NARRATOR: For the past six years.
DAVE: (bleep) the hell could go wrong! (bleep) you!
It's a tough battle over here.
NARRATOR: No captain has had worse luck.
JAY: If we didn't have bad luck, we had no (bleep) luck at all.
DAVE: It's like getting a black eye from Mother Nature.
JAY: We're gonna hit!
NARRATOR: Than Dave Marciano.
DAVE: Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.
NARRATOR: And now, as the rest of the fleet bank more Bluefin buck.
TIM: We're on! We're on! We're on! We're on!
DAVE C: Here we go. We got him! TYLER: Whoo!
NARRATOR: Can Dave and his kids.
DAVE: Come on, fish.
NARRATOR: Land their first paycheck of the season?
JOE: Oh we're on! We're on! We're on!
DAVE: That mark is showing me an 800-pound fish.
JOE: Come on.
ANGELICA: Give up already!
NARRATOR: This, DAVE C: Let's go.
JOE: Color! DAVE: Stick him!
NARRATOR: Is Wicked Tuna.
DAVE: Bottom line, either luck's with you or it's against you.
NARRATOR: At the start of week three of fishing, the young do on Pinwheel are off to a hot
start with four fish.
Meanwhile, family operation Hard Merchandise is the only boat
that has not landed a Keeper Bluefin this season.
(music)
JOE: All right. Well, this one's ready to go. DAVE: All right.
I'll pick the bait this time.
Ooh, that looks like a tasty one.
I've had seasons where we didn't land a single Keeper and it was devastating
to work so hard for nothing.
All right, you can start on that.
There's no way I can let that happen this season.
What do you got going on in here?
ANGELICA: That's either, is that your fish?
DAVE: Yeah, that's our bait.
ANGELICA: And then is that also your bait? DAVE: Yup.
ANGELICA: Most people, at the end of the week, they know a paycheck is coming.
We've worked just as hard,
but you can't count on that paycheck every week
to pay the bills, to feed your family.
This is how it's always been with my dad.
JOE: What's she saying?
DAVE: She was seeing our bait. JOE: Oh.
DAVE: She just wasn't sure.
JOE: My dad's under a lot of pressure right now, but it just takes landing that first Bluefin
of the season to start changing things in the right direction.
DAVE: It's really a game of patience right now.
JOE: Come on.
DAVE: The longer we go without a fish, the longer we go without a check.
There's a fish coming up. Coming up! Coming up.
Come on.
Come on, fish, bite it.
JOE: Bite me! DAVE: Bite me!
(laughs)
JOE: Come on.
DAVE: He's all over it. ANGELICA: Which one? DAVE: That inside one!
JOE: Come on!
Oh. Oh, we're on! We're on! We're on! We're on! We're on!
Yep, yep.
DAVE: Got him, Joe? JOE: Not yet.
DAVE: Is that him?
JOE: Yeah, it's him.
He just doesn't know he's hooked yet.
JOE: Come on, run.
Run away from me.
DAVE: Usually a big fish like that will empty the reel. JOE: Run.
DAVE: There's something definitely weird about him.
There you go. JOE: Yup.
DAVE: Let's go, up to the fight holder.
Back it up. Back it up a little so we can ease it up.
JOE: Yup.
DAVE: Okay, go ahead.
We're just gonna keep going slow and steady.
Hopefully, he's just so fat he can't swim very good.
Let me go look at the machine.
That mark is showing me an 800-pound class fish.
This could be a $15,000 or $20,000 paycheck.
JOE: Yeah, that's a tuna.
DAVE: Good job.
It's a sea monster.
JOE: He just figured out he's hooked now after an hour.
DAVE: I'll tell you one thing, this is a big fish.
Ready, Gel, you gonna get on him for a little, I'm gonna drive at him.
ANGELICA: Me? DAVE: Yup. Go ahead.
I'm gonna drive at him. JOE: Yeah, you. get on him.
It's all just pull down and reel.
DAVE: Uh, it's, uh, all right, get going. You pull and reel, that's all.
ANGELICA: I'm definitely nervous right now and I don't wanna do anything wrong.
DAVE: Pull and reel when you have to, hon. Pull and reel.
This is a big fish, yeah.
ANGELICA: But is it not tight enough?
DAVE: No, it's fine. There you go.
All right, I gotcha. I gotcha. ANGELICA: You got it? Okay.
Here you go. DAVE: Yeah, I got it. JOE: Good job.
ANGELICA: With all this talk about an 800-pound tuna, I'm not the one who wants to be
on the line right now being as inexperienced as I am.
DAVE: The only way you're gonna get experience. ANGELICA: Yeah.
DAVE: Is to do it with us. ANGELICA: Yeah, I know.
DAVE: If I didn't have faith in you, I wouldn't give you a shot.
ANGELICA: Thanks.
DAVE: This jumbo fish could be Angelica's first.
JOE: We'll be here all night if we have to.
DAVE: Gonna be here all night long.
It's like a stalemate.
Ready Joe? JOE: Yeah.
DAVE: Just like we've been doing slow and steady even.
I'd really like to put this fish on the boat for the kids.
We'll all make a nice paycheck.
Come on, tuna.
ANGELICA: We've been on this fish for four hours.
We need this fish. We're so far behind, so I'm hoping that we get this fish in soon.
DAVE: Here it is, right on the screen.
That's a jumbo tuna mark.
I'm betting this is one of the biggest fish of the season.
