Wicked Tuna: North vs. South (2014–…): Season 2, Episode 7 - Nine-Foot Monster - full transcript
Seven crews face the Outer Banks hoping to reel in a fish big enough to keep. But with the luck they have had so far, prospects are not looking good. The Fishin' Frenzy crew hauls in a big catch and cashes in. With barely a bite, the Doghouse is forced to head in and hope for better another day. The Hot Tuna crew is eager for their dry spell to end, and with the final reel, they catch one of their largest tuna yet, cashing in for over $9,000.
-CAINE: Ready, Freddy?
-BRITTON: Ready!
CAINE: All right, girl,
let's go fishing.
NARRATOR: On this episode of
Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks...
BRITTON: Got him on!
NARRATOR: With only
five days left...
-PAUL: There he is!
-TYLER: There he is!
NARRATOR: Till the bluefin tuna
season closes...
-BRITTON: We need it bad!
-DITA: Come on, fish.
NARRATOR: The pressure
to land a paycheck...
-GREG: Woo-hoo!
-NICK: Bluefin bonanza!
NARRATOR: Pits boat
against boat...
-BRITTON: Oh, man.
He's got him on.
-CAINE: Son of a...
NARRATOR: ...and captain
against crew.
TAMI: I'm working my ass off
in here!
-DITA: Shut up!
-TAMI: Ooh.
NARRATOR: And the treacherous
Oregon Inlet...
CHARLIE: That looks scary.
NARRATOR: ...strikes again.
CHARLIE: Call the Coast Guard!
Watch out!
TYLER: Got him on!
NARRATOR: In a highly
regulated fishery
that's trying to stay
sustainable...
JAKE: There he is!
NARRATOR:
...every bluefin caught
takes a bite out of the quota.
GREG: Woo!
AUSTIN: We're just waiting now.
NARRATOR: And every fisherman
has to battle...
CHARLIE: Jake, Jake, Jake!
Help me, son!
BILLON: Ah! No, no, no, no, no!
NARRATOR: ...for their
fair share.
-BRITTON: Boom!
-NICK: Got him on!
GREG: I'm pumped.
NARRATOR: This is
Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks.
With only a handful of days
left to fish,
local family operation
Reels of Fortune
has a lead of about $1,100
over last season's champion
Fishin' Frenzy.
Meanwhile northern boats
Hot Tuna and Pinwheel,
and southern all-female trio
Reel Action lag far behind
in the earnings.
BILLON: Out of here, baby.
Ain't got much time left.
We got to make it count.
TJ: Right now the clock
is ticking.
BRITTON: It's crunch time.
GREG: Crunch time.
We've got five days left
in the season.
GREG: They're closing it
next week.
So, we've got to get out here
every day
and put a good effort in
or it's over.
TJ: I'm starting to get
nervous. Not having
a strong season.
One or two more good days
on the riff will make
this thing work,
and we might actually
end up in the green.
CHARLIE: Nervous.
Nervous as hell.
We're running out of time here.
We need some tunas.
We need to make some money.
That's the only reason
I'm here.
TYLER: I just hope to be lucky
enough to get out there
and put a couple
hundred-inchers on the deck.
Try and salvage this year
and make some sort of money
down here.
BRITTON:
Bringing all the chips and...
CAINE: Shoving them in.
BRITTON: Final push here.
TJ: I'm ready.
♪ ♪
TAMI: See if we can
get one today.
All right, guys, there's been
a couple bites.
So, maybe we'll get lucky
today.
Maybe today's the day.
We're fast approaching
the end of the season,
and we've only caught one fish.
JESSIE: Time's a-ticking.
-You ready?
-DITA: Yep. I'm ready.
TAMI: Every second counts now.
If we have any hope
of making a profit,
we've got to put fish
on the deck right now.
All right, girls, let's get
stuff going, let's go fishing.
JESSIE: You're darn right.
We're ready.
-DITA: Yeah, sounds good, man.
Let's go.
-TAMI: All right.
DITA: We're really getting
desperate here.
Things have got to change.
We need to bring something home
that we can sell.
TAMI: All right.
Toss the lines.
We need to get the hell
out of here.
JESSIE: She ain't on here.
Hold tight.
TAMI: Tell her to get
on the boat.
Come on, let's go.
♪ ♪
(sputtering)
-DITA: Ho! Ho, ho!
-TAMI: What happened?
-JESSIE: You hit the pylon.
-TAMI: Nice.
JESSIE: No, you knocked
the tie line in the water.
Ah, we're screwed.
TAMI: Get it.
JESSIE: It ain't no getting it
right at this point.
-TAMI: Is it in there?
-JESSIE: Oh, yeah.
In the damn wheel.
TAMI: Damn it.
DITA: Oh, great.
JESSIE: Right now we're stuck
at the dock.
We can't afford to not be
out there fishing.
TAMI: Hey now, at least
we're at the dock,
and we're not 30 miles offshore
when it's blowing 50.
Stuff happens.
JESSIE: It shouldn't happen
like that.
-CAINE: Ready, Freddy?
-BRITTON: Ready.
CAINE: Setting 'em out.
BRITTON: This season
it's all coming down
to these last few days.
If we can catch a few fish,
we'd be the top boat
and turn this into one of
our best seasons ever.
CAINE: Pretty out here.
BRITTON:
Got these birds and all.
Marking a bunch of bait
on the bottom.
CAINE: Hopefully we come in
with three today.
Start with one, go to two,
and then three.
We got one on our
last trip out.
So I'm hoping we can keep it
going and grab a couple more.
Come on, now.
AUSTIN: Give me that bite.
There's not much time left
to get paid.
So we have to take advantage
of every day
we can get on the water.
BRITTON: Dang,
that's a pretty mark.
Ought to get a bite
out of that.
(reel unspooling slowly)
(reel unspooling)
-CAINE: Hey, hey! There he is!
-BRITTON: Got him on!
CAINE: Got him on, baby!
Coming to you live!
Taking her, baby,
he's taking her!
Please, please,
stay on the line!
BRITTON: I was just looking
back, and boom.
There he was.
CAINE: It's gonna be
a nice one, Britton.
Come on. We need you, baby
girl.
Alright, Caine-o.
We need him baby!
CAINE: You ain't lying,
brother.
BRITTON: We need it bad.
CAINE: Strong fish here, buddy.
This gonna be a nice one.
This here is four to
six grand, I'm hoping.
Swimming to me.
All right, Britton, he might be
trying to circle on us.
BRITTON: That's all right.
Keep pressure on him now!
Get him coming.
CAINE: All right, I see color.
Forward, Brit.
Slowly but steady.
This fish here's gonna be
my month's rent
and maybe even a night out
on the town with a special
someone.
AUSTIN: Hey, this is big.
CAINE: There's the shot!
(grunts)
-CAINE: Got him?
-AUSTIN: Yeah.
CAINE: Woo! Yeah, buddy!
All right, Britton,
we need you.
BRITTON: All right,
I got his tail.
Get a tail rope on him.
CAINE: Pretty work.
BRITTON: One, two, three.
-Pretty work, boy!
-AUSTIN: That's what
I'm talking about.
-BRITTON: All right!
-CAINE: Ah, we needed that
for morale, son.
-BRITTON: We needed that.
-CAINE: Golly.
BRITTON: 87.
Come on.
Pretty work.
AUSTIN: That's two fish
in two days.
That's great to see
on the boat.
-CAINE: Good job, gentlemen.
-AUSTIN: But it's even better
to see
how happy my dad and Caine are.
Now all we need to do is
catch a couple more.
BRITTON: Come on!
♪ ♪
DITA: Bart to the rescue!
TAMI: Diver's here.
We tried to fix this prop
for a couple hours.
We have to get a diver
to get this rope free.
DITA: Bart's known for
saving the day.
TAMI: He's gonna remove
the rope from the prop.
It's twisted around the shaft
and through the blades
of the prop.
DITA: It's frustrating.
We're all ready to go.
(crash)
Tami hit the pylon when we were
pulling out of the slip...
Ho! Ho, ho!
...and knocked the line
off the top of the pylon,
and it got sucked up
in the wheel.
It was a stupid mistake,
and it cost us time
on the water.
He's in!
TAMI: Get that knife
ready for him.
JESSIE: It's frustrating
knowing that other boats
are out there
catching and we're just
sitting around.
To turn things around,
we got to be at the top
of our game.
No more dumb mistakes.
What was it?
It was just wrapped around
the wheel a couple times.
DITA: All right.
Can we try this again?
TAMI: Yeah, I'm all right.
Everybody's all stressed out,
and it's frustrating.
It's little things like this
that can screw up
your whole day.
Bart, thank you, man.
We're gonna go
catch a fish, man.
We'll holler at you later.
We just got to make
the best of this
and get out there
and go fishing.
Let me start her up.
Clear!
JESSIE: We're clear!
DITA: Oh, man.
Never a dull moment.
NICK: I want a bluefin tuna.
BILLON: We got to seal the deal
today, baby.
NICK: We really need one,
but we need two.
We need three.
GREG: We're coming down
to the homestretch.
We're just behind the
Reels of Fortune in earnings,
and the guys in the Doghouse
are closing in fast.
There's no room for error.
It's time to put some meat
on the deck
and show everyone
who the best really is.
NICK: Big shark right there.
About 150, 200 yards out there,
right there behind us.
See it?
GREG: Oh, I see it. I got you.
NICK: We need to get
on the fish quick.
That means helping Greg
find any sign of a tuna.
GREG: Any sign of life is good.
NICK: We spotted some life
in this area.
Now we just need to hook one
and put it on the deck.
Water looks good.
Good color, good temperature.
Big shark just went by
the boat there.
Some life. Life, man.
Any life is good life.
(beeping)
-GREG: Here they are!
-NICK: You marking 'em?
GREG: Yeah, there's one
down at 30.
BILLON: Tell him to come on up.
NICK: Come on, baby.
(beeping)
GREG: There's one at 15.
NICK: Come on, fish.
(beeping)
GREG: Oh, God,
the mark is here.
BILLON: Hurry up and wait,
hurry up and wait.
NICK: I swear it smells
like fish now.
(reel unspooling slowly)
-(reel unspooling)
-Long rigger!
-NICK: There he is!
-BILLON: There he is!
