NARRATOR: On this episode of Wicked Tuna...
RICK: We're on! We're on! We're on!
NARRATOR: Captains turn to other boats...
TYLER: All we got is each other.
NARRATOR: For an edge.
DAVE: This is a huge mother.
NARRATOR: Which alliances will pay off? PAUL: Pa-pow!
DAVE C: We've always had a good rapport together
and now we could help each other out even more.
NARRATOR: And which will come at a cost?
TYLER: Ball!
DAVE C: That's too close, dude.
PAUL: Good job you (bleep) idiot.
NARRATOR: This... GEORDIE: No good deed unpunished.
SANDRO: The alliance of fish losers.
NARRATOR: Is Wicked Tuna.
TYLER: How do you like me now, pally wally?
NARRATOR: At the start of week five of fishing, Wicked Pissah is leading the fleet
for the first time this year.
But, Hot Tuna, Fish Hawk, and Pinwheel are trailing by less than five grand.
Meanwhile, last season's top-earner fishing vessel Tuna Dot Com and family operation
Hard Merchandise are far behind the pack.
TYLER: I'm just gonna wait for our turn and get a bite.
Any minute we're gonna get a bite.
So far this season my mate, Duffy, and I have been doing well together.
This is a beautiful fish.
But this trip, he's away at a wedding so I'm fishing solo.
Hmm. Big mark.
There he is, marking him. Get ready.
Oh, got 'em on, got 'em on! Nice bite right here.
No Duffy. Solo. Got 'em on.
Trying to keep pressure.
Oh man.
Got to constantly be moving the rod around so if that fish gets up underneath the boat you could
lose him, or if the rod goes slack, the hook could fall out of its mouth.
Nice.
Got a double on! Got a double on!
Of course, I hook up to a double without Duffy.
At any point in time, if the two fish cross I could lose them both.
(bleep) me.
Got 'em on, baby.
Nice double hookup to start out the morning.
How do you like me now, pally wally?
I got one fish up high one fish down low.
I don't want these fish to get tangled.
They will cut each other off.
Best thing to do right now is try and focus on this fish.
This one looks like he's going down.
Keeping an eye on that fish.
Oh no, don't go that way!
It'd be nice to have Duffy right now because I don't wanna lose these fish.
Every hookup is so precious you never know when you're gonna get 'em.
To have a double hookup like this, it's awesome.
It's really hard to catch a double by yourself because you can't be on both rods at the same time.
You can't maneuver the boat.
There's so many ways to lose a fish.
I got mono on the reel right now.
This is a really good situation.
Color!
Missed him.
(bleep)(bleep).
Got his ass.
He's not ours yet.
Oh, the hardest part of solo fishing, but the most rewarding.
Oh. So close.
Where's Duffy?
Tails are hanging.
Looking for number two.
Duffy's been reeling them in all year.
This is my first couple on the rod.
Get back in shape with it.
My arms are burning.
Oh.
The fish is going in a nice pinwheel.
Color.
Got him!
Whoo!
Now our leaderboard is a lot better than it was before this morning.
Sitting in a lot better position.
Tail wrapped, two down.
Yeah, baby!
Now that's the right way to start a week.
Two fish hanging, it doesn't get much better than this,
oh, seventy-five inches and seventy-six inches.
Whoo! High five, Duff!
Yeah!
All right.
These fish weigh about 350 pounds each.
I'll have to kiss thousands of dollars goodbye.
If I can't get some help getting them into my fish box.
I'm steering clear from my old captain TJ
because he shares information with way too many people.
TJ: What are you seeing?
TYLER: And you can't trust Tricky Dave Dot Com because he's only in it for himself.
DAVE C: That's my little buddy there.
TYLER: Who to call?
Who to call.
I know just the guy.
Brad?
BRAD: Yes?
TYLER: Hey, man. I just caught a double.
BRAD: Caught a double?
MATT: Who caught a double?
BRAD: Tyler says he caught a double, he says.
TYLER: Yeah, man if I was you I would definitely come this way.
BRAD: What direction, just do north?
TYLER: We're right off this Cape Elizabeth, man. Right off Cape Elizabeth.
Don't tell TJ or Dot Com.
BRAD: All right we'll be there in an hour.
TYLER: All right, buddy, we'll see you soon.
BRAD: All right, let's go over there.
This place isn't cutting it, kind of dried up for us.
Here we go.
We're going to the hot spot.
MATT: Ooh. Smells a little fishy here.
TYLER: It's always good to have help out here.
BRAD: Tyler's caught two fish by himself.
He said he's found some good numbers.
TYLER: Dude, I need some help putting a couple fish in the box, bro.
BRAD: The least we could do is help him pull in his fish for calling us in.
I'd trade for that any day if we could catch a fish.
TYLER: We're all part of the same team I mean I work with these guys,
I want to see them catch fish, they wanna see me catch fish and that's what it's all about.
We're a family of tuna fishermen out here.
All we got is each other.
We got to take care of each other.
