: He finally surrendered to
the flow and now he's hanging
from the cleat, baby. Whoo!
Papow!
JARRETT: First Georgy
Banky fish of the year!
TIM: Yeah, baby!
JARRETT: Hell yeah.
TJ: All right.
MIKE: All right. We're good.
JARRETT: Watch out Ripple.
TIM: Oh.
Fat tail, big fat belly.
Big fat paycheck.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
TJ: Ninety.
TIM: Wow.
MIKE: It's a good
looking 90 incher.
TIM: Beautiful 90 incher.
TJ: We'll take him.
Welcome aboard, baby.
TIM: Welcome to the jungle.
TJ: From Georgy Banky back
to Gloucester Harbor you go.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
[CHIGA, CHIGAPOW, CHIGAPOW!]
[LAUGHING]
This could be the turning point
of our season right here,
no doubt about it.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PJ: What's up, Paul?
Got another one?
BRAD: Fish number eight.
PJ: You're in the right
spot getting the bites.
That's the main thing.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PAUL: What do you got?
LANCE: Beauty.
PJ: Four hundred and
seven pounds dressed.
PAUL: All right.
BRAD: Whoo.
PAUL: Nice!
LANCE: Thanks, brother.
PJ: Not bad.
LANCE: Thank you.
PAUL: You can't go
to Georges every day.
PJ: Right.
PAUL: It's a five-day process.
They're spending a
thousand dollars a trip,
I'm spending a
hundred and fifty.
Let's see what he looks like.
The tuna buyer looks at
the fat content, the shape,
and the color of the meat.
That's how they determine
the price per pound
that we get.
BRAD: Nice color.
That's a ruby red.
PJ: Oh, man.
Tail color's good.
This fish here, you guys are
gonna do good with this one.
LANCE: Come on, dude.
PJ: How about $19 a pound?
PAUL: You got it.
BRAD: Whoo!
PAUL: We'll take it. Thank you.
LANCE: Thank you very much.
PAUL: The decision to stay
inshore pays off for us.
The bottom line, I just wanna
make these guys some money.
I don't want to butt heads.
We need to push
hard and go forward.
BRAD: That's good, Lance.
That it? Good.
GEORDIE: Got one on
the screen, Dave, 60.
DAVE: You got one
on the machine?
GEORDIE: Yeah.
DAVE: Come on, lap over.
We've got two fish already, so
our bills right now are covered.
We're still on Georges and we're
still looking for a third bite.
TJ's in there,
he's marked a few.
If we got a bite, I dunno,
we'll see what happens.
SANDRO: You're gonna need
a heater [inaudible].
DAVE: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Hey!
SANDRO: We're on! We're on!
GEORDIE: No way.
SANDRO: That's not a shark.
That's no shark.
We're on.
We're on to something here.
We're on to something here!
DAVE: We're on! We're on!
Whoo!
SANDRO: We are on to something!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Uh-oh. This isn't good.
This reel is not tight.
DAVE: Oh yeah!
It's not, come on here.
Get, uh, get that strap wrench.
GEORDIE: Okay.
DAVE: Our rods come in
many different parts,
and before we go fishing it's
important we assemble them,
and assemble them right.
We didn't tighten
it down enough.
GEORDIE: Ugh!
DAVE: It came lose and now the
reel is ready to fall off
of the base of the rod and if
it does, this fish is gone.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
It's taking a lot of line!
Geordie, you get
on the rod here!
Hurry up!
The reel is falling off the rod!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: This reel is not tight.
This reel is
falling off the rod.
We're hooked up on fish
number three
but this reel is falling apart.
I could feel it twisting every
time the fish starts to run.
Geordie you can get
on the rod here.
Come on, Geordie, get on.
Got it?.
[Inaudible]
SANDRO: Which one is it?
DAVE: Yeah, it's in the thing,
the red, the red handle there.
That's good. Tie it
both down like that.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
GEORDIE: Come on press,
put a lot of pressure.
DAVE: Back in action,
nice job guys, good job.
Hey, Geordie, take
a breather come on.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Swivel!
