Wicked Tuna: North vs. South (2014–…): Season 2, Episode 2 - Bombs Away - full transcript

(music playing)

NARRATOR:
On this episode of Wicked Tuna:
Outer Banks...

TYLER:
Back up, back up, back up.

Color. Whoo-hoo!

NARRATOR:
The treacherous Oregon Inlet
claims its first victims.

(crashing sound)

-DAVE: ... man!
-He hit it too.

NARRATOR: And a new
addition to the fleet...

TAMI: Woman driver,
move the ... out of my way.

NARRATOR: ...raises hell.

(laughs)



TYLER: Ahh!

NARRATOR: In a highly
regulated fishery that's trying
to stay sustainable...

TAMI: Ahhh!

(laughs)

NARRATOR:
...every Bluefin caught

takes a bite out of the quota.

JESSIE: Whoo!

NARRATOR: And every
fisherman has to battle...

NICK:
No, no, we're losing him!
Jesus Christ!

-NARRATOR: ...For his or her...
-JESSIE: Whoo!

NARRATOR: ...fair share.

(explosion)

NARRATOR:
This is Wicked Tuna:
Outer Banks.

At the start of day three
on the water,



local family operation
Reels Of Fortune
leads the fleet.

While northern vessel Hot Tuna
and last season's champion
Fishin' Frenzy

have also caught a fish each.

(music)

DAVE:
Hey, what's going on, Griff?

CHARLIE:
Good morning, Dave.
Is that you?

DAVE: Yeah, yeah.

I'm gonna follow you
under the bridge.

CHARLIE: All right.

DAVE:
At home in Gloucester,

we finished our season
at the top of the fleet,

but our luck
seems to be running out

'cause we haven't caught
a fish yet.

Griff is leading
the pack right now.

He's kind of a local legend
and we've become friends.

So there's
no better boat to follow
to the fishing grounds.

CHARLIE: God damn!
That tide is screaming.

Dave, this tide
is screaming bud.

You get lined up
on that bridge...

you're going to
flop her through here.

DAVE: Yeah, okay.

CHARLIE:
Different tides
make traveling under the bridge

extremely dangerous.

This whole area,
the Outer Banks,

is known as the graveyard
of the Atlantic.

Just in our inlet alone,

unbelievable how many
boats have sunk

but the only way to get out
to where we go fishing is to go

and deal with the bridge
and the inlet itself.

The Bonner Bridge is on
Highway 12 and it connects
the Outer Banks.

(music)

The center spans
which are designed

for boats to go
and come through,

there's a shoal
in front of that
that blocks our inlet

and it's always shifting.

You could very
easily run aground.

But also, when the tide is
trying to go in and out,

it hits the shoal and it just
pushes the boat sideways,

so we try to pick another area.

Well, as you go south,
the spans get narrower
and narrower

and the Reels of Fortune's
12 foot wide,

but the span that we're trying
to shoot through
is 18 foot wide,

so there's not a lot of room
on either side.

(music)

Damn, it's flying
about as hard
as I've ever seen it.

DAVE: Yeah. Okay.

I can get away from the bridge

on this side a little,
you know,

to kind of get back away
from it and line up, right?

CHARLIE:
Yes, sir, that is correct.

DAVE:
The Bonner Bridge

is hard to navigate
any time of day,

but at 4:00 in the morning,
it's damn near impossible.

I'll let you go through first
and then I'll, you know,

just circle around
and line it up good here.

CHARLIE: The tide's
probably running at least
five or six knots.

An average tide
would be three knots.

I've never seen
it look like this.

-You ready, Jake?
-JAKE: Yeah.

CHARLIE:
Having my son Jake
work with me has been,

been a, really a blessing.

He's a pretty tough character.

-You've got to pull down
on that thing.
-JAKE: I know.

CHARLIE: The clearance
has gotten so low,

my son has to go back there
and take a wrap
on the greenstick

and lay down to bend it down
so we don't hit the bridge.

DAVE:
Once he gets through,
I'm gonna have you pump

the top light on, Jay.

(music)

(crash sound)

-CHARLIE: God Dammit!
-...

-Are you all right?
-JAKE: I'm fine, dude.

CHARLIE: Thank god.

He hit the bridge.

DAVE:
Well, I'm committed now.

The tide's got a hold of us,
there's no turning back now,

and we're going for it.

CHARLIE:
Look at Dave. Watch Dave.

(music)

DAVE: Here we go.

(music)

CHARLIE: Come on, Dave.
Get through there, Dave.

(music)

JAKE: All right, dude.
Dave is ....

(music)

JASON: ...
My God we're gonna hit!

(crashing sound)

DAVE: ... man!

...

He hit it too.

DAVE: Oh, we
... creamed it good.

What'd we break, Jay?

See anything under the water?

JASON: No.
I don't see nothing
below the water line.

DAVE: All right.
Keep an eye on our pumps.
....

It creamed the roller-stand.

JASON: I know.
That's what made the big noise.

I don't know what I've
torn up there

Make sure I've got steering.

JAKE: This is it, dude.
... this dude.

CHARLIE: I'm worried
I'm gonna lose my steering.

If my steering in
the boat's torn up,

it could mean the end
of the season for us.

-You all right?
-DAVE: Yeah.

I tore my ... console off!

Ripped that down!
I got to go in!

-DAVE: We did it too.
-CHARLIE: Damn it!

