MATT: We're on, we're on, we're on!
JARRETT: Yeah, go!
NARRATOR: On this episode of Wicked Tuna...
TYLER: Ah!
PAUL: Ba-boom!
-Ooh.
GEORDIE: Something just unwrapped.
NARRATOR: There are only two...
Weeks...
Left to fish.
TYLER: I got him, woo!
NARRATOR: And while the fight for final paychecks intensifies...
JOE: We're on!
Oh, (bleep), dammit!
TJ: I don't know what we should do here.
NARRATOR: The race to dethrone the king of the Gloucester fishery.
DAVE: That's never gonna happen.
TYLER: Tell Dot Com to kiss my (bleep).
NARRATOR: Is also heating up.
MATT: Fish Hawk, ka-kaw!
NARRATOR: This...
TYLER: Dot Com is twitching.
NARRATOR: Is Wicked Tuna.
MATT: Game over, thank you for playing.
NARRATOR: With only two weeks until the season closes,
Gloucester's longtime top producer,
Fishing Vessel Tuna Dot Com has retaken the top spot from rival Pinwheel.
But last season's lowest earning boat, Fish Hawk,
is out for blood and is less than six grand away
from first place.
Meanwhile, Hot Tuna, Wicked Pissah,
and Hard Merchandise are desperate to catch.
DAVE: We've been the top producing boat season after season.
We feel right at home on top and we plan on staying right there.
I think our biggest competitor is Tyler.
He's young, he's driven, and he knows how to catch fish.
But I'm not worried.
We got a great boat, and a great crew.
TYLER: Woo, the competition is fierce.
We always know Dot Com's gonna be right there, but I think we got him this year.
There's only two weeks left in the season.
Dave Dot Com narrowly beat me by 19 bucks last year and I'm not gonna be runner up again.
I'm not gonna sleep till we beat the black boat.
We're not gonna fail.
We're not gonna give up.
MATT: Fish Hawk! Ka-kaw!
BRAD: It makes you feel a lot better in your mind, body, spirit to be consistently
pulling in fish, making money.
It's a lot happier boat this year.
-Worst to first, baby!
-We wanna win this thing bad, really bad.
So bad we could taste it right now.
It's time for somebody else to take home the trophy.
MIKE: This leaderboard has been shifting around all season extremely fast,
so we just got to keep doing what we're doing, capitalize, put fish in the hole and
hopefully it works out for the Hot Tuna.
TJ: We've got to stay on it. We've got to stay focused.
We got to stay on the meat, we got to keep getting the bites.
And more importantly, we've got to land them.
It's anyone's game right now.
RICK: Right now, it's go time.
Yeah, we've had a good year so far, but we need to do better.
We need to put more meat on the deck.
Everyone's hungry, especially the Wicked Pissah.
PAUL: Brad, Dave, Dave Marciano, Tyler, TJ.
Do I wish them luck?
Yes.
Do I wish them safety?
Absolutely, but I want those fish that are under their boat.
There's only two weeks left and we're behind in the earnings,
but I catch fire late in the season.
It's not over until the last day.
MARCIANO: I'm an old fart now.
I got nothing to prove, all right?
I've been in this game for 30 years.
As long as I'm making a profit; the nice thing about this boat, it's paid for.
We've had a terrible season so far.
We've been at the bottom of the fleet most of the time.
And there's only two weeks left to make a paycheck.
But nobody's giving up over here.
We're gonna hit it hard right to the bitter end.
♪ ♪
BRAD: We're a couple miles from where we were the last couple days.
A little inshore, we're gonna try it.
We got nothing to lose.
We've been pretty much catching fish wherever we go.
There's just two weeks left in the season, the clock's ticking.
Last season was a complete failure for us.
We only managed to catch five tuna and we were the lowest earning boat in the fleet.
But this year, we've been one of the top producing boats.
Nothing could be better than finishing this season on top.
It could be the ultimate redemption for us.
Go for it, home slice.
MATT: Right now, two boats stand between us, and the title of Gloucester's
top earning boat, Dot Com and Pinwheel.
All's it would take is one good fish to give us an edge over them guys
going into the homestretch.
-Hokey pokey, we dropped right in.
Come on, baby!
(beeping)
We're marking.
Come on, fish, fish, fish, fish!
(beeping)
(clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
-We're on, we're on, we're on, woo, here we go!
Brad he's under the boat. (bleep)! Hold on, Brad! Come here.
-Give me this. -He ran under the boat, bro. -Go under the anchor.
(reel unspooling)
-I'll go clear the other lines.
We barely dropped the anchor and got a bite.
If we can put this fish on deck, we not only get a paycheck,
but it puts us closer to taking the top spot.
How sweet it is.
-All right, Rap.
I'm gonna run him down a little bit, get him away from these guys.
-All right.
