NARRATOR: On this episode of Wicked Tuna...
MATT: We're on! DAVE: Here we go!
JARRETT: Hooked up, baby! Hell yeah.
RICK: Coming at us.
JOE: He's right here on the side, under the boat.
NARRATOR: While strong teams...
TJ: Got 'em on, baby! Got 'em on!
NARRATOR: Continue to thrive...
MARCIANO: There you go, atta girl.
DAVE: That's teamwork, baby.
GEORDIE: Nice! SANDRO: Nice!
MATT: We're on! We're on! We're on!
BRAD: Ha ha ha!
NARRATOR: Two struggling boats...
PAUL: You almost got my hand ripped the (bleep) off!
That's not cool!
NARRATOR: Reach game-changing crossroads.
RICK: I don't know how much longer I can do this.
I really don't.
NARRATOR: This...
TYLER: No, no, no.
PAUL: Let go!
What is your problem? I don't want to die!
NARRATOR: ...is Wicked Tuna.
PAUL: Don't hurt me over a fish!
NARRATOR: At the start of week 10 of fishing,
less than eight grand separate the fleet's three top earners,
Fishing Vessel Tuna Dot Com, Fish Hawk, and Hot Tuna.
Meanwhile, Wicked Pissah lags far behind
after failing to catch for more than three weeks.
(music)
RICK: Sun just came up.
We're fishing, got two lines down.
(music)
A lot of boats here today.
There's Dot Com over there.
They're a well-greased machine.
DAVE: It's crazy how much time we spend out here.
But you gotta love it, it's a lifestyle.
RICK: That Hard Merch, they're a fun family operation.
MARCIANO: When you were a baby, I could hold you with one hand.
JOE: So you could throw her around, right? Like a football.
MARCIANO: Long bombs.
That's how I got good at throwing the harpoon.
Here, hon, catch!
ANGELICA: Yup.
RICK: The Hot Tuna guys are always laughing.
(laughing)
There's the Fish Hawk.
Brad's a great captain, very supportive.
BRAD: You did really good last night staying up.
RICK: Paul's not that kind of captain.
He's like a ticking time bomb.
RICK: He could go off for any reason at any second.
(music)
We haven't caught a fish or seen a paycheck in over three weeks.
We're the lowest-earning boat in the fleet.
Paul is frustrated,
and I'm just getting blamed for everything that goes wrong.
Last week I couldn't do anything right in Paul's eyes.
PAUL: Touch to the starboard!
I'm (bleep) trying to teach you how to drive a boat!
Really? Touch to the starboard!
(snap)
Oh, he's gone.
Damn it.
Come on, Rick.
Rick lost us a fish last week.
He's been making some mistakes,
and we can't afford to lose any more fish.
(waves lapping)
(beeping)
We're marking!
(beeping)
Big marks!
(beeping)
(reel unspooling)
RICK: We're on! We're on!
Shaking his head.
Turn.
Coming at us.
(music)
PAUL: What's he doing? RICK: Taking a little line.
PAUL: Alright, that's what I need to know.
RICK: Here we go again.
PAUL: When you crank, right? Try to keep it smooth.
PAUL: Try not to... RICK: Jerk.
PAUL: Jerk, because that will jerk the hook right out.
Don't pull the rod.
RICK: Paul's acting like this is my first rodeo.
Come on already.
Straight down on back, Paul.
PAUL: See, he's still got pep in him. Taking line?!
RICK: Oh, yeah, taking line.
PAUL: Alright, you gotta tell me.
Let me know. You know what I'm saying?
RICK: Now I'm battling the fish, I'm cranking,
I'm keeping the line tight,
and all Paul's doing is 'Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah.'
PAUL: Are you alright? You want me to do it?
RICK: I'm good.
Jeez, I can't do anything right today.
PAUL: Here, you do the wheel.
You don't have to turn it right now.
Touch it in reverse.
Neutral.
Watch it! Watch it!
Touch it left, go ahead.
Forward!
You don't hear me?
Oh.
This ain't gonna work.
Ain't gonna work.
Come on.
Ain't gonna work. (bleep)
RICK: No!
PAUL: We're not gonna get this fish.
This is where we're gonna take him.
If you want to catch him, this is where we can do it.
If you don't want to, we don't have to.
Not gonna happen, not gonna get him.
RICK: He just comes unglued.
PAUL: Just not gonna happen.
RICK: He's just negative the whole time.
PAUL: Reel.
RICK: Swivel on the reel!
(bleep)
Right here.
Okay.
Get back here.
Alright, straight in the back of the stern.
Coming up.
(snap)
PAUL: This is a (bleep) joke.
RICK: We pulled the hook. It's no one's fault.
PAUL: It's a simple thing.
Go catch a fishy.
Very (bleep) simple.
We should have harpooned him a half hour ago.