NICK: Long rigger, got him on!
BILLON: Screaming, baby.
NICK: There he is, right here.
Long rigger.
-BILLON: Long rigger.
-NICK: We're on, baby! Woo-hoo!
Damn, that's a big
son of a bitch.
Bluefin bonanza!
BILLON: Ready for me?
NICK: Yeah.
Take over.
NICK: Let's go, let's go!
Come on, let's go!
GREG: When the fish is closer,
just back the drag down.
-You know what I mean, Billon?
-BILLON: Yeah.
We're a little bit behind
the Reels of Fortune,
but we're hooked up, we got
a big fish on the line.
Things are looking real good.
We're coming for you, Griff!
He took a lot of drag.
GREG: Okay, you can go to
the other side if you want.
Back that drag down some more.
Make it easy.
That's the bend.
That's what we want.
Oh, yeah. Woo!
NICK: Ready, Billon?
Take over a second.
BILLON: All right.
♪ ♪
There's the leader.
There's the fish right there.
GREG: Yeah-ha-ha!
Woo-hoo!
That's a big bastard.
Don't lose him.
Swing it right to me.
Swing it right to the stern
now.
All right, keep it walking.
BILLON: He's coming.
GREG: Go, go, go, go, go.
Just straight up sea.
Keep going up.
BILLON: Don't like that
head shaking now.
GREG: I don't like that
kicking, either.
BILLON: When these fish are
acting funny like this,
it's easier to lose them.
Damn, now he's going
back across it!
GREG: I don't like to see that.
Make sure you keep
that line tight.
You let that line go slack,
you're gonna pull a hook.
BILLON: Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
♪ ♪
NICK: There's the leader.
There's the fish right there.
-GREG: Yeah-ha-ha!
-BILLON: Woo-hoo!
GREG: That's a big bastard.
Don't lose him!
Swing it around to me.
Swing it right to
the stern now.
BILLON: Don't like that
head shaking now.
GREG: I don't like
that kicking, either.
He's not acting right.
BILLON: Damn, now he's going
back across it.
-(snaps)
-Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
Damn!
GREG: There it is, he got away.
Sucks!
BILLON: The fish was
fighting hard,
and before you knew it,
it pulled the hook.
But that's fishing,
it's not a sure thing
until you've got them
on the deck.
Just got to keep at it.
GREG: We had a bite on the
long rigger, just popped down.
Bottom line was we had a bite,
we did not get him.
Let's go back to work.
♪ ♪
-BRITTON: Lucas!
-LUCAS: Good to see ya!
-What do you got today, Britt?
-BRITTON: We got one.
LUCAS: You know, it looks
pretty good from here,
let's check it out.
BRITTON: With time running out,
it's great to be able to put
a fish on the dock.
If we get top dollar
for this fish,
it's gonna put a lot of
pressure on the boats
ahead of us.
Suspense is killing me.
-What do you got, Lucas?
-LUCAS: 312.
BRITTON: Dag!
CAINE: Got her, cuz!
Got her, got her!
LUCAS: All right, guys, we'll
check out the quality here.
CAINE: Check her out, cuz!
BRITTON: I'm really hoping for
as close to $20 a pound
as I can get for this fish.
It's all gonna come down to how
the buyer figures the color,
quality of the meat
and the fat content.
Ali right, so what's the
verdict?
LUCAS: You actually do have
some oil and fat
in this fish here,
as you can see.
-BRITTON: Good, good, good!
-LUCAS: It's not bad at all.
The core's a little bit light.
BRITTON: What do you think?
Talk to me.
LUCAS: Compared to all
the other fish I've seen today,
this does stand out
a little bit more.
It does have more fat,
so with that being said...
♪ ♪
Call it 16 a pound.
-BRITTON: We'll take it.
-CAINE: Good enough!
-BRITTON: Yes, sir!
-CAINE: Yes, sir!
LUCAS: Keep you guys going.
CAINE: Late in the game,
we'll take her.
BRITTON: That's all right.
Late in the game.
We wanted a little more
for this fish,
but $5,000 is a nice paycheck.
If we can get back out there
and get on a nice run,
we have as good a chance
as anyone to finish on top.
CAINE: See y'all tomorrow
hopefully.
BRITTON: Good Lord willing,
we'll see you tomorrow.
NARRATOR: With only four days
of fishing left
till the season closes,
Doghouse's payday edges them
closer to the fleet's leaders,
Reels of Fortune
and Fishin' Frenzy.
TAMI: Got to catch a fish.
We're gonna stay all night,
fish tomorrow.
It's hard to work
when things are like this.
All of us are in a foul mood
every day.
And we just have
to keep going strong
and hope that there's gonna be
something better
that comes out of it.
Long day.
I just want to sleep tonight.
DITA: Yup.
Yeah, I'm ready to be done too.
JESSIE: Y'all go to sleep,
I got it for a while.
Uhhh.
DITA: All right.
JESSIE: Every year,
chase bluefin,
and it, and it's been
a fun part of it,
and always been able to catch
lots of fish, you know,
it's, it's disappointing,
ain't no doubt about it.
Before the season started
Tami told me a lot of things
about her bluefin experience
and her time behind the wheel.
And now I know it was all
a big lie.
I thought when somebody
told me something
they would tell me the truth,
but it's another, you know,
life-learning experience,
I guess.
(laughs)
If I tell somebody that
I've done something
or I know how to do something,
then that's, you know,
it is what it is.
But unfortunately
it hasn't been that way.
I think she's way over her
head, ain't no doubt.
I mean, just as...
just way over her head.
♪ ♪
CHARLIE: The bridge is
our biggest obstacle
as of this moment.
Even at this point in the
season
I still get nervous going
through the bridge.
It's the same bridge that
already took us out
once this season.
(crash)
But with this season closing
in less than four days,
we can't let anything stop us
from getting out there
and going fishing.
It's a bad, bad, bad deal
right now.
Look at all this snow and ice
on the boat, you know.
That ain't good.
CHARLIE: This time of the year
with the water
being as cold as it is,
it's dangerous.
If that boat rolls over,
fills up with water,
and we have to get in
that water,
the chances of us surviving
are not really good.
That scares the hell out of me.
That water in there is
about 36 degrees.
You do not live long
in 36-degree water.
Damn, it's low.
See all this water here
has gotten shallow.
It's a lot lower than
it was yesterday
when we came through here.
Got me a little nervous.
Right now we're the top-earning
boat in the fleet,
and to keep earning we have
to stay out on the water
and out of the boatyard.
Ugh! Jake, my friend,
that's low, bud.
That's low, low.
Oh, man.
All right, Jake, you ready?
Here we go, bud.
Say a prayer.
♪ ♪
We went through there sideways.
(crash, bleep)
CHARLIE: Call the Coast Guard!
Call the Coast Guard for me,
I'm in a jam.
Watch out! Damn it!
CHARLIE: Jake, that's low, bud.
That's low, low.
Alrighty, here we go, bud.
Say a prayer.
♪ ♪
We went through there sideways.
(crash, bleep)
CHARLIE: Talk to me, son.
JAKE: Agh!
CHARLIE: Talk to me.
Call the Coast Guard.
Call the Coast Guard for me,
I'm in jam.
Watch out! Damn it!
Get out of the way, bud!
Jake, get me out of gear!
Oh, son, oh, son, oh, son!
She's gonna get sideways
here now.
Watch out, buddy.
JAKE: She's hung up, bud.
She's hung up.
(bleep), man!
If we roll over in this water,
we're done.
CHARLIE: Careful, Jake,
that water's freezing.
She's pullin' her way up.
JAKE: Keep her going,
keep her going.
There it is, bud,
keep her going.
There you go. She's levelled
up. She's levelled up.
CHARLIE: We're clear.
Thank you, Lord, we made it.
That, my friend, sucked.
Two different occasions
I almost lost my boat.
JAKE: You lose your whole boat,
that's your whole livelihood.
That's everything that
you've built up for.
We could have lost it all
within a couple seconds.
CHARLIE: I thought I'd lost her
there, bud.
Damn, that scares me.
TJ: We're bite chasers today.
The strategy today is gonna be
tackle the guy
-with the ball.
-(laughs)
If we hear someone's marking
or someone's getting bit,
we're bee lining right for 'em.
Right now the clock is ticking.
Whoever's on the meat
is getting mugged today.
(laughs)
There's less than four days
left in the season,
but you know what?
There's still time
to salvage it,
and I'm not gonna throw
the towel in just yet.
-Hey, see if we have
a fresh coil of 180.
-JARRETT: Yeah, yeah.
TJ: It's definitely possible
we can go on a run
in the next couple days
and finish out this
terrible season strong.
What are you cooking, Bubba?
MIKE: Got some nice
prime rib burgers,
some smoked gouda
and some guacamole.
Should be good.
TJ: Nice.
MIKE: Looking good right now.
TJ: Michael's grilling
some burgers,
Jarrett's doing some ballyhoo
rigging back there,
it is a nice day to be out
on the water doing
what we love.
JARRETT: When the season ends,
we don't get paid anymore.
It's now or never.
We have to make
every second count.
There is no room for mistakes.
TJ: Now we just need to get
some meat on board.
That's the name of the game
right now.
We really need to get out there
and get some meat.
-MIKE: Perfect.
-TJ: Oh, yes.
JARRETT: I'm not quite sure
how all the other boats work,
but we do it right
on the Hot Tuna.
MIKE: That's nice.
TJ: Very good.
-Good job, Bubby.
-MIKE: You're welcome.
-TYLER: Ready to set out?
-PAUL: Oh, yeah.
We're gonna get a big bastard.
(laughs)
TYLER: Time is running out
fast here,
so I'm hoping that in the last
few days of fishing
we can add to what
we've already earned
by landing a couple
big, fat bluefin.
PAUL: This is our time
right now.
It's the homestretch.
I'm anxious to make a paycheck
so I can go home
and feed my daughter.
Why we come here,
so we can make some money,
so we can go home and
support our families.
Make some adjustments
and we'll be good.
(beeping)
TYLER: Woo!
Aw, just picking up
the mark now.
-PAUL: Yeah.
-TYLER: Yup.
-(beeping)
-TYLER: That's the mark,
nice, dense mark.
(beeping)
Oh, we're gonna go off!