Forward right, forward
right, forward right.
First, forward right, hard.
[Inaudible] now.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Neutral, neutral.
SANDRO: Neutral.
DAVE: I can't see anything.
I'm right in the glare.
Harder right, get harder right.
SANDRO: Okay.
Easy, easy, easy, easy.
DAVE: Geordie, go forward
right, forward. That's right.
SANDRO: Oh, watch
the line, Dave.
GEORDIE: Take the shot!
DAVE: I got him.
SANDRO: Forward right, forward.
DAVE: No, neutral, neutral!
Neutral!
Hey, take the, uh, kick it
around, go forward left.
Just neutral, neutral left.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
SANDRO: Gaff that tail.
DAVE: All right, come
right, I got him good.
No other gaff required.
SANDRO: Yeah!
Woo!
DAVE: Yes. Now we can celebrate!
SANDRO: Now one more!
DAVE: High five camera.
Fish number three.
We came to Georges to
catch our limit of four,
now we've only got
one more to go.
Eighty, eighty and a half.
SANDRO: Nice!
DAVE: Dot Com on fire.
JASON: Watch the rod.
Watch the rod.
DAVE: No! No, no!
Damn, it's a shark.
What the [bleep] are
you [bleep] kidding me?
[Bleep] you.
We came so close to landing a
monster early in this week.
But now all we're
seeing is sharks.
Aw [bleep] dammit [bleep].
Ugh!
Dammit!
Dammit!
[Melancholic Music]
Ugh.
When you reel this one up Jay,
see if we can find a clean
bucket to, uh, what?
JOE: I thought, he thought.
JASON: Nothing, sorry.
We, we didn't, we
didn't wanna, uh,
we didn't wanna talk to you
until we were talked to.
DAVE: You wanna get
your head bit off?
JASON: But now since
you said something, uh,
with a smile it just
makes me feel better.
You gotta let Dave
do his little.
DAVE: If you put anymore
sharks on my hook though,
I'm gonna kill you.
JASON: I'm going
to go down below.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PAUL: What's that, bubba?
PAUL: Who did it?
BRAD: Lance Romance.
PAUL: Really? Lance? Come here.
It's week nine and Lance is
still making rookie mistakes.
I want Lance to learn these
things because if he learns them
our whole crew benefits from it.
BRAD: I think we gotta spread it
out a little bit more, you know,
that's all.
LANCE: I know, I know you're not
supposed to stack the lineup,
it's all supposed to be even
without crossovers, I know that.
You guys are such pros
you never make mistakes.
PAUL: No, it's not a mistake,
BRAD: No we make mistakes.
PAUL: that's a losing fish.
You gotta spread it out.
LANCE: From now on I'll put my
[bleep] name on all the reels
I reel up 'cause it's 3
guys reeling a [bleep]
I know you guys...
PAUL: I would never
do that in my life. Ever.
definitely wouldn't do
it I know.
Nobody would ever do it,
I know, except for me.
PAUL: No, no, I
would never do that.
All's he's gotta do just
listen and not,
Yeah, I know. I know. I know.
I know. You can't do that.
Same thing every year,
everybody knows everything.
LANCE: That's fine
Paul, then fire me,
if that's the
[bleep] issue do it.
PAUL: I can't teach you
'cause you know everything.
LANCE: Yeah, okay dude,
that's [bleep] insane,
that's the most stupid
thing I ever heard
out of somebody's mouth.
PAUL: This is a
happy boat. Okay?
LANCE: I get it dude, so stop
making it unhappy and we'll be,
we'll be that way.
PAUL: All right, so
now you're blaming me.
LANCE: I'm going in a
good direction, Paul.
If you keep talking, this ain't
going in a good direction.
PAUL: I don't wanna,
I don't wanna lose.
LANCE: It's over. End it.
It's over.
PAUL: It's my [bleep]
boat you hear me,
don't talk to me
like that on my boat.
LANCE: I know whose boat it is.
PAUL: Ever!
LANCE: I understand it.
PAUL: Okay?
LANCE: Threatening me?
PAUL: No, promising you.