RICK: I've done everything he asked me to do,
his way, his way, and it's still not right.
PAUL: You need to be on your (bleep) game.
RICK: A person can only take so much.
PAUL: Crazy!
Come on, are you kidding me?
Like, you're in denial.
Like, I don't get it. I can't...
DAVE: Paul's yelling at Rick again?
Poor bastard.
SANDRO: Yeah, it's tough to focus.
There's already enough going against you
when you're fighting a fish,
the last thing you need is him yelping in your ear nonstop.
GEORDIE: It's like this needle right in your ear.
SANDRO: And you don't want that.
GEORDIE: No.
PAUL: Right! There you go! No more denial.
MIKE: Wow, did you hear that?
Paul's yelling at Rick.
TJ: Oh, man, something (bleep) wild happened on there.
(laughs)
He must have went nuclear. Holy (bleep).
MIKE: Dude, they must have...
JARRETT: Battled it out big time.
MIKE: I wouldn't put up with that crap.
PAUL: You need to decide things for yourself.
When, when a lobster's gonna bite you in the face...
(Angelica gasps)
MARCIANO: Can you believe that guy?
ANGELICA: Oh, no.
There's a difference between being constructive
and just being plain mean.
I would hate to work under those conditions.
I feel lucky being on this boat.
Hopefully it'll work out.
MARCIANO: Poor Rick.
MATT: The next time we see Paul, he's gonna have no eyebrows.
BRAD: He doesn't pick his eyebrows,
he's gonna clean the toilet.
BRAD: Underneath.
OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder.
Paul, once he starts cleaning under the toilets,
that's when you know he's kind of taken a turn for the worst.
The bolts that hold the toilet on,
he shines them with a toothbrush.
(laughs)
(laughter)
GEORDIE: What do you think, Sandro,
should I put out a nice, fat one?
SANDRO: Yeah.
DAVE: We've been the top-earning boat
four of the last six seasons.
Our success is, you know, Sandro, Geordie, and I
working as a team.
And I don't want these guys working for me,
I want them working with me.
That's a recipe for success.
SANDRO: Waiting patiently for a tuna fish to bite our lines.
On the Dot Com we all work well together,
and Dave sets a positive tone.
We have fun, we respect each other,
and we catch a lot of tuna.
Some other boats don't have that.
They butt heads, they yell and scream,
and eventually they fall apart.
Just want to fight a fish.
I'm bored now.
(beeping)
DAVE: We're marking!
(beeping)
(reel ticking)
SANDRO: Is that him right there?
(reel unspooling)
DAVE: Here we go.
I'm going up to the bow.
SANDRO: That's him.
There he goes. We're on!
DAVE: Alright.
Alright! Clear!
GEORDIE: We got a bite here. Took one big run there.
DAVE: Clear.
SANDRO: You want to swap or are you good?
GEORDIE: I'm alright.
DAVE: We're on!
PAUL: Are they on again?
Are you kidding me?
Those guys got all the luck.
DAVE: Shaker.
GEORDIE: Coming around, coming around, coming around.
SANDRO: Neutral, neutral.
DAVE: That's it, Geordie.
That's what I want to see, right there. Nicely done.
I see color.
Oh, he just turned.
Looks like a decent fish, guys.
GEORDIE: Yeah, he does. Bigger than we thought originally.
Go ahead, Dave, give it a bump.
DAVE: Keep it coming, Sandro's gonna throw it here. I hope.
That's it, control that fish, Geordie.
Come on, Sandro!
GEORDIE: Nice shot! Nice shot!
(tail slapping)
GEORDIE: Ready? DAVE: I'm right.
DAVE: Yeah, baby!
Yeah, baby! Nice job.
GEORDIE: Nice job. There we go!
DAVE: Nice work. SANDRO: One more.
GEORDIE: Nice job, guys, nice job.
SANDRO: Let her rip.
DAVE: Nice little 90 plus, 92.
SANDRO: I'm gonna guess 88 inches.
Nice.
That's probably why he was so easy.
DAVE: That's teamwork, baby.
SANDRO: He's no 90-incher.
DAVE: I said 92.
SANDRO: It's no 92-incher there, Slappy.
Do you have the spectacles on under there?
DAVE: 88.
SANDRO: Yeah, baby!
I win the lottery.
GEORDIE: Sandro, Deadeye Dan over there.
DAVE: Absolutely no freaking respect.
You guys are gonna have the readers eventually.
You're gonna have the bad back, the bad knees,
a dual hip replacement.
You'll see.
Wait until you got to fill out your Viagra subscription.
SANDRO: Oh, God.
Luckily I still have quite a few years before that happens.
DAVE: You'll see.
And then you're gonna be thinking about the days
that you guys harassed me, and I'll be looking from above.
SANDRO: Or below us, right?