DAVE: I'm so pissed!
Not only is this gonna
cost me a day of fishing,

the bite's on,
the fish are out there,

but now we got to
limp back through
that ... damn bridge

and make repairs,
and that's gonna be

another three or four grand
out of my pocket.

CHARLIE: Jake,
I'm gonna shoot her through
a south span there.

-You all right back there,
Jake?
- JAKE: I'm good, bud.

CHARLIE:
I'm half ... scared
to go through there

to tell you
the ...-dammed truth.

We're about on it, son!

Oh my god!

Nothin' about this
is ... good.

Nothin'

CHARLIE:
Thank you Lord, we made it.

DAVE: How was it
going back that way Griff?

CHARLIE: Dave, I went
through the span south
of the big one.

The tides flying through there.

Do me a favor,
watch out for that shoal.

DAVE:
The tide is still honking.

And now I've got to worry
about a sand bar.

If we run this boat aground
in this kind of tide,

that water is just gonna
flow up over that rail

and scuttle the boat.

Or worse, she could
tip the boat right over

as she catches it underneath.

... tides running
... unreal.

(bleep, bleep)

I'm ... hung up!

We're stuck on the sand bar.

JASON: Oh, ...!

DAVE: ... man!

The tide's taking her.
She's rolling!

JAKE: Oh, my God, man!

DAVE: ... dammit!

JASON:
We're gonna roll!

We're losing it!

We're losing it!
We're losing it!

DAVE: Jay,
get out the survival suits.

CHARLIE:
Are you all right there, Jay?

DAVE:
I'm thinking it's over.

The boat's gonna roll over

and we're not gonna
walk away from this.

Holy ..., man!

This water is only
about 40 degrees,

so when you hit that water,
you could be dead.

(music)

DAVE: ... dammit!

(music)

Holy ....

Yeah, we're, we're off.

This place sucks.

This place ... sucks.

Dave, I don't know what
to tell you, bud.

If I were you,
I'd come in
when it ain't so bad.

DAVE: Yeah, all
right, Griff. We're, we're just
gonna keep heading out.

We're just gonna make sure
we're in at a slack tide
here this afternoon.

CHARLIE: Okay, Dave.

Good luck, bud.

DAVE:
The only thing I can do

is head out to open water

where there aren't any bridges
or sand bars

and wait for daylight
and the tide to go slack.

JASON: Oh, my God.

Dave said we're going down,
trying to back off
that sandbar.

The tide is just
way too strong here.

It turned us sideways,
started pulling the boat under.

The boat could have got lost
if Dave wasn't on that throttle

and really knew
what he was doing.

I'm shaken up,
but we're gonna go out
into deep water,

wait till daylight basically,
and get this boat
in the dock and

call it a wrap.
... that ....

DAVE: I got no desire
to add this boat
to the list of wrecks

that's out
in front of that inlet.

(music)

CHARLIE:
I'm gonna go down
and try to patch

my ... stuff,
so I can keep going.

My, my ... tore up
right now though, bud.
I can't go fishing.

GREG:
How about it, Griff.
Everything all right?

CHARLIE:
No, no, it ain't all right.

GREG: What,
what's the deal, Griff?

Is there anything I can do?

CHARLIE:
No, there's nothing you can do.

Bunch of us
hit the ... bridge.

GREG:
They both hit the bridge.

Holy ....

Griff knows the inlet
really well.

-He's fished around here
all his life.
-BILLON: Wow.

GREG:
If he got in trouble
and hit the bridge,

it goes to show you
it can happen like that.

CHARLIE: Just watch
my hydraulic reel please.

(music)

GREG: What the ....
Can we do anything, man?

I don't know. I need
to somehow...

figure out how
I'm going to...

Hold on, Jake!

Son, the hoses have got
to go up there too, bud.

We can fix anything we tear up.

We can't afford to be
out of the game already.

We might have tore the boat up,

but the biggest thing
is Jake's okay.

Renegade, myself,
we're all alive.

We're not out
in 35-degree water.

This will be okay.

GREG: All right.

Can't do anything.

I feel bad for Griff and Merch,

but I've got to get through
that bridge and go fishing.

BILLON: Clear.

GREG: I know
when I get to the bridge,

I'm gonna make damn sure
it's light out

and I can see
what that currents doing.

If I can't see the current,
I'm not going through there.

And here we go.

Oh, boy.
What a morning.

What a morning.

BILLON:
Not a good day.

I'm thankful we're heading out,

but for the first time
this season,

none of us are very jacked up
this morning.

GREG:
Griff, he's got a 31-foot boat.

He's got plenty of room.

I got a 53-foot boat.

I'm trying to go
through the same hole.

It's tight.

We're that close to disaster.

I don't know.
I don't like it.

I don't like it at all.

I can see the shoal right now.
Damn.

This is really not good.

Hey, yeah.
There's no water there.

I can see it.

Oh, ...! Here it comes!

(music)

And here we go.

Oh boy!

Hey, yeah.
There's no water there.

I can see it.

Oh, ...! Here it comes!

We're good.
Success.

I didn't know what we were
gonna find when we got here.

Thank God we made it though.

Last thing I wanna do
is hit the bridge.

What a process.

(music)

We're underway.

All right, guys, let's go
catch a couple of fish.

JARRETT:
That's pretty cool, man.

A big tornado of birds.

We're going through
this big flock of gannets.

They're all these
birds right here.

TJ OTT: What that tells me
is there's a lot of bait
in this area.

There's probably a tuna or two
in the area

that's got this bait
tightened up.