LANCE: All right. Exactly.
BRAD: I don't get bothered as
easily by things on the boat
because I know you have to kinda
relax to make it out there.
Being away from your family,
your loved ones, your relatives,
your friends.
If you don't try to control
some of your emotions,
it's just all gonna go to hell.
LANCE: I worked twenty-two
hours yesterday,
slept for two hours that was it.
I worked way too hard
to be treated like that.
I've just had
enough, just enough.
BRAD: I think this is what
we've seen a thousand times.
I don't think he can hack being
away from his wife and his kid.
PAUL: Yeah...
BRAD: He just lost it.
You have to be a certain
person to do this.
PAUL: Oh, yeah!
LANCE: I know I'm getting to
the breaking point and I'm sure
I'll get screwed on my tuna
money but it is what it is.
I'll take not getting paid
just to get away from this
catastrophe that he
calls the Wicked Pissah!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: We got a few fish.
I'm happy with that, but the
guys inside got 'em, too.
We were happy with,
uh, one, somewhat.
A little happier with two,
and even more so with three.
But we'll be, uh, we'll be
ecstatic if we get four.
The limit for the
trip is four fish.
We came to Georges to catch
four and now we've only got
one more to go.
GEORDIE: Whoa!
DAVE: Oh, yeah!
SANDRO: Wow, that's a nice fish.
DAVE: Look, here we are
talking about those guys.
And we're marking a
jumbo, right there!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Nice!
SANDRO: Let's rock and roll.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
That's it. We're on!
Hopefully we get this
one and we're outta here.
On again, number four.
When you're hot, you're hot.
When you're not, you're not.
SANDRO: Way out on top! Whoa!
It's way out there, I see him.
Wait, I see him on the surface.
Wow! Look at him go.
This fish is nuts.
DAVE: This one's wild.
SANDRO: Good color.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Number four on
the line right now.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Forward right, again.
Spin him around.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
That might be a
quick shot, here.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
Missed him. Neutral, neutral!
Take it out of the rod
hole, out of the rod hole.
SANDRO: No, no, no, no, no!
DAVE: Grab the harpoon!
Don't let it go!
SANDRO: Watch the line!
Watch the line!
DAVE: Neutral! All right,
he's out, he's out.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
GEORDIE: There you go.
Right at ya.
DAVE: Got 'em.
GEORDIE: I can't
see, talk to me.
SANDRO: Forward, forward.
DAVE: Grab me a gaff.
Tail, tail rope,
left to Geordie.
GEORDIE: Nice, they're in.
DAVE: Yes.
Freakin' [inaudible] oh, yeah!
Yeah, heh, heh! That's four.
GEORDIE: Woo-hoo!
DAVE: Yeah!
Now we can celebrate.
We got our fourth.
Just like that.
That's Dot Com style, boys!
Get 'er done!
101 and a half.
Look at that, huh?
SANDRO: I think we
had a pretty good day.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: Boy, that does take
the wind out of your sails,
though doesn't it. No matter how
many years you've been doing it,
it takes the wind
out of your sails.
All right, Joe. Let's wrap
it up and get to the dock.
And then come back out and see
if we can get that big one back.
It seems like inshore
fishing has dried up.
From what we're hearing it
sounds like Georges Bank was hot
We may have made the
wrong call this week.
DAVE: For now, we're
still empty. But,
we're not giving up, yet.
We'll just keep plugging away.
Sooner or later, it's
not a question of if.
Sooner or later,
those rods will bend.
Them's the breaks
in tuna fishing.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
JARRETT: This is our
drift right here guys.
This is the drift, we're
gonna get a bite on this one.
Come on!
TJ: Sounds good.
We've got one fish already,
so our expenses are paid for.
There's a lot of fish out
here on Georges though.
And to turn our season around,
we need some big paychecks.
JARRETT: Give us a bite?
MIKE: Ooh, that's a big mark.
JARRETT: Come on baby!
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
TIM: we're on,
we're on, we're on!
That's what I'm talking.
TJ: Here we go.
Fight him off, bubby.
TIM: Beautiful, baby!
We got him on.