DAVE: Yeah, or below. If I make it to heaven.
BRAD: Come on, Matt, let's get it done, buddy.
MATT: We want to prove ourselves
to be the best tuna fishermen out here.
BRAD: We've got to do it.
We've been very consistent.
We've caught at least one fish every week this entire season.
It's something no other boat's done.
And if we could keep that up for the rest of the season,
we might even win this thing.
MATT: I have faith in my captain to go out here,
put us on the meat, get us some more fish.
BRAD: Throw that anchor, Matt.
(music)
(phone ringing)
PAUL: Hello?
BRAD: What's up ya-hunt?
PAUL: How you doing, ya-hunt, ya-hunt?
BRAD: We're just sitting here, watching the tide.
There's fish around.
BRAD: Yeah, there's herring.
There's herring, there's herring, there's mackerel.
Hey, it's got everything, you know what I'm saying?
PAUL: There's no (bleep) herring whatsoever here, nothing.
(reel ticking)
(reel unspooling)
MATT: We're on! We're on! We're on!
BRAD: We're on right now, we got 'em on here.
MATT: Woo!
BRAD: Yeah.
Listen.
He's smoking out on top now.
PAUL: I hope I can make it happen.
BRAD: Good luck.
The line going out.
Alright, go get off the ball.
MATT: Woo!
Let's go get 'em, boss. Fish Hawk, baby.
Woo.
Feels like a really good fish.
He took some monster runs.
We really need this one.
I see, I see a high-flyer behind us, Brad.
BRAD: Yeah, how far?
I hope he doesn't get in these lobster pots.
MATT: Scary how much he's going right for it, you know.
BRAD: If the fish get tangled up in the buoy's rope,
the line could snap and he's gone.
MATT: Come on, don't do it.
Stay away from that (bleep), oh!
BRAD: He's in that buoy, I see it going down.
MATT: I see it.
(music)
I definitely think I feel rope, Brad.
I'm wrapped up on the line good, Brad.
If I reel, the line's gonna break.
(music)
BRAD: I hope he doesn't get in these lobster pots.
MATT: Scary how much he's going right for it, you know.
BRAD: He's in that buoy, I see it going down.
MATT: I see it.
BRAD: If the fish gets tangled up in the buoy's rope,
the line could snap and he's gone.
MATT: Come on, don't do it.
I definitely think I feel rope.
I'm wrapped up on the line good, Brad.
If I reel, the line's gonna break.
BRAD: We got this, Matt.
We can do this.
I can reach this.
We're all tangled up.
Give me that knife, give me that knife.
MATT: Here, Brad. Here, knife.
Good job, boss.
We'll go tie it back on him when we're done.
Swimming right at us, Brad. Go!
He's not far away, Brad.
BRAD: Come on, baby!
Come to papa.
MATT: You want to take a couple turns on him?
BRAD: Yeah.
MATT: Take a couple turns on him.
See if you can get him pinwheeling, boss.
BRAD: Here he comes.
MATT: Coming right at you, bro.
(music)
BRAD: Pinwheeling now.
MATT: Oh, yeah, he's definitely pinwheeling now.
BRAD: He's still getting smaller.
MATT: Deep color. BRAD: Reel, reel.
MATT: Big color.
BRAD: One more circle.
(music)
Now go around me with the rope.
MATT: Game over.
Woo!
BRAD: We've now got 10 fish in 10 weeks.
MATT: Beautiful fish, man.
BRAD: There's no one else I'd rather fish with than Matt.
Good job, man.
MATT: Good job, Cap.
Fish Hawk!
BRAD: Let's get a measurement.
MATT: Let's get a measurement. What do you got there, Cap?
BRAD: 85 inches.
God bless you, buddy.
You had a good life living free in the ocean.
MATT: Good job, man.
BRAD: He's off to see the wizard.
MATT: Game over.
(music)
(bird squawks)
GEORDIE: Scotty!
SCOTT: What's going on? What do you guys have?
DAVE: We got one nice one for ya.
SCOTT: Good size? DAVE: Good size, yeah.
SANDRO: Big money. SCOTT: Let's see what we can do.
DAVE: We need a good price to increase our lead
to remind the fleet that we are Gloucester's A-team.
SCOTT: Oh, this is a good one.
DAVE: What do you got, Scott?
SCOTT: 424 pounds.
SANDRO: Now, just a good price.
DAVE: A low-quality fish could pay as little as $8 a pound.
A good quality fish could pay $20 or more.
When a buyer's looking at tuna,
he's looking for the fat and the color.
SCOTT: Alright, guys.
GEORDIE: That looks like a nice piece, Scott.
SCOTT: Yeah, it is. SANDRO: Nice.
SCOTT: Loaded with fat in the minors.
SANDRO: Yeah, it is.
SCOTT: You know, it's so greasy.
DAVE: What are you thinking? Come on.