Thank you, brother. Really appreciate it. MATT: No problem, man. Good luck.
Catch 'em up, bro. TYLER: Thanks, buddy.
Your turn. Your turn, guys.
Ooh.
Wouldn't have been able to do that without you, brother.
DAVE C: Come on.
Do you wanna go get the fish?
I recently got a tip about a spot that has a lot of herring, which odds are,
means the tuna will be there too.
The problem is this is a big spot.
I wanna partner up with someone that has as much experience as I do,
so we have the best shot at finding the tuna and hopefully getting a bite.
DAVE: What's going on, Dave?
DAVE C: Not much.
Permission to come aboard? DAVE: Sure.
Just don't make a clean spot or nothing.
DAVE C: All right.
DAVE: Then I'll have to clean the whole boat for crying out loud.
DAVE C: Marciano, he has tons of experience. You stay here.
It was only three years ago that the Hard Merch was the top earning boat in the fleet.
I wouldn't wanna work with anyone else.
Well, here's what I got.
I got a friend of mine lobstering offshore here in a spot that we haven't fished in.
DAVE: Okay.
DAVE C: And he said there is just a ton of herring.
I'll fish the north side, you fish the south side and we can kind of get it dialed in.
What do you say we do that?
DAVE: When you're out of the water, a fish finder will only show you what's directly below
the boat.
You could have tuna all around you and not even know it.
So, it's worth teaming up to double our chances of getting a mark and hopefully a payday.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's team up and work together for the next week or two and see if--see if things work out.
All right? DAVE C: Good?
All right, let's do it. DAVE: Sounds like a plan, man.
DAVE C: This is great.
I am so glad Marciano agreed to this.
With Merch out there with us, our odds go up in a big way.
Bottom line is; two fish finders are better than one.
DAVE: We'll see you, Dave.
DAVE C: Where's my dog?
Pickles, get over here.
TJ: Have you marked any?
TJ: Have you marked a fish?
TJ: How about the Sambuca. You on here, Frankie?
TJ: No bites?
TJ: You see anything else? Ski-Ski's you get another bite?
TJ: This is Painful.
A good network and having a good group of guys that you work with is one of the number one tools
in the fishery and if you got good information there, you're gonna have a good season.
What's going on in where you were?
Did you mark any in the kettle?
What about the Sag?
Why, what's he got?
Have you marked any over there?
Have you marked any?
What are you seeing?
All right, I'll check in with you later.
Let me know if you hear anything.
Sometimes it just doesn't matter how much you reach out to other people.
If they're not seeing anything then they're not seeing anything.
You catch any tuna over on the other side there?
TJ: Where is Payday?
What is going on, on the Wicked Pissah?
PAUL: We're fishin'! whoo.
RICK: Hopefully we'll get it tight here.
We'll get hard on fishing.
PAUL: I got a bait at 120 and one at 140.
Come on, tuna time.
Come on, pa-pow!
After last week, we're the top earning boat in the fleet.
There's no boats here, but this spot is looking great.
There is bait everywhere.
I'm sure we're gonna catch another one to stay on top.
RICK: God I wish we'd get a bite.
All right, we got a mark.
That's a mark.
We're on! PAUL: Wow!
(laughs)
Is he taking off?
RICK: Yeah, get off.
We are on.
PAUL: This fish will get us even further ahead.
We have to catch him.
Take this over there.
And he is taking line.
RICK: He's a monster.
PAUL: Just the two of us, Rick, getting it done.
RICK: He's a big strong fish.
He's getting ready to come to the top though.
Coming to the boat.
PAUL: He's right there, I see him. RICK: Yeah.
PAUL: He's right there.
Oh, he's a nice fish. Watch out now.
RICK: He's tight as a drum right now.
Tight as a fiddle.
PAUL: Here he comes. Ready?
Oh! He broke.
He was chafed, Rick. RICK: Yeah.
PAUL: We chafed him off.
Rick and I are coming off a great week.
We just lost a fish but right now we are on some really good numbers.
He rolled on you, you know? RICK: Yup.
PAUL: We'll get another one.
We're just starting.
It ain't bad, that's the first one we lost all year.
We're gonna catch another one.
Trust me.
TJ: This sucks.
I've checked in and so far nobody's seen anything.
I just got to keep reaching out to guys and hopefully someone will have something good for us.
PAUL: We're all by ourselves and when it's slow everyone calls each other.
I love helping people out, but, you wanna be careful who you tell because they'll be hundreds
of boats in no time.
The less boats, the more fish for us.
Steady bait.
PAUL: Hmm.
PAUL: Really?
Come on.
PAUL: Hmm.
I don't know.
I don't wanna give up our spot.
Rick and I just lost a nice fish.
The good thing about it is there's nobody else around.
But, now TJ's trying to get information about what I'm seeing.
I love helping people out, but I just don't want him to announce it to everybody.
Hmm.
But, if anybody knows, I know what it's like to have a bad week.
So, yeah, I'll tell TJ where we are and what we're doing.