I was reeling in, it
hit it on the way in.
[BARKING DOG]
JARRETT: Whoo!
That fish is taking out a
lot of line right there.
It's the most line that's been
taken out on any fish yet
this season.
In this Georgey Banky, these
fish kick your ass man.
TIM: We got a lot of pressure
on it, man. I tell ya.
TJ: This is a sea monster, man.
This is definitely a jumbo.
TIM: I'd say that's it, come on.
JARRETT: Oh, god. No, no, no!
TIM: Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa!
JARRETT: Man I got you! Man
I got you! It's going down.
TIM: Oh, my god.
JARRETT: Wow.
TIM: Wow.
It's still going.
Holy [bleep] everything
we just gained,
he took right back again.
Want me to get on it?
JARRETT: Whoo-wee!
A big fish, man, he's got
a lot of power to him.
He's kicking my ass I know that.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
TJ: Oh, what a tough fish, man.
Trying to jockey the boats, stay
on top of him, he runs at us.
We're just trying to
stay tight on him.
And one minute he's 300
yards behind the boat,
the next minute he's
coming at us wide open.
TIM: Uh-oh [bleep]
there's a leader.
JARRETT: We got him.
TIM: Go with him! Go with him!
JARRETT: Watch these lines!
MIKE: Watch the lines.
Watch out. The dog's inside.
TIM: TJ, what the [bleep]
[bleep] thing, come on,
what are you gonna start crying?
MIKE: Not good at that one.
JARRETT: Get that
camera outta here, dude!
TIM: Why you letting
him back down?
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
JARRETT: Got him.
TIM: Go with him! Go with him!
JARRETT: Watch these lines!
MIKE: Watch the lines.
Watch out. The dog's inside.
TIM: TJ, what the [bleep]?
He got the [bleep] thing.
Come on, oh, you
gonna start crying?
TJ: Not good on that one.
JARRETT: Get that
camera outta here, dude!
TIM: Why you letting
him back down?
TJ: I'm not. I, dad, I said
I was gonna get him.
He was coming right at me.
TIM: See when you're hitting me?
I'm right in his back.
MIKE: It's wrapped
around the rod, Jarrett,
I can't do too much.
JARRETT: Get it out.
TIM: It's right, it's
wrapped around the rod hole.
TJ: Well, I don't know
this, I can't see it.
TIM: Well, we're
telling you it is!
Stop arguing and pay attention.
TJ: Mike, bring this
basket over here.
TIM: Watch Jarrett, get that
bucket up the, get that bucket.
TJ: Stand up, bubby.
TIM: Go around the
rod with the bucket.
TIM: The other
way, the other way.
Go around Jarrett, go around
Jarrett. Oh, around, around...
TIM: It's gonna go under his,
his feet again. Hold on.
TJ: There you go, buddy.
There you go.
TIM: Make sure you got
that tail gaff down too.
He's coming up right here.
TJ: He's coming.
TIM: We got him at, uh, 50 feet.
TJ: I got him, I got him.
TIM: He's right here.
TJ: I gotta take the [inaudible]
TIM: There he is, there he is!
We've got him.
He's coming to the boat.
He's coming to the boat.
JARRETT: Come on, TJ.
Move your ass.
MIKE: Watch out, watch
out, watch out, watch out.
Come one, TJ, hit him.
TIM: Yes, get him, get him.
Hold him tight, Mikey,
where's the gaff?
Where's your tail gaff?
MIKE: Yeah, I got him.
TJ: No [inaudible]
you have rope.
TJ: You have rope,
you have rope.
MIKE: [Inaudible].
JARRETT: I got him!
MIKE: I gotta lose ten, TJ.
Just get a, get
him, holy [bleep].
Look at the size of this!
TIM: Come on, Jarrett!
Right behind you!
JARRETT: Holy
[bleep] it's a jumbo.
[Inaudible] yeah!
MIKE: Hold on!
We don't got him just yet.
Help, help him tie him up.
TIM: Oh, my God!
JARRETT: TJ, tie him up.
I'm gonna stick a rope on it.