SCOTT: I mean, it's all-around good fish.
I could do $19 a pound.
SANDRO: Yeah. I like to hear that.
DAVE: Solid price. Thanks, Scott. Love that.
SCOTT: That's a good fish.
DAVE: Thank you very much. We needed that.
GEORDIE: Good to see you, Scott. Thanks.
DAVE: We're out of here.
Another big payday for the best team on the water.
Go A-team.
(music)
PAUL: Do you think the bait's on there?
Did you pull it in? Did you...
RICK: I pulled it in very slow.
PAUL: Okay. Let it out.
Go, go, go, go, go!
See, the 40 feet is from here to there,
it still can, you know what I'm saying?
RICK: Well, we didn't have it that far the last time.
You told me to bring it in.
PAUL: I know because I was already 130 feet down.
Listen and think, alright,
I want you to think with your mind.
RICK: Yup.
Paul's frustrated now,
because we haven't caught a fish in three weeks.
When he's not yelling at me, he's patronizing me.
PAUL: That line out there is higher.
100 feet. The one next to the boat is...
RICK: Yeah. PAUL: Lower, 130.
PAUL: Why do I do that? Why? So they don't...
RICK: Tangle.
PAUL: Tangle! There you go!
RICK: We went through the same thing last season.
Paul gets stressed and takes it out on me,
and I threatened to quit.
I can only take so much.
I'm ready to walk away from this boat right now.
PAUL: Come on.
RICK: That was a wakeup call for him,
and maybe it's time for another wakeup call.
PAUL: Sheesh.
RICK: Honestly, I don't know how much longer
I can put up with this.
TYLER: Man, where's Duffy?
I need my mate.
We're not getting it done.
Calling Duffy.
(phone ringing)
He's not answering his phone.
The competition's fierce right now.
It's anyone's game.
Really disappointed in Duffy.
We haven't been producing like we should be.
The Dot Com, Fish Hawk, and Hot Tuna
are all having a really solid season,
and they're all ahead of us in the earnings.
So the last thing I need right now is a deadbeat mate
who can't show up when he's supposed to be here.
So, Duffy left the boat wrecked, stuff everywhere.
I just need to clean this whole table off, put everything away.
Look at this.
Jeez.
Come on, Duffy.
You think Sandro leaves it like this?
Dot Com's out there fishing,
Duffy's somewhere in a bar, nowhere to be found.
He really needs to do a better job.
I'm questioning whether Duffy's the right mate for this boat.
Last week...
Let him go!
(snap)
DUFFY: Ohh!
TYLER: He screwed up and cost us a fish.
You didn't, like, hold it?
DUFFY: I didn't (bleep) hold the fish, dude!
TYLER: It seems like he's fallen back into some old habits
just like last season.
You show up late to the boat.
My whole day's (bleep), you don't even care.
DUFFY: Let's start! You want to start talking (bleep)?
If you talk about my (bleep) family, I'll (bleep), dude.
TYLER: I'm not talking about your family.
Screw Duffy.
(engine starts)
We'll go fishing without Duff.
Duff wants to pull some sort of move here and not show up,
what are you gonna do, man?
MARCIANO: I'm feeling pretty optimistic,
but then again this is tuna fishing,
so that'll probably change.
ANGELICA: That feeling might just be indigestion.
Why are we stretching out the leaders again?
MARCIANO: Oh, we stretch the leaders
because if they're curly, the fish can see 'em.
If they're laying nice and straight in the water,
they're less visible.
JOE: Plus if I tied a bad knot, we'll figure out faster.
ANGELICA: Well, don't tie bad knots, then.
JOE: I only tie might knots.
It might hold, it might not.
ANGELICA: That's 'knot' funny.
(laughs)
MARCIANO: It's knot?
We got off to a slow start this season,
but we caught two fish last week.
And I feel like we've hit our stride as a team.
One thing I know for sure, when times are tough,
you just got to keep everybody smiling.
Keep the spirits up and the fish will come.
(beeping)
We're marking.
(beeping)
(reel ticking)
(beeping)
ANGELICA: Oh! We're on! MARCIANO: Whoa, we're on!
JOE: We're on! We're on! We're on! We're on!
JOE: Nice.
Oh, I really hope we get this one.
Yeah, that's a tuna!
MARCIANO: Finally we hooked up today.
Now we just got to hope we can get this sucker to the boat.
MARCIANO: Gel! ANGELICA: What?
MARCIANO: Give this glove to Joe.
Oh, you got, okay.
Great job, Joe.
That's the way to do it.
ANGELICA: I've got the tail rope ready.
JOE: Screamer!
MARCIANO: He's leaving!
Ready, Gel? You want to wind on him?
ANGELICA: Yup. JOE: Alright, get on him.
MARCIANO: There you go, atta girl.