And maybe in the future when we're in a slump he'll help us out and put us on some fish.
TJ: All right, guys, I got some good info.
Get the anchor. We're moving spots.
JARRETT: Sounds like a plan to me, man.
DAVE: There's Dot Com.
We agreed to work together before we left for this trip.
Tuna Dot Com and Hard Merchandise might be struggling at the moment,
but we both have also been the fleet's top-earners in seasons past.
So we've decided to work together and share information because him and I both need a
few fish to get back in this game.
ANGELICA: Dot Com is obviously very good.
He catches a lot of fish; he knows what he's doing.
Why wouldn't you wanna work with him?
DAVE: There's a fish right below our whiting.
There's one on the screen.
Get your lines down at 240.
He's coming right at you.
DAVE C: All right.
Merch is marking at 240. Let's get our lines down there.
SANDRO: All right.
DAVE C: When a tuna swims under our boat, our fish finder tells us what depth the fish is at.
With two boats working together, the second boat will now know the depth to set their bait to
intercept the tuna and maximize their chances of hooking up.
Dave and I have been down and out, we know.
My crew, his crew, we're not doing as well as the other guys and there's nobody here.
it's just us and the Merch.
We're going with all the herring here and we're hoping catch good quality fish.
This is gonna work out just fine for us.
GEORDIE: See what happens.
DAVE: I'll get a rig out.
All right, Joe, nice heavy medium.
JOE: Ready? DAVE: Yeah.
JOE: Sending her out.
DAVE: Going out with a sexy herring.
JOE: Come on, come up.
Come up for it. Come up for it. It's a big one.
All right, there's one down there at 20!
Going down.
He's on! We're on!
We're on! We're on!
DAVE: Grab your gloves, Gel.
JOE: Yup. Yup.
Yeah, that's a tuna.
ANGELICA: I'll go get your gloves.
JOE: All right we're on a fish! He's a screamer.
GEORDIE: Did he just go off? DAVE C: Yup. Yup.
Hard Merch is on, he's hooked up.
SANDRO: Hopefully he doesn't come this way.
DAVE C: Oh, man.
JOE: Looks like Dave helped us out. Now we're on tight.
Took it right out of my dad's hands.
DAVE C: It's part of our alliance. This is what we said.
He went north side.
We went south side.
We called him down and he's on right away.
We're gonna get 'em here today. This whole trip is gonna pay off.
It's gonna pay off for all of us.
I told Marciano to trust me.
He did and now he's fighting a fish.
And hopefully ours will come soon.
DAVE: Did you get Joe a glove, Gel? ANGELICA: Yup.
Right here, ready. I'm ready to hop in.
DAVE: All right. Gloves up. ANGELICA: Have your gloves on that table.
DAVE: Yup.
JOE: It's a little tricky situation we're right near the anchor right now.
ANGELICA: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Once you--once you get sorted.
JOE: He's coming out of the anchor again, hold on. ANGELICA: Okay.
DAVE: Right now we are dancing a little game here.
We've got Dave on the Dot Com over there, he's hanging out.
And right behind there's our anchor ball.
If this fish goes in either one of our anchors.
There's a good bet we'll lose it.
SANDRO: I'm happy he's hooked up I'm happy for him, but we got to catch a fish too.
JOE: He's acting weird.
There's a possibility he's gut hooked. ANGELICA: Oh yeah.
JOE: It's not the ideal thing because if he's shaking his head, you know,
it's going back and forth we could chaff him off.
He's still tight, so we're happy about that. ANGELICA: Okay.
DAVE C: It's so difficult doing it there.
I would do it from the back. To each his own.
But, that's a tough battle right there.
DAVE: Sixty feet. JOE: All right.
DAVE: Want a break, Joe? JOE: Yeah.
I really hope we get this one.
DAVE: Fish is being a little bit of a bastard.
ANGELICA: We're strong at six.
DAVE: All right. So that's 30 feet but we're right beside our ball here.
JOE: Yeah, we're threading the needle right now our ball's 20 feet away right now;
the fish is 30 feet under. It's a tricky situation.
I got deep color. See him down there?
DAVE: See him? JOE: Yup. There he is.
ANGELICA: Okay good.
JOE: So close I just want to jump in there.
Gel, take the harpoon.
(bleep).
DAVE: Chewed us off.
DAVE C: Not looking good!
DAVE C: Not looking good. Oh, boy, yeah he didn't get 'em.
GEORDIE: Keep an eye out for things flying overboard.
Merch meltdown.
DAVE C: Merch meltdown.
DAVE: (bleep) you.
(bleep) else would go wrong?
Dammit.
SANDRO: Or a bait net.
GEORDIE: Or a bait net, Sandro says.
SANDRO: Or a bait net. DAVE C: Oh boy.
You know I do feel for Marciano losing that fish.
That is a bummer, but you know what?
We want our turn too.
DAVE: Chewed us off there.
One or two more circles I would've had a shot.