He's trying to pull the boat upwind and up current.
We want him to do that.
That will tire him out.
But we're just gonna keep this slow, steady tension on that rod and hopefully over time,
it's gonna wear him down.
DAVE: Come on, fish.
(music)
Wow.
This is a tough fish.
(music)
ANGELICA: There's no magic, there's no secret, you just have to wait and not (bleep) up
and that's so stressful.
(music)
JOE: Doing great.
ANGELICA: Good job. You got this.
ANGELICA: I'm a little nervous honestly.
We've been on this fish for about seven hours.
The stakes are pretty high, we're still at 50 feet.
He's really not showing signs of getting tired and, um. DAVE: And there he goes again.
ANGELICA: And it's, uh, getting really frustrating. Yeah.
DAVE: Entire header off the rod again. (bleep).
You're kidding me!
JOE: It's a really big one.
We got a quick look at him at the boat, but he's not done yet.
DAVE: There's just no way to land this thing.
Can't put any more heat on it.
Can't budge it, but we really need it.
Here you go, Joe.
ANGELICA: There he is.
DAVE: Might get a shot at him, guys.
Reel, reel, reel.
JOE: Oh. Pulled the hook. DAVE: Huh?
JOE: Pulled the hook. DAVE: Ugh. (bleep)!
Well, that was a waste of a day.
Keep reeling.
Pulled the hook.
JOE: So much for a good season for us.
ANGELICA: I was not prepared to be as emotionally attached as I was to a fish that I've never
met before in my life.
We did everything right and we still lost this fish.
DAVE: Pulled the hook.
Seven and a half hours.
Had to be at least an 800-pounder.
MATT: Uh-oh.
That don't sound good.
BRAD: No way.
TYLER: When you're not catching fish, it just flat out stinks.
We've all had tough runs.
It comes with it, it's part of it.
You just got to keep going through the motions.
I know Dave's gonna get his. He's a good fisherman.
PAUL: That sucks.
It's sad.
He needs every fish, man.
Holy (bleep)
SANDRO: Oh. Ouch.
BRAD: That sucks. That's terrible. Wow.
GEORDIE: Bummer.
DAVE: (bleep).
When you lose a big fish after a long time, those ones haunt you for the rest of your life.
(music)
TJ: You guys ready to roll or what?
JARRETT: Yup.
TJ: I just wanna prove that we can lead the fleet and that we can take this thing
and that we can be a competitor.
No more middle of the pack. No more bottoming.
That's not happening this year.
Just keep on grinding, man, we're right there.
We got off to a great start this season as one of the top earning boats.
Right now, we're in second place, but we don't plan on staying there for long.
We've got my dad and my nephew Danny coming with us this trip.
TIM: What's up, gentlemen? DANIEL: Hey.
JARRETT: Yeah. What's going on, guys?
TJ: You bring some good luck, buddy?
DANIEL: Yeah, myself. MIKE: Oh, yeah. (laughs)
How you doing? Get on.
Every time Daniel's onboard, we catch fish.
He's a very good luck charm to us.
Woo-ho!
TJ: You got him, Danny.
TIM: There's your first tuna, brother!
TJ: You got him, baby. DANIEL: Welcome aboard.
TIM: He wants to pull on one this year, too.
TJ: Yeah, you wanna turn the rod this year? DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: You think you're capable of that?
Let me see your muscles.
Eh. TIM: Whoa. Wow.
DANIEL: The last two years I helped my uncles and my grandpa catch two big Bluefin,
but I never got to crank on the rod before.
TJ: Are you ready to roll?
DANIEL: Yeah, ready to rock and roll. TJ: Ready to go?
DANIEL: But now that I'm 10, I wanna show them that I'm a real fisherman.
I can do it if they just give me a chance.
What's up?
Pa-pow!
DAVE C: Some life here today.
I'm looking at a whale right here coming at us.
GEORDIE: Now it looks like he's gonna come up right in the bubbles there.
DAVE C: Wow, look at that.
Lots of bait here.
Some whales, marks.
This season...
DAVE C: He's gone. GEORDIE: Pulled the hook.
DAVE C: We got off to a bad start.
Damn, it's a short.
This is so painful.
But almost two weeks into fishing, we finally landed our first keeper tuna.
SANDRO: Woo-hoo. Finally.
DAVE C: So, now it's only a matter of time before we get back on top where we belong.
Sit and wait.
SANDRO: Wicked bummer, man.
We have some catching up to do, but when we're on our game, nobody in the fleet can stop us.
GEORDIE: Oh, there's a fish. DAVE C: Come on. GEORDIE: There's one.
DAVE C: There it is.
Oh, yeah, it's streaking right down on the down rod.
Turn around, baby. Come on.
SANDRO: Oh, he's turning, coming back out.
DAVE C: Oh, yeah. He's on the bow rod, too.
Man, look at that.
He's got to be at least 500 pounds.
GEORDIE: One seventy going down. DAVE C: Go back up.
GEORDIE: We're all over him. DAVE C: Oh, come on. Come on.
GEORDIE: It's still there. Bow. Bow! Bow! Bow! Bow!
DAVE C: We're on, we're on!
SANDRO: Bow. We're on! We're on! Start it up!
GEORDIE: Let me know what you need.
DAVE C: I'm okay.
We're on. Dot Com special.
Man, look at that.
Getting into the Dacron.
SANDRO: Oh, we got a runner up here, huh? DAVE C: Let's go.