Alright. Well, we got a fish on.
We're just hoping we land it now.
MARCIANO: Doing great, hon.
ANGELICA: I can't reel as fast as my brother can,
but that doesn't matter right now,
because right now it's about just strength and control.
MARCIANO: Yup. That's right.
ANGELICA: Not that I have much strength,
but I have the control.
MARCIANO: We got this, kids.
ANGELICA: See, I can't do that.
MARCIANO: He's definitely a nice fish. We need it.
This isn't gonna put us in first place,
but it's gonna help us get, you know, a little closer
to the rest of the fleet.
Good job, Joe, keep it going.
ANGELICA: Come on, Joe.
MARCIANO: We can do it.
JOE: Going under the boat!
MARCIANO: If the line hits the bottom of the boat,
it'll break off.
If he don't settle down, we ain't gonna get a shot at him.
JOE: Swivel!
I got swivel on the line, he's right here!
MARCIANO: Get the line, Gel. Get the line!
JOE: Going under the boat!
MARCIANO: If the line hits the bottom of the boat,
it'll break off.
JOE: Swivel! I got swivel on the line, he's right here!
MARCIANO: Get the line, Gel. Get the line!
ANGELICA: I've got the line, I've got the line!
MARCIANO: That's the way to do it.
Atta boy, lady!
ANGELICA: He's right there.
MARCIANO: Atta boy, Joe, you're doing good, yup.
Maybe we'll get a chance here.
JOE: There's the swivel.
MARCIANO: Oh, yeah, damn it!
We got this, kids.
JOE: Going up forward.
(music)
MARCIANO: Right there?
JOE: Yeah, he's right here.
ANGELICA: I've got the harpoon ready.
ANGELICA: There he is. JOE: There he is!
MARCIANO: Joe, we'll get a shot at him.
We're just gonna keep doing what we're doing.
JOE: He's right here on his side.
ANGELICA: Got color!
MARCIANO: Coming back!
(bleep)
ANGELICA: Got color.
MARCIANO: One more time and we'll go around.
JOE: Good job, Gel. ANGELICA: There he is.
JOE: Oh, he's right here. Right in the back.
He's coming, he's coming.
MARCIANO: Here we go. JOE: See him down there?
MARCIANO: See him?
Now, nice and easy. This time we'll get him around.
(music)
JOE: Nice! Good shot.
MARCIANO: Alright, back off a little bit, Joe.
Here comes its tail.
How cool was that?
JOE: That was pretty sick!
MARCIANO: Gel, get that other strap on him,
and then we'll celebrate.
Nice, big one, too.
JOE: Yeah, nice, nice one.
MARCIANO: Well done, Gel.
We got him! That's official.
ANGELICA: O-fish-al!
MARCIANO: Official. Get it? See what I did there?
ANGELICA: Because it's a fish. Yeah.
(laughs)
MARCIANO: Yeah! Yeah!
JOE: One, two, three.
MARCIANO: Joe and I have been working well together
for years now,
but Gel joining us this season has just amped things up.
What do you got, Gel?
ANGELICA: 87.
MARCIANO: 87, nice.
You could say with Gel joining us, we 'gel' even more.
Get it?
Did you see what I did there?
(laughs)
Hopefully, tomorrow we'll get another one.
JOE: Right. Let's get on a roll here.
ANGELICA: I think you should get a room.
(Dave laughs)
(music)
MATT: Fish Hawk. Ka-kaw!
GUT: Hey, what's going on? What's up, Brad?
BRAD: What's up, Gut?
Well, we got this one nice fish for you, it looks fat.
GUT: Looks good, check it out, yeah.
BRAD: You're gonna like this one, Gut.
Matt and I caught our tenth fish in ten weeks.
We are ecstatic.
That's teamwork at its best.
BRAD: We're the real deal this year.
What do we got, Gut?
GUT: 314, Brad.
BRAD: Nice. Nice fish. Alright.
GUT: Good little fish. Yup. Let's check this one out.
It's a nice little fish, refined fat.
BRAD: Yeah. MATT: Ooh.
GUT: Yeah, he's not a bad fish at all, look it, nice shape.
BRAD: Yeah, yeah. What do we got, Gut?
Come on, how much? How much, Gut?
(music)
GUT: 17 bucks on this one.
MATT: Alright, nice.
BRAD: That's a good price, Gut, thank you.
MATT: Thanks, Gut.
GUT: Yup. Alright, have a good one.
BRAD: Have a good night, Gut. MATT: Thank you, Gut.
GUT: Yup. Alright. MATT: Peace out, G-Man.
BRAD: Let's do it again, buddy.
MATT: Aye, aye, Cap!
(music)
BRAD: You on there, boy?
How about it, boy?
TYLER: Yeah, what's up, brother?
BRAD: How's it going?