Get ready, get ready,
get ready, get ready,
get ready.
Pauly, look at that mark.
-(beeping)
-PAUL: Yeah, oh, yeah.
(reel unspooling slowly)
TYLER: Woo, get ready.
-(reel unspooling)
-We're on!
-Got him on!
-PAUL: Oh, yeah!
TYLER: You can get him at
the boat in here, you can bump.
PAUL: Here we go, here we go.
Yeah, just spin me around.
♪ ♪
Color!
We got color.
Paul, is it a bluefin?
Maybe, yeah.
Paul, I don't know what it is!
PAUL: Color!
We got color.
Paul, I don't know what it is!
TYLER: Oh!
We got a billfish!
TYLER: Pinwheel's
first billfish!
Kill it later, catch it later!
Ahhh, we got him in the boat!
It's a sail!
-PAUL: Watch out!
-TYLER: Ah, he stabbed me!
PAUL: Watch out! Look out!
TYLER: Stabbed me!
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Stop!
PAUL: All right,
get him out of here.
(laughs)
TYLER: Yeah, run!
Woo!
Fish like this are always
caught and released,
'cause it has no
financial value.
We don't have time to mess
around with fish like these.
Bluefin are what pay the bills,
so we're gonna put
the lines back out
and try and catch one of those.
PAUL: We just caught
a sailfish, and we threw him
back over,
got the hook out of him,
let him go.
We tried to wrestle him
around the boat.
(laughs)
He went crazy.
TYLER: When you're a fisherman,
it's all
about just catching fish.
BILLON: Could be a good day,
could be a bad day.
GREG: There they are,
up ahead of us.
Up on top here.
(beeping)
Right under my damn bow.
BILLON: Come on, come on.
GREG: Sitting here looking at
the machine and looking back,
and here they are.
Today we're looking
to bounce back
after a tough day yesterday.
We lost a nice fish at the boat
right after Doghouse
caught theirs.
That puts even more
pressure on us.
So we really need to land
a fish today.
NICK: You ought to get a bite.
BILLON: Anytime now.
(beeping)
GREG: Here they are again.
NICK: Come on, baby.
(beeping)
GREG: Target-rich environment.
(beeping)
(reel unspooling slowly)
-(beeping)
-(reel unspooling)
NICK: We're on!
GREG: There he is.
BILLON: He's taking a little
bit of line.
We're just trying to
get situated on it.
Move it back
to the back holder!
BILLON: Coming to you.
If we can hang on to him,
and he's big enough,
he'll be number ten.
GREG: Be nice to be
in double digits.
NICK: Feels like
a good one, man.
Taking some drag here.
GREG: Everything can
go wrong, and only one thing
can go right.
Hopefully everything
holds together here,
and we catch this fish.
CAINE: Frenzy's hooked up,
he just hooked up.
BRITTON: Oh, man,
he's got him on.
We look over,
Frenzy's hooked up.
If they put that one
on the deck,
it's going to make it
that much harder for us
to get ahead of 'em.
-CAINE: Son of a...
-BRITTON: The good news
is that they're biting
around here,
so we're in a good spot.
(beeping)
Look at that.
Dang, that's a pretty mark.
(beeping)
All right, guys, I got a good
mark. Look lively.
-CAINE: Marking some
big'uns, baby.
-AUSTIN: Love it, baby.
Come on, now we're just,
we're just waiting now.
It's just a waiting game.
(beeping)
CAINE: Come on, bite the hook.
AUSTIN: We need you now.
Come on.
BRITTON: We need a bite.
(beeping)
(reel unspooling slowly)
-(reel unspooling)
-Got him on, bro!
Woo!
Got him on!
CAINE: Go ahead.
BRITTON: Hey, come on now,
baby!
CAINE: Yee-haw!
AUSTIN: What's it feel like,
Caine?
CAINE: Going like
a bat out of hell
to put loads and loads of line
from the get-go.
This'll make our season.
GREG: Crank on it, Bub.
Crank on it!
Crank, crank, crank!
There you go!
-NICK: Ready?
-BILLON: Yeah.
GREG: We've got a tuna on
right here, number ten.
I think this fish here
is gonna be a keeper.
NICK: I think it's gonna be
a mid-80s bluefin.
I'm hoping so.
You can tell mid-80s,
'cause he'll have leg warmers
and a silk bandana,
some (bleep) like that.
(laughs)
-GREG: Oh, boy.
-NICK: He'll be singing
some Thriller.
(laughs)
GREG: Moonwalking down there.
-BILLON: All right, Nick,
you ready?
-NICK: Yeah, buddy.
GREG: Looks like he's
coming up here.
-NICK: There he is.
-BILLON: Got color.
CAINE: Got color.
Hell yeah.
BRITTON: You got
that dart ready?
Comes back around here,
now throw that dart.
♪ ♪
BILLON: Come on, baby,
there's your swivel.
BRITTON: All right, there's
your leader right there.
GREG: Come on, baby.
BILLON: Come up on top.
Nice fish.
NICK: My left side. Here.
GREG: Come on, baby, come on,
baby, come on.
NICK: Bring him right to you,
just like that.
GREG: Oh, yes, baby.
NICK: Get the gaffer tape.
GREG: To his right.
-NICK: Got him.
-GREG: Get him cleated?
NICK: Ha ha! Woo!
Number ten!
GREG: Double digits, baby!
CAINE: This is it, boys,
come on.
♪ ♪
BRITTON: There's the shot!
There's the shot!
-AUSTIN: I missed it.
-BRITTON: What happened, huh?
CAINE: Austin missed the fish.
Ah, I just don't want that fish
to go under the boat.
-BRITTON: Oh, ho, ho, ho!
-CAINE: Going under the boat.
CAINE: This is it boys,
come on.
BRITTON: There's the shot!
There's the shot!
-AUSTIN: I missed him.
-BRITTON: What happened, huh?
CAINE: Austin missed the fish.
It's going under the boat.
-BRITTON: Oh, ho, ho, ho!
-(snap)
-CAINE: We just lost
another one.
-BRITTON: Did she come off?
CAINE: We lost him, Britt.
(sighs)
Cannot believe it.
AUSTIN: After I missed
the dart throw,
the fish swam under the boat
and sheered the line.
With less than four days
of fishing left,
this could've been our last
chance to land a paycheck.
CAINE: Had it on there, anyway,
no (bleep) fish.
BRITTON: Austin's throw was
pretty disappointing.
He's come a long way, but
he still has a long way to go
if he's gonna be
a tuna fisherman.
CAINE: The way our season's
going, ain't it?
If it weren't for bad luck,
we wouldn't have any at all.
-NICK: Ready?
-GREG: All right, go.
-GREG: Woo-hoo!
-BILLON: Pretty work,
pretty work.
GREG: Alright, let's see
what we got here.
NICK: Gonna be 85-incher.
-BILLON: 85.
-GREG: Nice, 85 inches.
NICK: We just got this fish
on the boat,
this is a nice, big,
fat bluefin,
feeling really good,
'cause this should put us
back on top.
Good job, everybody,
that's perfect, man.
GREG: That's a damn
good year in anyone's book.
Double digits?
I'm pumped. Woo!
BILLON: We'll see what
we can get for him.
♪ ♪
LUCAS: What do you got today?
GREG: Got a nice 85-incher
for you.
-Glad to have him.
-LUCAS: Let's check it out.
GREG: We were just behind
Reels of Fortune yesterday,
and I know they didn't
catch one today,
so this fish should put us
right on top where we belong.
LUCAS: Got a good shape.
♪ ♪
Let's see what it weighs.
GREG: What's it weigh?
LUCAS: 344.
GREG: Not bad for an 85-incher.
Coming down to the end
of the season,
that's gonna be
one of our last ones,
let's see what we got here.
Like to have some good quality
if we can get it.
How's she look?
LUCAS: Not bad.
-GREG: Looks like
she got some fat.
-LUCAS: Little bit.
Yeah, color's good inside.
Tail color's okay.
GREG: So, what do you think?
What's that fish gonna be
worth, Lucas?
LUCAS: $14 a pound.
-NICK: 14?
-GREG: 14?
GREG: We'll take it,
that's about four grand.
-NICK: Yeah, all right.
-GREG: That's right.
GREG: Well, we're gonna do it
again tomorrow, I hope.
LUCAS: All right, guys,
thank you.
BILLON: Thank you, guys.
GREG: If we can keep
catching fish like this,
no one will catch us.
NARRATOR: With only three more
days of fishing
till the season closes,
Fishin' Frenzy's payday
launches
them back into the top spot
with an almost four-grand lead
over family operation
Reels of Fortune.
♪ ♪
TAMI: I like this water
right here.
Sixty-seven degrees right here,
Jess.
JESSIE: Good.
In the last couple days
Doghouse caught one
and so did Frenzy,
meanwhile we just been
sitting around
watching our squids
bounce on the water,
praying for some action.
TAMI: I want to be
reeling a fish.
We've been fishing in
really rough conditions.
We've had long days,
long hours,
not much payoff,
and I know everybody's
getting stressed out.
When it all comes down
to it, it's just the way
the game goes.
Sometimes you're on 'em,
sometimes you're not.
It's fishing.
(beeping)
Okay, that looks like a mark,
jig on it.
Jig on it.
The best thing that can happen
is you can put a fish
on the deck.
That just makes all
the stress go away.
(beeping)
JESSIE: God, man,
we're going too fast,
we're gonna break it off.
DITA: Slow down, man.
I'm only going five knots.
DITA: Speed racer.
TAMI: (bleep), gosh.
DITA: It's like a racetrack,
we're going,
nrrr, nrrr, nrrr, nrrr!
Nobody can tell her nothing.
I mean, she just acts like
she knows everything,
you know, and it's just,
it's like beating your head
against the wall.
The bird's sideways.
JESSIE: Yeah.
We break that bird off,
we're totally done.
Don't got another bird.
DITA: Ugh, we ain't gonna
catch a fish, ain't no way.
Going too fast, can't tell her
nothing, she knows it all.
Hey.
JESSIE: I think we lost
the ball.
DITA: I don't see it.
JESSIE: You probably need
to pull that in
and put another ball on it,
'cause it broke the ball off.
DITA: Can you just slow down?
