Wicked Tuna: North vs. South (2014–…): Season 8, Episode 8 - Hog Tied - full transcript
ZACK: Fish on, baby!
ERIC: Crank. Got him on.
NARRATOR: Halfway through the season...
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Fish on!
- ERIC: Yeah!
NARRATOR: Seasoned vets have traded places
at the top of the leaderboard...
BOBBY: We broke our ass
to be in the lead.
NARRATOR: While the newest captain
has struggled to keep pace.
JIMMIE: We've got to get
a bite really, really soon.
I do not want to lose.
NARRATOR: On this episode...
JOHN-MICHAEL: Deep color! Hold on!
GREG: Hold on, boys.
NARRATOR: The Hog Wild...
GREG: Yeah, yeah.
NARRATOR: Changes the game.
JIMMIE: Oh, baby. We need this one.
NARRATOR: And shows the fleet...
ADAM: Jimmie just hooked up.
NARRATOR: They're not here to play.
JIMMIE: Ah! Ah!
NARRATOR: On Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks.
JIMMIE:
Just because I'm young doesn't mean
they don't have to look out for me.
(dramatic music)
NARRATOR: Reel E' Bugging leads the fleet,
but Offshore Outlaw and Doghouse
remain close behind.
Meanwhile, with only $51 separating them,
Hog Wild and Little Shell
are neck and neck for last place.
JIMMIE: It's bluefin season,
so...here we go.
SINGER: ♪ Oh, child do you see? ♪
♪ There's trouble in the water ♪
JIMMIE: Going across
the bar here in just a minute.
(scream)
SINGER: ♪ I ain't seen the light of day ♪
JIMMIE: Hang on.
SINGER: ♪ Stepped out the boat
but I'm sinking in the water ♪
JIMMIE: You know,
growing up, I've been fishing
ever since I was five years old.
I've been going with my dad.
I'd ride with him every day.
Still kind of trying to prove myself.
It's the big leagues.
Here I am competing
with everybody I've learned from,
everybody I've listened to,
everybody I've looked up to.
We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it.
Us and the Little Shell
are tied up for last place,
but I've got to get out here
and show these guys
I've got what it takes to be
the best boat in this fleet.
We made it! We made it!
SINGER: ♪ Feel like I'm 'bout to,
feel like I'm 'bout to drown ♪
JIMMIE: We made it!
This could be the turning point
for the Hog Wild
where we start climbing the ladder
like we need to.
I mean, at least we don't
have to worry about Bobby.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
BOBBY: We got issues, man.
We got big issues.
I told Drew to fire up the engines.
Port engine wouldn't even turn over.
We broke our ass to be in the lead.
We can't afford to be down,
you know, two days, two hours.
DREW: Wow. Big water.
That's not good. That's not good.
BOBBY: I mean, I just need to know
what the hell's wrong,
fix it, and go fishing.
BRIAN: This was the year we were
supposed to not have boat problems.
BOBBY: I'm pissed 'cause
everyone's back out there again today.
And we can only hope these guys
don't catch some good ones
while we're off the water.
♪ ♪
BRITTON: It's almost time
for the evening bite.
With one less boat on the water,
if there was ever an opportunity
to catapult ahead, it's right now.
I have not heard of any bites.
Everybody's just kind of getting
on scene here now.
We got the Outlaw, the Rasta Rocket,
the Little Shell.
There's Hog Wild.
We're halfway through bluefin season,
so it's now or never for Jimmie.
He's been fishing with his dad
since he was a little kid.
I mean, we can hear him
on the radio talking about it,
jumping, you know,
"I think it's a 500-pounder!"
And he's been excited
about it all of his life.
He's going to be an excellent captain,
but at this point, he's just
not quite experienced enough
to be competitive.
JIMMIE: We really got to get
on a roll here soon.
We really got to make sure
we get one ASAP here.
We're down a man today.
Ellis, he's just got
some family things he had
to get taken care of.
The odds are stacked against us
with one less mate.
But me and Trey,
we've been fishing together
for a long time.
We've got what it takes.
We're right here back where
we caught our last fish.
It's been a few days,
but conditions don't seem to have
changed a whole lot,
so that's always good news.
Feeling really, really,
really good about it,
but the anticipation is
way too high sometimes.
Oh, we just need one.
ADAM: It's about to pop off.
This evening bite!
Right now is prime time.
(radar beeping)
NICK: There's a Single A boomerang.
15 fathoms.
- BRANDAN: How many fathoms?
- NICK: 15.
BRANDAN: We can catch that one.
BRITTON: Ooh, a very nice mark.
It's a mark right there.
(beeping)
ADAM:
I got my bibs on already.
That's how good I feel about it.
If I'm not feeling it,
I won't put my bibs on.
ZACK: Say yeah, puppy.
Go ahead and put that luck
all on this reel for us,
'cause we need it today, babe.
JIMMIE:
Just any (bleep) second,
I'm just--it's like I'm on pins
and (bleep) needles
- I'm like--
-(beeping)
(rod creaking)
JOHN-MICHAEL: Here we go.
Crank! Got 'em on!
ADAM: Got him?
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Fish on!
- ADAM: Yes!
All right, we got something on right here.
501.
NICK: They just hooked something
right there at Offshore Outlaw.
CLIFF: The Offshore Outlaw
is fighting one.
BRANDAN: We're getting close.
JIMMIE:
Outlaw's got something on.
Can't let him start climbing ahead again.
DANIEL: Good for them.
ZACK: Yup, good for them.
Maybe we've got to say
a prayer to get a bite.
(organ gospel music)
Tuna gods, we pray to you
from the Rasta Rocket.
Please give us a tuna bite
so we can go home.
In the tuna gods' name, we pray. Amen.
(dramatic music)
ADAM:
We got the right fish on now.
All we got to do is
cross our fingers and say a prayer
and pray we land this fish.
ERIC: About 10 more feet
going in the backing.
Here comes the swivel.
There he goes. Oh.
He's in the mud right now.
Oh.
Been up here fishing
for a lot of weeks now.
A lot of bad weather.
Fishing's been real tough.
We're about to eat ice cubes
on white bread if we don't get this fish.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Hold on. Big waves.
ERIC: Fish is coming up.
JOHN-MICHAEL:
Coming up top. Color.
ERIC: Fish is right here.
JOHN-MICHAEL:
He's definitely big enough.
ERIC: He's tired though.
We got him in a big pinwheel right now.
We just need to tighten him up.
ADAM: Right now,
we're right at the endgame.
One half second slip-up,
this fish is gone.
Hold on.
Whoo!
Getting ready to quit
right here in just a second.
- Look, he's coming up.
- ERIC: Here.
(Adam laughs)
JOHN-MICHAEL: Deep color!
Hold on! Forward!
(dog barking)
ERIC:
Straight under the boat.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Forward! Forward!
ADAM: Just keep yelling.
If you yell, I can hear you.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Forward!
ERIC: Now he's coming up
like he's supposed to.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Coming up.
Coming up top. Big pinwheel.
ADAM: Get ready, Eric.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Forward.
ERIC: A little bump.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Swivel.
Just come on the rod tip.
Swivel. Just come on the rod tip.
ERIC: Bring him to me, John.
Bring him to me, John.
Bring him to me.
Ooh. Bring him to me, John.
ADAM: Come on, bring him up, John!
Bring him up!
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Bring him up, John!
- ADAM: Right here! Seal the deal!
JOHN-MICHAEL: Stick him! Stick him!
- Put him on!
- ADAM: Yeah, we got him.
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Got him.
- ADAM: Pretty shot, Eric.
JOHN-MICHAEL: All right, here he comes.
Here he comes.
Here he comes. Here he comes.
Get him. Get him.
Tail rope.
(barking)
ADAM: Oh, Chopper, shut up!
He's ours! Whoo!
JOHN-MICHAEL: Before the sun went down.
Whoo!
(laughter)
I'm getting ready to move.
Chopper, get back!
One, two, three.
ADAM: All right, hey,
now pull him your way.
Whoo! Yeah, baby!
JOHN-MICHAEL: All right, let's get
a measurement on him now.
- ERIC: 93 1/2, boys.
- JOHN-MICHAEL: All right.
ADAM: Whoo! 93 1/2.
We're the slowest boat in the fleet.
We're gonna try
and make it back before midnight
so we can get back out here
in the morning,
maybe we can do it again.
We're gonna be
within minutes of making it.
I mean, to be competitive
with this slow boat, we have to go.
JOHN-MICHAEL: We are heading west!
(laughter)
To the sunset!
ERIC: Towards the sun!
JOHN-MICHAEL: W, W, west!
To the sunset, baby! Whoo!
JIMMIE: The Outlaw
just caught his fish, so...
we still got a little
bit of daylight left, so...
we've really got to get a bite
really, really soon
because I do not want to lose.
I don't.
Oh, I don't want to be the loser.
ZACK: I feel your pain, brother.
Before Little Jimmie came around,
we was the youngest boat in the fleet.
And we did our best
to shut up the older guys.
So with him being younger
than anybody in this fleet,
I think he's gonna push hard
and try to put the older guys
in their place.
You know, he might be younger,
but look at his boat.
The thing's huge.
We have to go even harder.
Now let's just get us our next one.
On to the next one.
Come on, baby.
Be nice.
DANIEL: Be nice.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
SHANE: Slid down.
Slid down. I was like, there it is.
(laughs)
About to say, no way.
- ZACK: Yeah, I know.
- SHANE: That sucks.
ZACK: Come on, baby.
Give us ours.
SHANE: Please.
♪ ♪
ZACK: Come on, baby.
Stay on for us, please.
SHANE: You can get on.
Let me do everything else, okay?
(dog barking)
DANIEL: We really need this fish.
Fingers crossed it works out.
♪ ♪
Big wave.
You good?
Y'all two are gonna have to move him.
I'm about whooped.
Yeah, you're gonna have to turn it around.
(both grunting)
SHANE: Just like you're doing.
Just keep on going, just like that, Zack.
You got it.
DANIEL: He's up under us.
Eventually we're gonna
have to come around him.
ZACK: Come around him
and make another run?
DANIEL: Shane! Forward, forward, forward!
He's under the motor.
Spin it, now! Go, go, go!
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
DANIEL: Forward, forward,
forward, forward!
ZACK: Just like this?
DANIEL: Yeah, I guess.
ZACK: Man, it's super rough.
In this rough weather,
it just makes it tougher,
especially on this little boat.
We're moving up and down a lot more
than these bigger boats are.
DANIEL: Swivel.
SHANE: Right behind you.
Man, he's a squeaker.
ZACK: That fish is legal all day.
DANIEL: All day, fellas.
ZACK: He's going to be right there
at 75 inches or so.
SHANE: Easy there, girl.