DAVE C: Yeah. You'll get another one. That sucks.
There's nothing you can do.
DAVE: You lose some you get some.
That's how they get bigger I guess, by getting away.
BRAD: Putting them back out. Need a couple more. Never enough.
This is a really promising spot that Tyler on Pinwheel called us in to.
We've seen a lot of marks since Matt helped him pack away his double earlier today.
Hopefully this alliance will pay off for us too.
This is called turning a little fish into a big fish.
MATT: Come on, fish, come through and chew, baby.
TYLER: We're ready for you. Take a bite.
The Fish Hawk is fishing right beside me.
I really appreciate that they help me put my fish in the box.
I couldn't have done it without them, so I really hope that my spot pays off for them too.
Let's get 'em Fish Hawk.
MATT: There he is, Brad.
Brad, he's coming up on the down rod.
BRAD: Come on, baby.
MATT: Big boy.
BRAD: Come to papa.
MATT: Oh, there's two of 'em, Brad, he's gonna eat it.
He's gonna eat it.
There he is again.
Got 'em on.
Screamer!
BRAD: Feels like a nice fish.
We've got half the spool out, he's running up in the waves now.
MATT: Fish Hawk, baby, whoo!
TYLER: Fish Hawk's got 'em on! All right. Whoo.
All right, I better check my baits.
To be able to bring Brad into a spot and put him on a bent rod, there's no greater feeling
for me right now.
Except of course a bent rod of my own.
Nice mark down in the bottom.
We're gonna go off.
(music)
We're on!
We're on, baby!
Here he goes.
Anchor! Anchor!
My mate, Duffy, is out this trip and whenever you hook up there's tons of things to take care of,
so it's a big juggling act for me right now.
I need to get my other lines in.
Smoking drag, baby!
This is where I would like to have Duffy right now.
I got three lines out.
Fish is running up towards the anchor.
This is where I could really use him here.
Holy crap.
Come on.
I don't know what happened, might have come off.
(music)
TYLER: Holy crap!
Come on!
I don't know what happened, might have come off.
I don't know what the hell happened there. Oh he's still there.
Here he goes.
Unfortunately Duffy's not here to enjoy this trip with me
but, Fish Hawk and I are doing pretty well together.
MATT: Fish Hawk, baby. Got 'em on here.
The weather is a little snotty today.
BRAD: He's running again now. Oh, man.
MATT: He's smoking.
See if we get lucky, get this fish up.
He's big, brad.
He don't have much left in the tank.
BRAD: What was that?
MATT: Oh, I don't like that feeling.
Something happened.
I could feel it on his fin.
BRAD: He's coming in tail wrapped.
The line got wrapped around his tail.
When you tail wrap a fish the line is actually lassoed around that fish's tail.
Line on line is not a good thing.
That line will break and the fish will get away.
Keep reeling, Matt.
Keep the pressure on him.
MATT: There he is.
Looks like the fish is on top like a big Betty.
Betsy Boo. Cap, get the gaff.
You ready? BRAD: Yeah.
MATT: Get him, Brad, get him.
Whoo. Game over. Fish Hawk, baby.
BRAD: All right. Let's go pull this thing in.
TYLER: Hasn't been my year with the harpoons.
Been missing 'em.
Hopefully get this fish up and get a textbook dart shot.
Deep color.
Watch out I'm coming for that harpoon.
Dart coming.
Drilled him!
Got to get a tail rope on this fish. He's not mine yet.
Whoa.
This fish could go crazy at any point in time!
Ugh.
Please don't go crazy.
Please don't go crazy!
Bam!
Hell yeah.
Thank you! Whoo!
Tuna Gods, baby. Taking care of me.
High five, Duff.
You're on land, baby, have fun I'll be seeing you in a couple days.
MATT: That's a nice fish, man. Look at the shape.
BRAD: Dude, he's better than I thought.
MATT: What do you say we measure him up, Brad?
BRAD: 87 inches.
MATT: Game over.
TYLER: My third one solo.
So happy.
Such a good day.
Oh!
Beautiful.
Duffy would be stoked right now.
83. Boom!
Third fish of the trip, super stoked.
Brad caught a fish as well.
It makes me feel really good because I was able to return the favor.
You got him?
BRAD: The line was wrapped around his tail six times.
Just gaffed him.
TYLER: I'm so happy I could call you into some meat, man.
Thanks for the help getting them into my fish box.
So happy I can return the favor.
BRAD: Yup. Thank you very much. Keep up the good work.
TYLER: All right.
You and me, man let's run away with this competition.
Ka-kaw! Ka-kaw!
MATT: He's nuts.
BRAD: Let's go get a couple more.
We need 'em.
PAUL: Nice morning, right?
TJ's out here with us and there's nobody else around.
Rick and I have been busting our butts since we lost a jumbo tuna in our hot spot yesterday.
We've been up bait fishing all night and I'm hoping today will bring success.
Rick and I stay up all night to have bait.
These are just part of the things you got to do.