Just slow down,
that's all you got to do.
Gone. Gone, gone, gone.
JESSIE: It's 800-pound test.
How can't we keep the ball
on the damn stick?
That's what I want to know.
DITA: Me and Jessie
are tying on
another poly ball
because Tami can't listen
to one word
that we got to say.
-JESSIE: Go!
-DITA: Anytime you're ready.
JESSIE: All right.
It is what it is.
If you're gonna go
100 miles an hour,
it's gonna come off
every now and then.
DITA: We're just going
too fast.
-TAMI: What?
-DITA: We're going too fast!
Dita, I don't even have 'em up
-DITA: I don't mean
right this second!
-Look! Look! Look!
I don't mean right this second!
I was only going four knots.
I was going four knots.
DITA: When we're trolling,
we're going too fast!
Going four knots!
-I don't care what
the numbers are!
-Four knots!
The baits are not staying
in the water, Captain!
Four knots, Dita!
-DITA: Shut the (bleep) up
and put it in gear!
-TAMI: No, (bleep) you!
-DITA: Put it in gear!
-TAMI: (bleep) you!
DITA: Let's (bleep)
catch a fish.
Regardless and you're
(bleep) clueless.
TAMI: Dita, (bleep) four knots!
DITA: Shut the (bleep) up
and drive the boat!
TAMI: No, you shut
the (bleep) up!
DITA: Shut up!
She doesn't know (bleep)!
(bleep)
DITA: And she knows it!
All talk!
That's all (bleep)
hot air talk!
I've drived over more fish
than any of you seen.
-DITA: Shut up!
-TAMI: (bleep) you!
JESSIE: Oh, stop!
Stop! Stop! Stop!
TAMI: Oh, stop.
JESSIE: Like reverse
would be nice.
Pull it in! Let's go home!
I'm over it!
DITA: I'm over your ass.
-(bleep)
-Workin' my ass off in here!
DITA: Shut up!
I'm over it! I'm over it!
You hear me?
CHARLIE: Gonna be another one
of those days, son!
A lot of birds around here.
Tell you what let's do,
let's, let's set out.
It's gonna be full metal jacket
today, I'm afraid.
Right now we're doing good,
but Frenzy and Doghouse
both have caught some fish
the last couple of days.
So, that's just more
pressure on me.
We need to get to work,
need to catch some fish.
It's been tough, very tough.
One obstacle after another just
you know, weather, the bridge,
the inlet, but just gonna have
to keep plugging along.
It's gonna be right down
to the wire, you know?
JAKE: Got a limited
amount of days.
A limited amount of fish
that can be caught.
And we, we need a paycheck,
so we're here.
CHARLIE: Come on, baby,
come on, baby, come on.
All right, get ready.
Oh, come on, please.
Please, please, please.
Today has got to be the day.
Son, watch your stuff.
(beeping)
Oh, my God, that's them, bud,
that's gonna be them.
(beeping)
JAKE: Come on! Come on,
get after it.
-(beeping)
-CHARLIE: Big mark, son!
I'm telling you,
this is the meat.
Jig it, Jake! Jig it!
Get it.
There he is!
JAKE: Got him! Got him!
CHARLIE: Got one on.
Watch out, Renegade.
That's a big boy there now.
CHARLIE: It look like
a decent one, son?
Yeah, definitely a big haul
on it.
That fish grabbed that
stick bait and he took it hard.
He broke the breakaway
with power.
We gotta get this fish up there
and get him on the deck.
CHARLIE: What do you got
all that about?
I'm gettin' the hose
out of my way, man.
That's what that is about.
CHARLIE: All right, watch,
watch yourself there.
Oh, God, dude. You're being
such a bitch today, dude.
CHARLIE: I'm just so damn
scared of everything now,
you know, we've had
some hard luck,
you know, with hooks breaking
and just crazy stuff,
-you know, just really scared.
-JAKE: Yeah.
CHARLIE: It's ridiculous,
I mean,
I was hoping this wasn't
gonna be the case.
This season was probably
the toughest, you know,
having to deal with the bridge,
having to deal with the shoals.
We've had all kinds
of bad luck.
After almost losing my boat
yesterday, my God, man,
I hope we get this one
so I can relax a little bit.
Scares me 'cause it was such
a big mark, you know?
-CHARLIE: See anything yet?
-JAKE: Not yet.
-CHARLIE: Huh?
-JAKE: Not yet!
CHARLIE: Okay.
(reel unspools)
Jake! Jake! Jake!
Help me, son! Hurry!
-CHARLIE: We've got one on!
-(reel unspools)
Jake! Jake! Jake! Help me, son!
Hurry!
It just jumped off,
the wind blew it, bud.
JAKE: Calm down, man,
it's all right.
My dad is driving me nuts
right now.
I know we've had some bad luck,
but this is getting ridiculous.
We need to get this fish
on board
so he can calm down
and stop acting crazy.
CHARLIE: Is he pulling
pretty hard?
I mean, I might be able
to get him to the next one...
in a second.
CHARLIE: Come on, baby!
Come on, baby, stay on there.
Please, stay on there.
Got color.
That's a nice one there now.
CHARLIE: Help it along, Jake,
pull that thing up there now.
Pull him up there!
-Be careful.
-JAKE: Oh.
CHARLIE:
Don't lose him now, boy!
Stick him! Stick his ass!
CHARLIE: Got him, baby!
It's close enough, ain't it?
-Ready?
-One, two, three!
(groans)
He's gonna make it.
CHARLIE: Got him!
JAKE: That right there,
that's what we need, bud!
CHARLIE: 75!
Woo, all right, man.
He ain't a monster...
but we needed that one, bud.
-CHARLIE: Golly gee!
-Ain't very long
but he's got some
fat to him, man.
Maybe that thing will be worth
some money.
CHARLIE: Oh, my God.
The last couple of days
have been tough.
I really thought we had
a dark cloud over us.
But getting this fish
takes all that away.
I can't even tell you
how good it feels
to have this one on deck.
JAKE: But I mean,
there's potential there
for a couple
thousand-dollar fish.
So, we'll take it.
Yes, sir, every day, all day.
♪ ♪
TAMI: I'm over it, man.
I'm pissed.
When situations get
out of control on the boat,
you just got to put
your foot down.
Everybody loses their temper,
but it's my job to just get
everybody back in check.
Let's go!
JESSIE: Back a little bit
further.
TAMI: We got to have
the bowlines first.
That's as good as
it's gonna get.
Reach around that thing.
Rocket science.
JESSIE: We can't use
your spring line.
TAMI: Tie it.
We ain't gonna be able
to get off the boat
-if you pull it anymore.
-DITA: Okay.
TAMI: Tie it when I get back
to the stern.
DITA: You don't just stand back
there and (bleep) yell
when you don't know
what's going on.
TAMI: Right there! Tie it up!
JESSIE: Tension's been building
each day
we come home without a fish
and without a paycheck.
It finally came to a head
out there today
with Dita and Tami
screaming at each other.
I just don't know where
we're gonna go from here.
DITA: See, when you're,
when you're backing in
and you're in the cabin,
you can't hear us and
we can't hear you.
TAMI: I should not tell you
how to tie up a (bleep) boat.
-DITA: Run your (bleep) mouth.
-TAMI: No, I'm serious!
DITA: You're running
your (bleep) mouth.
You can shut up!
TAMI: You ought to know
how to tie the boat!
DITA: I know how to tie
the boat off!
TAMI: Well, then do it!
JESSIE: Come on, stop, y'all.
There's people around.
-DITA: Of course you...
-TAMI: I'm not (bleep).
DITA: Then shut up!
TAMI: Ooh.
Oh!
At the end of the day,
everybody knows that the end
of the season
is right up on us.
We just have to get it together
and get it done.
I don't care, really.
Let's get out of here.
♪ ♪
CHARLIE: We had some bad luck,
but we had some
good luck as well,
and we're lucky enough
to catch a, catch a good one.
BUYER: Alright, Charlie,
let's get this fish out
and see what we got here.
I got a truck standing by
right now
that goes straight
to the airport.
CHARLIE: Good deal, good, good.
After almost losing my boat
again the other day,
it feels great that we're
getting another paycheck
rather than a yard bill.
And if this fish puts us
back on top of Frenzy,
that'd be awesome.
Not the biggest one
we've caught,
but hopefully it'll be
a good one, Jake.
♪ ♪
BUYER: 215.
CHARLIE: That's a lot bigger
than I thought it was gonna be.
-JAKE: Yeah, it is.
-CHARLIE: That's good, man.
BUYER: Let's take a look
and let's see what we got.
Nice, look at that cherry core.
CHARLIE: Good.
BUYER: Beaming out red,
nice clarity.
CHARLIE: That might be the best
color I've ever seen on one.
BUYER: Nice, fat fish,
you can see the fat fanning out
through the major lobes here.
Buttery meat in the minor lobes
and skin here.
Good fish for Sendai Market
in Japan.
They like small fish like this
with some fat.
CHARLIE: Well,
what do you think?
-BUYER: $18 a pound for that.
-JAKE: Daggone, man.
CHARLIE: Man, that's awesome.
Thank you, bud, thanks.
BUYER: Nice job, you guys did
a nice job with the fish.
JAKE: This wasn't
the biggest fish,
but we got a good price and
a nice paycheck for it.
We're definitely happy
with this one.
CHARLIE: Renegade,
see what you think?
JAKE: What do you think
about that one?
BUYER: He says it's excellent.
CHARLIE: That dog knows
good tuna!
The end of the season
is upon us.
We need to get back out there
and get a few more fish
while we still can.
All right, guys, let's go get
some fuel and ice,
we're getting ready to go
fishing again.
NARRATOR: With less than
three days of fishing left
till the season closes,
Reels of Fortune's
good quality fish pushes them
back into the top spot.
But they've got only
a miniscule lead over
last season's champion,
Fishin' Frenzy.
♪ ♪
GREG: We're coming down to
the homestretch of the season.
CHARLIE: We're running
out of time,
so we need to fish
every day we can fish.
We need to catch a handful more
just so we can pay the bills.
BRITTON: There's no next month,
there's no next week.
It's all coming down to
these last few days.
TJ: When the season's over,
there's no more opportunity
to make money,
we've got to make hay
while the sun shines.