TIM: Oh [bleep] yeah.
JARRETT: Yeah!
TIM: Holy [bleep]
is he big, man!
TJ: Oh, nice one boys.
TIM: Wow!
This thing is huge!
MIKE: Watch yourself,
watch yourself.
Watch that clip, man.
TJ: Get back Ripple whoa.
ALL: Whoo-hoo!
JARRETT: Oh, my God, man!
TIM: I think he's
bigger than 115.
MIKE: Holy [bleep]
JARRETT: Oh, my God!
TIM: Wow!
That is a big boy!
TJ: 121, Mike!
TIM: Oh, yeah!
JARRETT: Holy [bleep].
TJ: 121, Jesus.
TIM: 121, baby.
MIKE: Holy.
TJ: Oh, my god.
TIM: That's a grand right there.
TJ: That's a thousand-pounder.
TIM: Wow.
JARRETT: Whew!
TJ: You ready for this?
One hundred and
twenty-one inches.
DAVE: No way.
TJ: And about 95 inches, around.
DAVE: Hey!
TJ's fish, a hundred
and twenty-one inches.
SANDRO: Come on!
DAVE: Yeah.
JARRETT: That's the biggest
fish we ever caught.
I've never seen a fish
that big in my life.
I've never even seen one out of
the water that big in my life.
It's huge!
TJ: It's super-special,
because we've been struggling.
Our year hasn't been
going that great,
and to catch a sea
monster like that, I,
I don't have much more to say
other than, you know, thank God.
Thank the grateful
dead, and thank my guys
for doing a great job, man.
To land a monster fish like
this after making the trek
all the way out to Georges,
it's definitely a sweet feeling.
We made the gamble then
it paid off in a big way.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
DAVE: We're gonna run
over and go see TJ.
He's got a hundred
and twenty-one inch.
We're coming over.
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
TJ: Slammer, huh?
DAVE: Man.
TJ: Dude, he's a hundred
and twenty-one inches.
He's bigger than the tank.
SANDRO: That's big.
TJ: It might be
800 dressed, bro.
DAVE: Wow.
We got four, TJ's only got two
but he's got a jumbo on board.
Went to Georges for the big
score, mission accomplished.
Well, hey we got a
good trip, all of us.
TJ: Yeah.
JARRETT: Nice work, guys.
DAVE: You too.
Nice work, gang.
JARRETT: Those Georgey Banky
fish, man, they're monsters.
DAVE: Big ass fish right there.
What's up, PJ?
PJ: What's up, Dave?
DAVE: From Georges Bank run.
PJ: That's a long way to go; you
guys came home with a boatload.
DAVE: We did what we
were supposed to do.
SANDRO: Yeah, yeah.
PJ: Nice.
Good job, guys.
DAVE: What do you got?
PJ: Two hundred
and seven dressed,
two hundred and
thirty-one pounds,
three hundred and six pounds,
four hundred and seventy-five
pounds dressed.
PJ: Nice fish!
DAVE: Yeah!
SANDRO: Yes, sir.
DAVE: We started
small, we went bigger.
There's one.
PJ: Tail color I like.
It's just, it doesn't
have much fat.
This fish here, $11 a pound.
DAVE: All right.
GEORDIE: Yeah, right?
He's 11 bucks!
SANDRO: Yeah! There we go!
GEORDIE: Nice!
PJ: Next!
SANDRO: That's a little better.
PJ: Yeah, it's got
some fat to it, huh?
Core color is a little
cloudy but not terrible.
Sixteen dollars on this one.
SANDRO: Nice!
GEORDIE: Nice!
SANDRO: Yes, sir!
PJ: Hey, keep them coming, cap.
This fish got some fat
in them out there, huh?
Nice color.
Eighteen dollars on this one.
GEORDIE: Eighteen? Nice.
DAVE: All right.
That's beautiful.
PJ: We got one more?
DAVE: Yeah, one more!
PJ: This is a big boy, huh?
DAVE: Uh-hmm.
PJ: Look at that,
nice pinkish color.
Good fat all the way through.
Oh, it's a nice fish, guys.