Let's go get 'em, Fish Hawk!
Ka-kaw! Ka-kaw!
-We're gonna run him down a little bit.
-Yeah, woo, Fish Hawk, got 'em on!
We're running up on him. He took a whole bunch of line.
Hopefully we'll get this one.
Right now, we're getting close to the end of the season.
And then that's it; we won't be able to make no more money.
-Keep him tight! Keep him tight, Matt.
-Forward right! Forward right, quick, go! That's good.
-There's only six grand between us and the top earning boat, Matt.
This could put us right in the lead.
All right, fight him out.
Easy, easy. Let him run. Let him run.
-Forward right. Go! -Don't lose this fish!
-Go, come on, good, good! -Struggling.
He's struggling pretty hard.
(splash)
Swimming up on the surface now.
-There's the swivel. I'm getting swivel.
Get the harpoon, Brad, he's charging the boat.
I got swivel!
-Where do you want me to go? -Brad, I got him right here.
Get the harpoon, quick!
-Okay. -Oh, man. -Bring him around again.
Easy with him. Easy with him. Let's get him.
Oh, no. Don't break him off now.
-I'm not gonna.
Get him, Brad, get him!
-Get that gaff.
Get that rope on him, boy!
Woo, Fish Hawk, baby, woo!
-Game over.
He ain't no monster, but it feels good to get another one.
-This fish is definitely gonna give us a chance to dethrone Dot Com.
Worst to first, baby!
It ain't over till it's over.
We got one, baby!
Dot Com, your title's up for the taking, and the old Fish Hawk might be just
the boat to do it this season.
We still got time.
DAVE: Brad is actually having a very, very good season.
GEORDIE: Yeah, I'd say.
DAVE: Everybody hates a winner.
Plenty of boats have talked the talk over the years,
but they just haven't been able to deliver.
So Brad's caught a fish?
Good on him.
Am I worried?
Not at all.
Dot Com is the best team in the fleet and I'm confident we'll finish as the
top boat once again.
BRAD: Let's go.
The Dot Com wants to win more than anything.
It's nice. Perfect.
To give him the fear in the back of his mind to know that we're biting at his heels.
82.
-Nice.
-Good fish, God bless you, buddy.
-Thanks, God bless you. -Thank you, tuna.
Gut hooked, look at this.
-Really? -Look how far down this is.
(clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
-We're on, fish on, woo, two in a row.
-Hooking up with a second fish just charges us up.
-Worst to first, baby.
With only two weeks left, this is exactly the kind of score we need.
We got fish hanging.
Fish out here running.
Hopefully, we get another one of these nice 87-inchers.
Right down to the bottom.
I have a fat one on, bro.
(inaudible).
-I think this is the same rod.
Same exact rod.
Same rod we hooked up earlier.
Got one on, Fish Hawk, baby!
-Woo!
-He's gonna come at us here, hold on.
Hard right.
Go, quick, forward right, hard right.
That's your left.
That's good, Brad.
-Where is he going now? -He's going straight back. We're good, Brad.
-Take a break, take a break, out the way.
-All right.
-Straight (inaudible) wind and tide, he feels like a good one.
Rough out, you got to be a little careful with him.
He's playing the waves like we are.
I can feel it flipping off his jaw and his fins.
Nothing you can really do about it.
-Acting like a fat fish.
Deep color!
This is exactly what we need, boss.
-Seems like we got him under control.
We'll find out here in a minute.
-Right behind you.
-Don't let him out of this, man.
One more circle.
Yeah, get that gaff.
All right, get the tail rope.
-Woo! -Good job, dude.
-Game over, thank you for playing.
-All right, all right, all right!
-Woo, Fish Hawk, baby, woo!
-Two in a row.
This might be the year of the Fish Hawk.
-What do you say we get a measurement, Cap?
-76 inches, nice fish.
Every pound helps.
It could be a close race in the end and this little 200-pound butterball might
put us over the top.
MATT: Yeah.
From our bad performance last year, no one was expecting anything from us this season.
But look at us now, we're the boat to beat.
Game over.
-We got two nice boots.
-Woo, woo!
-A little roll here, a little hot streak this morning.
This is nice when everything comes together like a plan.
TYLER: Throw that in the down rod position for me.
That, right there is fine. That one.
DUFFY: I'll put it right here, bring it to you.
TYLER: Last week, Dot Com grabbed the lead from us and now Fish Hawk
already has two fish on deck.
We got to get to work.
There's only two weeks left to fish and when it's all said and done,
I want it to be Pinwheel running the show.
-Dude, this is gonna be the most aggressive whiting hook up,
and it's a down, oh, dude
that's gonna set the hook really good though.
-We're finally gonna get the hook and set up a trap.
-Don't you think though? -Yeah!
(beeping)
Marking 'em good.
There he is, on the bottom!