It's not just coming out throwing a line and then catching a tuna.
I wish it was like that.
It's a lot of work.
Here comes TJ.
What is he doing?
TJ: Did you get bait?
PAUL: I was up all night catching.
TJ: Got no bait.
PAUL: I can't believe you got none.
No bait at all?
TJ: Can you spare some?
PAUL: That's what happens when you go to sleep all night. Yeah.
You don't get bait.
If you don't have bait. You don't catch tuna.
I let TJ on my numbers, now he wants bait.
Does he want me to catch his tuna for him too?
I'm really starting to regret doing TJ any favors.
TJ didn't wake up to get bait.
You got to get your bait at night here.
If you don't, you can't go to sleep.
You got to be up all night.
Everybody knows that.
DAVE: We ain't got no bait.
The bait's here, if the bait's here, we get the fish.
You guys drop right down quick again once we spin around.
Where's Dave? Where's Dave?
JOE: All set? DAVE: Yup.
DAVE C: He didn't drop right there, did he?
Oh, man.
SANDRO: Come on, man, really?
DAVE C: That's, that's close. That's too close, dude.
Look here.
SANDRO: What the (bleep), dude. You got to say something to him.
GEORDIE: Come on, really?
DAVE C: That's too close, dude. GEORDIE: Right there?
Dave reached out to Marciano to work together.
And he just anchors right on top of us.
Awesome.
DAVE: Gel, got one good herring? Was it a good herring?
JOE: Yeah, I don't know how it's doing though because you brought it up fast, but.
DAVE C: Dave, are you on the hook there?
(laughs)
DAVE: Well, sort of we're floating back.
We're just trying to jig a few baits.
SANDRO: What'd he say?
DAVE C: He said, yeah, I'm going back.
Oh, come on, Dave.
That's too close, dude.
I actually want to haul it now.
GEORDIE: Don't haul it. Tell him to move.
DAVE C: I know Tyler and Brad have four fish between them and we haven't had a single bite.
With how this trip is going, I feel like we may have partnered up with the wrong boat here.
I mean, come on, that's ridiculous.
SANDRO: That's (bleep) way too close.
DAVE C: You're trying to help out but then you just
DAVE C: We just--we just (bleep) ourselves.
SANDRO: That sucks.
SANDRO: Yeah.
TJ: We're marking already.
JARRETT: Let's go! Let's do it, we're marking.
TJ: After last week and not catching a fish, we're back in a good spot.
We got some good info and just like that, we're marking.
JARRETT: I think today's the day, boys.
MIKE: There's two of them coming through again, same thing off the bottom.
Look at that mark behind them.
JARRETT: Oh, God.
TJ: Oh, come on, baby. Please give us one, give us one.
MIKE: Whoa! Whoa! We're on!
I got it, I got it, I got it, let's go, let's go.
I got it, let's go, let's go. JARRETT: Woo-hoo! Paw, paw!
Woo-hoo!
MIKE: He's going crazy.
Woo.
Holy (bleep)!
PAUL: What's TJ doing?
Did he hook up?
Looks like it. RICK: Yeah, I think so. Yep.
PAUL: The Hot Tuna guys were having a dry spell, so we helped them out by letting them know
about our little hot spot.
As long as they kept this location just between us, I'm happy they're finally having
some good luck.
He's in good water right there.
Shallow, you know?
RICK: TJ's tight.
Yeah.
MIKE: Yeah!
Woo.
Woo-hoo.
Jarrett, I'll reel this one too. JARRETT: I'll get it. I'll get it. I'll do that.
MIKE: I think I reeled that thing up to the leader.
TJ: The fish came right to the boat on a bite.
I mean, you almost had him to the swivel and then he just went nuts and peeled out on top, man.
You never know what these fish are gonna do, that's why it's so exciting.
Every one is different.
There's no fish in the world like this.
JARRETT: I'm gonna bump it. I'm gonna move it.
RICK: Why?
PAUL: Good job, Bubby.
Putting that over the airwaves, you (bleep) idiot.
RICK: Aw, really?
Just open up your wallet and say just take what I have.
RICK: Why?
PAUL: Good job, Bubby.
Putting that over the airwaves, you (bleep) idiot.
RICK: Aw, really?
PAUL: We were out here on our own, doing well and then Bubby gets on the radio and announces
that he's hooked up.
We're worried about other boats coming out here.
I can't believe this.
Some guys just have no respect.
Puts that over the airwaves?
RICK: Good job, Bubby.
PAUL: Good job, you (bleep) nitwit.
RICK: Just open up your wallet and say "Just take what I have."
TJ: Oh, yeah.
Once in a while you get shown the light, baby.
Michael, hold the harpoon for me.
JARRETT: Nice, clean shot right there.
TJ: Watch the rope.
I got him. Tail gaff.
Woo!
MIKE: Tail rope. I got you. JARRETT: My left.
Yeah! To my right.
Yeah. (laughs)
Wooo! (laughs)
Oh, man...