TYLER: It's not at all where
I wanted to be at this point.
So I got to capitalize
on these last few days
and put some fish
across the dock.
BRITTON: This is how
I make my living,
this is how I support my
family.
We have to finish strong.
GREG: We've got to get
the job done.
It's now or never.
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Visual Data Media Services
-BRITTON: Ready!
CAINE: All right, girl,
let's go fishing.
NARRATOR: On this episode of
Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks...
BRITTON: Got him on!
NARRATOR: With only
five days left...
-PAUL: There he is!
-TYLER: There he is!
NARRATOR: Till the bluefin tuna
season closes...
-BRITTON: We need it bad!
-DITA: Come on, fish.
NARRATOR: The pressure
to land a paycheck...
-GREG: Woo-hoo!
-NICK: Bluefin bonanza!
NARRATOR: Pits boat
against boat...
-BRITTON: Oh, man.
He's got him on.
-CAINE: Son of a...
NARRATOR: ...and captain
against crew.
TAMI: I'm working my ass off
in here!
-DITA: Shut up!
-TAMI: Ooh.
NARRATOR: And the treacherous
Oregon Inlet...
CHARLIE: That looks scary.
NARRATOR: ...strikes again.
CHARLIE: Call the Coast Guard!
Watch out!
TYLER: Got him on!
NARRATOR: In a highly
regulated fishery
that's trying to stay
sustainable...
JAKE: There he is!
NARRATOR:
...every bluefin caught
takes a bite out of the quota.
GREG: Woo!
AUSTIN: We're just waiting now.
NARRATOR: And every fisherman
has to battle...
CHARLIE: Jake, Jake, Jake!
Help me, son!
BILLON: Ah! No, no, no, no, no!
NARRATOR: ...for their
fair share.
-BRITTON: Boom!
-NICK: Got him on!
GREG: I'm pumped.
NARRATOR: This is
Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks.
With only a handful of days
left to fish,
local family operation
Reels of Fortune
has a lead of about $1,100
over last season's champion
Fishin' Frenzy.
Meanwhile northern boats
Hot Tuna and Pinwheel,
and southern all-female trio
Reel Action lag far behind
in the earnings.
BILLON: Out of here, baby.
Ain't got much time left.
We got to make it count.
TJ: Right now the clock
is ticking.
BRITTON: It's crunch time.
GREG: Crunch time.
We've got five days left
in the season.
GREG: They're closing it
next week.
So, we've got to get out here
every day
and put a good effort in
or it's over.
TJ: I'm starting to get
nervous. Not having
a strong season.
One or two more good days
on the riff will make
this thing work,
and we might actually
end up in the green.
CHARLIE: Nervous.
Nervous as hell.
We're running out of time here.
We need some tunas.
We need to make some money.
That's the only reason
I'm here.
TYLER: I just hope to be lucky
enough to get out there
and put a couple
hundred-inchers on the deck.
Try and salvage this year
and make some sort of money
down here.
BRITTON:
Bringing all the chips and...
CAINE: Shoving them in.
BRITTON: Final push here.
TJ: I'm ready.
♪ ♪
TAMI: See if we can
get one today.
All right, guys, there's been
a couple bites.
So, maybe we'll get lucky
today.
Maybe today's the day.
We're fast approaching
the end of the season,
and we've only caught one fish.
JESSIE: Time's a-ticking.
-You ready?
-DITA: Yep. I'm ready.
TAMI: Every second counts now.
If we have any hope
of making a profit,
we've got to put fish
on the deck right now.
All right, girls, let's get
stuff going, let's go fishing.
JESSIE: You're darn right.
We're ready.
-DITA: Yeah, sounds good, man.
Let's go.
-TAMI: All right.
DITA: We're really getting
desperate here.
Things have got to change.
We need to bring something home
that we can sell.
TAMI: All right.
Toss the lines.
We need to get the hell
out of here.
JESSIE: She ain't on here.
Hold tight.
TAMI: Tell her to get
on the boat.
Come on, let's go.
♪ ♪
(sputtering)
-DITA: Ho! Ho, ho!
-TAMI: What happened?
-JESSIE: You hit the pylon.
-TAMI: Nice.
JESSIE: No, you knocked
the tie line in the water.
Ah, we're screwed.
TAMI: Get it.
JESSIE: It ain't no getting it
right at this point.
-TAMI: Is it in there?
-JESSIE: Oh, yeah.
In the damn wheel.
TAMI: Damn it.
DITA: Oh, great.
JESSIE: Right now we're stuck
at the dock.
We can't afford to not be
out there fishing.
TAMI: Hey now, at least
we're at the dock,
and we're not 30 miles offshore
when it's blowing 50.
Stuff happens.
JESSIE: It shouldn't happen
like that.
-CAINE: Ready, Freddy?
-BRITTON: Ready.
CAINE: Setting 'em out.
BRITTON: This season
it's all coming down
to these last few days.
If we can catch a few fish,
we'd be the top boat
and turn this into one of
our best seasons ever.
CAINE: Pretty out here.
BRITTON:
Got these birds and all.
Marking a bunch of bait
on the bottom.
CAINE: Hopefully we come in
with three today.
Start with one, go to two,
and then three.
We got one on our
last trip out.
So I'm hoping we can keep it
going and grab a couple more.
Come on, now.
AUSTIN: Give me that bite.
There's not much time left
to get paid.
So we have to take advantage
of every day
we can get on the water.
BRITTON: Dang,
that's a pretty mark.
Ought to get a bite
out of that.
(reel unspooling slowly)
(reel unspooling)
-CAINE: Hey, hey! There he is!
-BRITTON: Got him on!
CAINE: Got him on, baby!
Coming to you live!
Taking her, baby,
he's taking her!
Please, please,
stay on the line!
BRITTON: I was just looking
back, and boom.
There he was.
CAINE: It's gonna be
a nice one, Britton.
Come on. We need you, baby
girl.
Alright, Caine-o.
We need him baby!
CAINE: You ain't lying,
brother.
BRITTON: We need it bad.
CAINE: Strong fish here, buddy.
This gonna be a nice one.
This here is four to
six grand, I'm hoping.
Swimming to me.
All right, Britton, he might be
trying to circle on us.
BRITTON: That's all right.
Keep pressure on him now!
Get him coming.
CAINE: All right, I see color.
Forward, Brit.
Slowly but steady.
This fish here's gonna be
my month's rent
and maybe even a night out
on the town with a special
someone.
AUSTIN: Hey, this is big.
CAINE: There's the shot!
(grunts)
-CAINE: Got him?
-AUSTIN: Yeah.
CAINE: Woo! Yeah, buddy!
All right, Britton,
we need you.
BRITTON: All right,
I got his tail.
Get a tail rope on him.
CAINE: Pretty work.
BRITTON: One, two, three.
-Pretty work, boy!
-AUSTIN: That's what
I'm talking about.
-BRITTON: All right!
-CAINE: Ah, we needed that
for morale, son.
-BRITTON: We needed that.
-CAINE: Golly.
BRITTON: 87.
Come on.
Pretty work.
AUSTIN: That's two fish
in two days.
That's great to see
on the boat.
-CAINE: Good job, gentlemen.
-AUSTIN: But it's even better
to see
how happy my dad and Caine are.
Now all we need to do is
catch a couple more.
BRITTON: Come on!
♪ ♪
DITA: Bart to the rescue!
TAMI: Diver's here.
We tried to fix this prop
for a couple hours.
We have to get a diver
to get this rope free.
DITA: Bart's known for
saving the day.
TAMI: He's gonna remove
the rope from the prop.
It's twisted around the shaft
and through the blades
of the prop.
DITA: It's frustrating.
We're all ready to go.
(crash)
Tami hit the pylon when we were
pulling out of the slip...
Ho! Ho, ho!
...and knocked the line
off the top of the pylon,
and it got sucked up
in the wheel.
It was a stupid mistake,
and it cost us time
on the water.
He's in!
TAMI: Get that knife
ready for him.
JESSIE: It's frustrating
knowing that other boats
are out there
catching and we're just
sitting around.
To turn things around,
we got to be at the top
of our game.
No more dumb mistakes.
What was it?
It was just wrapped around
the wheel a couple times.
DITA: All right.
Can we try this again?
TAMI: Yeah, I'm all right.
Everybody's all stressed out,
and it's frustrating.
It's little things like this
that can screw up
your whole day.
Bart, thank you, man.
We're gonna go
catch a fish, man.
We'll holler at you later.
We just got to make
the best of this
and get out there
and go fishing.
Let me start her up.
Clear!
JESSIE: We're clear!
DITA: Oh, man.
Never a dull moment.
NICK: I want a bluefin tuna.
BILLON: We got to seal the deal
today, baby.
NICK: We really need one,
but we need two.
We need three.
GREG: We're coming down
to the homestretch.
We're just behind the
Reels of Fortune in earnings,
and the guys in the Doghouse
are closing in fast.
There's no room for error.
It's time to put some meat
on the deck
and show everyone
who the best really is.
NICK: Big shark right there.
About 150, 200 yards out there,
right there behind us.
See it?
GREG: Oh, I see it. I got you.
NICK: We need to get
on the fish quick.
That means helping Greg
find any sign of a tuna.
GREG: Any sign of life is good.
NICK: We spotted some life
in this area.
Now we just need to hook one
and put it on the deck.
Water looks good.
Good color, good temperature.
Big shark just went by
the boat there.
Some life. Life, man.
Any life is good life.
(beeping)
-GREG: Here they are!
-NICK: You marking 'em?
GREG: Yeah, there's one
down at 30.
BILLON: Tell him to come on up.
NICK: Come on, baby.
(beeping)
GREG: There's one at 15.
NICK: Come on, fish.
(beeping)
GREG: Oh, God,
the mark is here.
BILLON: Hurry up and wait,
hurry up and wait.
NICK: I swear it smells
like fish now.
(reel unspooling slowly)
-(reel unspooling)
-Long rigger!
-NICK: There he is!
-BILLON: There he is!
NICK: Long rigger, got him on!
BILLON: Screaming, baby.
NICK: There he is, right here.
Long rigger.
-BILLON: Long rigger.
-NICK: We're on, baby! Woo-hoo!
Damn, that's a big
son of a bitch.