Geordie, get on the controls.
SANDRO: I got this.
DAVE C: Neutral!
SANDRO: Got it.
DAVE C: What are you doing?
DAVE C: Unbelievable.
GEORDIE: I got you. You're clear in the back.
DAVE C: It's a big boy right here.
SANDRO: We need a big boy.
DAVE C: He's pulling hard.
SANDRO: Got him on there.
Uh, this fish got a lot of line out.
DAVE C: Bump it in and out.
SANDRO: Easy. Easy. Easy.
DAVE C: Reverse.
A little faster.
Bring the stern to the starboard.
Keep going, stop the boat.
Coming right up.
He's not too far away now!
Sanch, go get the harpoon shot, we'll do it up here.
SANDRO: Harpoon shots are a lot easier back there.
It's easier to harpoon the fish from the back than the bow, because you actually leverage
yourself when you throw the harpoon and your accuracy will be a lot better.
DAVE C: I'll pass it to you, you're up.
DAVE C: You ready?
DAVE C: I'll see you around back all right? SANDRO: Yup.
DAVE C: Be careful.
SANDRO: Ha-ha.
DAVE C: Watch your step. Big swell.
GEORDIE: He's running away!
DAVE C: Oh my God. We're gonna lose it!
SANDRO: If the wind comes up and you go in, you're in.
DAVE C: I'll see you around back, all right? SANDRO: Yup.
DAVE C: Be careful.
SANDRO: Ha-ha.
DAVE C: Watch your step, big swell!
SANDRO: He's running away!
SANDRO: It's getting hard.
DAVE C: Grab his belt buckle. GEORDIE: Okay.
SANDRO: Come on, grab me. DAVE C: Yup.
SANDRO: You got me good? GEORDIE: Yup.
DAVE C: Go right in the corner here.
GEORDIE: Might see him out here in a second.
DAVE C: Try and stop us now.
Looks like he's squaring up now. I feel him paddling again.
GEORDIE: Swivels at the water. DAVE C: Okay.
Whoa. Might get a shot.
Here he comes. Here he comes right here.
His that bastard.
GEORDIE: He's coming across under.
DAVE C: I think you hurt him.
DAVE C: Same thing.
Reverse. Get him. Hard in reverse. Hard in reverse. Hit him. Here we go!
GEORDIE: Coming right at you, Sandro. Barn door.
DAVE C: Oh, yeah.
Go right, Sandro.
SANDRO: All right.
DAVE C: Oh, we got one!
That's what I'm talking about. Nice job.
GEORDIE: Nice job with that.
Got him. Nice, that's a nice fish, too.
A real gem.
DAVE C: It's beautiful.
GEORDIE: Ninety-four inches.
Not bad at all.
DAVE: We just tied one up, 500-pounder.
Dot Com is back, baby, watch out!
Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda.
We stayed here and caught nothing.
(bleep).
I had high hopes but...
a waste of time.
(music)
TJ: Today's the day, baby.
The sun's just rising up here in the Gulf of Maine.
Michael's awake but Dad and Jarrett and Danny are still asleep.
I would like nothing more than to wake them up with a screaming reel.
It'd be the perfect alarm clock.
We've got to catch fish.
Every trip we make where we're successful, this thing could be ours.
Come on, big Bluefin, baby, come on.
Where you at?
There's a mark.
MIKE: Time to make the donuts.
TJ: Marked one high.
MIKE: How high?
TJ: A hundred up to fifty.
MIKE: Wow.
TIM: Oh we're on! We're on, baby!
MIKE: There he is. We're on. TJ: Dad, we're on!
(music)
Michael, don't worry about it, get the anchor. Get the anchor.
Get it on.
Anchor, Michael, anchor.
Jarrett, rod.
DANIEL: There's nothing better in the whole world than waking up to a screaming reel.
MIKE: Watch the anchor line.
TIM: Go ahead. Keep going. Back, back, back, back, back.
He's going towards you. He's going towards you. Keep coming back.
Go ahead. Now, okay. Keep going back, TJ.
Got to get away from this anchor, buddy.
Yeah, keep coming back, come on.
Watch it.
Watch it, Dany.
All right, we're clear. We're clear.
Yeah, it's acting like a tuna fish.
DANIEL: My family has let me do a lot of stuff on the boat, but never crank on the rod.
That's what I want to do, so I really caught my own tuna.
TIM: We got to get this first one in the boat, pal.
Ready, Jarrett? JARRETT: Yup.
TIM: You all right, buddy?
DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: Daniel is absolutely bummed and I totally understand it.
But, this is not the one to break him in on.
This fish is wild, we're not gonna sacrifice thousands of dollars.
So, hopefully we get another bite and let him get on that one.
TIM: Got him at a 100 feet.
JARRETT: Pretty decent-sized fish.
Took a couple good runs.
He's settling in.
He's down deep and, uh, it's a, it's a fight, man.
TJ: Definitely circling. JARRETT: Woo-hoo.
Color. MIKE: There he is.
There he is Dan, back up.
TJ: Okay, here, dad.
There he is!
Stick him!
Got him. TIM: I got him. I got him.
Get the rail rope. Come on, Daniel.
TJ: You wanna put the tail rope on him? DANIEL: Yeah.
TJ: All right, Danny. Come here, buddy.
TIM: Watch that tail.
I don't want you to hurt your hand.
DANIEL: I got it. TIM: I know you do.