He didn't like that.
- ZACK: What you need?
- SHANE: Come get a gaff.
I got short one, you got long one.
DANIEL: I got him in the head. God!
♪ ♪
I see him, yep.
ZACK: Yeah! Yeah!
Whoo! We got him!
DANIEL: We needed that.
ZACK: Cinderella story come true!
We ain't been fishing in a week
and got it done.
Perfect.
SHANE: That's a perfect size
for right now.
ZACK: That's the perfect size.
A fish has to be 73 inches
to legally catch.
The size limit is in place
to restore our fishery.
SHANE: Let's pull the tape.
77.
ZACK: Yeah! Yeah!
(all cheering)
We harvested another tuna
and we're going back to the house.
Winners, baby!
We'll probably even make it
to the dock before the Outlaw.
Whoo!
(country rock music)
♪ ♪
NICK:
Let's bring in the bird.
Oh, we're gonna have to night fish.
We fish differently
depending on the time of the day
because of the light.
The tunas need to be able
to see what they're doing.
At night, it's dark,
so we just slow down and we drift,
put it right in front of their face.
We do need a fish, bad.
We're neck and neck
with Little Jimmie on the Hog Wild
for last place,
and that's not where we wanna be.
TREY: Where is Gowitzka?
JIMMIE:
Hey, we're gonna throw it to him.
TREY: So I got to give some mackerels
to the Little Shell.
Seems like they didn't have any
for tonight.
They're locals. We fish together.
We know each other.
They'd do the same for us,
we'd do the same for them.
NICK: We're just getting
a couple baits from him,
drift baits.
We ran out of ours.
We do it all the time.
I've given them to plenty of people
and I'm getting some back.
The Southern fleet is
definitely like more of a team,
and mostly it's because
that's the way the old timers did it,
and it just carried over.
Little Jimmie's a newer, younger guy,
but, you know, he grew up fishing
with his dad on the boat,
so he knows that's what we do around here,
Southern Hospitality.
But Little Jimmie,
I've known him a long time, so...
he's gonna hook us up with some mackerels.
JIMMIE: We're gonna throw it
to him.
I'm gonna back up stern to stern
and just lob it to Cliff or somebody.
TREY: You ready?
NICK: Let him go. I'll get him.
Thank you.
TREY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: Now let's both catch one, Nick.
♪ ♪
ZACK: Our fifth fish
and we're staying in there.
We're only a couple fish
behind the leader.
BILL: Number five, staying alive, huh?
That's a good sight to see right there.
I know y'all cold, though.
Let's go and get this thing up here.
ZACK: Let's get her done.
BILL: Nice shape.
ZACK: Yeah.
Been a lot of mental stress,
but nothing makes it better
than putting a tail rope on a tuna.
It makes up a little bit
for not getting out there
the last week.
But since we didn't, we really need
this tail cut to be red and fatty
and the core to be nice and translucent
because that can get us
a higher price per pound.
What we got for weight, Bill?
BILL: 186 pounds cored out.
- ZACK: Yeah!
- SHANE: Heck yeah.
BILL: Let's see
what the inside looks like.
Not a bad-looking fish, guys.
SHANE: Man, that is a pretty color.
BILL: That's really pretty.
You don't see a whole lot
of fish this color.
Damn, definitely--definitely got some fat.
Gorgeous fish, guys.
Let's see what this
core sample looks like.
SHANE: Moment of truth right here.
ZACK: The core tells it all.
BILL: Oh, yeah, baby.
Translucent as it gets, guys.
Wow.
I'm thinking, uh...
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
$17 a pound.
- ZACK: Yeah.
- DANIEL: Just what we needed.
- ZACK: Got it done today, boys.
- BILL: Congratulations, guys.
- Really nice fish.
- DANIEL: Thank you.
Thank you.
ZACK: That's the highest
price of the season, boys.
(dramatic country music)
♪ ♪
JIMMIE: Marks are down there 30 fathoms,
and that bait ain't down there 30 fathoms.
It's down there, like, 40 pulls,
but it's stretched way out.
Give me them two big weights.
You know, a lot of people think
that I'm young, and I am.
You know, I'm only 22 years old.
But, you know, I've always just kind of
been in my dad's shadow.
These older guys, they know my dad.
Everybody knows each other.
I've been in this game my whole life,
but I think a lot of these guys
just see me as the kid that wants to be,
and I'm gonna show these guys
that I'm the kid that can be.
Yeah, we've got a lot of wind,
so we're having to put a lot of weight
since our drift is so fast.
The drag of the line wants to drag
everything up out on top.
If we're marking fish at 30 fathoms,
we want our bait down there at 30 fathoms.
When it's stretched out,
we might pull off 30 arm pulls,
but it really only 20 fathoms down there.
(radar beeping)
TREY: Just marked a little pack.
- JIMMIE: How deep?
- TREY: Right above 40 fathoms.
JIMMIE: That's exactly where
I just put that bait, 38.
Come on, baby.
(beeping)
NICK: There's your mark. 35 fathoms.
Coming across here.
Oh, yeah, yeah, good, good, good, good.
Right on my bait.
Look at them. Look at them.
Right on my bait, Clifford.
Watch my rod. Watch my rod.
(beeping)
TREY: Come on, you (bleep), eat it.
It's right there.
JIMMIE: How deep?
- TREY: Everywhere.
-(Jimmie laughs)
From 20 to 50.
JIMMIE: He said everywhere.
NICK: This is our bait.
That's the bottom
and keep marking the weight.
That's two or three fish
right there on it,
so that's encouraging.
We just need to tough it out.
Definitely a tuna.
TREY: We're in the hot water now.
JIMMIE: I definitely want
to get back in the cold water,
but we're here.
We might as well try this
for 20 minutes or something.
Typically, they come
into the colder water to feed,
and then they go back out
to the warmer water
to digest, so...
we'll try it here in this warmer water
for a few minutes.
You never know.
I got to pee.
I think I'm so excited, I've got to pee.
(laughs)
(reel clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
TREY: We're on, we're on!
JIMMIE: Is he on there?
We missed him.
Dang it. We missed him.
(bleep)!
Took a couple feet of drag and came off.
Whether it bit us off being a shark
or just pulled off a tuna.
We'll find out here in a minute.
I think we had a tuna bite.
TREY: That was a two-fin balloon-a.
JIMMIE: You still hearing me,
Little Shell?
NICK: I got you, Jimmie.
JIMMIE: We're 0 for 1.
A lot of marks around,
so still feeling good about it.
NICK: If we get a fish by midnight,
that would be okay.
CLIFF: Come on, baby.
BRANDAN: There he goes. Got him.
NICK: Got him on.
BRANDAN: We're hooked up, boys.
CLIFF: All right, hooked up.
NICK: There you go.
CLIFF: Feels like a good one.
Let's get him, boys.
NICK: There he is.
All right, that's gonna be him.
Where's your drag at?
All right, Brandan, let me get in there.
CLIFF: Talk to me, Nick.
NICK: I don't know if he's still there.
It's heavy, but it ain't,
like, tuna heavy.
It took some drag out to start with
like a tuna is supposed to,
but right now,
it's just sort of dead weight.
Gonna play it like the Super Bowl.
JIMMIE: We're on! Hooked up again.
That's gonna be him.
TREY: That's gonna be him.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
JIMMIE: Well, we got something on.
Cross our fingers,
hope that it's the right thing.
You never know.
NICK: Cross these fingers, boys.
Cross your fingers.
Hard to see, boys.
Just gonna be hard to see the line
with this misty fog like it is.
JIMMIE: I see a lot
of head shakes going on.
Shark. Shark!
TREY: That's what that was.
Dammit.
JIMMIE: Started swinging his head
back and forth
and one of his teeth cut the line,
and that's what makes the thump.
NICK: Straight up and down, Cliff.
Where's your leader?
CLIFF: It's what we want.
Get your dart ready, Brandan.
NICK: Go ahead a little bit, Cliff.
All right, real easy.
CLIFF: Hold on, boys.
NICK: All right, go ahead a little bit.
There he is. It's gonna be a bluefin.
It's gonna be a keeper too.
Go ahead. Here he comes, Brandan.
BRANDAN: All right.
NICK: Hold on. Wait for it.
Hold on, hold on! Wait for it.
Nail him!
CLIFF: Get him, B!
NICK: Here he comes, Brandan.
Hold on. Wait for it.
- Nail him!
- CLIFF: Get him, B!
NICK: Nice. Tail gaff.
Hold on. Let me swing him into you.
Head gaff him. Let me have that.
Get your other gaff.
Crank on the reel, Cliff.
CLIFF: I got it.
NICK: All right. Here we go.
Right side of me.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
BRANDAN: I gotcha.
CLIFF: Pull it tight. Pull that tight.
All right, boys!
Hey! Hey! B! Hey, B.
BRANDAN: Yes, baby.
NICK: Buttonholed him, baby.
CLIFF: We got one!
Point me towards the west!
Yeah, baby!
BRANDAN: Yes! Yes!
NICK: Hey, boys! Hey, boys!
- BRANDAN: We needed that.
- NICK: Yeah, baby!
- BRANDAN: Yes, baby!
- NICK: Yeah, baby!
(upbeat music)
♪ ♪
We got one.
TREY: That officially
puts us in last place.
JIMMIE: All we can do is
keep trying at this point.
We're so far into the hole,
but we're kind of in a bad spot.
But we got to get out of it.
BRANDAN: I got him, pull.
NICK: Feels good to be
going home with a tuna.
Thank you, Hog Wild.
CLIFF: All right, I got this.
BRANDAN: Put him down.
CLIFF: He is bigger than you think
BRANDAN: Damn, I didn't
think he was like that.
CLIFF: How big is he, boys?
NICK: What do we got?
BRANDAN: 99 1/2 inches.
NICK: 99 1/2, boys. All right!
BRANDAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah, baby!
CLIFF: Pretty work, boys. Pretty work.
NICK: Good job. All right, boys.
One more for the Little Shell.
CLIFF: We have got fish number five.
And that puts us right back in contention.
Right back in the game,
we're coming back home, boys.
(dramatic music)
(ticking)
♪ ♪
ADAM: Really cutting this one
here to the wire.
ERIC: Yeah, it's gonna be
come flying in there in reverse.
ADAM: Here comes Scotty, my hero.
Scotty's coming down here right now
to tag our fish before 12:00.
The buyer's tag is
the official cutoff point.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Hold the clock up.
SCOTT: You guys had,
like, minutes to spare.
- ADAM: Minutes?
- SCOTT: Minutes.
ADAM: Well, we made it. Happy, happy.
SCOTT: All right, let's do it.
(upbeat music)
ADAM: That's all we need right there.
♪ ♪
So what do we got, Scott?