Bluefin bonanza!
BILLON: Ready for me?
NICK: Yeah.
Take over.
NICK: Let's go, let's go!
Come on, let's go!
GREG: When the fish is closer,
just back the drag down.
-You know what I mean, Billon?
-BILLON: Yeah.
We're a little bit behind
the Reels of Fortune,
but we're hooked up, we got
a big fish on the line.
Things are looking real good.
We're coming for you, Griff!
He took a lot of drag.
GREG: Okay, you can go to
the other side if you want.
Back that drag down some more.
Make it easy.
That's the bend.
That's what we want.
Oh, yeah. Woo!
NICK: Ready, Billon?
Take over a second.
BILLON: All right.
♪ ♪
There's the leader.
There's the fish right there.
GREG: Yeah-ha-ha!
Woo-hoo!
That's a big bastard.
Don't lose him.
Swing it right to me.
Swing it right to the stern
now.
All right, keep it walking.
BILLON: He's coming.
GREG: Go, go, go, go, go.
Just straight up sea.
Keep going up.
BILLON: Don't like that
head shaking now.
GREG: I don't like that
kicking, either.
BILLON: When these fish are
acting funny like this,
it's easier to lose them.
Damn, now he's going
back across it!
GREG: I don't like to see that.
Make sure you keep
that line tight.
You let that line go slack,
you're gonna pull a hook.
BILLON: Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
♪ ♪
NICK: There's the leader.
There's the fish right there.
-GREG: Yeah-ha-ha!
-BILLON: Woo-hoo!
GREG: That's a big bastard.
Don't lose him!
Swing it around to me.
Swing it right to
the stern now.
BILLON: Don't like that
head shaking now.
GREG: I don't like
that kicking, either.
He's not acting right.
BILLON: Damn, now he's going
back across it.
-(snaps)
-Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
Damn!
GREG: There it is, he got away.
Sucks!
BILLON: The fish was
fighting hard,
and before you knew it,
it pulled the hook.
But that's fishing,
it's not a sure thing
until you've got them
on the deck.
Just got to keep at it.
GREG: We had a bite on the
long rigger, just popped down.
Bottom line was we had a bite,
we did not get him.
Let's go back to work.
♪ ♪
-BRITTON: Lucas!
-LUCAS: Good to see ya!
-What do you got today, Britt?
-BRITTON: We got one.
LUCAS: You know, it looks
pretty good from here,
let's check it out.
BRITTON: With time running out,
it's great to be able to put
a fish on the dock.
If we get top dollar
for this fish,
it's gonna put a lot of
pressure on the boats
ahead of us.
Suspense is killing me.
-What do you got, Lucas?
-LUCAS: 312.
BRITTON: Dag!
CAINE: Got her, cuz!
Got her, got her!
LUCAS: All right, guys, we'll
check out the quality here.
CAINE: Check her out, cuz!
BRITTON: I'm really hoping for
as close to $20 a pound
as I can get for this fish.
It's all gonna come down to how
the buyer figures the color,
quality of the meat
and the fat content.
Ali right, so what's the
verdict?
LUCAS: You actually do have
some oil and fat
in this fish here,
as you can see.
-BRITTON: Good, good, good!
-LUCAS: It's not bad at all.
The core's a little bit light.
BRITTON: What do you think?
Talk to me.
LUCAS: Compared to all
the other fish I've seen today,
this does stand out
a little bit more.
It does have more fat,
so with that being said...
♪ ♪
Call it 16 a pound.
-BRITTON: We'll take it.
-CAINE: Good enough!
-BRITTON: Yes, sir!
-CAINE: Yes, sir!
LUCAS: Keep you guys going.
CAINE: Late in the game,
we'll take her.
BRITTON: That's all right.
Late in the game.
We wanted a little more
for this fish,
but $5,000 is a nice paycheck.
If we can get back out there
and get on a nice run,
we have as good a chance
as anyone to finish on top.
CAINE: See y'all tomorrow
hopefully.
BRITTON: Good Lord willing,
we'll see you tomorrow.
NARRATOR: With only four days
of fishing left
till the season closes,
Doghouse's payday edges them
closer to the fleet's leaders,
Reels of Fortune
and Fishin' Frenzy.
TAMI: Got to catch a fish.
We're gonna stay all night,
fish tomorrow.
It's hard to work
when things are like this.
All of us are in a foul mood
every day.
And we just have
to keep going strong
and hope that there's gonna be
something better
that comes out of it.
Long day.
I just want to sleep tonight.
DITA: Yup.
Yeah, I'm ready to be done too.
JESSIE: Y'all go to sleep,
I got it for a while.
Uhhh.
DITA: All right.
JESSIE: Every year,
chase bluefin,
and it, and it's been
a fun part of it,
and always been able to catch
lots of fish, you know,
it's, it's disappointing,
ain't no doubt about it.
Before the season started
Tami told me a lot of things
about her bluefin experience
and her time behind the wheel.
And now I know it was all
a big lie.
I thought when somebody
told me something
they would tell me the truth,
but it's another, you know,
life-learning experience,
I guess.
(laughs)
If I tell somebody that
I've done something
or I know how to do something,
then that's, you know,
it is what it is.
But unfortunately
it hasn't been that way.
I think she's way over her
head, ain't no doubt.
I mean, just as...
just way over her head.
♪ ♪
CHARLIE: The bridge is
our biggest obstacle
as of this moment.
Even at this point in the
season
I still get nervous going
through the bridge.
It's the same bridge that
already took us out
once this season.
(crash)
But with this season closing
in less than four days,
we can't let anything stop us
from getting out there
and going fishing.
It's a bad, bad, bad deal
right now.
Look at all this snow and ice
on the boat, you know.
That ain't good.
CHARLIE: This time of the year
with the water
being as cold as it is,
it's dangerous.
If that boat rolls over,
fills up with water,
and we have to get in
that water,
the chances of us surviving
are not really good.
That scares the hell out of me.
That water in there is
about 36 degrees.
You do not live long
in 36-degree water.
Damn, it's low.
See all this water here
has gotten shallow.
It's a lot lower than
it was yesterday
when we came through here.
Got me a little nervous.
Right now we're the top-earning
boat in the fleet,
and to keep earning we have
to stay out on the water
and out of the boatyard.
Ugh! Jake, my friend,
that's low, bud.
That's low, low.
Oh, man.
All right, Jake, you ready?
Here we go, bud.
Say a prayer.
♪ ♪
We went through there sideways.
(crash, bleep)
CHARLIE: Call the Coast Guard!
Call the Coast Guard for me,
I'm in a jam.
Watch out! Damn it!
CHARLIE: Jake, that's low, bud.
That's low, low.
Alrighty, here we go, bud.
Say a prayer.
♪ ♪
We went through there sideways.
(crash, bleep)
CHARLIE: Talk to me, son.
JAKE: Agh!
CHARLIE: Talk to me.
Call the Coast Guard.
Call the Coast Guard for me,
I'm in jam.
Watch out! Damn it!
Get out of the way, bud!
Jake, get me out of gear!
Oh, son, oh, son, oh, son!
She's gonna get sideways
here now.
Watch out, buddy.
JAKE: She's hung up, bud.
She's hung up.
(bleep), man!
If we roll over in this water,
we're done.
CHARLIE: Careful, Jake,
that water's freezing.
She's pullin' her way up.
JAKE: Keep her going,
keep her going.
There it is, bud,
keep her going.
There you go. She's levelled
up. She's levelled up.
CHARLIE: We're clear.
Thank you, Lord, we made it.
That, my friend, sucked.
Two different occasions
I almost lost my boat.
JAKE: You lose your whole boat,
that's your whole livelihood.
That's everything that
you've built up for.
We could have lost it all
within a couple seconds.
CHARLIE: I thought I'd lost her
there, bud.
Damn, that scares me.
TJ: We're bite chasers today.
The strategy today is gonna be
tackle the guy
-with the ball.
-(laughs)
If we hear someone's marking
or someone's getting bit,
we're bee lining right for 'em.
Right now the clock is ticking.
Whoever's on the meat
is getting mugged today.
(laughs)
There's less than four days
left in the season,
but you know what?
There's still time
to salvage it,
and I'm not gonna throw
the towel in just yet.
-Hey, see if we have
a fresh coil of 180.
-JARRETT: Yeah, yeah.
TJ: It's definitely possible
we can go on a run
in the next couple days
and finish out this
terrible season strong.
What are you cooking, Bubba?
MIKE: Got some nice
prime rib burgers,
some smoked gouda
and some guacamole.
Should be good.
TJ: Nice.
MIKE: Looking good right now.
TJ: Michael's grilling
some burgers,
Jarrett's doing some ballyhoo
rigging back there,
it is a nice day to be out
on the water doing
what we love.
JARRETT: When the season ends,
we don't get paid anymore.
It's now or never.
We have to make
every second count.
There is no room for mistakes.
TJ: Now we just need to get
some meat on board.
That's the name of the game
right now.
We really need to get out there
and get some meat.
-MIKE: Perfect.
-TJ: Oh, yes.
JARRETT: I'm not quite sure
how all the other boats work,
but we do it right
on the Hot Tuna.
MIKE: That's nice.
TJ: Very good.
-Good job, Bubby.
-MIKE: You're welcome.
-TYLER: Ready to set out?
-PAUL: Oh, yeah.
We're gonna get a big bastard.
(laughs)
TYLER: Time is running out
fast here,
so I'm hoping that in the last
few days of fishing
we can add to what
we've already earned
by landing a couple
big, fat bluefin.
PAUL: This is our time
right now.
It's the homestretch.
I'm anxious to make a paycheck
so I can go home
and feed my daughter.
Why we come here,
so we can make some money,
so we can go home and
support our families.
Make some adjustments
and we'll be good.
(beeping)
TYLER: Woo!
Aw, just picking up
the mark now.
-PAUL: Yeah.
-TYLER: Yup.
-(beeping)
-TYLER: That's the mark,
nice, dense mark.
(beeping)
Oh, we're gonna go off!
Get ready, get ready,
get ready, get ready,
get ready.
Pauly, look at that mark.
-(beeping)
-PAUL: Yeah, oh, yeah.
(reel unspooling slowly)
TYLER: Woo, get ready.
-(reel unspooling)
-We're on!