TJ: Get it on that side first, okay?
TIM: You got it. Just pull, pull, pull.
MIKE: You got him, Dan. TJ: You got him, Dan.
TIM: Good job, buddy.
Woo! TJ: Woo-hoo. Pa-pow!
JARRETT: Nice work, buddy. TIM: Very good. Nice.
TJ: Right on! Nice.
Good job, buddy.
TIM: The good luck charm.
Here he comes, Dan. MIKE: Woo-hoo, Dan.
TJ: All right. TIM: Nice. Hello.
JARRETT: Dan, you wanna get a measurement on it?
DANIEL: Yes.
JARRETT: Here we go, the moment of truth.
TJ: What do we got? MIKE: What do we got?
DANIEL: Eighty-six inches. TIM: Beautiful.
MIKE: Nice. JARRETT: All right.
TJ: Good job, buddy.
DANIEL: I'm glad I got to tail rope this fish, but I wish I could have reeled it in.
TIM: Come on, Dan.
DANIEL: Can I reel next time?
TIM: We'll see, buddy.
DAVE C: We're on a roll now, boys.
We got one for you. LUKE: Let's check him out.
DAVE C: We got off to an unusually slow start this season,
but now we've hit our stride.
It's important that we get big money for this fish, so we can start catching up to the other
boats that started strong.
LUKE: Four hundred fifty pounds.
DAVE C: Cha-ching.
The buyer's looking for fat content and the color.
The more fat, the better the price.
LUKE: Well, I'll tell you it's a good-looking fish.
Got a lot of fat here on the edges.
It's nice and oily, the color's good.
DAVE C: What are you thinking on this one?
Come on, we got to score on this one.
LUKE: I'm thinking
20 dollars a pound. DAVE C: Mm. Hey. That's awesome.
SANDRO: Big money. Beautiful. DAVE C: Huge. That's good.
We couldn't be happier.
This 9,000-dollar paycheck puts us one step closer to where we belong.
On top.
Let's go get another one.
The clock is ticking.
(music)
TYLER: If there was a fashion show out here, bro, I'd take the cake.
I'm a, I'm a clasher, you know.
I just, I wear my own stuff.
I'm, I got patterns, patches, tie-dyes, sunglasses.
I mean, I am, psh, a little bit of Gilligan, a little bit of Grateful Dead.
Who's fresher than me out here, bro?
TYLER: Right now everyone in the fleet's out fishing.
So, the competition is game on.
We were sitting on top of the world at the beginning of this week as the top earning boat
in the fleet.
The only boat to have caught four Bluefin.
But, so far this week Dot Com caught a jumbo and had a big payday.
And earlier today, Hot Tuna landed their fourth fish of the season.
If we wanna establish ourselves as the top producer this season,
we got to be tying tails to the back of the boat.
Now we've got Fish Hawk nearby.
We've got to worry about him, too.
That's why I'm a little bit nervous.
Like Brad's sitting on two fish, he could easily catch two more.
I mean, there's a lot going on.
So, just gonna make sure we stay on top of it.
All right, let's make it happen, Duffy.
DUFFY: Aye-aye, cap.
BRAD: Clean these lines.
We're gonna clean, clean the lines.
Look at this stuff.
This is the slime.
We have slime balls on our line.
We have slime balls in back of us.
We have them everywhere.
We're off to a good start this season.
We've got two fish so far.
We're in third place. We need to work hard to keep up.
Because we need to make up some ground.
Hot Tuna got one. Tyler's ahead of us.
We need to catch a fish to, to catch up with him.
We need to stay on top of our game this year because Matt and I, we're gonna win this thing.
We're definitely trying.
We just need a tuna. Come on, tuna.
TYLER: Whoa!
Quarters, Duffy.
We got tunas coming over.
TYLER: We're marking some nice fish. Beautiful.
BRAD: Oh, there he is. MATT: Where?
BRAD: Right down there. MATT: Oh yeah.
TYLER: Ah! We're ready for you. Take a bite.
MATT: Show me the tuna.
BRAD: Come on, tuna. Let's go.
TYLER: Marking 'em. Marking 'em!
He's chasing the herring.
(music)
MATT: I'm dying for this rod to go off.
(music)
TYLER: We're on!
We're on!
MATT: Fish on! Fish on!
BRAD: We got a nice tuna on. MATT: Fish on! Fish on!
TYLER: Got 'em on! We just had a bite right here.
He's gonna go screaming away from us any second.
The one we need, baby.
Line going out.
Pinwheel, baby.
Here it comes, Duffy.
DUFFY: Oh.
It's cold.
Big fish.
Big runs.
He's swimming like a bastard.
TYLER: Big fish here. Definitely knows what he's doing.
He's changing directions.
He's old, he's been around for a while.
I'm sure this is not the first time he's been hooked.
DUFFY: Oh, God, he's going crazy.
He's coming your way, T.
TYLER: Reel, reel, reel. Go, Duffy.
DUFFY: Don't let him go under the boat, bro.
Ah!
's going crazy.
He's coming your way, T.
TYLER: Reel, reel, reel. Go, Duffy.
DUFFY: Don't let him go under the boat.
Ah!
Dude, he's still on, bro.
TYLER: Get some. Get some. Get some.
We've got four fish and Hot Tuna's got four.
But this fish could put us ahead again, if we can land it.
We need this one, bad.
Really important to keep the pressure on the rest of the fleet.