SCOTT: 338 pounds dressed.
- ERIC: 338.
- ADAM: Nice.
SCOTT: So how about we take a tail cut
and core and check this thing out?
- ADAM: Sounds great.
- SCOTT: Let's do it.
(dramatic music)
ADAM: All right.
I'm excited about this one.
SCOTT: Well, it does have a lot of fat,
but if you look really closely,
it does have a little bit
of rainbow in this fish.
ADAM: Mm-hmm.
SCOTT: You know, it's hard to see.
It's not too bad.
Other than that, this fish is good.
So if this core is good,
then you guys get a solid price.
Good.
ADAM: So what are you thinking, Scotty?
SCOTT: Bottom line, we'll get you...
♪ ♪
9 bucks a pound.
ADAM: I'll take it all day long.
SCOTT: I'll let you guys get outta here.
I guess we'll see you
in three or four or five hours.
JOHN-MICHAEL: 10 to 12 for us.
ADAM: We got work to do,
so have a good evening.
SCOTT: See you later, guys.
ADAM: That's why we do this,
to bring home the bacon.
At least we got an opportunity
to get back out there
and get another one and stay
in this competition.
JOHN-MICHAEL:
Slow and steady.
(solemn music)
GREG: It looks like
Little Jimmie stayed out here all night.
Jimmie's already lost two.
BILLON: Has he set out trolling yet,
or those are drifters bites?
GREG: No, he's still drifting.
BILLON: Gotcha.
GREG: Everybody knows
Big Jim on the Hog Wild.
He was at the forefront of the fleet
every year for 30 years.
But really, that's not one of the boats
I'm worried about.
Experience will always out-fish youth.
And Little Jimmie's just a kid.
JIMMIE: All right,
it's coming down.
Ah! Ah!
(laughs)
Ah!
Trey, take this.
I just thought I was gonna die
for a second.
Ah!
Just hoping
that we would get a drift bite,
but start trolling,
maybe we'll get one like that.
Crank this stuff up. Start trolling.
All right, all right,
all right, all right.
All right.
TREY: What?
(reel clicking)
JIMMIE: Look at the pole.
(dramatic music)
What? What? What?
Hold on.
- TREY: What?
- JIMMIE: Hold on.
There's one! There's one!
JIMMIE: We got him on!
(laughs)
- JIMMIE: All right.
- TREY: What?
JIMMIE: Look at the pole!
(dramatic music)
What? What? What? Hold on.
- TREY: What?
- JIMMIE: Hold on.
There's one! There's one!
We got him on!
(laughter)
Well, just about to crank our--
just about to crank our drifting stuff up.
We got him on,
so we need to make this one count.
You wanna crank?
(upbeat music)
♪ ♪
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Goodness gracious, look at that face.
TREY: So out of shape, man.
JIMMIE: It's a little bit
nicer to have an extra arm.
That's why we're gonna
miss Ellis here, so...
we're gonna have to work a little bit
of overtime on this fish, you know.
It's less people here, so...
one more person to crank,
one more person to just do everything.
So we're gonna have to be on our A-game
here when he gets close.
TREY: We got this. Me and Jimmie got this.
There's the weight, Jimmie.
Cut it, cut it, cut, cut it.
Slack!
JIMMIE: Swing it to me.
Carrying on.
All right, the weights are off.
I did not know...
(dramatic music)
TREY: Easy!
What the (bleep)
is he doing?!
JIMMIE: Tight?
- TREY: There we go. We're tight.
- JIMMIE: Okay.
TREY: Wanna switch out now?
JIMMIE: Yeah.
Oh, that was a tense moment there, Trey.
TREY: He came up like a missile.
See how fast he came up?
JIMMIE: Yeah, I was like, "Oh boy."
TREY: God, he just wanted
to come breathe some air.
JIMMIE: Yeah, scary
when they come up like that.
Got a bunch of slack line.
Feel like you might lose him.
He's gonna come up and do it again.
Flop around on top again.
TREY: I don't like it
when they do that crap.
- JIMMIE: Wow.
- TREY: That was fast.
JIMMIE: Fast one.
He's quick, man. Zipper.
TREY: Did you see how fast
that cut through the water?
JIMMIE: I saw it.
I think it's a nice fish.
Trey, here.
See his wake?
TREY: I didn't see it.
JIMMIE: He's up on top
over there just swimming around.
See him?
He's got his back shoved out of the water.
He's just rolling over and giving up.
TREY: I don't know.
JIMMIE: Let's see
what we'll find out here.
Ooh, baby. Come on, baby.
Please, please, please, please, please.
Oh. He's angry now.
Got him straight up and down
kind of where we want him,
and now he's angry.
We finally got him going
around in a pinwheel,
so let's just hope he stays connected.
TREY: I see him down there. I got color.
JIMMIE: There he is.
That's a really nice fish.
(exciting music)
TREY: There he is again.
JIMMIE: Hope we make this one count.
♪ ♪
TREY: Got him?
I got a gaff.
Contact. Come on.
Whoo! We got him!
Yeah!
JIMMIE: This fish has got a terrible scar.
Not what you want, but a fish is a fish.
-(seagull cries)
- TREY: No! Not yours, this is mine!
(Jimmie laughs)
- JIMMIE: You ready?
- TREY: Yup. Go.
JIMMIE: Doghouse and the Frenzy,
only two boats out here
that have not had a bite yet, so...
it's stuff like this
that's gonna show these guys
even though we're young,
we've got what it takes to compete.
TREY: All right. He's pretty long.
JIMMIE: He's bigger than I thought he was.
Let's see how long he is.
TREY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: 101. Heck yeah, man.
Whoo! All right.
We were shorthanded today
and we got him anyway.
Feeling good about it.
(upbeat rock music)
NICK: Feels good
to be going home with a tuna.
You know, we're not
the lowest boat anymore.
Here we are again, man. How about it?
You want to get him up there
and take a look at him?
- SCOTT: Yeah, we can do that.
- NICK: All right, let's do it, man.
SCOTT: Let's do it.
♪ ♪
CLIFF: What's the weight, Scotty?
SCOTT: You're looking
at 386 pounds dressed.
- NICK: Nice, nice.
- CLIFF: All right.
- NICK: Let's go look at him.
- SCOTT: Definitely.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
All right, boys.
- NICK: Yeah, good-looking fish.
- SCOTT: It is. It's a nice one.
Even though it's a little bit skinny,
but, I mean, it's loaded with fat.
- NICK: Yeah.
- SCOTT: You got him just in time.
- NICK: Nice.
- SCOTT: He was filling right up.
See that nice split in here?
That's all stomach fat right in here.
And then you got the majors
you can see here.
It's just loaded.
It's all spider webbed around the minors.
It's all-around good fish.
- BRANDAN: Awesome.
- CLIFF: Really? That's good news.
SCOTT: As long as this core is good,
you guys are gonna be
in some good shape here.
NICK: Beautiful. Beautiful.
SCOTT: Yeah. This fish is loaded.
- NICK: Nice.
- SCOTT: A lot of fat in it.
- NICK: Cool, man.
- SCOTT: Yup.
You guys are looking at...
- 15 bucks a pound.
-(all cheering)
- NICK: All right, guys!
- BRANDAN: That's awesome.
NICK: Finally got a good one.
Thank you, man.
We're gonna try to get you another one.
- Thank you.
- SCOTT: All right. See you later.
BRANDAN: $15 a pound.
We got families.
We can't ask for nothing better.
It's been a slow start,
but, you know, a train takes a while
to get it going,
and we're starting to get that momentum.
-NICK: One closer to the top.
-(seagull cries)
(upbeat music)
JIMMIE: Number five.
We're coming for Bobby.
DENNIS: Biblical conditions.
TREY: Dennis, let me tell you what.
It wasn't choppy.
It wasn't sporty. It was rough.
JIMMIE: Yeah. We got him, though.
DENNIS: It looks like a nice little fish.
JIMMIE: He's got a great big scar
on his other side.
I was gonna take anything today.
DENNIS: Let's check it out.
JIMMIE:
We're missing Ellis today,
so just me and Trey
and kind of going into that
knowing it was gonna be a little bit
tougher with just the two of us.
You know, it's a big boat.
There's a lot going on.
Some of these smaller boats can
get away with just two people,
but it's a little bit tough
on a great big boat like this,
but we made it work.
DENNIS: It looks like a killer whale
or a white shark or something got him.
♪ ♪
JIMMIE: What do we got for weight, Dennis?
DENNIS: 451 pounds dressed, Jimmie.
JIMMIE: All right, we'll take it
on a day like today.
DENNIS: Let's see how he grades out.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
All right, guys.
As you could tell before
from the scarring,
that this fish has had some trauma.
The fish is a little bit funky.
Some two-tone things going on.
That injury may have affected
the fish's ability to feed.
It does have some fat.
I see a little bit of fat.
Let's take a look at the core.
If the core is nice and red,
you know, we'll be able to do
something with this fish.
JIMMIE: Last hope.
DENNIS: It's actually a decent core.
Nice red core.
The tail color, a little funky.
A little different colors going on here,
which had me concerned.
JIMMIE: What are you thinking
for a price, Dennis?
♪ ♪
DENNIS: Obviously you could
have had a more healthy fish.
DENNIS: Nice red core.
A little different colors going on here,
which had me concerned.
JIMMIE: What are you thinking
for a price, Dennis?
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
DENNIS: Obviously, you could have had
a more healthy fish.
I'm gonna pay you $9.
JIMMIE: Okay. Cool.
That's way better than I thought.
- Thank you, Dennis.
- DENNIS: Thank you guys.
JIMMIE: We'll see you after this blow.
- TREY: Thank you, Dennis.
- DENNIS: All right, let's warm up.
JIMMIE: Tomorrow is
a really important day for us
because we've got the ball rolling;
we really can't slip up now.
I'm not nervous.
I trust my boat,
I trust my crew, I trust myself,
and I think we've got what it takes.
(solemn country music)
BOBBY: Four boats have
caught since we've been off the water.
(bleep).
Give up the lead again.
Sound familiar?
Look, when your boat goes on fire
in the ocean and you lose
$1/4 million, even with insurance,
you kinda suck it up,
you dive in, you borrow (bleep).
It's tuna season.
We'll go kill it and we'll
make it back and we'll survive.
And then, you know, ripping engines apart.
You got to be resilient, but man,
it gets harder and harder every time.
Like, right now, I'm pissed.
We're going backwards at a stunning pace.
That means we got to catch
three extra fish now, Brian.
Three more.
(country rock music)
♪ ♪
ELLIS: Hoping Bobby Bedbugs'
lead is short-lived.
JIMMIE: We're getting a late
start today because we didn't
want to leave without Ellis again.