Let's go, 19 bucks on this one.
GEORDIE: Nineteen dollars. Yeah!
SANDRO: All right!
GEORDIE: Yeah.
SANDRO: Price gets
better and better!
PJ: Way to go, guys.
DAVE: Today we brought in
over 1200 pounds of fish.
We got the limit, this is a
Georges Tuna Fisherman dream.
Good payday guys.
GEORDIE: Payday baby!
SANDRO: Yes, sir!
TJ: We're anticipating a good
price 'cause it is a nice fish
and hopefully the
buyer agrees with us.
And if he doesn't, we're
gonna throw him in the water.
SCOTTY: So, I heard
you guys got a big one!
TJ: I hope we can get him on the
truck bro, it's gonna be a task.
SCOTTY: Let's see
what we can do.
MIKE: That's a good first one.
TJ: What you got, Scott-so?
SCOTTY: Three hundred
and forty-eight pounds.
TIM: The next one's bigger.
MIKE: It's [inaudible].
SCOTTY: Yeah, I'm a
little sketched out here.
TIM: Come on!
Have you seen anything
this big this year?
SCOTTY: I don't think I've
ever seen one this big.
TIM: What is it?
SCOTTY: Eight hundred and
seventy-nine pounds dressed.
TIM: Nice!
JARRETT: Yeah.
MIKE: That's a big one.
SCOTTY: Ooh!
TJ: Ooh.
SCOTTY: You guys got
yourself a good fish here.
TJ: It's a beauty, bro.
SCOTTY: It's amazing.
Good color. Loaded with fat.
TIM: Come on Scott-so,
take care of us here, man.
SCOTTY: Twenty dollars a pound.
TIM: Yeah! Yes, sir!
JARRETT: Yeah! All right!
TJ: All right!
JARRETT: Yeah! All right!
You're the man, bro.
TJ: There he is, a sea monster.
JARRETT: Woo-hoo!
TIM: Wow!
MIKE: Look at that color, bro!
SCOTTY: Monster.
TIM: Oh, whoa, crimson red.
SCOTTY: Perfect, too.
With the fat, and this color, we
can get you guys, $19 a pound.
MIKE: Whoa!
TJ: Scott-so!
MIKE: Yeah!
JARRETT: Oh, yeah! Woo!
MIKE: Woo!
TJ: We definitely took a major
risk going out to Georges,
but it certainly paid off.
We've got a beautiful
fish, giant sea monster.
It's fish like this
that make you realize
why you love to do this.
NARRATOR: At the
end of week nine,
Hot Tuna's monster George's trip
makes them the top earning boat
and pulls them to
within striking distance
♪ [MUSIC] ♪
PAUL: Hey, Lance, wanna
come in for a minute?
LANCE: Let me just took
out [inaudible]
what's up?
PAUL: I'm, I'm having
a hard time this year.
I'm under a lot of pressure.
And, you've been my
friend for a long time.
It's my first year with the boat
and I'm just so stressed out.
Lance is a hard ass worker,
but the negativity that Lance is
bringing to the boat right now
is affecting the whole business.
I have to be the one that
makes the decisions this year.
But, you keep questioning me.
I'm the captain and
owner of my boat.
I can't have this against me.
It's like you're fighting
me the whole time
and it's just not working out.
It's not working out right now.
I'm gonna have to
let you go, Lance.
LANCE: Well, nobody knows
what the future holds.
PAUL: The future's
gonna hold good things.
I know that,
all right?
LANCE: All right, Cap.
PAUL: Thanks, Lance.
I'm positive Lance is gonna
land right on his feet.
It's hard to let Lance go,
but I think it's gonna
be better for the boat
if it's just Brad and I.
BRAD: End of the day, you gotta
cut your losses, and move on,
and we're gonna
catch plenty of fish.
PAUL: Brad and I, we will
turn this place upside down.
BRAD: It's a business.
It's a business.
PAUL: But I need you.
I need you now more
than ever, pal.
BRAD: Thanks.
PAUL: All right, let's
do this. Let's do this.
BRAD: Let's do it, man.
I love ya, man.