The only way we can do that is to keep on tying up tails on the back of this one.
We need this one, Duff.
MATT: Big diamond here. BRAD: Big diamond.
Big diamond.
We're gonna catch up to Hot tuna and Pinwheel and we're gonna get into the top spot.
Uh-oh. There he goes, look at him. MATT: Headshake.
Big headshake.
BRAD: All right, take it.
MATT: Come on, baby. Come to Papa.
BRAD: Here he comes. MATT: Big fin, Brad.
BRAD: See his tail. Look at him. He's paddling away.
What a beautiful fish.
TYLER: Big majestic animals making big runs.
Finally starting to get some line back on the reel here.
This fish made a big, big run. It's a big fish.
Definitely a 90-incher.
There he is, that was him. Big fish.
We just had him within 10 feet of the boat and he just took off again and dumped a half a spool.
It's crazy.
MATT: Try to turn him, Brad. Just a bump, Brad. Just a bump.
Hard right, Brad, hard right. Keep going, Brad, hard.
There you go. That's good, slow down.
You're good, come on back. I got leader.
This fish could mean a lot for the Fish Hawk.
We got a big monkey on the line. Get that harpoon ready, Brad.
BRAD: Come on. You got him, Brad. Hit his ass.
Got him.
MATT: Get the gaff.
Just crank it.
This is crazy.
He's a beast dude.
Get him, Brad, get him.
Watch the tail. Watch the tail. BRAD: I'm trying. Hold on.
MATT: He's pissed.
Come on, help me out, brother. BRAD: Hold back.
I'm trying.
MATT: Go, brad.
Oh, he broke the gaff!
He's pissed. BRAD: Get the other gaff.
All right, Matt, bring him back around.
MATT: Cheek now, get him.
Grab that pole.
(music)
Big tail. Hold the gaff, I'll get the rope.
BRAD: Oh, yeah. MATT: Game over.
Whoa!
BRAD: Whoo!
MATT: Fish Hawk, baby.
That's a beauty.
Fish Hawk coming for you. Ka-kaw!
TYLER: Just wanna get swivel on the rod.
Get a shot at him.
DUFFY: We've been fighting him for three hours.
I don't know, we haven't moved him.
TYLER: Oh, it's so scary, bro.
DUFFY: Holy (bleep).
TYLER: He's doing all these little darts and cartwheels,
trying to flip and swim under the boat.
He's trying to get himself cut off.
DUFFY: We're gaining on him now.
TYLER: Oh deep, deep color.
DUFFY: Yup. All right, T.
Drill him, brother, please.
TYLER: Watch him.
We don't got him yet.
DUFFY: Grab me the gaff.
TYLER: Tail gaff. DUFFY: Trying.
TYLER: Tail rope. Get it on there, brother.
Oh, my God, this is such a battle, baby, whoo! DUFFY: Yeah!
TYLER: Pinwheel, baby. DUFFY: All right!
TYLER: Let's go! DUFFY: All right, bro. TYLER: Great job brother. Whoo!
DUFFY: Glad that one's bleeding, dude. TYLER: So happy to have that one.
DUFFY: We earned that one. TYLER: Whoo!
DUFFY: Pretty fish. TYLER: Butterball fish. Wow.
TYLER: 93, bro. That's how fat he is. 93.
We just got our lead back.
No other boat has landed five fish this season.
DUFFY: All right. All right. All right.
TYLER: Pinwheel, baby. Got 'em.
How you like me now?
BRAD: You got that? MATT: Yeah. Hold on, okay.
BRAD: Come on down.
Nice fish, dude.
MATT: Beautiful fish.
BRAD: That's what it's all about right here, buddy.
MATT: This is the reason why I tuna fish.
BRAD: 100 inches, Matt. MATT: Nice.
BRAD: Good job.
MATT: Fish Hawk, worst to first, baby.
Game over. BRAD: Good job, bro.
MATT: What do you say, another one tonight, two tomorrow.
(music)
DAVE: I hate waiting, but unfortunately that's the biggest part of tuna fishing.
ANGELICA: My dad's under so much pressure right now.
We're two and half weeks into the fishing season
and we're the only boat in the fleet that has yet to make a paycheck.
DAVE: There's nothing worse than spending the night on Loser Ledge.
There's nothing more humiliating. ANGELICA: Yeah.
DAVE: We lost a fish the other day after a grueling seven-hour battle.
The desperation is starting to set in.
I've got a family to support as a husband and a father.
It's my responsibility to see that everybody's taken care of.
That is something chasing the bait.
There's a fish around.
We need a chance to redeem ourselves.
(music)
JOE: We're on! We're on! DAVE: What? Yup, we're on. Yup.
Here we go. JOE: Yup. Yup. Yup.
That's a fish.
It looks like a big one. DAVE: Hang on, Joe. We're coming
This is just what we need.
Here you go. We're on a fish.
Just get right back there with Joe, he'll tell you what to do.
(music)
JOE: Dammit!
DAVE: Oh, did it pull?
Is he there, Joe?
Oh, dammit.
(bleep) ruined two rigs all at once.
(bleep), money out the window.
The worst part is it takes time to get (bleep) get set up and get back in the water
and that's the killer because the fish could be biting now but we ain't gonna (bleep) hook out.
This really sucks.
Yeah, we just lost that one. Pulled the hook.
TYLER: Brutal.
PAUL: They're suicidal right now.
TJ: Yeah, that sucks, man, sorry.