You know, me and Trey got it done
just the two of us,
but it's definitely nice
to have Ellis back on board.
He really doesn't have a ton
of bluefin fishing experience,
but he's got experience fishing.
That's all that matters.
TREY: Think we should try a naked?
ELLIS: You want to?
Grab a crimp.
I'm gonna take the skirt off of this
and try a naked ballyhoo.
It's the most natural-looking bait
you can get.
Rigging it with mono wire.
You want to make sure
you get your wraps tight.
Make sure your hook can
swing freely in there.
You want to push that meat
ever so slightly off his back
to give his tail a little break.
Wiggle him around a little bit,
and then that tail just swims free
when he gets in the water.
♪ ♪
- JIMMIE: Wow.
-(beeping)
It's about the 97th one I've seen
in the last 30 minutes.
ELLIS: Can't be tunas.
JIMMIE: I think it's tunas.
ELLIS: They just want to eat.
JIMMIE: They'd be like that sometimes.
That's tunas.
That ain't gonna be sharks
in a ball like that.
ELLIS: Yeah.
JIMMIE: How cool would it be
to get a bite right now?
ELLIS: Uh-huh.
(reel unspooling rapidly)
- Long rigger!
- JIMMIE: Long rigger! Long rigger!
(all cheering)
Hooked up on Ellis' naked ballyhoo.
All right, got him on.
779-551.
BRANDAN: Right there!
NICK: I see 'em.
(all cheering)
GREG: Jimmie's got him on.
- BILLON: Who does?
- GREG: Jimmie.
BILLON: Jimmie? Jimmie got a bite.
BRITTON: We've been out here
for days,
and Little Jimmie's got
his second fish on.
Ooh, wee.
ADAM: Jimmie just hooked up.
- ERIC: What?
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Jimmie just hooked up.
ADAM: Just saw him right here.
Where's he at?
- JOHN-MICHAEL: He's right behind us.
- DANIEL: Yeah. Good job.
ZACK: Good job. Way to get it done.
JIMMIE: All right, baby!
Come on. Let's not lose this one.
Oh, baby, we need this one.
Please, please, please.
TREY: I got your glove.
- ELLIS: Come on.
- TREY: He still on there?
ELLIS: Yeah. He's just being psycho.
Whoo! Come on, you rascal.
JIMMIE: We cannot lose this fish.
Too much on the line.
ELLIS: You ready, Jimmie?
JIMMIE: Yeah. Now we need to move holders.
(upbeat music)
♪ ♪
(dramatic music)
JIMMIE: Getting a little bit closer here.
Starting to act a little bit mean now,
so...
Cross our fingers. We need this one bad.
ELLIS: You get burned out, give it to me.
JIMMIE: Want to switch?
Crank.
♪ ♪
There's your leader.
ELLIS: Get ready.
JIMMIE: I don't like where that line is.
TREY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: I'm scared about that line.
ELLIS: Watch him right off the stern.
JIMMIE: Right here.
Might get a shot, there.
There he is.
Watch out, watch out,
watch out, watch out.
The dart just fell out of him.
- ELLIS: Trey.
- TREY: Yeah.
ELLIS: You still got the dart in there.
TREY: Okay.
JIMMIE: What the (bleep)?
I know I hit it.
I saw it stop,
and he took off with the line,
and I didn't even pull on it
and it pulled out.
I guess I hit him
in the bone or something.
TREY: Is it sharp?
JIMMIE: Kind of.
I am not what I used to be
with this dart pole.
Keep our head in the game here.
We need this one too bad.
I just need to calm down.
I'm too stressed out.
Come on, baby. Please stay on there.
Man, I wish this pole
was on the other side.
I can't do much with him like this.
- TREY: You ready?
- ELLIS: Yeah.
TREY: He's taking some line,
so crank a little bit.
- Crank.
- ELLIS: Which one are you going to?
TREY: This one right here.
That's right.
JIMMIE: I'm a nervous wreck.
A lot more gain now, isn't it?
TREY: A lot.
♪ ♪
TREY: Leader coming up.
- ELLIS: Yeah. There he is.
- TREY: There's the fish.
- ELLIS: There he is.
- JIMMIE: I'm gonna be patient here.
ELLIS: Get you a good shot.
♪ ♪
Stick 'im.
That's got him.
JIMMIE: That one ain't coming out.
- TREY: Where's his head at?
- JIMMIE: Oh.
He's pissed!
I'm glad I shoved it in there.
Ah!
TREY: He didn't like that too good.
JIMMIE: Put the port motor in gear, Trey.
- TREY: Forward?
- JIMMIE: When I tell you to.
When I tell you to.
We got the dart in him.
Go ahead a little bit, Trey.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
I said just a little bit.
TREY: Sorry.
JIMMIE: Dart just pulled out of him.
Oh, my God.
(Jimmie groans)
JIMMIE: Dart just pulled out of him.
(Jimmie groans)
We look like idiots.
(dramatic music)
Look like one. Feel like one.
Never came off the pole.
Somehow it came unclipped.
God bless it, dude.
ELLIS: God, he's a mean bastard.
JIMMIE: There he is.
What the (bleep) is that?
I thought it was him.
You get him?
- ELLIS: Get your head gaff, Trey.
- TREY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: Get your gaff. Are you kidding me?
The dart came out again?
Get me a new (bleep) dart or something.
I don't even know what to say.
♪ ♪
TREY: He's got a Kevlar vest on
or something.
JIMMIE: Do we got the leader on the reel?
ELLIS: Yeah, he's very close.
Come here, big boy.
See him?
He's right there.
Here he comes.
- JIMMIE: Swivel.
- TREY: All right.
- JIMMIE: Trey.
- TREY: Yeah.
- ELLIS: You ready? All ready?
- TREY: I'm ready whenever.
- ELLIS: He's right here.
- JIMMIE: I can't see. I can't see.
I can't see him in the bubbles.
ELLIS: Got him right here.
Stick him in the head.
JIMMIE: We got the dart in him.
TREY: Fourth time's a charm, Jimmie.
ELLIS: Gaff the (bleep) in the head
or the tail or whatever.
JIMMIE: Where's the fish?
TREY:
He's under the boat.
He's under the boat!
JIMMIE: Back the drag off, Ellis.
Back the drag off, Ellis.
TREY: He's out.
He's out. He's out. He's out.
JIMMIE: He's out. He's out. Lock it up.
TREY: He just came right up
underneath the boat.
ELLIS: Somebody gaff this son of a bitch.
TREY: Here he comes.
JIMMIE: Nothing crazy. Nothing crazy.
I don't want to do this again.
Give me another gaff.
Give me another gaff in his head.
Right in his head.
All right. I'm gonna get his tail.
- TREY: Where's his tail at?
- JIMMIE: Get his tail, Trey.
Get his tail.
- TREY: You got him?
- JIMMIE: Yeah.
TREY: You are a (bleep).
JIMMIE: Oh, my God.
- TREY: We got his ass.
- JIMMIE: Cleat him off.
(all cheering)
- JIMMIE: We're going home!
- ELLIS: Oh, man.
JIMMIE: God, he was a (bleep).
Little Shell?
NICK: Yo.
JIMMIE: Dart pulled
out of him five different times.
Mean as (bleep).
NICK: Did you get him?
JIMMIE:
Done. He's on the cleat.
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Did he get him?
- ERIC: Yeah.
(upbeat music)
Pretty work, sir. Pretty work.
BRITTON: Little Jimmie
caught a fish.
Pretty work.
GREG: He's actually doing
better than we are.
So definitely keep an eye on him.
Pretty work on your tuna.
NICK: Pretty work,
that's all that matters.
A lot of people say
Jimmie's inexperienced, but in reality,
Jimmie's been a captain
longer than I have.
He's been around that boat
since he was 17.
He's got a lot more experience
than people give him credit for.
And he's out here proving it
to the entire fleet.
(grunting)
JIMMIE: Oh, a big one.
ELLIS: He is a big (bleep), isn't he?
JIMMIE: Oh, it's a big one.
TREY: It's nice having a third hand
and all that.
JIMMIE: Yeah! Momma thick.
- TREY: What is he?
- JIMMIE: 103.
- ELLIS: Nice fish there.
- JIMMIE: Fat one.
- ELLIS: He's fat.
- JIMMIE: Mean as hell.
TREY: We're going home!
JIMMIE: This is our
second fish in two days.
I think we've got these guys' attention.
ELLIS: That was a good dart shot, Jimmie.
- TREY: Which one?
-(laughter)
ELLIS: The one that stuck.
♪ ♪
JIMMIE: We're back.
(Jimmie sighs)
MARY: Welcome back, fellas.
- All right. Another hog for the Hog Wild.
- JIMMIE: That's right.
MARY: Let's get him up here
and take a look.
JIMMIE: Can't wait to see what you think.
♪ ♪
What do we got for weight?
MARY: 603 pounds, guys.
- ELLIS: All right.
- JIMMIE: All right, 600-pounder.
- We'll take it.
- ELLIS: That's a stud.
- TREY: Butterball right there.
- MARY: Really is.
JIMMIE: I can't wait
to see what you think.
MARY: All right,
let's take a look at the tail.
(dramatic music)
All righty.
Here's what you're looking at.
I like the color,
and I do see a little bit of fat here.
He's looking pretty good.
JIMMIE: Sounds good.
MARY: And what a great shape, so...
JIMMIE: Yeah.
MARY: Check this out.
That is spectacular.
It is very pretty. I like this fish.
JIMMIE: What are we thinking for a price?
MARY: I'm thinking we can do...
♪ ♪
$10 a pound.
- ELLIS: All right.
- JIMMIE: All right, $10. Double digits.
- ELLIS: Nice.
- MARY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: All right, we needed that.
MARY: Picking it up
in the right direction.
- JIMMIE: Big fish.
- ELLIS: Biggest fish, best price.
- MARY: And it was a big multiplier.
- JIMMIE: Yes. We'll see you tomorrow.
MARY: Don't let up. See you guys tomorrow.
- ELLIS: Thank you, Miss Mary.
- MARY: Good job.
TREY: Thank you, Miss Mary.
JIMMIE: We're out here
catching fish.
Things are going good.
It feels good to open
all these old timers' eyes up
that just because I'm young,
doesn't mean they don't have
to look out for me.
I was crying a couple weeks ago.
I was doubting myself
there for a little bit,
but you know how it is.
All that time not catching a fish,
but here we are.
We're going in the right direction.
We're catching up.
We got our ball rolling.
(upbeat music)
NARRATOR: Hog Wild's
two-fish haul catapults them
ahead of most of the competition.
But it isn't enough to keep
Offshore Outlaw out of the top spot.
And paydays
for Rasta Rocket and Little Shell
put them ahead of Fishin' Frenzy,
who drops to last place.