-Got him on!
-PAUL: Oh, yeah!
TYLER: You can get him at
the boat in here, you can bump.
PAUL: Here we go, here we go.
Yeah, just spin me around.
♪ ♪
Color!
We got color.
Paul, is it a bluefin?
Maybe, yeah.
Paul, I don't know what it is!
PAUL: Color!
We got color.
Paul, I don't know what it is!
TYLER: Oh!
We got a billfish!
TYLER: Pinwheel's
first billfish!
Kill it later, catch it later!
Ahhh, we got him in the boat!
It's a sail!
-PAUL: Watch out!
-TYLER: Ah, he stabbed me!
PAUL: Watch out! Look out!
TYLER: Stabbed me!
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Stop!
PAUL: All right,
get him out of here.
(laughs)
TYLER: Yeah, run!
Woo!
Fish like this are always
caught and released,
'cause it has no
financial value.
We don't have time to mess
around with fish like these.
Bluefin are what pay the bills,
so we're gonna put
the lines back out
and try and catch one of those.
PAUL: We just caught
a sailfish, and we threw him
back over,
got the hook out of him,
let him go.
We tried to wrestle him
around the boat.
(laughs)
He went crazy.
TYLER: When you're a fisherman,
it's all
about just catching fish.
BILLON: Could be a good day,
could be a bad day.
GREG: There they are,
up ahead of us.
Up on top here.
(beeping)
Right under my damn bow.
BILLON: Come on, come on.
GREG: Sitting here looking at
the machine and looking back,
and here they are.
Today we're looking
to bounce back
after a tough day yesterday.
We lost a nice fish at the boat
right after Doghouse
caught theirs.
That puts even more
pressure on us.
So we really need to land
a fish today.
NICK: You ought to get a bite.
BILLON: Anytime now.
(beeping)
GREG: Here they are again.
NICK: Come on, baby.
(beeping)
GREG: Target-rich environment.
(beeping)
(reel unspooling slowly)
-(beeping)
-(reel unspooling)
NICK: We're on!
GREG: There he is.
BILLON: He's taking a little
bit of line.
We're just trying to
get situated on it.
Move it back
to the back holder!
BILLON: Coming to you.
If we can hang on to him,
and he's big enough,
he'll be number ten.
GREG: Be nice to be
in double digits.
NICK: Feels like
a good one, man.
Taking some drag here.
GREG: Everything can
go wrong, and only one thing
can go right.
Hopefully everything
holds together here,
and we catch this fish.
CAINE: Frenzy's hooked up,
he just hooked up.
BRITTON: Oh, man,
he's got him on.
We look over,
Frenzy's hooked up.
If they put that one
on the deck,
it's going to make it
that much harder for us
to get ahead of 'em.
-CAINE: Son of a...
-BRITTON: The good news
is that they're biting
around here,
so we're in a good spot.
(beeping)
Look at that.
Dang, that's a pretty mark.
(beeping)
All right, guys, I got a good
mark. Look lively.
-CAINE: Marking some
big'uns, baby.
-AUSTIN: Love it, baby.
Come on, now we're just,
we're just waiting now.
It's just a waiting game.
(beeping)
CAINE: Come on, bite the hook.
AUSTIN: We need you now.
Come on.
BRITTON: We need a bite.
(beeping)
(reel unspooling slowly)
-(reel unspooling)
-Got him on, bro!
Woo!
Got him on!
CAINE: Go ahead.
BRITTON: Hey, come on now,
baby!
CAINE: Yee-haw!
AUSTIN: What's it feel like,
Caine?
CAINE: Going like
a bat out of hell
to put loads and loads of line
from the get-go.
This'll make our season.
GREG: Crank on it, Bub.
Crank on it!
Crank, crank, crank!
There you go!
-NICK: Ready?
-BILLON: Yeah.
GREG: We've got a tuna on
right here, number ten.
I think this fish here
is gonna be a keeper.
NICK: I think it's gonna be
a mid-80s bluefin.
I'm hoping so.
You can tell mid-80s,
'cause he'll have leg warmers
and a silk bandana,
some (bleep) like that.
(laughs)
-GREG: Oh, boy.
-NICK: He'll be singing
some Thriller.
(laughs)
GREG: Moonwalking down there.
-BILLON: All right, Nick,
you ready?
-NICK: Yeah, buddy.
GREG: Looks like he's
coming up here.
-NICK: There he is.
-BILLON: Got color.
CAINE: Got color.
Hell yeah.
BRITTON: You got
that dart ready?
Comes back around here,
now throw that dart.
♪ ♪
BILLON: Come on, baby,
there's your swivel.
BRITTON: All right, there's
your leader right there.
GREG: Come on, baby.
BILLON: Come up on top.
Nice fish.
NICK: My left side. Here.
GREG: Come on, baby, come on,
baby, come on.
NICK: Bring him right to you,
just like that.
GREG: Oh, yes, baby.
NICK: Get the gaffer tape.
GREG: To his right.
-NICK: Got him.
-GREG: Get him cleated?
NICK: Ha ha! Woo!
Number ten!
GREG: Double digits, baby!
CAINE: This is it, boys,
come on.
♪ ♪
BRITTON: There's the shot!
There's the shot!
-AUSTIN: I missed it.
-BRITTON: What happened, huh?
CAINE: Austin missed the fish.
Ah, I just don't want that fish
to go under the boat.
-BRITTON: Oh, ho, ho, ho!
-CAINE: Going under the boat.
CAINE: This is it boys,
come on.
BRITTON: There's the shot!
There's the shot!
-AUSTIN: I missed him.
-BRITTON: What happened, huh?
CAINE: Austin missed the fish.
It's going under the boat.
-BRITTON: Oh, ho, ho, ho!
-(snap)
-CAINE: We just lost
another one.
-BRITTON: Did she come off?
CAINE: We lost him, Britt.
(sighs)
Cannot believe it.
AUSTIN: After I missed
the dart throw,
the fish swam under the boat
and sheered the line.
With less than four days
of fishing left,
this could've been our last
chance to land a paycheck.
CAINE: Had it on there, anyway,
no (bleep) fish.
BRITTON: Austin's throw was
pretty disappointing.
He's come a long way, but
he still has a long way to go
if he's gonna be
a tuna fisherman.
CAINE: The way our season's
going, ain't it?
If it weren't for bad luck,
we wouldn't have any at all.
-NICK: Ready?
-GREG: All right, go.
-GREG: Woo-hoo!
-BILLON: Pretty work,
pretty work.
GREG: Alright, let's see
what we got here.
NICK: Gonna be 85-incher.
-BILLON: 85.
-GREG: Nice, 85 inches.
NICK: We just got this fish
on the boat,
this is a nice, big,
fat bluefin,
feeling really good,
'cause this should put us
back on top.
Good job, everybody,
that's perfect, man.
GREG: That's a damn
good year in anyone's book.
Double digits?
I'm pumped. Woo!
BILLON: We'll see what
we can get for him.
♪ ♪
LUCAS: What do you got today?
GREG: Got a nice 85-incher
for you.
-Glad to have him.
-LUCAS: Let's check it out.
GREG: We were just behind
Reels of Fortune yesterday,
and I know they didn't
catch one today,
so this fish should put us
right on top where we belong.
LUCAS: Got a good shape.
♪ ♪
Let's see what it weighs.
GREG: What's it weigh?
LUCAS: 344.
GREG: Not bad for an 85-incher.
Coming down to the end
of the season,
that's gonna be
one of our last ones,
let's see what we got here.
Like to have some good quality
if we can get it.
How's she look?
LUCAS: Not bad.
-GREG: Looks like
she got some fat.
-LUCAS: Little bit.
Yeah, color's good inside.
Tail color's okay.
GREG: So, what do you think?
What's that fish gonna be
worth, Lucas?
LUCAS: $14 a pound.
-NICK: 14?
-GREG: 14?
GREG: We'll take it,
that's about four grand.
-NICK: Yeah, all right.
-GREG: That's right.
GREG: Well, we're gonna do it
again tomorrow, I hope.
LUCAS: All right, guys,
thank you.
BILLON: Thank you, guys.
GREG: If we can keep
catching fish like this,
no one will catch us.
NARRATOR: With only three more
days of fishing
till the season closes,
Fishin' Frenzy's payday
launches
them back into the top spot
with an almost four-grand lead
over family operation
Reels of Fortune.
♪ ♪
TAMI: I like this water
right here.
Sixty-seven degrees right here,
Jess.
JESSIE: Good.
In the last couple days
Doghouse caught one
and so did Frenzy,
meanwhile we just been
sitting around
watching our squids
bounce on the water,
praying for some action.
TAMI: I want to be
reeling a fish.
We've been fishing in
really rough conditions.
We've had long days,
long hours,
not much payoff,
and I know everybody's
getting stressed out.
When it all comes down
to it, it's just the way
the game goes.
Sometimes you're on 'em,
sometimes you're not.
It's fishing.
(beeping)
Okay, that looks like a mark,
jig on it.
Jig on it.
The best thing that can happen
is you can put a fish
on the deck.
That just makes all
the stress go away.
(beeping)
JESSIE: God, man,
we're going too fast,
we're gonna break it off.
DITA: Slow down, man.
I'm only going five knots.
DITA: Speed racer.
TAMI: (bleep), gosh.
DITA: It's like a racetrack,
we're going,
nrrr, nrrr, nrrr, nrrr!
Nobody can tell her nothing.
I mean, she just acts like
she knows everything,
you know, and it's just,
it's like beating your head
against the wall.
The bird's sideways.
JESSIE: Yeah.
We break that bird off,
we're totally done.
Don't got another bird.
DITA: Ugh, we ain't gonna
catch a fish, ain't no way.
Going too fast, can't tell her
nothing, she knows it all.
Hey.
JESSIE: I think we lost
the ball.
DITA: I don't see it.
JESSIE: You probably need
to pull that in
and put another ball on it,
'cause it broke the ball off.
DITA: Can you just slow down?
Just slow down,
that's all you got to do.
Gone. Gone, gone, gone.
JESSIE: It's 800-pound test.
How can't we keep the ball
on the damn stick?
That's what I want to know.
DITA: Me and Jessie
are tying on
another poly ball
because Tami can't listen
to one word
that we got to say.