JARRETT PRZYBYSZEWSKI:
Right now,
they're going around.

They can see
the bait down there.

They're gonna start diving down
as soon as the bait starts
coming up higher.

They'll all start shooting down

like they're diving
into the water.

TJ OTT: It's pretty cool
to watch, man.

It's, it's definitely the best
sign we've seen so far
this morning.

We caught our fish
a few days ago and we're

in second position
in the fleet right now.

We've got big expenses,
the guys need money,
I need money.

To make this Outer Bank
trek worthwhile,

we've gotta catch
eight to ten fish
of good quality.

We've gotta give it hell.

JARRETT:
When you got
that many birds in one area,

you know there's
fish around for sure.

Now, we just need
a tuna to come up
and bite one of our baits.

(music)

PAUL: Look. (laughs)

Throw me the ball!

There they go.

Look at, look at that! Oh!

Look at them diving! Look!
Look at that!

-TYLER: Look
at that.
-PAUL: ... Dude,

that's awesome!

Ah!

Come on, that's like
the coolest thing ever.

Look at the whole herd.

TYLER:
Reinforcements.

PAUL: (laughs)
Look at that!

That was pissah!

Look at them all coming up
at once! (laughs)

There's definitely
tuna right here.

Definitely.

TYLER:
It's day three
of the season

and we haven't
caught a fish yet
and that's just unacceptable.

I'm not here for games.
I'm not here to beat my chest
to be number one.

I'm here to make money
and go home with a fat wallet.

PAUL: We got
all the boats around us.

There's so many,
there's like 60 boats here.

Greg on the Frenzy's
right there.

We're all fishin'
the same grounds.

We got skiffs out here,
whale watch boats,

friggin' tankers out here.
It's like ridiculous.

(music)

The only problem with trolling

is all the people
cutting each other off.

That's what's hard.

TAMI: Hey, outboard,
you got lines out
in front of me

on the Reel Action.

Does a bear ... in the woods?

TAMI: Jesus.

(music)

If I get a bite and you ...
get anywhere within
a half mile of me,

I'm gonna cut your
balls off and feed them

to my ... dog
and I'm not playing.

TJ OTT: (laughs)

Is it you, Tyler? You gonna
cut her off?

I, you know, I'm just
still looking for her.

Oh this ... lady.

TAMI: Woman driver.

Move the ... out of my way.

Get off my ....
See you at the dock.

GREG:
There's Tami talking again.
Imagine that.

TAMI: My name's Tami Gray.
I'm captain of the Reel Action.

Fishing is how I make my living
and it's

how I've supported
my family for 17 years.

I was born and bred
down here in the south.

I learned to fish with my dad
when I was about six years old.

I'm married. I
have two children.

I've caught at least
50 bluefin.

I've worked on private boats.

I've worked
on commercial boats.

I've worked on charter boats.

Every aspect of
my life is about fishing.

My two mates are
Jessie Anderson and Dita Young.

JESSIE: Hey, Dita.
You smell that?

DITA: Hell, yeah.
It smells like money.

JESSIE: (laughs) Darn right.

(laughs)

TAMI: My crew, you know,
we hadn't Bluefin tuna fished
together before.

This is the first season.

... it! I'm going across it!

TJ OTT: I love
listening to this Tami.

It makes my whole day.

(all laugh)

I just wanna watch her drive
over people's ... all day.

I can't believe it.
Never heard anything
like it in my life.

TJ: Run 'em over, Tami!

Tami's voice on the radio
sounds like a mix
between Blackbeard

the pirate and Fran Drescher.

You never know what's gonna
come outta that girl's mouth.

If he had it out there,
it's gone!

... him if he can't take
a joke.

GREG: Tami's getting on
the Reel Action this year,

a new boat to her.

I know they've caught a couple
of fish before as mates,

but it's a different story
when you're a captain

and you're trying
to run the boat.

BILLON:
Tami's a hard worker.

I know she's gonna try
hard to catch some fish.

They're some hard cookies

and I know that they mean
business.

NICK: Three girls
on that same boat.
I hope they do well,

but I wouldn't wanna be on
that boat with them.

(music)

TAMI: Come on,
you big 90 incher!

We got no time to mess
around with these little boys.

We need big boy tuna!

My name is Dita Young and I've
been fishing for a living

for 16 years.

I'm bold, I'll speak my mind.
I love fishing.

TAMI: All the
conditions are right.

We need to catch a
big old fat buffalo,

about 400 pounds
about 90 inches long.

I'd be happy with that.

DITA: You damn right,
size matters everywhere, baby.

Anybody tells you that it
doesn't, they're lying.

(laughs)

TAMI: I've known
Dita for about 16 years.

We started about the same
time fishing in Hatteras.

A lot of the guys expected us
to be rivals with each other.

We figured we would use
it to our advantage.

We would share our information.

We became very good
fishermen because of it.

JESSIE: Keep on jigging!

My name is Myjestic Anderson
and I go by Jessie.

You can just tell I was a
'60s child and as far as

I'm concerned, I'm really glad
my name isn't Moonbeam

or something like that.

Any minute now!

(laughs)

DITA: Eat it!
Eat it!

JESSIE: I'd say fishing
was an addiction

since I was a little kid.

You're our fish
and we want you now!

Ha, ha...

DITA: Damn right, man.
It's all about teamwork.

Everybody working together.

That's how we make it happen.

(music)

Okay. Any second now.

(music)

Oh, there he is! There he is!
Stay on him!