TYLER: I'm fishing solo. Duffy didn't show up.
BRAD: So he's done?
TYLER: I don't know if he's done.
He was a no-show.
BRAD: I don't understand it.
TYLER: Yeah, it's like, I'm done with him,
but I can't fish solo indefinitely.
BRAD: Figure this (bleep) out, you know.
TYLER: I got to get myself a good mate, one I can rely on.
I'm gonna make some calls.
Let me know if you hear of anybody.
BRAD: You got it.
GEORDIE: I guess Duffy quit, right?
TJ: Duffy didn't show up.
Maybe he finally had enough and he said,
'That's it, I'm over it.'
Tyler's never been able to keep the same crew.
I mean, yeah, he has some minions, some cling-ons
that just keep coming and going.
He just doesn't treat people good.
GEORDIE: Well, it's Tyler.
He's a character from Sesame Street somewhere.
(laughs)
TJ: There's never that kind of foolishness
on board the Hot Tuna.
That's crazy.
SANDRO: This happens to Tyler
literally like at least once a year.
He always has to go alone
because his deckhands don't show up.
GEORDIE: Right.
DAVE: Tyler's alone again.
(laughs)
(snoring)
(music)
RICK: We're just waiting. Waiting for the bite.
Paulie's sleeping, so I'm gonna get a few minutes of peace.
It's just a nice change of pace
not to get barked at all day long.
(snoring)
Paul's the hardest captain to work for,
but I put up with it because I have to.
I have to hang in there; I have a family to support.
They depend on me to catch fish.
Hey, hon.
Yes. It's not fun.
Same old stuff.
Another horrible trip with Paul.
I don't know how much longer I can do this.
I really don't.
TYLER: If we can get right up here
and get on this high spot and hold the edge,
we have a good shot at catching more fish,
but I just don't have any Duffy to help me.
The Dot Com, Fish Hawk, and Hot Tuna,
they're all ahead of us right now.
We need to catch up, so the last thing I need is a flaky mate.
What does he think I'm gonna do,
sit around all day waiting for him and not go fishing?
No, no, you're not gonna ground the Pinwheel.
We're going fishing without you.
So I'm just gonna keep grinding and keep going hard,
and do whatever I can to try and put fish on the boat.
We got to catch a fish here, come on.
(beeping)
Marking 'em!
(beeping)
I'm ready for a bite, I'm ready for a bite, I'm ready.
(beeping)
Woo! This is a mark.
(reel ticking)
(unspooling)
We're on! We're on! We're on!
Here he goes. That's what I'm talking about.
Anchor!
Hooked up, baby.
L-G-O!
Line going out!
Holy (bleep).
Oh, boy!
I got to get my other lines in.
Alright, baby. Woo!
Big fish. Big fish.
Time to go to work, baby.
Put the rod right here.
Juggling the rods, fighting the fish, driving the boat;
this ain't easy fighting a tuna solo.
It's the one we need, baby.
Big fish here.
Definitely knows what he's doing, changing directions.
Oh, no! Don't go that way.
(cranking)
Ah! No, no, no!
TYLER: Big fish here.
Definitely knows what he's doing, changing directions.
Oh, no, don't go that way!
No, no, no!
God!
I can't lose him.
Real scared we're gonna lose the fish.
Oh, he's still there, here he goes.
Alright, baby. Woo! Come on.
Here he is, he's right here.
Alright, baby. Woo!
There he is!
I live for that.
Color!
Dart coming!
Bam!
Come on, baby! Come on!
Got to get a tail rope on this fish.
Ugh!
Oh!
Yeah, baby! Woo! Yeah!
Alright, woo!
Great catch right here.
So happy to have him.
Woo!
Nice. Perfect fish.
Woo! Sweet!
Beautiful.
Nothing better than the feeling
of having to measure a tuna by yourself.
75 inches.
Yeah, buddy!
Woo!
Pinwheel's hot.
Yeah, baby, no Duff-Duff needed.
TJ: Sharing in a bluefin groove, baby.
The conditions are good, you know, the tide's good.
I know myself and the guys are feeling very good
about this season so far.
We're having a lot of fun, we're catching some great fish,
we're making some money,
and it's just a great mood on board the Hot Tuna right now.
I feel like if we weren't getting along
and we weren't vibing the way we're vibing,
we wouldn't have the results that we're getting.
JARRETT: Wicked Pissah just showed up.
I wonder if Paul is still yelling at Rick.
If I worked on a boat with a captain
that would constantly yell and scream at me,
I would not work on that boat ever again.
TJ never, ever takes his stress out on somebody else,
and that's why I keep coming back year after year.
I respect him and he shows the same respect back to me.
I have this strange feeling we're gonna get a bite, man.
MIKE: Yeah. I hope so.
TJ: Hopefully, we start marking a few more fish
and they're hungry.