-JESSIE: Go!
-DITA: Anytime you're ready.
JESSIE: All right.
It is what it is.
If you're gonna go
100 miles an hour,
it's gonna come off
every now and then.
DITA: We're just going
too fast.
-TAMI: What?
-DITA: We're going too fast!
Dita, I don't even have 'em up
-DITA: I don't mean
right this second!
-Look! Look! Look!
I don't mean right this second!
I was only going four knots.
I was going four knots.
DITA: When we're trolling,
we're going too fast!
Going four knots!
-I don't care what
the numbers are!
-Four knots!
The baits are not staying
in the water, Captain!
Four knots, Dita!
-DITA: Shut the (bleep) up
and put it in gear!
-TAMI: No, (bleep) you!
-DITA: Put it in gear!
-TAMI: (bleep) you!
DITA: Let's (bleep)
catch a fish.
Regardless and you're
(bleep) clueless.
TAMI: Dita, (bleep) four knots!
DITA: Shut the (bleep) up
and drive the boat!
TAMI: No, you shut
the (bleep) up!
DITA: Shut up!
She doesn't know (bleep)!
(bleep)
DITA: And she knows it!
All talk!
That's all (bleep)
hot air talk!
I've drived over more fish
than any of you seen.
-DITA: Shut up!
-TAMI: (bleep) you!
JESSIE: Oh, stop!
Stop! Stop! Stop!
TAMI: Oh, stop.
JESSIE: Like reverse
would be nice.
Pull it in! Let's go home!
I'm over it!
DITA: I'm over your ass.
-(bleep)
-Workin' my ass off in here!
DITA: Shut up!
I'm over it! I'm over it!
You hear me?
CHARLIE: Gonna be another one
of those days, son!
A lot of birds around here.
Tell you what let's do,
let's, let's set out.
It's gonna be full metal jacket
today, I'm afraid.
Right now we're doing good,
but Frenzy and Doghouse
both have caught some fish
the last couple of days.
So, that's just more
pressure on me.
We need to get to work,
need to catch some fish.
It's been tough, very tough.
One obstacle after another just
you know, weather, the bridge,
the inlet, but just gonna have
to keep plugging along.
It's gonna be right down
to the wire, you know?
JAKE: Got a limited
amount of days.
A limited amount of fish
that can be caught.
And we, we need a paycheck,
so we're here.
CHARLIE: Come on, baby,
come on, baby, come on.
All right, get ready.
Oh, come on, please.
Please, please, please.
Today has got to be the day.
Son, watch your stuff.
(beeping)
Oh, my God, that's them, bud,
that's gonna be them.
(beeping)
JAKE: Come on! Come on,
get after it.
-(beeping)
-CHARLIE: Big mark, son!
I'm telling you,
this is the meat.
Jig it, Jake! Jig it!
Get it.
There he is!
JAKE: Got him! Got him!
CHARLIE: Got one on.
Watch out, Renegade.
That's a big boy there now.
CHARLIE: It look like
a decent one, son?
Yeah, definitely a big haul
on it.
That fish grabbed that
stick bait and he took it hard.
He broke the breakaway
with power.
We gotta get this fish up there
and get him on the deck.
CHARLIE: What do you got
all that about?
I'm gettin' the hose
out of my way, man.
That's what that is about.
CHARLIE: All right, watch,
watch yourself there.
Oh, God, dude. You're being
such a bitch today, dude.
CHARLIE: I'm just so damn
scared of everything now,
you know, we've had
some hard luck,
you know, with hooks breaking
and just crazy stuff,
-you know, just really scared.
-JAKE: Yeah.
CHARLIE: It's ridiculous,
I mean,
I was hoping this wasn't
gonna be the case.
This season was probably
the toughest, you know,
having to deal with the bridge,
having to deal with the shoals.
We've had all kinds
of bad luck.
After almost losing my boat
yesterday, my God, man,
I hope we get this one
so I can relax a little bit.
Scares me 'cause it was such
a big mark, you know?
-CHARLIE: See anything yet?
-JAKE: Not yet.
-CHARLIE: Huh?
-JAKE: Not yet!
CHARLIE: Okay.
(reel unspools)
Jake! Jake! Jake!
Help me, son! Hurry!
-CHARLIE: We've got one on!
-(reel unspools)
Jake! Jake! Jake! Help me, son!
Hurry!
It just jumped off,
the wind blew it, bud.
JAKE: Calm down, man,
it's all right.
My dad is driving me nuts
right now.
I know we've had some bad luck,
but this is getting ridiculous.
We need to get this fish
on board
so he can calm down
and stop acting crazy.
CHARLIE: Is he pulling
pretty hard?
I mean, I might be able
to get him to the next one...
in a second.
CHARLIE: Come on, baby!
Come on, baby, stay on there.
Please, stay on there.
Got color.
That's a nice one there now.
CHARLIE: Help it along, Jake,
pull that thing up there now.
Pull him up there!
-Be careful.
-JAKE: Oh.
CHARLIE:
Don't lose him now, boy!
Stick him! Stick his ass!
CHARLIE: Got him, baby!
It's close enough, ain't it?
-Ready?
-One, two, three!
(groans)
He's gonna make it.
CHARLIE: Got him!
JAKE: That right there,
that's what we need, bud!
CHARLIE: 75!
Woo, all right, man.
He ain't a monster...
but we needed that one, bud.
-CHARLIE: Golly gee!
-Ain't very long
but he's got some
fat to him, man.
Maybe that thing will be worth
some money.
CHARLIE: Oh, my God.
The last couple of days
have been tough.
I really thought we had
a dark cloud over us.
But getting this fish
takes all that away.
I can't even tell you
how good it feels
to have this one on deck.
JAKE: But I mean,
there's potential there
for a couple
thousand-dollar fish.
So, we'll take it.
Yes, sir, every day, all day.
♪ ♪
TAMI: I'm over it, man.
I'm pissed.
When situations get
out of control on the boat,
you just got to put
your foot down.
Everybody loses their temper,
but it's my job to just get
everybody back in check.
Let's go!
JESSIE: Back a little bit
further.
TAMI: We got to have
the bowlines first.
That's as good as
it's gonna get.
Reach around that thing.
Rocket science.
JESSIE: We can't use
your spring line.
TAMI: Tie it.
We ain't gonna be able
to get off the boat
-if you pull it anymore.
-DITA: Okay.
TAMI: Tie it when I get back
to the stern.
DITA: You don't just stand back
there and (bleep) yell
when you don't know
what's going on.
TAMI: Right there! Tie it up!
JESSIE: Tension's been building
each day
we come home without a fish
and without a paycheck.
It finally came to a head
out there today
with Dita and Tami
screaming at each other.
I just don't know where
we're gonna go from here.
DITA: See, when you're,
when you're backing in
and you're in the cabin,
you can't hear us and
we can't hear you.
TAMI: I should not tell you
how to tie up a (bleep) boat.
-DITA: Run your (bleep) mouth.
-TAMI: No, I'm serious!
DITA: You're running
your (bleep) mouth.
You can shut up!
TAMI: You ought to know
how to tie the boat!
DITA: I know how to tie
the boat off!
TAMI: Well, then do it!
JESSIE: Come on, stop, y'all.
There's people around.
-DITA: Of course you...
-TAMI: I'm not (bleep).
DITA: Then shut up!
TAMI: Ooh.
Oh!
At the end of the day,
everybody knows that the end
of the season
is right up on us.
We just have to get it together
and get it done.
I don't care, really.
Let's get out of here.
♪ ♪
CHARLIE: We had some bad luck,
but we had some
good luck as well,
and we're lucky enough
to catch a, catch a good one.
BUYER: Alright, Charlie,
let's get this fish out
and see what we got here.
I got a truck standing by
right now
that goes straight
to the airport.
CHARLIE: Good deal, good, good.
After almost losing my boat
again the other day,
it feels great that we're
getting another paycheck
rather than a yard bill.
And if this fish puts us
back on top of Frenzy,
that'd be awesome.
Not the biggest one
we've caught,
but hopefully it'll be
a good one, Jake.
♪ ♪
BUYER: 215.
CHARLIE: That's a lot bigger
than I thought it was gonna be.
-JAKE: Yeah, it is.
-CHARLIE: That's good, man.
BUYER: Let's take a look
and let's see what we got.
Nice, look at that cherry core.
CHARLIE: Good.
BUYER: Beaming out red,
nice clarity.
CHARLIE: That might be the best
color I've ever seen on one.
BUYER: Nice, fat fish,
you can see the fat fanning out
through the major lobes here.
Buttery meat in the minor lobes
and skin here.
Good fish for Sendai Market
in Japan.
They like small fish like this
with some fat.
CHARLIE: Well,
what do you think?
-BUYER: $18 a pound for that.
-JAKE: Daggone, man.
CHARLIE: Man, that's awesome.
Thank you, bud, thanks.
BUYER: Nice job, you guys did
a nice job with the fish.
JAKE: This wasn't
the biggest fish,
but we got a good price and
a nice paycheck for it.
We're definitely happy
with this one.
CHARLIE: Renegade,
see what you think?
JAKE: What do you think
about that one?
BUYER: He says it's excellent.
CHARLIE: That dog knows
good tuna!
The end of the season
is upon us.
We need to get back out there
and get a few more fish
while we still can.
All right, guys, let's go get
some fuel and ice,
we're getting ready to go
fishing again.
NARRATOR: With less than
three days of fishing left
till the season closes,
Reels of Fortune's
good quality fish pushes them
back into the top spot.
But they've got only
a miniscule lead over
last season's champion,
Fishin' Frenzy.
♪ ♪
GREG: We're coming down to
the homestretch of the season.
CHARLIE: We're running
out of time,
so we need to fish
every day we can fish.
We need to catch a handful more
just so we can pay the bills.
BRITTON: There's no next month,
there's no next week.
It's all coming down to
these last few days.
TJ: When the season's over,
there's no more opportunity
to make money,
we've got to make hay
while the sun shines.
TYLER: It's not at all where
I wanted to be at this point.
So I got to capitalize
on these last few days
and put some fish
across the dock.
BRITTON: This is how
I make my living,
this is how I support my
family.
We have to finish strong.
GREG: We've got to get
the job done.
It's now or never.
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