-TAMI: There he is!
-DITA: Whoo!

JESSIE: All right, all right!

DITA: Oh, there he is!
There he is!

-TAMI: There he is!
-DITA: There he goes!
Whoo!

JESSIE: All right! All right!

TAMI: Knock it out of gear.

I think a gannet got it.

DITA: Gannet.

TAMI: Yeah, that's
a gannet on there.

....

We got a bird, we got a bird.

I'll get it.

JESSIE: It's not what we want.

Birds don't bring us money.

TAMI: It's kind of a pain
in the butt when it happens,
but it happens.

Gannets will dive on your bait

and they'll get a hook
in the mouth.

JESSIE: There you go, feller.

There you go.

TAMI: It sucks that
our first catch was a bird,

but it's just a warm up before
we catch a big 90 incher.

-(gannet sound)
-Come on, buddy.

JESSIE: He's coming around.

Woo hoo!

Fly, little fella.

DITA: All Right.

JESSIE: He was plenty alive.

He bit the living
... out of my finger.

-DITA: Yeah, he got me
too.
-JESSIE: Yeah.

(music)

DAVE: I'm
gonna go look at buoys.

If tides aren't
ripping, I'm going in.

JASON: We're
on our way back in.

You know, this morning,
we hit the bridge.

We got piled up
on the sand bar.

Went sideways, basically almost
sunk, and hopefully this,

the tide's a little less
strong as it was this morning.

DAVE: The Hard
Merchandise seems to be
running okay,

but I really have no idea
until I get back to the dock

and make a full
assessment of the damage.

That is of course if I can
thread the needle one more time

and get the boat back to
the dock in one piece.

(music)

This is where we
hung up before.

I think we just if we could
get over that way a little bit.

(music)

The tide's got us.

Keep your fingers crossed.

(music)

JASON: Good Job.

DAVE: Yeah, we're
back through the bridge.

We're done fishing
at least for now.

... nightmare out here.

(music)

GREG: What's
wrong with Nick today?

BILLON: I believe
Nick's a little tired
from last night.

GREG: He celebrated
his birthday a little
bit early?

BILLON: Yeah, he did.

GREG: I was hoping we'd
be having a party tonight, but.

-BILLON: Huh.
-GREG: With no bites,
we gotta be staying.

-BILLON: Part of it.
-GREG: I hope he's alive

in a little while.

BILLON: I
saw him twitching earlier.

(laughs)

He, he's still breathing.

GREG: Get us
a twilight bite here.

BILLON:
Hey, it's happened before.

GREG: We've been out
here all day without a bite.

We got a 300 pounder
second day of fishing.

I'm looking for
that 500 pounder.

(music)

There he is right there.

That's him. That's him.

-BILLON: Is that him?
-GREG: Yep, going down.

Definitely him.

(music)

-Oh, here's a bite.
There's a bite.
-BILLON: There's he is.

GREG: Got him on.
Holy ....

You got to be kidding me.

Woohoo!

BILLON:
Yeah, he's there.

(laughs)

-GREG: Bring it back here.
-BILLON: All right.

GREG: You never
know with these fish.

A lot of times, they don't do
anything right out the gate.

You get 'em straight up and
down and it's a big fish.

So we're going to give
this thing a shot

and see what we got.

NICK: Guess what
Greg got me for my birthday.

It was tuna fishing
trip, so I appreciate it.
That was pretty cool of him.

I don't think I've caught
a Bluefin tuna with Greg

on my birthday.
I'm pretty excited.

What better present
than a big paycheck?

BILLON: We're
doing good right now.

We're just taking it
nice and easy with him.

GREG: It could be
a $2000 or $3000 fish.

It could be a $5000 fish.

You just never know until
you get 'em on the boat

and get 'em to the market.

BILLON:
When you're on the rod,

you have a lot of
adrenaline going,

so you can crank a lot more
than you think you can.

But it's always good to switch
it up and have a fresh man

on the rod.

GREG: This fish
is gonna be big enough,

I can tell the way he's got
that rod bent down like that.

He didn't do
a whole lot to start,

but now he's got the weight.

You can see the way he's
holding that rod down.

I really hope this fish
is at least 500 pounds.

Happy birthday, Nick.
Come on, baby.

This is what we're looking for.

I like that bend.

BILLON: I believe
the fish that's gonna put us

in first place is on
the end of that line.

-Can't ask for much more.
-GREG: Yes!

(music)

NICK: I can see him.
He's right here, guys.

There's your leader in the tip.
Get your dart ready.

-BILLON: We're darting?
-NICK: Yeah,
he's gonna be a good one.

I see him, he's a nice fish.

(music)

BILLON: Oh, yeah.

BILLON:
Probably, one.

-Nice!
-GREG: Turn it! Turn it!

-BILLON: Tail gaff!
-NICK: Tail gaff.

BILLON: Got it
right here, got it right here.

GREG: Get to the left of me.

BILLON:
Oh ....

-NICK: A little
far forward dammit.
-BILLON: Tail gaff!

GREG: Go out to the
right and give me the gaff.

NICK: I know it.
I'm coming.

GREG: Turn it, turn
it, turn it, tail gaff him.

NICK: Dammit.

You got him?

Nope!

He won't stop kicking
his damn tail!

No! No! We're losing him.

-Guys!
-GREG: Turn it, turn it, turn
it, tail gaff him.

-BILLON: Damn it!
-NICK: Ah!

You got him?

Nope!