Captioned by Captionmax
ERIC: Crank. Got him on.
NARRATOR: Halfway through the season...
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Fish on!
- ERIC: Yeah!
NARRATOR: Seasoned vets have traded places
at the top of the leaderboard...
BOBBY: We broke our ass
to be in the lead.
NARRATOR: While the newest captain
has struggled to keep pace.
JIMMIE: We've got to get
a bite really, really soon.
I do not want to lose.
NARRATOR: On this episode...
JOHN-MICHAEL: Deep color! Hold on!
GREG: Hold on, boys.
NARRATOR: The Hog Wild...
GREG: Yeah, yeah.
NARRATOR: Changes the game.
JIMMIE: Oh, baby. We need this one.
NARRATOR: And shows the fleet...
ADAM: Jimmie just hooked up.
NARRATOR: They're not here to play.
JIMMIE: Ah! Ah!
NARRATOR: On Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks.
JIMMIE:
Just because I'm young doesn't mean
they don't have to look out for me.
(dramatic music)
NARRATOR: Reel E' Bugging leads the fleet,
but Offshore Outlaw and Doghouse
remain close behind.
Meanwhile, with only $51 separating them,
Hog Wild and Little Shell
are neck and neck for last place.
JIMMIE: It's bluefin season,
so...here we go.
SINGER: ♪ Oh, child do you see? ♪
♪ There's trouble in the water ♪
JIMMIE: Going across
the bar here in just a minute.
(scream)
SINGER: ♪ I ain't seen the light of day ♪
JIMMIE: Hang on.
SINGER: ♪ Stepped out the boat
but I'm sinking in the water ♪
JIMMIE: You know,
growing up, I've been fishing
ever since I was five years old.
I've been going with my dad.
I'd ride with him every day.
Still kind of trying to prove myself.
It's the big leagues.
Here I am competing
with everybody I've learned from,
everybody I've listened to,
everybody I've looked up to.
We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it.
Us and the Little Shell
are tied up for last place,
but I've got to get out here
and show these guys
I've got what it takes to be
the best boat in this fleet.
We made it! We made it!
SINGER: ♪ Feel like I'm 'bout to,
feel like I'm 'bout to drown ♪
JIMMIE: We made it!
This could be the turning point
for the Hog Wild
where we start climbing the ladder
like we need to.
I mean, at least we don't
have to worry about Bobby.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
BOBBY: We got issues, man.
We got big issues.
I told Drew to fire up the engines.
Port engine wouldn't even turn over.
We broke our ass to be in the lead.
We can't afford to be down,
you know, two days, two hours.
DREW: Wow. Big water.
That's not good. That's not good.
BOBBY: I mean, I just need to know
what the hell's wrong,
fix it, and go fishing.
BRIAN: This was the year we were
supposed to not have boat problems.
BOBBY: I'm pissed 'cause
everyone's back out there again today.
And we can only hope these guys
don't catch some good ones
while we're off the water.
♪ ♪
BRITTON: It's almost time
for the evening bite.
With one less boat on the water,
if there was ever an opportunity
to catapult ahead, it's right now.
I have not heard of any bites.
Everybody's just kind of getting
on scene here now.
We got the Outlaw, the Rasta Rocket,
the Little Shell.
There's Hog Wild.
We're halfway through bluefin season,
so it's now or never for Jimmie.
He's been fishing with his dad
since he was a little kid.
I mean, we can hear him
on the radio talking about it,
jumping, you know,
"I think it's a 500-pounder!"
And he's been excited
about it all of his life.
He's going to be an excellent captain,
but at this point, he's just
not quite experienced enough
to be competitive.
JIMMIE: We really got to get
on a roll here soon.
We really got to make sure
we get one ASAP here.
We're down a man today.
Ellis, he's just got
some family things he had
to get taken care of.
The odds are stacked against us
with one less mate.
But me and Trey,
we've been fishing together
for a long time.
We've got what it takes.
We're right here back where
we caught our last fish.
It's been a few days,
but conditions don't seem to have
changed a whole lot,
so that's always good news.
Feeling really, really,
really good about it,
but the anticipation is
way too high sometimes.
Oh, we just need one.
ADAM: It's about to pop off.
This evening bite!
Right now is prime time.
(radar beeping)
NICK: There's a Single A boomerang.
15 fathoms.
- BRANDAN: How many fathoms?
- NICK: 15.
BRANDAN: We can catch that one.
BRITTON: Ooh, a very nice mark.
It's a mark right there.
(beeping)
ADAM:
I got my bibs on already.
That's how good I feel about it.
If I'm not feeling it,
I won't put my bibs on.
ZACK: Say yeah, puppy.
Go ahead and put that luck
all on this reel for us,
'cause we need it today, babe.
JIMMIE:
Just any (bleep) second,
I'm just--it's like I'm on pins
and (bleep) needles
- I'm like--
-(beeping)
(rod creaking)
JOHN-MICHAEL: Here we go.
Crank! Got 'em on!
ADAM: Got him?
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Fish on!
- ADAM: Yes!
All right, we got something on right here.
501.
NICK: They just hooked something
right there at Offshore Outlaw.
CLIFF: The Offshore Outlaw
is fighting one.
BRANDAN: We're getting close.
JIMMIE:
Outlaw's got something on.
Can't let him start climbing ahead again.
DANIEL: Good for them.
ZACK: Yup, good for them.
Maybe we've got to say
a prayer to get a bite.
(organ gospel music)
Tuna gods, we pray to you
from the Rasta Rocket.
Please give us a tuna bite
so we can go home.
In the tuna gods' name, we pray. Amen.
(dramatic music)
ADAM:
We got the right fish on now.
All we got to do is
cross our fingers and say a prayer
and pray we land this fish.
ERIC: About 10 more feet
going in the backing.
Here comes the swivel.
There he goes. Oh.
He's in the mud right now.
Oh.
Been up here fishing
for a lot of weeks now.
A lot of bad weather.
Fishing's been real tough.
We're about to eat ice cubes
on white bread if we don't get this fish.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Hold on. Big waves.
ERIC: Fish is coming up.
JOHN-MICHAEL:
Coming up top. Color.
ERIC: Fish is right here.
JOHN-MICHAEL:
He's definitely big enough.
ERIC: He's tired though.
We got him in a big pinwheel right now.
We just need to tighten him up.
ADAM: Right now,
we're right at the endgame.
One half second slip-up,
this fish is gone.
Hold on.
Whoo!
Getting ready to quit
right here in just a second.
- Look, he's coming up.
- ERIC: Here.
(Adam laughs)
JOHN-MICHAEL: Deep color!
Hold on! Forward!
(dog barking)
ERIC:
Straight under the boat.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Forward! Forward!
ADAM: Just keep yelling.
If you yell, I can hear you.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Forward!
ERIC: Now he's coming up
like he's supposed to.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Coming up.
Coming up top. Big pinwheel.
ADAM: Get ready, Eric.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Forward.
ERIC: A little bump.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Swivel.
Just come on the rod tip.
Swivel. Just come on the rod tip.
ERIC: Bring him to me, John.
Bring him to me, John.
Bring him to me.
Ooh. Bring him to me, John.
ADAM: Come on, bring him up, John!
Bring him up!
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Bring him up, John!
- ADAM: Right here! Seal the deal!
JOHN-MICHAEL: Stick him! Stick him!
- Put him on!
- ADAM: Yeah, we got him.
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Got him.
- ADAM: Pretty shot, Eric.
JOHN-MICHAEL: All right, here he comes.
Here he comes.
Here he comes. Here he comes.
Get him. Get him.
Tail rope.
(barking)
ADAM: Oh, Chopper, shut up!
He's ours! Whoo!
JOHN-MICHAEL: Before the sun went down.
Whoo!
(laughter)
I'm getting ready to move.
Chopper, get back!
One, two, three.
ADAM: All right, hey,
now pull him your way.
Whoo! Yeah, baby!
JOHN-MICHAEL: All right, let's get
a measurement on him now.
- ERIC: 93 1/2, boys.
- JOHN-MICHAEL: All right.
ADAM: Whoo! 93 1/2.
We're the slowest boat in the fleet.
We're gonna try
and make it back before midnight
so we can get back out here
in the morning,
maybe we can do it again.
We're gonna be
within minutes of making it.
I mean, to be competitive
with this slow boat, we have to go.
JOHN-MICHAEL: We are heading west!
(laughter)
To the sunset!
ERIC: Towards the sun!
JOHN-MICHAEL: W, W, west!
To the sunset, baby! Whoo!
JIMMIE: The Outlaw
just caught his fish, so...
we still got a little
bit of daylight left, so...
we've really got to get a bite
really, really soon
because I do not want to lose.
I don't.
Oh, I don't want to be the loser.
ZACK: I feel your pain, brother.
Before Little Jimmie came around,
we was the youngest boat in the fleet.
And we did our best
to shut up the older guys.
So with him being younger
than anybody in this fleet,
I think he's gonna push hard
and try to put the older guys
in their place.
You know, he might be younger,
but look at his boat.
The thing's huge.
We have to go even harder.
Now let's just get us our next one.
On to the next one.
Come on, baby.
Be nice.
DANIEL: Be nice.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
SHANE: Slid down.
Slid down. I was like, there it is.
(laughs)
About to say, no way.
- ZACK: Yeah, I know.
- SHANE: That sucks.
ZACK: Come on, baby.
Give us ours.
SHANE: Please.
♪ ♪
ZACK: Come on, baby.
Stay on for us, please.
SHANE: You can get on.
Let me do everything else, okay?
(dog barking)
DANIEL: We really need this fish.
Fingers crossed it works out.
♪ ♪
Big wave.
You good?
Y'all two are gonna have to move him.
I'm about whooped.
Yeah, you're gonna have to turn it around.
(both grunting)
SHANE: Just like you're doing.
Just keep on going, just like that, Zack.
You got it.
DANIEL: He's up under us.
Eventually we're gonna
have to come around him.
ZACK: Come around him
and make another run?
DANIEL: Shane! Forward, forward, forward!
He's under the motor.
Spin it, now! Go, go, go!
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
DANIEL: Forward, forward,
forward, forward!
ZACK: Just like this?
DANIEL: Yeah, I guess.
ZACK: Man, it's super rough.
In this rough weather,
it just makes it tougher,
especially on this little boat.
We're moving up and down a lot more
than these bigger boats are.
DANIEL: Swivel.
SHANE: Right behind you.
Man, he's a squeaker.
ZACK: That fish is legal all day.
DANIEL: All day, fellas.
ZACK: He's going to be right there
at 75 inches or so.
SHANE: Easy there, girl.
He didn't like that.
- ZACK: What you need?
- SHANE: Come get a gaff.
I got short one, you got long one.