BRAD: Party's over.
That's a tough break for Merch, man. MATT: Poor Merch.
DAVE C: Another M and M, Merch Meltdown possible.
GEORDIE: The Merch Meltdown. Oh, my God I love it, that's awesome
DAVE C: Hey, we all have our meltdowns. GEORDIE: Yeah.
His however, are a notch above the rest.
Keep an eye out for things flying overboard, buckets, cameras, people.
DAVE: Yeah, (bleep) sawed off the other one.
(bleep) ruined this one.
Rig could suck (bleep) something to a (bleep) kick up our in a matter of (bleep) seconds.
What the (bleep)?
ANGELICA: They were doing everything right and the tuna was just being an (bleep).
DAVE: Ugh.
ANGELICA: It's just frustrating.
TJ: You think you can hold this down? DANIEL: Yup.
TJ: Why don't you sit in this chair and eat your cereal and see if you can mark us any fish, all right?
Let me know we're on. DANIEL: All right.
TJ: Sit down. DANIEL: I know.
Be humble. TJ: Be humble.
DANIEL: Right now my uncle just asked me if I can watch the fish finder and he told me to tell
him if we got any marks.
We caught a Bluefin yesterday but I didn't get to crank on it because it was wild.
I hope we can get another one today and they let me get on the rod this time.
I want to show my uncles and my pops that I can do it.
(music)
There he is! We're marking.
TJ: All right. We're gonna get another one, Danny?
DANIEL: That one.
TJ: Daniel is adamant we let him crank on the rod this year.
I can remember how I felt when I was ten years old.
But it's not a done deal when we could have thousands of dollars on the line.
I'm marking one of that down rod.
And right now right on our bait.
MIKE: We're on!
We're on! We're on! TJ: We're on, we're on,
MIKE: Reel, reel, reel. Come on, let's go!
(music)
TJ: Hey!
TIM: Oh, yeah, we seen him, Danny. MIKE: On again, hooked up.
Second fish.
TJ: Maybe later.
Michael, let me see.
Bring it over.
Watch, Dan, get out of the way.
DANIEL: Can I take one crank on this fish?
DANIEL: Please, please, please, can I reel?
MIKE: On again, hooked up.
DANIEL: Can I take one crank on this fish?
TIM: We'll see.
DANIEL: Please, please, please, can I reel?
DANIEL: Finally!
TJ: Come on, coming back. Get ready to reel.
Reel.
Reel, that's it.
That's it, good job, reel.
Come on.
Coming back, here comes the mono.
MIKE: Good job.
TIM: Get him, kid. Get him. TJ: Good job, buddy.
MIKE: Good job. TJ: Coming back slow.
Good job, buddy.
DANIEL: It's hard.
JARRETT: Hell yeah, it's hard.
(music)
MIKE: Beautiful. Beautiful.
TJ: All right.
All right, let Jarrett on there.
All right, let Jarrett on. Let Jarrett on.
TIM: Good job, man, excellent.
TJ: Finger's crossed, baby.
MIKE: Got to be close.
TIM: Probably 30, 40 feet away. We gotta swivel here, guys.
There he is. Deep color. Deep color.
DANIEL: There he is. TJ: One more go.
You got him. You got him.
Big one.
TIM: Got him!
Tail gaff! Tail gaff!
TJ: Beautiful, Daniel. Get the rope.
TIM: Hold on, I'm gonna list him this way.
TJ: Daniel, come right here. TIM: Tail tope.
MIKE: Watch your fingers.
TJ: Good boy, good boy.
TIM: Beautiful, Danny.
Nice, Daniel.
TJ: Good job, buddy. Excellent.
Nice. Whoa! Pa-pow!
Baby!
Good luck charm does it again.
TJ: Whoa!
(laughs)
DANIEL: Pop. I got to crank. TIM: Yes you did.
You got some cranks on him.
DANIEL: This has been the best trip ever.
We got two fish and I got to crank on the rod.
This time I helped catch the Bluefin for real.
MIKE: Hold the rope. Hold the rope, Daniel.
Nice, Dan! Let him down.
TIM: Whoa! Look at him, Daniel. DANIEL: That's a big fish.
TIM: That's a nice one.
All right, Dan, here we go the moment of truth.
TJ: What do we got, Danny? DANIEL: 95.
TIM: Nice, Daniel. JARRETT: 95. Beauty.
DANIEL: Pa-pow!
(laughs)
TJ: I know right now he feels like one of us.
He's one of the gang, I mean he's part of the crew.
Now you're a real tuna guy.
Daniel is turning into a full-fledged tuna fisherman.
He's done everything except drive the boat.
TIM: Great job, Daniel.
JARRETT: Good job, buddy, yeah.
DANIEL: Can I drive the boat?
TJ: You know, I don't know about that.
(laughs)
DAVE: Not much to say. We hooked a fish. We lost a fish.
I can't believe how many (bleep) fish we're losing this year.
ANGELICA: This is the first time that I've really seen my dad this upset.
So, I'm still kind of figuring out how I can handle it.
When I was younger and I was upset, we always used to joke around.
It's always been our thing.
Do I need to make a really bad joke?
Do I need to make sure he eats something? I don't know.
DAVE: What the (bleep) (bleep).
ANGELICA: Are we having a tuna fun?
DAVE: Go to your room.
ANGELICA: How about, a whale of a good time?
DAVE: Don't make me get the belt out.