He won't stop kicking
his damn tail!

No, no we're losing him.
Jesus Christ!

GREG: Gaff him! Gaff him!

...

NICK: He
gotta gaff right there.

-BILLON: Jesus!
-GREG: Hold,
hold on stop.

Ugh!

Okay, come on.

We got him.

-BILLON: Happy birthday!
-NICK: Yeah, buddy.

-GREG: Hey, Nick!
-NICK: Hey.

GREG: Happy birthday!

NICK: Thank you, man.
Thank you, man! (laughs)

GREG: Now for
the moment of truth.

Here comes your
birthday present, Nick.

-NICK: One, two, three!
-GREG: Ugh!

Happy birthday!

-Whoo!
-BILLON: Nice, nice.

GREG: What we got?

-Look at that Nick!
79-incher!
-BILLON: Whoo!

GREG: Happy birthday, baby!

NICK: Well I
was born in '78 though.

(laughs)

GREG: Seventy-nine
inches is okay.

We're gonna keep fishing all
night to see if we can find

a 90 or a 100 incher put us
in the number one spot.

BILLON: Whoo!
We really wanted that.
I can't be more excited.

I'm shaking right now,
trying to rig this bait.

NICK: Happy
birthday to me!

GREG: That's
what I'm talking about!

(music)

CHARLIE: All right,
let's go. We got to get
to work.

I'm about a half nervous wreck.
Oh boy!

-Yesterday, we hit the bridge.
-(crashing sound)

The whole console itself
was knocked completely off.

Jake and I spent all
day fixing the boat.

I think we've got
it good enough.

I think we'll be safe.

We've already lost one day, we
can't afford to miss any more.

We gonna try to get through
that bridge
so we can go to work.

I hate having to go
through there but,

you know what else
am I gonna do?

Buy some land and go farming?

Hope I don't hurt my son.

That's my biggest worry.

This bridge, the shape that
it's been in lately,

has got dad's nerves tore up.

But I've got enough
confidence in him.

He's been going in and out of
here for, for 30, 40 years,

he knows what's going on.

I feel like I ain't got
to worry about nothing.

CHARLIE: Hope we get in
and out of here without tearing
something up.

I've got knots in my stomach,
my mouth is dry,

I don't wanna do it,
but I got to do it.

-JAKE: You ready?
-CHARLIE: No!

Lemme, lemme get turned right.

-All right come on
now, ram that rascal.
-JAKE: Go ahead!

-(music)
-Ugh.

(music)

CHARLIE: Oh, God.

(music)

I see that wave
breaking, right there!

Hopefully, we'll get a
bite here before long.

We're really behind
the eight ball.

We have to catch back up.

I'll tell ya, boy,
that's a bad, bad deal.

(music)

PAUL: Weather
never stops us.

Eh, yeah!

If it's blowing, we're going!

(laughs)

TYLER: Oh God!

The weather's definitely
getting dicey,

but what are you gonna do?

We haven't landed a fish yet.

(music)

I gotta put some
fish on this deck.

We gotta start
paying some bills.

Definitely rough out here.
This is gonna be scary.

PAUL: We're out of our
minds, but we don't care.

This is a different
kind of fishing.

The squids, the bait's
jumping on the water,

so the tunas see them
and they jump at 'em.

This is how we catch 'em here.

You can't anchor 'cause
of the tide and it's
2000 feet deep.

We have the green stick out.
That's got four lines on it.

We got four rods out.

If the kitchen sink had a hook
on it, we'd throw that out too!

(laughs)

Now, we're fishing, brother!

(beeping sound)

TYLER: Marking 'em!

PAUL: There ya go!

(beeping sound)

TYLER:
I'm ready for a bite.

I'm ready for a bite.
I'm ready.

The rods, you got
to let that one down.

(beeping sound)

PAUL: We're on!

-We're on! We're on! We're on!
-TYLER: We're on!
Whoo!

-PAUL: We're on!
-TYLER: Ha, ha!

PAUL: We're on! Grab the
hook, grab it! We're on!
Right out of my hands again.

Right out of my
hands again, bitch.

Aaaa...Haha. ...

TYLER: I gotta get
in the (inaudible) rigger.

PAUL: He's going, baby!

(laughs)

TYLER: Get the
bandit reel out of the way,

clear the deck, and get ready!

PAUL: Watch out.

TYLER: Oh ...!
My bad, my bad Paul!

Dude, that fish is far now!

PAUL: That's
right, like a mile away.

TYLER: Dang, it's
getting rough out here, Paul!

Sorry!

The wind keeps blowing us, so
it's all about staying on

the right side of the fish and
trying to gain the advantage.

PAUL: Yeah,
he's a nice fish.

He's taking drag though.

(explosion)

TYLER:
What the ...!

Holy ...!

PAUL: What was that?

(explosion sound)

TYLER: Whoa, oh wow!

What the ...'s going on?

Dang, it's getting
rough out here, Paul!

PAUL: Yeah,
he's a nice fish.
He's taking drag dude.

(explosion)

TYLER:
What the ...?

Holy ...!

PAUL: What was that?

(explosion sound)

TYLER: Wow, wa, how!

What the ...'s going on?

Whoo! Whoa, that was
a ... explosion!

Holy ...!

They just set off
a bomb out here.

I don't know, but it calmed
down, didn't it?

TYLER: Ho!

Paul, that was just a bomb!

Yeah, I felt it.
It blew me on the deck.

TYLER: Shut up.