DANIEL: I got him in the head. God!
♪ ♪
I see him, yep.
ZACK: Yeah! Yeah!
Whoo! We got him!
DANIEL: We needed that.
ZACK: Cinderella story come true!
We ain't been fishing in a week
and got it done.
Perfect.
SHANE: That's a perfect size
for right now.
ZACK: That's the perfect size.
A fish has to be 73 inches
to legally catch.
The size limit is in place
to restore our fishery.
SHANE: Let's pull the tape.
77.
ZACK: Yeah! Yeah!
(all cheering)
We harvested another tuna
and we're going back to the house.
Winners, baby!
We'll probably even make it
to the dock before the Outlaw.
Whoo!
(country rock music)
♪ ♪
NICK:
Let's bring in the bird.
Oh, we're gonna have to night fish.
We fish differently
depending on the time of the day
because of the light.
The tunas need to be able
to see what they're doing.
At night, it's dark,
so we just slow down and we drift,
put it right in front of their face.
We do need a fish, bad.
We're neck and neck
with Little Jimmie on the Hog Wild
for last place,
and that's not where we wanna be.
TREY: Where is Gowitzka?
JIMMIE:
Hey, we're gonna throw it to him.
TREY: So I got to give some mackerels
to the Little Shell.
Seems like they didn't have any
for tonight.
They're locals. We fish together.
We know each other.
They'd do the same for us,
we'd do the same for them.
NICK: We're just getting
a couple baits from him,
drift baits.
We ran out of ours.
We do it all the time.
I've given them to plenty of people
and I'm getting some back.
The Southern fleet is
definitely like more of a team,
and mostly it's because
that's the way the old timers did it,
and it just carried over.
Little Jimmie's a newer, younger guy,
but, you know, he grew up fishing
with his dad on the boat,
so he knows that's what we do around here,
Southern Hospitality.
But Little Jimmie,
I've known him a long time, so...
he's gonna hook us up with some mackerels.
JIMMIE: We're gonna throw it
to him.
I'm gonna back up stern to stern
and just lob it to Cliff or somebody.
TREY: You ready?
NICK: Let him go. I'll get him.
Thank you.
TREY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: Now let's both catch one, Nick.
♪ ♪
ZACK: Our fifth fish
and we're staying in there.
We're only a couple fish
behind the leader.
BILL: Number five, staying alive, huh?
That's a good sight to see right there.
I know y'all cold, though.
Let's go and get this thing up here.
ZACK: Let's get her done.
BILL: Nice shape.
ZACK: Yeah.
Been a lot of mental stress,
but nothing makes it better
than putting a tail rope on a tuna.
It makes up a little bit
for not getting out there
the last week.
But since we didn't, we really need
this tail cut to be red and fatty
and the core to be nice and translucent
because that can get us
a higher price per pound.
What we got for weight, Bill?
BILL: 186 pounds cored out.
- ZACK: Yeah!
- SHANE: Heck yeah.
BILL: Let's see
what the inside looks like.
Not a bad-looking fish, guys.
SHANE: Man, that is a pretty color.
BILL: That's really pretty.
You don't see a whole lot
of fish this color.
Damn, definitely--definitely got some fat.
Gorgeous fish, guys.
Let's see what this
core sample looks like.
SHANE: Moment of truth right here.
ZACK: The core tells it all.
BILL: Oh, yeah, baby.
Translucent as it gets, guys.
Wow.
I'm thinking, uh...
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
$17 a pound.
- ZACK: Yeah.
- DANIEL: Just what we needed.
- ZACK: Got it done today, boys.
- BILL: Congratulations, guys.
- Really nice fish.
- DANIEL: Thank you.
Thank you.
ZACK: That's the highest
price of the season, boys.
(dramatic country music)
♪ ♪
JIMMIE: Marks are down there 30 fathoms,
and that bait ain't down there 30 fathoms.
It's down there, like, 40 pulls,
but it's stretched way out.
Give me them two big weights.
You know, a lot of people think
that I'm young, and I am.
You know, I'm only 22 years old.
But, you know, I've always just kind of
been in my dad's shadow.
These older guys, they know my dad.
Everybody knows each other.
I've been in this game my whole life,
but I think a lot of these guys
just see me as the kid that wants to be,
and I'm gonna show these guys
that I'm the kid that can be.
Yeah, we've got a lot of wind,
so we're having to put a lot of weight
since our drift is so fast.
The drag of the line wants to drag
everything up out on top.
If we're marking fish at 30 fathoms,
we want our bait down there at 30 fathoms.
When it's stretched out,
we might pull off 30 arm pulls,
but it really only 20 fathoms down there.
(radar beeping)
TREY: Just marked a little pack.
- JIMMIE: How deep?
- TREY: Right above 40 fathoms.
JIMMIE: That's exactly where
I just put that bait, 38.
Come on, baby.
(beeping)
NICK: There's your mark. 35 fathoms.
Coming across here.
Oh, yeah, yeah, good, good, good, good.
Right on my bait.
Look at them. Look at them.
Right on my bait, Clifford.
Watch my rod. Watch my rod.
(beeping)
TREY: Come on, you (bleep), eat it.
It's right there.
JIMMIE: How deep?
- TREY: Everywhere.
-(Jimmie laughs)
From 20 to 50.
JIMMIE: He said everywhere.
NICK: This is our bait.
That's the bottom
and keep marking the weight.
That's two or three fish
right there on it,
so that's encouraging.
We just need to tough it out.
Definitely a tuna.
TREY: We're in the hot water now.
JIMMIE: I definitely want
to get back in the cold water,
but we're here.
We might as well try this
for 20 minutes or something.
Typically, they come
into the colder water to feed,
and then they go back out
to the warmer water
to digest, so...
we'll try it here in this warmer water
for a few minutes.
You never know.
I got to pee.
I think I'm so excited, I've got to pee.
(laughs)
(reel clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
TREY: We're on, we're on!
JIMMIE: Is he on there?
We missed him.
Dang it. We missed him.
(bleep)!
Took a couple feet of drag and came off.
Whether it bit us off being a shark
or just pulled off a tuna.
We'll find out here in a minute.
I think we had a tuna bite.
TREY: That was a two-fin balloon-a.
JIMMIE: You still hearing me,
Little Shell?
NICK: I got you, Jimmie.
JIMMIE: We're 0 for 1.
A lot of marks around,
so still feeling good about it.
NICK: If we get a fish by midnight,
that would be okay.
CLIFF: Come on, baby.
BRANDAN: There he goes. Got him.
NICK: Got him on.
BRANDAN: We're hooked up, boys.
CLIFF: All right, hooked up.
NICK: There you go.
CLIFF: Feels like a good one.
Let's get him, boys.
NICK: There he is.
All right, that's gonna be him.
Where's your drag at?
All right, Brandan, let me get in there.
CLIFF: Talk to me, Nick.
NICK: I don't know if he's still there.
It's heavy, but it ain't,
like, tuna heavy.
It took some drag out to start with
like a tuna is supposed to,
but right now,
it's just sort of dead weight.
Gonna play it like the Super Bowl.
JIMMIE: We're on! Hooked up again.
That's gonna be him.
TREY: That's gonna be him.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
JIMMIE: Well, we got something on.
Cross our fingers,
hope that it's the right thing.
You never know.
NICK: Cross these fingers, boys.
Cross your fingers.
Hard to see, boys.
Just gonna be hard to see the line
with this misty fog like it is.
JIMMIE: I see a lot
of head shakes going on.
Shark. Shark!
TREY: That's what that was.
Dammit.
JIMMIE: Started swinging his head
back and forth
and one of his teeth cut the line,
and that's what makes the thump.
NICK: Straight up and down, Cliff.
Where's your leader?
CLIFF: It's what we want.
Get your dart ready, Brandan.
NICK: Go ahead a little bit, Cliff.
All right, real easy.
CLIFF: Hold on, boys.
NICK: All right, go ahead a little bit.
There he is. It's gonna be a bluefin.
It's gonna be a keeper too.
Go ahead. Here he comes, Brandan.
BRANDAN: All right.
NICK: Hold on. Wait for it.
Hold on, hold on! Wait for it.
Nail him!
CLIFF: Get him, B!
NICK: Here he comes, Brandan.
Hold on. Wait for it.
- Nail him!
- CLIFF: Get him, B!
NICK: Nice. Tail gaff.
Hold on. Let me swing him into you.
Head gaff him. Let me have that.
Get your other gaff.
Crank on the reel, Cliff.
CLIFF: I got it.
NICK: All right. Here we go.
Right side of me.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
BRANDAN: I gotcha.
CLIFF: Pull it tight. Pull that tight.
All right, boys!
Hey! Hey! B! Hey, B.
BRANDAN: Yes, baby.
NICK: Buttonholed him, baby.
CLIFF: We got one!
Point me towards the west!
Yeah, baby!
BRANDAN: Yes! Yes!
NICK: Hey, boys! Hey, boys!
- BRANDAN: We needed that.
- NICK: Yeah, baby!
- BRANDAN: Yes, baby!
- NICK: Yeah, baby!
(upbeat music)
♪ ♪
We got one.
TREY: That officially
puts us in last place.
JIMMIE: All we can do is
keep trying at this point.
We're so far into the hole,
but we're kind of in a bad spot.
But we got to get out of it.
BRANDAN: I got him, pull.
NICK: Feels good to be
going home with a tuna.
Thank you, Hog Wild.
CLIFF: All right, I got this.
BRANDAN: Put him down.
CLIFF: He is bigger than you think
BRANDAN: Damn, I didn't
think he was like that.
CLIFF: How big is he, boys?
NICK: What do we got?
BRANDAN: 99 1/2 inches.
NICK: 99 1/2, boys. All right!
BRANDAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah, baby!
CLIFF: Pretty work, boys. Pretty work.
NICK: Good job. All right, boys.
One more for the Little Shell.
CLIFF: We have got fish number five.
And that puts us right back in contention.
Right back in the game,
we're coming back home, boys.
(dramatic music)
(ticking)
♪ ♪
ADAM: Really cutting this one
here to the wire.
ERIC: Yeah, it's gonna be
come flying in there in reverse.
ADAM: Here comes Scotty, my hero.
Scotty's coming down here right now
to tag our fish before 12:00.
The buyer's tag is
the official cutoff point.
JOHN-MICHAEL: Hold the clock up.
SCOTT: You guys had,
like, minutes to spare.
- ADAM: Minutes?
- SCOTT: Minutes.
ADAM: Well, we made it. Happy, happy.
SCOTT: All right, let's do it.
(upbeat music)
ADAM: That's all we need right there.
♪ ♪
So what do we got, Scott?
SCOTT: 338 pounds dressed.
- ERIC: 338.