(laughing)
ANGELICA: I'll be here all week.
(laughing)
DAVE: Just because I don't have my wooden spoons like at home that doesn't mean I can't improvise.
ANGELICA: I got a little chuckle out of you. My job is done.
(music)
MATT: Fish Hawk, ka-kaw.
BRAD: Hey, Gut, man, what's up? GUT: Hey what's going on?
BRAD: We got one for you.
GUT: All right, let's pull him out.
(music)
BRAD: This is our third fish of the season.
Tyler on Pinwheel and TJ on Hot Tuna are ahead of us with five fish each.
So right now, we're hoping our big fish brings us a big paycheck.
GUT: 414 dressed. BRAD: Nice.
Cool, man, we're gonna come check it out, Gut.
Oh.
GUT: Yeah, pretty good. Nice fish.
BRAD: That's a nice color, Gut. We're getting lucky, dude.
All right, Gut, what can't you do for us?
Come on, Gut, it's a good one.
GUT: I'll give you 17 dollars a pound on this one.
BRAD: We'll take that all day long.
MATT: Nice, thanks old sport. BRAD: Good man.
Man, we're going right back out.
Thank you, Gut.
Zeros to heroes we went from today.
TYLER: Brother!
GUT: Hey, what's happening?
GUT: You got a nice one?
TYLER: All right. Let's send it up there.
We started out the week with more fish than any other boat.
But, now we're tied with Hot Tuna with five each.
The lead is gonna come down to how much we get for this fish
and how much TJ gets for his two.
What have we got for weight, Gut?
GUT: 441.
TYLER: Beautiful, way to go, Duff. Awesome.
I need a big paycheck, brother, what can you do for me? Hook it up.
GUT: You're not gonna get a big one on this one.
TYLER: Oh, come on.
GUT: Nope, there's not a lot of fat in this fish.
This one's kind of red.
TYLER: How can we do?
GUT: 12 dollars on this fish.
TYLER: Okay, all right, well it's better than nothing, dude. We'll take it.
GUT: Yeah, okay. TYLER: At least it's got a lot of weight.
GUT: Yeah, you got some weight, yeah.
TYLER: See you later, dude. GUT: All right.
TYLER: It's not a great quality fish but I hope it's enough to keep us in the lead.
We've got to do better next time, Duff. DUFFY: Yeah dude.
DAVE: Well, this is our Hail Mary spot.
We've had a tough trip, there's no denying that.
ANGELICA: It's getting to the end of the third week.
Still no fish and I'm trying not to lose hope.
JOE: We're looking for some fish here.
ANGELICA: It's really weird for me because you can work really, really hard at something
and eventually it usually pays off.
But with tuna fishing that's not the case.
DAVE: We need a miracle here.
I am a little worried.
I am a little nervous.
We've already lost two fish this week and one of them was after that brutal seven-hour battle.
We need a paycheck it's really getting critical.
JOE: Keep looking, Gel. Keep looking.
DAVE: But, you know, my team is doing a great job.
Everybody's giving me a hundred and ten percent effort.
All we need is a little bit of luck to turn things around.
Yeah, that's him. That's him.
ANGELICA: Then he dropped down to 30?
DAVE: Yeah, it's 20, yup.
See, he came down to 30, he's coming up.
ANGELICA: Come on, fish.
JOE: That's encouraging.
More than we've seen all day for sure.
DAVE: There he is right there, now he's at 20, down to 30, bouncing back up.
He's gonna bite I guarantee it.
JOE: Come on!
DAVE: All right, we're gonna get him, Joe. He's all over the place.
ANGELICA: He's at 18.
DAVE: He's getting close here. He's up in the kill zone.
ANGELICA: Back at 20.
JOE: I got it. I got it!
Yeah!
That's a screamer.
DAVE: That's a good fish.
We're on a fish.
TYLER: Wow.
PAUL: Way to go.
DAVE C: He's got to get it. He needs it.
MATT: Whoo!
DAVE: All right, Joe, let's get it up here.
Ready? Go. Go. Go.
We got the rod to bend.
So, we really need this one.
JOE: Oh, he's right there on the surface. DAVE: Oh, look him go!
Look at him go.
JOE: All right, Gel. Get ready. ANGELICA: I'm ready.
DAVE: Get ready to reel. Your baby brother's tired.
ANGELICA: (bleep).
JOE: Just keep reeling.
Just keep reeling.
Argh!
Ugh, you got to get angry.
ANGELICA: I am angry.
JOE: Good job.
Good tag team.
ANGELICA: Come on fish!
DAVE: So far so good.
You just got to stay with him.
JOE: We've been on this fish two hours.
We'll be here all night if we have to.
Atta boy, lady.
Gel's doing a great job so far.
I'm really proud of her.
Now hopefully we can get this one on deck.
ANGELICA: Its' coming towards the front! DAVE: Okay.
ANGELICA: It's exhausting.
I'm tired.
Come on, Joe. You got this.
JOE: Come on, tuna.
DAVE: Three hours into it and he's still emptying the reel.
JOE: Reel, reel, reel.
JOE: Yeah, get angry.
DAVE: I think we hooked a submarine.
JOE: You got to dig deep.
You got to believe.
ANGELICA: Just give up already.
JOE: Now she's angry. Keep reeling.
ANGELICA: We've been fighting this fish for five hours now.
My (bleep) arms hurt.
Come on, Joe. You got this.
JOE: Going under the boat.