-PAUL: Oh! Again!
-(explosion sound)

TYLER:
What the ...?

Oh my God.

PAUL: Get ready,
you're gonna feel it.

Get ready.

TYLER: Oh my God!

Should we get out of here?

PAUL: We can't!
We're fighting a tuna!

I got bills to pay.

TYLER: I thought
Paul's face was gonna start

melting off when we,
like, got, like, nuked.

Either that or we just hooked
Godzilla and he just freaking

aired it out about a
mile behind the boat.

Dude, imagine if America is
under attack right now
and we don't even know.

Frenzy heard we got a fish on
and he ordered an air strike,
that's all.

TYLER: We're off
of Virginia, North Carolina.

-They're probably doing
military testing.
-PAUL: Yeah?

Why are they doing it so
close to us?

You got gloves on?

TYLER: Yeah,
I got gloves on, watch?

Ready?

Back up, back up,
back up, back up!

Color, swivel, here
he comes to ya.

I'm gonna pull him right to ya.

Color, color, color.

Right here with the harpoon,
right here with the harpoon.

-Harpoon.
-Kill him!

Bing, bang, boom!

Got him!

Ah!
Nice one!

(laughs)

It's a big one,
probably a 600 pounder!

No wonder we had
such an ass kicking!

PAUL: He's
a ... fatty!

TYLER: Wanna put
him out and get him going off?

That thing ain't going nowhere.
We got him.

I'm sure that the bombing
scared all the other fish away,

so we're lucky enough to have
hooked this one when we did.

And the best part is, this fish
looks huge and we're stoked.

Excited to have
this fish on board.

The conditions are
getting fierce out here.

We gotta get in
before it's too late.

We're not gonna be able
to get in the inlet.

-PAUL: Heads up.
-TYLER: You got it?

PAUL: Keep coming.

Nice fish.

That's it.

TYLER: Ninety seven
inches and it looks like

a 500 pounder.

If we got good
quality in this fish,

if we get a good price per
pound, that's a $10,000 tuna.

The bomb!

That's ... up!

(laughs)

TYLER: Now
you wanna talk about it?

What? I ... my pants!

I was like, "What is that?"

PAUL: I was
laughing my ass off.

TYLER: You were like,
"... got a tuna."

I was like, "There's a bomb!"

♪ This ocean's on fire! ♪

(music)

-BUYER 1: What's up, captain?
-GREG: Fellas.

-BUYER 2: What's up, Greg?
-GREG: What's going on?

We stayed out a little longer
looking for another fish.
Never got one.

But we do have one
at the back of the dock.

Let's see what
this fish brings.

-NICK: Hey, girls.
-NICK'S WIFE: Hey
babe, how are you?

-NICK: How ya'll doing?
-NICK'S WIFE: We're good.

NICK: This is a perfect day.

My daughter and wife is
here, got a birthday fish,

and we're gonna get paid.

NICK'S WIFE: Well, we're
ready to see your fish.

BUYER 1: Yeah,
let's check it out.

GREG: All right,
guys, let it go.

This is our second fish of the
season and if it's a good one,

I know we'll be in the lead.

(music)

-NICK: What's it look like?
-BUYER 1: Two hundred and
ninety-two pounds dressed.

-GREG: 292, nice.
-NICK: That's good.
I'm happy with that.

-GREG: Perfect.
-Our first fish of the season
did 11 dollars a pound.

We're looking for
20 on this one.

-Let's go ahead and check
it out, see what we got.
-BUYER 2: Sounds good.

GREG: If we can get $20
a pound for this fish,
we'll move out of third place.

NICK'S DAUGHTER: Yucky.

GREG: When the
buyer looks at your fish,

he's looking at the fat
content, the shape, the color,

the quality of the meat.

Every one of those factors
affects the price of it.

BUYER 2: Color's a
little weird on it.

It's kinda light, goes
from light to dark.

GREG: Yeah, I see that.

-BUYER 2: Let's see what
the core looks like.
-GREG: Oh, my God.

-NICK:Looks pretty
good.
-GREG: Not bad.

-NICK: Not
burned anywhere.
-BUYER 2: Not burnt at all.

I thought it was gonna be a
little, you know,

a little pale
because of the tail color,

but core color's really nice.

GREG: All right, Bubba.
What do we got right now?

BUYER 2: Right now, thinking
the way the market is now,

I'll give you 15
dollars a pound.

-NICK: All right.
-GREG: Fifteen?

-Yeah, I'll take it.
-NICK: Take it.

-GREG: Happy
birthday to ya.
-NICK: Yeah.

GREG: We brought
in one fish today,

not exactly what
we're looking for,

but it's still four grand.

Four grand is good for me.

All right, cool. Thank you.

-We'll see you tomorrow.
-BUYERS: All right.

-GREG: All right, good enough.
-BUYER 2: We'll send

the check and a birthday card
for you.

BILLON:
(laughs) (Inaudible).

GREG: All right,
we'll see you later.

NICK: We're gonna get up early,
we're gonna beat everybody
under that bridge,

and we're gonna
catch a couple more.

(music)

DITA: Today is the day!

Good day to catch a Bluefin.

TAMI: Airing it out
right in front of us,

there's a ... tuna, guys!

JESSIE: Damnit, we
need the stick up!

TAMI: Holy ...,
those were tunas.

It's day four we're still
looking for our first fish.

We have to nail one today.

That was beautiful
right in front of us.

JESSIE: Up and about,
catching some fish.