Just need that one hungry tuna, baby.
(beeping)
TJ: Ah, just one Cinderella, baby, come on.
Come on, tuna fish, come on.
(beeping)
(reel ticking)
(unspooling)
JARRETT: We're on! We're on!
TJ: Pa-pow, baby!
Got one on.
PAUL: Everyone out here is catching but us.
RICK: Every time Paul hears someone getting a bite,
I know things are going to get worse for me
because he gets more frustrated.
(music)
JARRETT: We're on!
Hooked up, baby! Hell yeah!
TJ: Get us off the anchor.
MIKE: Alright, back up!
TJ: Got 'em on, baby, got 'em on.
This is just what we need, guys.
We could really use this one.
MIKE: Watch out, guys.
TJ: Keep it tight, Jarrett.
Good job. You got him, Jarrett.
We're gonna get him.
(music)
MIKE: Damn. Must be a jumbo.
He's taking all the line.
JARRETT: Whew!
TJ: Great job. Great job, Jarrett.
We got this, guys.
You got him, Jarrett, you got him!
He's really close, bro.
Holy (bleep), I don't like that.
(snap)
JARRETT: Oh, (bleep).
TJ: Pulled the hook.
It happens, and it's nobody's fault.
Pulled the hook.
RICK: That's heartbreaking.
PAUL: Ha ha ha!
(Paul laughing)
TJ: I'm confident, we'll just keep doing what we're doing.
JARRETT: Put 'em back out and hope for the best.
MIKE: We're gonna get 'em.
TJ: We'll get him. We'll get one.
(music)
MARCIANO: What's going on, buddy, how are ya?
SCOTT: Hey, Dave, how you doing?
JOE: Got a nice one for you today.
SCOTT: The Hard Merch, back at it.
MARCIANO: Here he comes, Scotty.
What do you got, Scotty?
SCOTT: 260 pounds dressed.
MARCIANO: Okay. Not bad.
See what he looks like in the inside.
We've been averaging $20 a pound for our fish so far this season,
so I hope we stay on that track,
because it'll give us a nice paycheck.
JOE: Look at this thing. MARCIANO: Yeah, nice, right?
SCOTT: I like it, you know, it's just,
it's got a lot of fat in 'em, you know, great shape on it.
JOE: I'm hearing some dollar signs right now.
What do you think?
SCOTT: I can get you guys 20 bucks a pound.
ANGELICA: Nice. Nice. Awesome. JOE: Ah, great!
MARCIANO: Big score. Alright, man, thanks a lot, Scotty.
JOE: Nice to see you again.
Hopefully we'll see you tomorrow.
MARCIANO: We'll see you soon hopefully.
I couldn't be more proud of my kids.
The more you work together with your team,
the better you and your team will work together.
(laughs)
Let's get back out there and get another one.
JOE: Let's do it.
RICK: Right now, I'm just staying clear of Paul.
(music)
PAUL: Looks like bait.
That's a good sign.
It's been really tense
without getting a paycheck for three weeks,
and we lost a fish earlier this week.
You know, Ricky screwed it up.
We can't afford to lose any more fish.
(music)
(reel ticking)
(unspooling)
We're on! We're on!
RICK: Yeah.
PAUL: We're on!
RICK: I know, I heard you.
PAUL: You got to get this line in.
Get on the fish.
Reel! The (bleep)?
RICK: I'm reeling, Paul.
PAUL: What's your problem?
RICK: There is no problem.
(music)
PAUL: Move the rod to the middle!
I'm gonna swing the boat around.
(music)
RICK: Coming at us.
PAUL: Well, I'm busy right now.
(music)
RICK: Over to the port.
Bump it ahead a little, Paul.
Yeah, that's good.
PAUL: You got to tell me before that, Rick.
Tell me before it gets under the boat, okay?
You got a bad, bad, bad, bad habit of that.
RICK: Going up, Paul.
PAUL: You got to speak to me, okay?
RICK: I said it.
Every (bleep) time.
Going up the port.
PAUL: I see it now.
Like right then you should have said, 'Touch it in gear.'
It's all you if I run it over, not me, because I can't see it.
RICK: Go in gear, Paul.
Paulie, go in gear a little.
Forward, Paul.
PAUL: I'm sick of driving.
It's so hard, I can't be all over the place.
I can only be in one spot at a time.
I can't see, where is it?
RICK: Straight down. PAUL: Alright.
PAUL: (bleep) sick and tired of this (bleep).
Turn the rod.
Reel that (bleep) in.
RICK: Coming to the stern.
PAUL: You're a nice fish.
Too bad we might not get him.
Nice fish, I can stick him.
Go ahead.
Loosen up.
Gaff behind you.
What are you doing?
Gaff him.
In the meat.
Oh, my God!
What is wrong? Give me the gaff, what is...
RICK: I got it, I got it.