TJ: That's, that's, that's talking about things going from really bad to really good.
JARRETT: Nice.
That was like a record timing.
MIKE: Hells yeah.
JARRETT: Pa-pow! TJ: Pa-pow!
JARRETT: Yeah!
TJ: I'm happy that Paul was able to help us out with continuing our success.
Pa-pow!
MIKE: Perfect size. JARRETT: All right. There we go.
MIKE: We got beautiful color. TJ: Pretty little fish.
You like it?
JARRETT: 76 inches.
TJ: That's all right, baby. That's a keeper.
MIKE: He's a keeper. JARRETT: We'll take it.
TJ: We'll take 'em all day long.
JARRETT: We'll take whatever we can get here.
TJ: I'll take 76 inches everyday. MIKE: You ain't kidding.
JARRETT: Patience is a virtue.
TJ: Oh, man, what a good feeling.
My (bleep) line wasn't in the water a minute.
MAN: Ah. That's amazing.
Not like that out here.
TJ: Where are you?
MAN: We're out at losers' ledge.
You guys still over in the Gulf of Maine?
TJ: Yes, sir.
This spot is looking great now.
You need to come out here.
PAUL: Seriously?
Do you (bleep) kidding me?
(bleep) that. Piece of (bleep).
They mangled my spot.
I was there all by myself.
I was the only boat there.
And if you announce that you're catching fish a lot of boats will come,
it's very frustrating.
So, we're just gonna move.
But that spot has been producing fish and now we're kicked out of it, thanks to TJ.
(bleep) him.
That piece of (bleep) rat.
(bleep) that!
RICK: I'm with ya, Cap.
You wouldn't do that. PAUL: Oh, no, never.
A joke.
It's a joke.
It's a (bleep) joke.
RICK: Get the (bleep) out of here.
PAUL: Exactly. (bleep) game over.
TYLER: Woo.
Pinwheel's hot.
Pinwheel and Fish Hawk all the way, baby.
GUT: Hey, Tyler, how'd you make out this trip?
TYLER: I got three beauties for you.
GUT: Oh, that's all? TYLER: That's all. GUT: Can't beat that.
TYLER: Want to check 'em out? GUT: Yeah, let's check 'em out.
TYLER: Teaming up with Fish Hawk this week was a great thing for me.
Fishing without a mate this trip, there's no way I could have packed up my first two tuna
without their help.
And I'm pumped that I could repay them by putting them on a fish of their own.
What do you got on this one, Gut?
GUT: 237, 250, 278.
TYLER: Beautiful, brother.
If the quality's good, I'm looking at some big bucks.
GUT: These are little light here.
Not a whole lot of fat.
Color's real bright on that.
So this one here.
You got 10 on that one.
TYLER: Dang.
I give it to you.
These two are really beautiful.
GUT: That small one's got a little bit of fat.
TYLER: Yeah, I like it.
GUT: This one here, that's like 14 bucks for that one.
TYLER: Really?
Wow, wow, wow, thank you very much.
GUT: Yeah.
TYLER: How about the other one?
GUT: This one's a little better. TYLER: Yeah, it is.
GUT: I'll give you
16 on that one.
TYLER: Beautiful, man.
Duffy definitely missed one fishing trip.
GUT: All right. TYLER: I'll take it.
Thank you very much, man. GUT: Okay. All right.
TYLER: Over ten grand.
I'm heading back out to the spot and I'm hoping the boys from the Fish Hawk will be there too.
Woo! Yeah, baby!
Pinwheel's hot.
MATT: Fish Hawk, Ka-kaw!
BRAD: Gut.
GUT: What's going on?
BRAD: We got one for you.
This is a fierce competition right now. Everybody's close.
GUT: Keep catching 'em.
BRAD: It's always a good feeling coming in to meet the Gut.
Us and Tyler worked great together this trip.
We're really thankful for that.
Hopefully we can return the favor.
GUT: 285 dressed.
BRAD: Okay. That's a nice fish. GUT: Yeah, that's a good-sized fish.
Take a look at this one.
Not too bad. Not too bad.
BRAD: Nice color. He's ruby red, dude.
GUT: The core's good.
He's got decent fat. Yeah.
That's a pretty good fish right there.
BRAD: That's a nice fish. What can you do for us?
GUT: I give you 18 dollars on that.
MATT: Nice. Nice. BRAD: All right. Thank you.
Yeah, that's good.
MATT: Thanks, Gut. Thanks, Gut. We love that.
BRAD: That's what I'm talking about.
I'm glad we listened to Tyler.
We love you, Gut.
We're gonna go back out and do it again.
Woo! Kaw! Kaw! Kaw!
(laughs)
(music)
DAVE: We're just waiting our turn.
We're waiting for that mark on the screen or we're waiting for that outside rod to just go.
But we're waiting.
We had a shot two days ago but we didn't do as well as we wanted.
This week, we formed an alliance with Dave on the Dot Com but so far,
they haven't had any luck either.