Hey, put us back
on them tuna, Tami.

I'm a jerk this thing.

DITA: Come on, fish!

(beeping sound)

TAMI: Pretty mark.

Pretty mark.

JESSIE: Come to momma!

TAMI: Hey, fish
right beside us!
Right beside us!

-See 'em?
-DITA: Yeah!

Jig it, jig it, jig it.

JESSIE: Oh there he is!
There he is!

-Oh! Got him on! Whoo!
-DITA: All right!

All right!

That's all you, bitch!

TAMI: I'm a
pull it out of gear.

JESSIE: Pull it out of gear!

Ha, ha, ha, ha!

TAMI: You got a line
over your main line, Dita.

-DITA: I see it.
-TAMI: I'll help you.
You got it?

DITA: Yup, I got it,
babe.

TAMI: All right,
I'm a get on the wheel.

JESSIE: Make sure that
line is clear of everyone.

TAMI: Here we go.

Tail rope's right there.

JESSIE: Come on, slow
and easy, come to momma.

Uh!
He's taking more line.

DITA: All right, I got gloves.

JESSIE: All right.
Slow and easy?

DITA: Yup.

TAMI: I'm ready.

JESSIE: Okay. I can't see the
line. Make sure I'm not going
under. Don't let me go under.

-TAMI: Go, go, go.
-DITA: You're good,
you're good,

you're straight, you're good.

Perfect angle, we got a
good angle, nice and easy,

don't have to be in a hurry.

-JESSIE: That's right.
-DITA: Everybody
take a deep breath.

Shaking his head, coming around
to your left, he's coming up.

I got a visual.

I see color!

Deep breath, fellas.

We're gonna stick him!

-TAMI: Yeah.
-DITA: Get him!

Wait!

It's not big enough.

I thought he was big enough.

-Damnit.
-JESSIE: He's a little fella.

Are you sure?
We gotta get him unhooked
and get him back out.

We don't really wanna
kill a fish like this.

Let him go.

DITA: Damnit!

Look at that thing
swimming his ass off.

Damn!

JESSIE: That one was short,
but in order to maintain
the species

of Bluefin, we
gotta set him free.

So he's back out there
with his momma, I hope.

(music)

TAMI: This isn't how
we wanna start the season off.

It's disappointing with the
bird and the short fish.

We can just put
baits out for now.

You know, you just gotta get
your stuff back out there.
There's fish here.

Just because that one was
small, it doesn't mean the
next one's

not gonna be a monster. You
gotta hope for the best.

(music)

CHARLIE: White birds
are on him, Jake, right here.

All right, bud, get ready.

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

They're getting ready
to get a bite, bud.

JAKE: Slow her down!

CHARLIE: We've been
fishing all day and
not had a bite,

but we're gonna stick
it out as long as we have to.

We're gonna stay out here
until the weather gets so bad

we can't be here
or we catch some fish.

(beeping sound)

All right, here
comes the mark, Jake.

(beeping sound)

The marks under the boat!

I got to get the
squids up there.

JAKE: Slow
the ... down.

CHARLIE: Hey.

-JAKE: Hey!
-CHARLIE: Got 'em on!

We got a fish over here.

Watch out, Renegade!

I hope it's gonna be
a good one.
We didn't see any fins.

All right, Jake, here
comes the breakaway.

JAKE: Do it.

All right, go ahead.

This one right here
could push us up.

Definitely need this in here.

Dad gets all tensed up,

something could happen
at any second, you know?

At the end of the line is
a, a $5,000 dollar check.

You know, it, it could
be less, could be more,

but whatever it is, we need it.
It never gets off your mind.

All right, get back there and
start handling this thing.

See what it feels like to you.

See how you pull it.
Can you pull it easy?

JAKE: Yeah.

I mean it's got a lot of
pressure on it, you know?

JAKE: He's getting
down!
He's getting down!

CHARLIE: God damn it!

All right, get back there and
start hand lining this thing.

Let's see what it
feels like to you.

See how you pull it.
Can you pull it easy?

JAKE: Yeah.

I mean it's got a lot of
pressure on it, you know?

(music)

JAKE: He's getting
down!
He's getting down!

CHARLIE: God damn it!

JAKE: I'm
... pulling on him!

It's all good.

Fish will, will
bite it, you know,
and he'll take off running.

CHARLIE: All right,
come on, come on, come on,
come on!

I want the head
on the reel there.

Tell me when you see color.

Got to have color.

I mean it is getting
it to come over.

CHARLIE: I can't see
where the line is going in
the waters.

Right there.

CHARLIE: Okay.

There's your color.

-CHARLIE: Oh boy!
-We caught a nice one, man.
He's gonna be another big one.

Oh man! He's a little bit
bigger than I thought he was.

-CHARLIE: Oh my God.
-God, son, that's a stud.

CHARLIE: All right,
you got it? Right here.

We do a lot of things

differently
than the other boats.

Rather than shoving a harpoon,

which is pushing a fish
away from the hook,

we're gaffing a fish, pulling
him towards the boat.

-JAKE: Hold
him right here?
-Got it?

CHARLIE: We always
gaff the fish in the head.

We never gaff the
fish in the meat.

We get really good money
and I think that is because

of the way we handle the fish.

That's how we roll.

That's how we roll.

Son, you a bad sumbitch, boy!

JAKE: Ah
... it would.

(laughing)

-CHARLIE: Oh, I'mma tell you
something, bud.
-JAKE: ... (inaudible)

-CHARLIE:
He's a badass dude.
-JAKE: Another stud.