DAVE: We need an epic win here. We need an epic win.
JOE: Swim into the light!
We've been on this fish for seven hours.
We've been here before.
We know we don't have anything until he's on the boat.
ANGELICA: We lost another fish earlier this week after fighting it for this long.
This could go either way.
DAVE: Sucker just won't quit.
JOE: There he is! Got color! DAVE: Yup.
ANGELICA: Color.
(music)
JOE: I got the swivel.
Take the shot, Dad!
ANGELICA: Did you get him?
color!
(music)
I got the swivel.
Take the shot, Dad!
ANGELICA: Did you get him?
JOE: Oh, you got him! You hit him.
What a (bleep) shot.
DAVE: His tail's trapped.
Come up right on this side of me, Joe.
You got to untie it.
JOE: Slide it down. DAVE: Got him.
JOE: Touchdown! DAVE: Touchdown.
A lot of respect for this fish.
He didn't give up easy. But, we stuck with it.
All right, Joe. Start coming up.
JOE: One two three.
Put it down on the deck. Down on the deck.
Let go. Let go.
DAVE: What do we got, Gel? ANGELICA: 89.
DAVE: 89. Nice, well done.
Well done.
It feels fantastic to finally land our first fish of the season.
And I can rest a little easier knowing that the family's taken care of now.
(laughs)
Mission accomplished.
We got him!
PAUL: Atta boy!
Good man.
MATT: Good job, boys.
BRAD: Whoo!
Good going, man. Good going.
TYLER: Wow!
(laughs)
(music)
DANIEL: Hi, Grandma!
ISABELLA: Hey, guys, welcome home.
GIRL: Hey.
TJ: We had a great trip with Daniel on board.
Danny helped us catch two beautiful tunas.
We've got five fish total.
We're tied with Tyler in the fish count.
We need really good prices to take back the lead from Pinwheel.
DANIEL: What do we got Scottso?
SCOTT: 253 pounds dressed. 325 pounds dressed.
TIM: Nice. TJ: All right. Sweet.
SCOTT: Come on up, we'll check them out.
TJ: Nice to see you. MIKE: How are you? ISABELLA: How are you?
TJ: What's up Boupy, how are you, babe?
GIRL: Good, how are you? TJ: I missed you.
TIM: This is Daniel's best trip ever.
DANIEL: What do you think Scottso?
SCOTT: All right. Well, we'll start it off with the first one.
A little bit of fat in them, good color, decent shape on him.
19 dollars a pound.
TIM: Whoo! I like these numbers Scottso.
SCOTT: Yeah.
And this was the second one you guys have which, is almost the same fish just a little bit more fat.
A little better color. TIM: Uh-huh.
SCOTT: Good core. That'll do
20 dollars a pound. TJ: Pa-pow!
MIKE: Good trip, Dan. Good trip.
TJ: Awesome, man.
Danny, good haul, buddy, good haul.
DANIEL: Thanks. TJ: Good job. MIKE: Awesome.
DANIEL: Wow that's big bucks. Thanks.
TJ: Scottso, thank you very much.
SCOTT: I'll see you guys later. TJ: All right.
Give me a hug; I'm leaving to go fishing. See ya.
DANIEL: Can I be captain now?
(laughs)
(music)
DAVE: Here they are! Hey! Hey!
We got a real nice one for ya.
LUKE: I heard this one put up a fight.
ANGELICA: Hopefully this is our comeback.
DAVE: A fine looking specimen.
ANGELICA: It's a beautiful fish.
DAVE: Well, what do we got? What does it weigh?
LUKE: 368 pounds.
DAVE: All right, Pal, let's come up and see what he looks like on the inside.
JOE: Hey, what's up? Hey, what's up?
WOMAN: Hi, we're so glad to see you. Nice to see you.
DAVE: Woo-hoo!
LUKE: Well, this is a beautiful fish and there's fat all the way through it.
DAVE: Yup.
LUKE: It's nice and oily, the color's good.
DAVE: All right, so what do you think?
We really want to do well on this fish?
We earned it.
LUKE: Well, I don't know, I'd say,
I'm thinking 24 dollars a pound.
DAVE: Nice. Well done. Well done.
We'll take it.
That's almost 9 grand for our first fish of the season.
It doesn't get much better than that.
I'm really proud of you two kids.
ANGELICA: Thanks, dad.
NARRATOR: At the end of week three of fishing, Hot Tuna's double catch with nephew, Danny,
launches the family operation back into the lead.
Meanwhile, Fishing Vessel Tuna Dot Com's 450-pounder helps te reigning champion inch past
Wicked Pissah.
And Hard Merchandise's top quality, first catch of the season
earns Dave and his kids almost nine grand.
ANGELICA: Ugh.
DAVE: What?
Hey, it's a Pollock. Easy.
Remember, rods are for catching fish not lifting fish.
DAVE: Yeah, this is a Pollock.
For this trip, it's not good for bait so it's this guy's lucky day.
Want to give him a kiss? ANGELICA: No, put him back. Put him back.
DAVE: You know what's interesting about these?
They smell just like watermelon.
ANGELICA: No. I don't, I don't believe you.
DAVE: Smell it.
(laughs)
JOE: She fell right into that one.
(laughs)
DAVE MARCIANO You're not crying are you?
I can't believe she fell for it. Did you think.
ANGELICA: It's because I trust you.
DAVE: Oh, remind me to tell you, never trust me.
(laughs)