- ADAM: Nice.
SCOTT: So how about we take a tail cut
and core and check this thing out?
- ADAM: Sounds great.
- SCOTT: Let's do it.
(dramatic music)
ADAM: All right.
I'm excited about this one.
SCOTT: Well, it does have a lot of fat,
but if you look really closely,
it does have a little bit
of rainbow in this fish.
ADAM: Mm-hmm.
SCOTT: You know, it's hard to see.
It's not too bad.
Other than that, this fish is good.
So if this core is good,
then you guys get a solid price.
Good.
ADAM: So what are you thinking, Scotty?
SCOTT: Bottom line, we'll get you...
♪ ♪
9 bucks a pound.
ADAM: I'll take it all day long.
SCOTT: I'll let you guys get outta here.
I guess we'll see you
in three or four or five hours.
JOHN-MICHAEL: 10 to 12 for us.
ADAM: We got work to do,
so have a good evening.
SCOTT: See you later, guys.
ADAM: That's why we do this,
to bring home the bacon.
At least we got an opportunity
to get back out there
and get another one and stay
in this competition.
JOHN-MICHAEL:
Slow and steady.
(solemn music)
GREG: It looks like
Little Jimmie stayed out here all night.
Jimmie's already lost two.
BILLON: Has he set out trolling yet,
or those are drifters bites?
GREG: No, he's still drifting.
BILLON: Gotcha.
GREG: Everybody knows
Big Jim on the Hog Wild.
He was at the forefront of the fleet
every year for 30 years.
But really, that's not one of the boats
I'm worried about.
Experience will always out-fish youth.
And Little Jimmie's just a kid.
JIMMIE: All right,
it's coming down.
Ah! Ah!
(laughs)
Ah!
Trey, take this.
I just thought I was gonna die
for a second.
Ah!
Just hoping
that we would get a drift bite,
but start trolling,
maybe we'll get one like that.
Crank this stuff up. Start trolling.
All right, all right,
all right, all right.
All right.
TREY: What?
(reel clicking)
JIMMIE: Look at the pole.
(dramatic music)
What? What? What?
Hold on.
- TREY: What?
- JIMMIE: Hold on.
There's one! There's one!
JIMMIE: We got him on!
(laughs)
- JIMMIE: All right.
- TREY: What?
JIMMIE: Look at the pole!
(dramatic music)
What? What? What? Hold on.
- TREY: What?
- JIMMIE: Hold on.
There's one! There's one!
We got him on!
(laughter)
Well, just about to crank our--
just about to crank our drifting stuff up.
We got him on,
so we need to make this one count.
You wanna crank?
(upbeat music)
♪ ♪
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Goodness gracious, look at that face.
TREY: So out of shape, man.
JIMMIE: It's a little bit
nicer to have an extra arm.
That's why we're gonna
miss Ellis here, so...
we're gonna have to work a little bit
of overtime on this fish, you know.
It's less people here, so...
one more person to crank,
one more person to just do everything.
So we're gonna have to be on our A-game
here when he gets close.
TREY: We got this. Me and Jimmie got this.
There's the weight, Jimmie.
Cut it, cut it, cut, cut it.
Slack!
JIMMIE: Swing it to me.
Carrying on.
All right, the weights are off.
I did not know...
(dramatic music)
TREY: Easy!
What the (bleep)
is he doing?!
JIMMIE: Tight?
- TREY: There we go. We're tight.
- JIMMIE: Okay.
TREY: Wanna switch out now?
JIMMIE: Yeah.
Oh, that was a tense moment there, Trey.
TREY: He came up like a missile.
See how fast he came up?
JIMMIE: Yeah, I was like, "Oh boy."
TREY: God, he just wanted
to come breathe some air.
JIMMIE: Yeah, scary
when they come up like that.
Got a bunch of slack line.
Feel like you might lose him.
He's gonna come up and do it again.
Flop around on top again.
TREY: I don't like it
when they do that crap.
- JIMMIE: Wow.
- TREY: That was fast.
JIMMIE: Fast one.
He's quick, man. Zipper.
TREY: Did you see how fast
that cut through the water?
JIMMIE: I saw it.
I think it's a nice fish.
Trey, here.
See his wake?
TREY: I didn't see it.
JIMMIE: He's up on top
over there just swimming around.
See him?
He's got his back shoved out of the water.
He's just rolling over and giving up.
TREY: I don't know.
JIMMIE: Let's see
what we'll find out here.
Ooh, baby. Come on, baby.
Please, please, please, please, please.
Oh. He's angry now.
Got him straight up and down
kind of where we want him,
and now he's angry.
We finally got him going
around in a pinwheel,
so let's just hope he stays connected.
TREY: I see him down there. I got color.
JIMMIE: There he is.
That's a really nice fish.
(exciting music)
TREY: There he is again.
JIMMIE: Hope we make this one count.
♪ ♪
TREY: Got him?
I got a gaff.
Contact. Come on.
Whoo! We got him!
Yeah!
JIMMIE: This fish has got a terrible scar.
Not what you want, but a fish is a fish.
-(seagull cries)
- TREY: No! Not yours, this is mine!
(Jimmie laughs)
- JIMMIE: You ready?
- TREY: Yup. Go.
JIMMIE: Doghouse and the Frenzy,
only two boats out here
that have not had a bite yet, so...
it's stuff like this
that's gonna show these guys
even though we're young,
we've got what it takes to compete.
TREY: All right. He's pretty long.
JIMMIE: He's bigger than I thought he was.
Let's see how long he is.
TREY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: 101. Heck yeah, man.
Whoo! All right.
We were shorthanded today
and we got him anyway.
Feeling good about it.
(upbeat rock music)
NICK: Feels good
to be going home with a tuna.
You know, we're not
the lowest boat anymore.
Here we are again, man. How about it?
You want to get him up there
and take a look at him?
- SCOTT: Yeah, we can do that.
- NICK: All right, let's do it, man.
SCOTT: Let's do it.
♪ ♪
CLIFF: What's the weight, Scotty?
SCOTT: You're looking
at 386 pounds dressed.
- NICK: Nice, nice.
- CLIFF: All right.
- NICK: Let's go look at him.
- SCOTT: Definitely.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
All right, boys.
- NICK: Yeah, good-looking fish.
- SCOTT: It is. It's a nice one.
Even though it's a little bit skinny,
but, I mean, it's loaded with fat.
- NICK: Yeah.
- SCOTT: You got him just in time.
- NICK: Nice.
- SCOTT: He was filling right up.
See that nice split in here?
That's all stomach fat right in here.
And then you got the majors
you can see here.
It's just loaded.
It's all spider webbed around the minors.
It's all-around good fish.
- BRANDAN: Awesome.
- CLIFF: Really? That's good news.
SCOTT: As long as this core is good,
you guys are gonna be
in some good shape here.
NICK: Beautiful. Beautiful.
SCOTT: Yeah. This fish is loaded.
- NICK: Nice.
- SCOTT: A lot of fat in it.
- NICK: Cool, man.
- SCOTT: Yup.
You guys are looking at...
- 15 bucks a pound.
-(all cheering)
- NICK: All right, guys!
- BRANDAN: That's awesome.
NICK: Finally got a good one.
Thank you, man.
We're gonna try to get you another one.
- Thank you.
- SCOTT: All right. See you later.
BRANDAN: $15 a pound.
We got families.
We can't ask for nothing better.
It's been a slow start,
but, you know, a train takes a while
to get it going,
and we're starting to get that momentum.
-NICK: One closer to the top.
-(seagull cries)
(upbeat music)
JIMMIE: Number five.
We're coming for Bobby.
DENNIS: Biblical conditions.
TREY: Dennis, let me tell you what.
It wasn't choppy.
It wasn't sporty. It was rough.
JIMMIE: Yeah. We got him, though.
DENNIS: It looks like a nice little fish.
JIMMIE: He's got a great big scar
on his other side.
I was gonna take anything today.
DENNIS: Let's check it out.
JIMMIE:
We're missing Ellis today,
so just me and Trey
and kind of going into that
knowing it was gonna be a little bit
tougher with just the two of us.
You know, it's a big boat.
There's a lot going on.
Some of these smaller boats can
get away with just two people,
but it's a little bit tough
on a great big boat like this,
but we made it work.
DENNIS: It looks like a killer whale
or a white shark or something got him.
♪ ♪
JIMMIE: What do we got for weight, Dennis?
DENNIS: 451 pounds dressed, Jimmie.
JIMMIE: All right, we'll take it
on a day like today.
DENNIS: Let's see how he grades out.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
All right, guys.
As you could tell before
from the scarring,
that this fish has had some trauma.
The fish is a little bit funky.
Some two-tone things going on.
That injury may have affected
the fish's ability to feed.
It does have some fat.
I see a little bit of fat.
Let's take a look at the core.
If the core is nice and red,
you know, we'll be able to do
something with this fish.
JIMMIE: Last hope.
DENNIS: It's actually a decent core.
Nice red core.
The tail color, a little funky.
A little different colors going on here,
which had me concerned.
JIMMIE: What are you thinking
for a price, Dennis?
♪ ♪
DENNIS: Obviously you could
have had a more healthy fish.
DENNIS: Nice red core.
A little different colors going on here,
which had me concerned.
JIMMIE: What are you thinking
for a price, Dennis?
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
DENNIS: Obviously, you could have had
a more healthy fish.
I'm gonna pay you $9.
JIMMIE: Okay. Cool.
That's way better than I thought.
- Thank you, Dennis.
- DENNIS: Thank you guys.
JIMMIE: We'll see you after this blow.
- TREY: Thank you, Dennis.
- DENNIS: All right, let's warm up.
JIMMIE: Tomorrow is
a really important day for us
because we've got the ball rolling;
we really can't slip up now.
I'm not nervous.
I trust my boat,
I trust my crew, I trust myself,
and I think we've got what it takes.
(solemn country music)
BOBBY: Four boats have
caught since we've been off the water.
(bleep).
Give up the lead again.
Sound familiar?
Look, when your boat goes on fire
in the ocean and you lose
$1/4 million, even with insurance,
you kinda suck it up,
you dive in, you borrow (bleep).
It's tuna season.
We'll go kill it and we'll
make it back and we'll survive.
And then, you know, ripping engines apart.
You got to be resilient, but man,
it gets harder and harder every time.
Like, right now, I'm pissed.
We're going backwards at a stunning pace.
That means we got to catch
three extra fish now, Brian.
Three more.
(country rock music)
♪ ♪
ELLIS: Hoping Bobby Bedbugs'
lead is short-lived.
JIMMIE: We're getting a late
start today because we didn't
want to leave without Ellis again.
You know, me and Trey got it done
just the two of us,
but it's definitely nice
to have Ellis back on board.