Now, we're just waiting for our chance.
JOE: What do you see out there, Gel?
ANGELICA: Nothing, absolutely nothing.
JOE: That's not good.
DAVE: That's a big mark.
There's a fish coming up, coming up.
Marked a fish right here in the bottom.
But he could come up and bite any of those rods at any time.
The rod should be bending any minute now.
JOE: Oh, oh. We're on! We're on! We're on!
We're on. Yup, yup.
ANGELICA: We're on, we're on.
DAVE: All right. Here we go.
We're on again.
JOE: Yeah! I love the smell of tuna in the morning.
GEORDIE: Marciano's fighting one over there.
DAVE C: Is he really?
GEORDIE: Looks like it.
GEORDIE: Going around in circles.
DAVE C: You kidding me?
This is the worst of the worst.
I can't tell you how frustrating this is.
It was my idea to work with Marciano but so far, he's the only one hooking up.
SANDRO: This is terrible.
DAVE C: I'm going down. (bleep) this.
Wake me up when we get a bite. I've had enough of this.
SANDRO: The alliance is really working out in Marciano's favor.
GEORDIE: Yup. SANDRO: For sure.
We suck.
JOE: I would say he's four to five hundred pounds.
How much line this fish took?
ANGELICA: I mean, all of these fish are big to me so.
JOE: Still free and he's got a lot of fight in him.
DAVE: Yeah, Joe.
ANGELICA: Yeah, Joe.
The pressure is on.
JOE: No place I'd rather be. We got nowhere to go.
DAVE: Keep it tight long enough to get a shot.
We're on our fish here.
We've been on him for about 20 minutes or so.
Really hoping we can get this one and wrap this up.
Nice, and clean, and quick.
SANDRO: Why can't we do that?
Wow, look at that, he went way up there. We're marking.
DAVE C: What's that?
SANDRO: Oh, they're way up. Yes.
GEORDIE: That fish is way up.
DAVE C: Wow. A nice fish right there. Wow.
We need a bite.
SANDRO: We're on! We're on! We're on! We're on!
GEORDIE: We're on!
SANDRO: That's a real one there. Got 'em on! DAVE C: We are on.
GEORDIE: Got 'em on.
DAVE C: Just like that, huh?
SANDRO: That's a real one there. Got 'em on! DAVE C: We are on.
GEORDIE: Got 'em on.
DAVE C: Just like that, huh?
SANDRO: Wow.
GEORDIE: That thing is cruising.
SANDRO: He's not happy.
Oh, my God.
I cannot tell you how good it feels to finally get a bite after watching Marciano
hook up to two.
GEORDIE: Coming up, yeah, coming up.
SANDRO: Come on, Dave, go.
GEORDIE: There we go, buddy.
DAVE C: Damn.
Thing's all over the place.
Get it, Geo.
This is no baby right here. This is the money fish.
GEORDIE: We need some weight this trip.
DAVE C: Yeah, that's the whole idea.
We just need good quality ones here.
All we got to do is close the deal. SANDRO: Yes, sir.
Let's make it count.
DAVE C: We've got to make it count.
JOE: All right, there you go. DAVE: Looking good, Gel.
Keep it going. Keep it going, you're doing great.
JOE: Be calm, Gel, keep doing what you're doing.
DAVE: Atta girl. Keep it going.
JOE: Yeah, yeah, you're doing great.
DAVE: Doing good, Gel, keep it up, you're doing a great job.
That's teamwork.
It's all about working together.
That's what this trip is all about.
You too, Joe, you're doing a great job.
JOE: Attaboy, lady.
SANDRO: We waited patiently for him to give up.
He takes, I take.
DAVE C: That's a big fish right there.
He's a big fish. I bet he's 500.
Coming back across, Geordie.
SANDRO: Got him in a pretty good pinwheel here.
GEORDIE: Color. DAVE C: There he is.
Good color. Nice fish.
SANDRO: Coming right up for you.
Lower. Lower.
GEORDIE: Lower. Lower. Lower. Lower. Lower.
SANDRO: Stay in neutral.
GEORDIE: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He's right there.
Yeah.
Got him. Nice shot, guys.
DAVE C: Get him, Geordie.
That's it.
Alright, come left, Geordie.
Good job. Watch the hands.
Nice job, boys.
That's what I'm talking about. GEORDIE: Look at that one.
That's a nice one.
DAVE C: Look how round he is, huh?
Wow.
That's what I'm talking about. GEORDIE: Good job.
Nice work, guys. SANDRO: Thanks, bro.
Nice job, bud. GEORDIE: Got him.
DAVE C: Finally, this was a hard week. Woo.
We had to watch Hard Merch hook up twice on our numbers before we landed one of our own.
We needed this.
Game over. GEORDIE: Woo!
JOE: When the line gets close to the hull.
I'm just guiding the line with my hand.
I'm not really grabbing it, just so we're avoiding the fish touching the boat.
JOE: Yup. ANGELICA: Okay.