PAUL: What is your (bleep) problem?
Let go! Let go!
PAUL: Gaff him.
Oh, my God!
What is wrong? Give me the gaff, what is...
RICK: I got it, I got it.
PAUL: What is your (bleep) problem?
RICK: I'm trying, Paul. It won't go in.
PAUL: Give me this. Let go! Let go!
Get the tail rope.
(bleep) ten times for a gaff.
It's the easiest (bleep) job I've ever done in my life.
I don't understand the brain fart about it.
I don't get it.
RICK: Every time we catch a fish together,
you act like it's my first (bleep) time.
PAUL: I'm gonna end up getting killed because of a gaff job.
I'm not gonna die over a (bleep) tuna fish.
You almost got my hand ripped the (bleep) off.
That's not cool!
RICK: Stop exaggerating.
PAUL: Don't (bleep) argue with me.
I don't want to die.
I'll cut him off next time.
I'll cut the (bleep) right off!
Not gonna deal with it.
I will go cut and he'll be gone.
Please don't (bleep) hurt me over a fish.
I won't do it, would you?
Would you want your arm ripped off?
RICK: You're blowing things way out of proportion.
PAUL: Why the (bleep) do you people keep arguing with me
like I don't know what I'm talking about?
And I refuse to (bleep) get killed.
That's all!
That's all you had to do was listen to me once.
It don't matter anyway,
because I turn out to be the (bleep) hero again.
RICK: Well, you're supposed to enjoy it,
it's supposed to be a celebratory thing,
we just caught a fish.
And he can't even enjoy it.
He's got some (bleep) issues there.
PAUL: Wait till it comes up, Rick, wait till he comes up.
That's all you got to do is lean into it,
that's all you got to do.
Lean into it.
All your body.
That's all it is.
Lean into it. Keep going.
81 inches.
Easy-peasy, beesy-beesy.
Simple, simple.
TYLER: Brother.
GUT: Hey! How'd you make out this trip?
What, are you by yourself?
TYLER: Yeah, it's, uh, I think he got lost in the sauce.
GUT: Oh, there we go, okay.
Go check him out.
TYLER: Alright, Gut, take her away.
Last week, Duffy and I only got $8 a pound for our fish.
I'm really hoping that I do better than that.
One good thing I can say about Duffy not being here
is I don't have to share the check with him.
What do you got, brother?
GUT: 208 pounds.
TYLER: Beautiful. I'm coming up.
GUT: Alright.
TYLER: What are we looking at?
GUT: It's a little smaller fish, but it's got decent fat.
The color's real bright on that,
so I can give you...mmm...
16 on that one.
TYLER: Yeah? I like it. Woo! GUT: Yup.
TYLER: Thank you, buddy. GUT: Beautiful.
TYLER: That's why I always stay with my boy.
GUT: Nice.
TYLER: Alright, I'm going to get a couple more.
I caught a fish on my own,
but it's far more efficient to have a mate.
Now, I just need one I can rely on.
You lost more than money, Duffy.
You lost a job.
PAUL: Right here, it used to shake like crazy.
1500.
We finally broke the dry spell and caught a fish.
Rick and I have been under a lot of stress,
but let's pray next week is better.
PJ: What's up, Rick?
RICK: Hey, Cap, how are ya?
We got a little one for ya.
PJ: Yeah, man.
PAUL: Nice little fatty.
What's the weight on this one, PJ?
PJ: 200 pounds even.
PAUL: You want to check the quality out?
PJ: Yeah, let's see what it looks like.
PAUL: This isn't the biggest fish,
but we still need a big paycheck to make up some ground
to get back in the game.
PJ: Nice.
This one here, beautiful color,
got a little bit of fat, not much.
This one here...
$14 a pound.
PAUL: We'll take it.
Hopefully we'll go get another one for you.
PJ: Keep 'em coming, boys. Keep 'em coming.
PAUL: Thank you very much.
RICK: I'm glad we got a check,
but I'm not so sure $14 a pound for a 200-pound fish
hardly makes it worth the crap I had to put up with this week.
NARRATOR: At the end of week 10 of fishing,
Fishing Vessel Tuna Dot Com's $8,000 paycheck
increases their lead over the fleet.
Meanwhile, Wicked Pissah's mediocre-quality fish
leaves them further behind the pack.
(music)
PAUL: Been a tough couple weeks, no doubt about it.
RICK: You're not kidding.
PAUL: Things will start turning around here, Rick.
That's good, Ricky, go home, see your family.
We'll try to pick up, I'll see you tomorrow.
RICK: I honestly don't think Paul knows
how much of a jackass he's been.
He's absolutely clueless.
PAUL: See you tomorrow, Rick.
RICK: I don't know.
I don't think I'll be back tomorrow.
I don't know yet.
Just like last year, nothing but crap.