CHARLIE: What do
you got there, Renegade?
What's in there? What's that?

I feel really bad about tearing
my boat up hitting the bridge.

But after getting everything
put back together
and getting out

here and catching a good
fish like this, I'm excited.

I hope this fish
keeps us on top.

That'd be awesome.

(Inaudible).

Eighty-eight on that one, bud.

CHARLIE:
That's awesome, bud!

That's good.
That's a good fish.

I swear man,
I'm going to hate...

I'm gonna hate the day
I got to fish against you.

I ain't gonna let you do all
this work for me.

That right there is a
hardworking man right there.
Look at him.

Look at that fella back there.

He's my son, you know?

I mean, everybody's
proud of their son,

but you will not see a
harder working young man.

(music)

-BILLY: What's up, guys?
-PAUL: What's up, Bill?

BILLY: First fish of the
season!

TYLER:
First one, dude.

We went through hell
to catch this one.

BILLY: Let's see
what you got, man.

(music)

-TYLER:
Going up, dude.
-What you got, Billy?

BILLY: Three hundred and
ninety-two pounds boys.

PAUL: Yeah!

TYLER: Is it in the
back of my mind what everyone

else in the fleet has?
Absolutely.

But I can only control what
goes on the Pinwheel and
that's where my mind's focused.

All right Bill, let's
take a look at this fish,
see what she's worth.

She looks like the best fish
I've ever caught in Carolina.

-BILLY: Oh yeah, boys!
-PAUL: That's sweet, huh?

-BILLY: That is pretty, man.
-PAUL: Isn't
that something?

-All the way.
-BILLY: That's a good
fish right there.

-PAUL: Isn't that unreal?
-BILLY: Look at that.

I mean one of the best ones
I've seen so far. Definitely.

A lot of fat.

I mean just really oily,
really good content

all the way throughout
the meat.

-TYLER: It's a bell
ringer. That rings the bell.
-PAUL: Yeah.

When someone sees a fish
like this, they go whoo!

TYLER: How
much can you get me?

BILLY: I'm thinking...

(music)

-I'll give you 28 dollars
a pound for it.
-TYLER: Whoo!

-PAUL: Yeah!
-TYLER: Good job.

-Thank you, man.
-Twenty eight a pound?

I'm stoked!

Hell yeah! Let's do this!

I love Carolina.

Thank God. All right, we gotta
get out back out there, man.

-PAUL: Thank you.
-BILLY: Bye, guys.

TYLER: There's
nothing more motivating

than getting a good
return on your fish.

That means let's keep
doing it and keep going.

Because when you think
you're on a hot streak and
when you think

you're hot, you
can't be touched.

Come on, Paul, let's show these
southern boys how it's done.

BUYER: How was coming
through the bridge tonight?

CHARLIE: Dude, I don't
even wanna talk about it.

-I swear I don't.
-(laughs)

BUYER: All right, let's take
a look, see what we got.

-Oh wow, look at that.
-CHARLIE: I just
got a really good feeling.

Oh man, I got a feeling.

I hope this fish
keeps us on top.

We've had to go through a lot.

What we got here, boss?

-BUYER: 309 dressed.
-CHARLIE: Great, good. You
wanna take a look at him,

-see what he looks like?
-BUYER: Let's take a look.

CHARLIE: Hopefully
it'll be a good check.

If we get 15, 20
dollars a pound for it,

that would be unbelievable.

I like that.
That looks pretty good to me.

BUYER: Beautiful.
Really nice fish.

Look at how fat this one is.

You can already see the fat
starting to fan out

through the major lobes here.

You can see it's just
jammed up with fat.

Look how greasy this meat is.

-This is a really nice,
fat fish.
-CHARLIE: Good.

BUYER: Core is really
sharp too.

I'm loving this fish, Charlie.

They're gonna be competing
for this fish in Tokyo.

CHARLIE: We've had
a trying week. That'd be good.

What do you think?

(music)

BUYER: Twenty-eight
dollars a pound.

-CHARLIE: Really?
-JAKE: Oh wow!

-No way, man!
-CHARLIE: That's, that's
the best we've ever done.

Good grief, man!

-JAKE: That'll be gold
now. Thanks.
-CHARLIE: That's awesome!

-BUYER: Nice job.
-CHARLIE: That's awesome!

Wow, $28 a pound for this
fish, that's unbelievable.

JAKE: Oh, yeah.

It's all right.

CHARLIE: Right
now, we got TJ on our back.

We got Pinwheel, we got Frenzy.

Everybody's gunning for us, so

hopefully we can get
another one pretty quick.

(music)

NARRATOR: At the end of
day four on the water,

last season's champion
Fishin' Frenzy gets a boost

with their second tuna.

And Pinwheel's eleven-grand
payday launches them

into the competition.

While for Reels of Fortune,
a top quality fish after

their crash into the bridge
helps extend their lead

over the fleet.

(music)

JASON: Hey, Dave.

DAVE:
What's going on, man?

-JASON: You
got that part fixed?
-DAVE: Yep.

After the crash at the bridge,
I honestly didn't think

we'd be able to continue
this season.

You can just plop it
right in place, Jay.

But Jay and I were able to get
humpty dumpty back together
again.

Now we really gotta get
some meat on the deck.

-Ready, Jay?
-JASON: Yeah.

I'm reeling in.

The Outer Banks
can't keep us down.

DAVE: All right,
back in business.

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