DAVE: We're good now but we gotta keep an eye on it.
That's right.
There you go.
Go easy. This is where they got away quick, Gel.
ANGELICA: I just, I can't see the tip of the rod.
DAVE: Yeah, I'll tell you when.
There you go, Gel.
Try and pull and reel.
Atta girl. Yeah.
You're good.
Good gain. Good gain.
ANGELICA: (bleep). (bleep).
DAVE: Is he still on there?
Damn, he's gone. ANGELICA: Are you kidding me?
DAVE: Pulled the hook. Lost the fish. ANGELICA: Well, that sucks.
It happens but it just, it sucks being the one at the reel when the hook was pulled.
So.
DAVE: That's part of tuna fishing.
The only way you're not gonna lose fish is if you don't put a hook in the water.
So right now, get the hooks back out and hopefully, we'll get another shot.
DAVE C: I think the Merch lost it.
SANDRO: I hope he didn't. DAVE C: That sucks.
Hopefully Dave did not have an M and M.
GEORDIE: A Merch Meltdown.
DAVE C: Hey, we get there too when we lose them sometimes, you know.
SANDRO: Yeah.
DAVE C: Everybody lets go of their steam one way or another.
Hard Merch breaks bait nets.
Sucks losing them.
Ready?
GEORDIE: Hit it. SANDRO: All right. DAVE C: Here we go.
That what I'm talking about.
SANDRO: That's a nice one.
Nice!
DAVE C: Look at that.
GEORDIE: That's a nice fish. DAVE C: That is absolutely a gem right there.
GEORDIE: Take a look how big is he?
DAVE C: 101. Nicely done.
A 101-butterball right there.
GEORDIE: Nice fish.
DAVE C: Going to Japan. SANDRO: That's a beauty.
DAVE C: Nicely done.
JARRETT: Heading back in for another fish chop.
Let's stay on a roll here.
TJ: What's shaking, Scottso? SCOTT: Hey, what's going on, guys?
TJ: We got one beautiful one for you, buddy.
It's not a sea monster but every one counts right, cuz? Want to get him up there?
SCOTT: Yeah, let's check him out. TJ: All right, Bubba.
After not catching last week, we ended up catching a tuna right next to Paul.
We really needed to get back in the swing of things and that's exactly what we did.
The Wicked Pissah had a tough week this week but in tuna fishing,
sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
One trip you catch, another trip you don't.
What are we looking at, Scottso?
SCOTT: 224 pounds.
TJ: You want to get a core sample, tail cut? We'll come up?
SCOTT: Sounds good. TJ: All right, bud.
SCOTT: It's nice. TJ: Yeah, beautiful.
SCOTT: These are type of the fish we're looking for.
TJ: Yeah?
SCOTT: You could see that it's got some fat in it too.
Minors, little bit of majors too.
TJ: Beautiful core. SCOTT: Yeah.
TJ: So what do you think?
SCOTT: 18 bucks a pound.
TJ: All right. JARRETT: Not bad.
TJ: 18 bucks a pound is a solid price.
After last week, it feels good getting a paycheck.
Hot Tuna is en fuego. Pa-pow!
(music)
DAVE C: What's up, Scott? SCOTT: What's up, Dave. DAVE C: Let's get him up.
We want to get him in the truck and we want to get right back out.
SCOTT: Cool.
DAVE C: Our jumbo tonight came in at 465 pounds dressed.
If we can get a great price per pound for this one, we are back in the game.
SANDRO: Ooh, that's nice.
SCOTT: Yeah, well, I mean, you can see he's loaded with fat, you know.
SANDRO: Yeah, it is. SCOTT: Good core, too,
you know, good shape.
Bottom line.
DAVE C: What do you think?
Do us right, man.
SCOTT: 19 dollars a pound. SANDRO: Yeah.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
DAVE C: That's nice.
SCOTT: Good job. See you guys.
SANDRO: Damn. Nice.
DAVE C: That's a good payday right there.
Almost 9 grand for a single catch.
I'll take that any day.
More importantly, that puts us within striking distance of the top of the pack.
Let's go get some more and let's make some money.
SANDRO: Money in the bank.
NARRATOR: At the end of week five of fishing, the alliance between Fish Hawk and Pinwheel
pays off for both boats, making them the fleet's two top earners.
And Hot Tuna's catch on Wicked Pissah's hot spot pushes them into third place.
Meanwhile, Dot Com landed the highest earning bluefin of the week in front of partner
Hard Merchandise, edging the defending champ closer to the pack.
(music)
TYLER: Duffy!
DUFFY: What's up, T?
TYLER: I'm so thankful that Brad and Matt on the Fish Hawk were there to help me out this week.
(music)
It made me realize that I can't do this job alone, so I'm stoked to have Duffy back.
DUFFY: I missed you, bro.
TYLER: Duff, it's really good to have you back, man.
DUFFY: I'm gonna get you, T.
TYLER: Stay away, man, you're gonna get me all wet.
(laughs)
(screams)