He really doesn't have a ton
of bluefin fishing experience,
but he's got experience fishing.
That's all that matters.
TREY: Think we should try a naked?
ELLIS: You want to?
Grab a crimp.
I'm gonna take the skirt off of this
and try a naked ballyhoo.
It's the most natural-looking bait
you can get.
Rigging it with mono wire.
You want to make sure
you get your wraps tight.
Make sure your hook can
swing freely in there.
You want to push that meat
ever so slightly off his back
to give his tail a little break.
Wiggle him around a little bit,
and then that tail just swims free
when he gets in the water.
♪ ♪
- JIMMIE: Wow.
-(beeping)
It's about the 97th one I've seen
in the last 30 minutes.
ELLIS: Can't be tunas.
JIMMIE: I think it's tunas.
ELLIS: They just want to eat.
JIMMIE: They'd be like that sometimes.
That's tunas.
That ain't gonna be sharks
in a ball like that.
ELLIS: Yeah.
JIMMIE: How cool would it be
to get a bite right now?
ELLIS: Uh-huh.
(reel unspooling rapidly)
- Long rigger!
- JIMMIE: Long rigger! Long rigger!
(all cheering)
Hooked up on Ellis' naked ballyhoo.
All right, got him on.
779-551.
BRANDAN: Right there!
NICK: I see 'em.
(all cheering)
GREG: Jimmie's got him on.
- BILLON: Who does?
- GREG: Jimmie.
BILLON: Jimmie? Jimmie got a bite.
BRITTON: We've been out here
for days,
and Little Jimmie's got
his second fish on.
Ooh, wee.
ADAM: Jimmie just hooked up.
- ERIC: What?
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Jimmie just hooked up.
ADAM: Just saw him right here.
Where's he at?
- JOHN-MICHAEL: He's right behind us.
- DANIEL: Yeah. Good job.
ZACK: Good job. Way to get it done.
JIMMIE: All right, baby!
Come on. Let's not lose this one.
Oh, baby, we need this one.
Please, please, please.
TREY: I got your glove.
- ELLIS: Come on.
- TREY: He still on there?
ELLIS: Yeah. He's just being psycho.
Whoo! Come on, you rascal.
JIMMIE: We cannot lose this fish.
Too much on the line.
ELLIS: You ready, Jimmie?
JIMMIE: Yeah. Now we need to move holders.
(upbeat music)
♪ ♪
(dramatic music)
JIMMIE: Getting a little bit closer here.
Starting to act a little bit mean now,
so...
Cross our fingers. We need this one bad.
ELLIS: You get burned out, give it to me.
JIMMIE: Want to switch?
Crank.
♪ ♪
There's your leader.
ELLIS: Get ready.
JIMMIE: I don't like where that line is.
TREY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: I'm scared about that line.
ELLIS: Watch him right off the stern.
JIMMIE: Right here.
Might get a shot, there.
There he is.
Watch out, watch out,
watch out, watch out.
The dart just fell out of him.
- ELLIS: Trey.
- TREY: Yeah.
ELLIS: You still got the dart in there.
TREY: Okay.
JIMMIE: What the (bleep)?
I know I hit it.
I saw it stop,
and he took off with the line,
and I didn't even pull on it
and it pulled out.
I guess I hit him
in the bone or something.
TREY: Is it sharp?
JIMMIE: Kind of.
I am not what I used to be
with this dart pole.
Keep our head in the game here.
We need this one too bad.
I just need to calm down.
I'm too stressed out.
Come on, baby. Please stay on there.
Man, I wish this pole
was on the other side.
I can't do much with him like this.
- TREY: You ready?
- ELLIS: Yeah.
TREY: He's taking some line,
so crank a little bit.
- Crank.
- ELLIS: Which one are you going to?
TREY: This one right here.
That's right.
JIMMIE: I'm a nervous wreck.
A lot more gain now, isn't it?
TREY: A lot.
♪ ♪
TREY: Leader coming up.
- ELLIS: Yeah. There he is.
- TREY: There's the fish.
- ELLIS: There he is.
- JIMMIE: I'm gonna be patient here.
ELLIS: Get you a good shot.
♪ ♪
Stick 'im.
That's got him.
JIMMIE: That one ain't coming out.
- TREY: Where's his head at?
- JIMMIE: Oh.
He's pissed!
I'm glad I shoved it in there.
Ah!
TREY: He didn't like that too good.
JIMMIE: Put the port motor in gear, Trey.
- TREY: Forward?
- JIMMIE: When I tell you to.
When I tell you to.
We got the dart in him.
Go ahead a little bit, Trey.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
I said just a little bit.
TREY: Sorry.
JIMMIE: Dart just pulled out of him.
Oh, my God.
(Jimmie groans)
JIMMIE: Dart just pulled out of him.
(Jimmie groans)
We look like idiots.
(dramatic music)
Look like one. Feel like one.
Never came off the pole.
Somehow it came unclipped.
God bless it, dude.
ELLIS: God, he's a mean bastard.
JIMMIE: There he is.
What the (bleep) is that?
I thought it was him.
You get him?
- ELLIS: Get your head gaff, Trey.
- TREY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: Get your gaff. Are you kidding me?
The dart came out again?
Get me a new (bleep) dart or something.
I don't even know what to say.
♪ ♪
TREY: He's got a Kevlar vest on
or something.
JIMMIE: Do we got the leader on the reel?
ELLIS: Yeah, he's very close.
Come here, big boy.
See him?
He's right there.
Here he comes.
- JIMMIE: Swivel.
- TREY: All right.
- JIMMIE: Trey.
- TREY: Yeah.
- ELLIS: You ready? All ready?
- TREY: I'm ready whenever.
- ELLIS: He's right here.
- JIMMIE: I can't see. I can't see.
I can't see him in the bubbles.
ELLIS: Got him right here.
Stick him in the head.
JIMMIE: We got the dart in him.
TREY: Fourth time's a charm, Jimmie.
ELLIS: Gaff the (bleep) in the head
or the tail or whatever.
JIMMIE: Where's the fish?
TREY:
He's under the boat.
He's under the boat!
JIMMIE: Back the drag off, Ellis.
Back the drag off, Ellis.
TREY: He's out.
He's out. He's out. He's out.
JIMMIE: He's out. He's out. Lock it up.
TREY: He just came right up
underneath the boat.
ELLIS: Somebody gaff this son of a bitch.
TREY: Here he comes.
JIMMIE: Nothing crazy. Nothing crazy.
I don't want to do this again.
Give me another gaff.
Give me another gaff in his head.
Right in his head.
All right. I'm gonna get his tail.
- TREY: Where's his tail at?
- JIMMIE: Get his tail, Trey.
Get his tail.
- TREY: You got him?
- JIMMIE: Yeah.
TREY: You are a (bleep).
JIMMIE: Oh, my God.
- TREY: We got his ass.
- JIMMIE: Cleat him off.
(all cheering)
- JIMMIE: We're going home!
- ELLIS: Oh, man.
JIMMIE: God, he was a (bleep).
Little Shell?
NICK: Yo.
JIMMIE: Dart pulled
out of him five different times.
Mean as (bleep).
NICK: Did you get him?
JIMMIE:
Done. He's on the cleat.
- JOHN-MICHAEL: Did he get him?
- ERIC: Yeah.
(upbeat music)
Pretty work, sir. Pretty work.
BRITTON: Little Jimmie
caught a fish.
Pretty work.
GREG: He's actually doing
better than we are.
So definitely keep an eye on him.
Pretty work on your tuna.
NICK: Pretty work,
that's all that matters.
A lot of people say
Jimmie's inexperienced, but in reality,
Jimmie's been a captain
longer than I have.
He's been around that boat
since he was 17.
He's got a lot more experience
than people give him credit for.
And he's out here proving it
to the entire fleet.
(grunting)
JIMMIE: Oh, a big one.
ELLIS: He is a big (bleep), isn't he?
JIMMIE: Oh, it's a big one.
TREY: It's nice having a third hand
and all that.
JIMMIE: Yeah! Momma thick.
- TREY: What is he?
- JIMMIE: 103.
- ELLIS: Nice fish there.
- JIMMIE: Fat one.
- ELLIS: He's fat.
- JIMMIE: Mean as hell.
TREY: We're going home!
JIMMIE: This is our
second fish in two days.
I think we've got these guys' attention.
ELLIS: That was a good dart shot, Jimmie.
- TREY: Which one?
-(laughter)
ELLIS: The one that stuck.
♪ ♪
JIMMIE: We're back.
(Jimmie sighs)
MARY: Welcome back, fellas.
- All right. Another hog for the Hog Wild.
- JIMMIE: That's right.
MARY: Let's get him up here
and take a look.
JIMMIE: Can't wait to see what you think.
♪ ♪
What do we got for weight?
MARY: 603 pounds, guys.
- ELLIS: All right.
- JIMMIE: All right, 600-pounder.
- We'll take it.
- ELLIS: That's a stud.
- TREY: Butterball right there.
- MARY: Really is.
JIMMIE: I can't wait
to see what you think.
MARY: All right,
let's take a look at the tail.
(dramatic music)
All righty.
Here's what you're looking at.
I like the color,
and I do see a little bit of fat here.
He's looking pretty good.
JIMMIE: Sounds good.
MARY: And what a great shape, so...
JIMMIE: Yeah.
MARY: Check this out.
That is spectacular.
It is very pretty. I like this fish.
JIMMIE: What are we thinking for a price?
MARY: I'm thinking we can do...
♪ ♪
$10 a pound.
- ELLIS: All right.
- JIMMIE: All right, $10. Double digits.
- ELLIS: Nice.
- MARY: Yeah.
JIMMIE: All right, we needed that.
MARY: Picking it up
in the right direction.
- JIMMIE: Big fish.
- ELLIS: Biggest fish, best price.
- MARY: And it was a big multiplier.
- JIMMIE: Yes. We'll see you tomorrow.
MARY: Don't let up. See you guys tomorrow.
- ELLIS: Thank you, Miss Mary.
- MARY: Good job.
TREY: Thank you, Miss Mary.
JIMMIE: We're out here
catching fish.
Things are going good.
It feels good to open
all these old timers' eyes up
that just because I'm young,
doesn't mean they don't have
to look out for me.
I was crying a couple weeks ago.
I was doubting myself
there for a little bit,
but you know how it is.
All that time not catching a fish,
but here we are.
We're going in the right direction.
We're catching up.
We got our ball rolling.
(upbeat music)
NARRATOR: Hog Wild's
two-fish haul catapults them
ahead of most of the competition.
But it isn't enough to keep
Offshore Outlaw out of the top spot.
And paydays
for Rasta Rocket and Little Shell
put them ahead of Fishin' Frenzy,
who drops to last place.
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