-All right, I'm putting raingear on for the next fight.
How did that not just get eaten?
Oh, dude, he's gonna eat it out of your hand.
He's down below it though.
(beeping)
(clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
-Oh, we're on! -All right.
-We need this fish to catch back up.
-Got 'em on! -All right.
-This is the nice rod Brad gave us, dude.
Check out the nice rod with guides that actually work.
-Don't go in the anchor. Please, here help. Help me, oh, no, I think he's...
-I got it.
-I think he's in the anchor.
-All right, let me rip these in.
-I think we're in the anchor.
Oh, come on.
We are in the anchor right now.
Now we have a big problem.
If we lose this fish, it's gonna be a lot harder to catch up to Dot Com and
possibly Fish Hawk.
We got to untangle it.
-Okay, we're, I got to go over you.
-Listen, just keep pulling.
You got to do a lot more than that, bro.
I'm, we are wrapped.
Okay, just (inaudible) okay.
We're all good.
Oh, my, we're not good.
Keep pulling.
-I'm, dude, I'm (bleep) pulling.
TYLER: We can't lose this fish!
Keep pulling.
DUFFY: I'm, dude, I'm (bleep) pulling.
-Get the ball out of there.
-Come under me.
-We must have already lost the fish.
The fish must be gone.
-Okay.
-There's still a tuna on here.
-Still on, baby!
-Ah, there's a lot of line out.
-Yeah.
-I'm just so happy to get it out of the anchor.
Oh, my God, woo!
Dodged a bullet there, big time.
99% of the time, fish gone.
We've got less than two weeks before the season closes and
there's no more Bluefin checks.
Fish Hawk already has two fish today and has probably taken the lead.
I'm tired of coming in second, so we got to make every hook up count.
-Got him coming around port.
-I see color!
-Yeah, brother! -We don't got him yet!
Duff, go grab a gaff!
Now it's on, baby!
Woo, yeah, baby, woo!
This is just what we need to hopefully move ahead of Dot Com in the earnings.
But since Fish Hawk might have just grabbed the lead, we're gonna stay out and
try to catch another one, 76-incher, all day long.
Perfect, yeah, buddy!
-All right, hey don't hit that hand.
-Woo, woo! -Got that one.
-This season's ours for the taking, Duff.
-Right on!
MATT: Fish Hawk! Ka-kaw!
BRAD: Gut! How you doing, buddy?
GUT: How'd you make out?
-We got two for you today, Gut.
-Oh, nice, we'll check 'em out.
-You're gonna like this one, Gut.
We're less than six grand behind the fleet's top earner.
With these two fish, our chances of jumping into the lead are good,
but it's all gonna come down to what we
get for this pair.
What do we got on this one, Gut?
-263 dressed, 276 dressed. -Nice. -All right, not bad.
We're gonna come up and check it out, Gut.
When the buyer's judging the quality of the fish, he wants to see nice color,
nice fat, nice oil.
We got $16 a pound for our last fish.
-We could only hope for anything close to that.
-All right, let's check this one out.
-That's a beauty, Gut.
-Yeah, it's a pretty decent fish.
-Look at that fat. -The core's, the core's good. -What can you do for us?
-Yeah...
I'll give you 15 bucks a pound for this.
-We'll take it -We'll take it, Gut.
-That's a good deal. -Thank you, Gut. -Yeah.
-All right, what do we got on this one, Gut?
-Nice color.
-He's got a little oil, I feel that.
-Yeah, I can see it. -Come on, Gut. -Uh...
-The leads on the line here.
-$19. -Nice. -Thank you, yeah, that's good.
-Thanks, Gut. -Now you're talking, bud. -Thanks, Gut. We love that.
-That's better, thank you, Gut. We're heading out.
-We'll call you tomorrow, okay? Have a good one.
MATT: Fish Hawk, baby. Fish Hawk.
I think we're unstoppable right now.
NARRATOR: With less than two weeks until the season closes, Fish Hawk's double catch
pushes last year's lowest earning boat into the lead.
Meanwhile, Pinwheel has a fish onboard that they have yet to weigh in.
DAVE: Ugh, this is not the way I wanted to end the season.
We started this week with a nice lead, but our top two competitors have both caught
tuna and we have nothing.
MAN (over radio): We're having some engine troubles over here.
-I know, poor guy, poor guy.
SANDRO: And he just lit off a flare.
-Oh, God.
Hey, Dave? He just lit off a flare.
-Really? -Yeah, it just hit the water. -Trip is gonna get cut short.
This (bleep) really sucks.
MAN (over radio): Yeah, we're, we're not gonna be able to get back
to port here.
Can someone give us a tow?
-Let's go, let's reel 'em up, that's it.
-We got to tow him all the way back to Gloucester.
-Well, it is what it is. We gotta go get him.
-This sucks. -This trip is officially over.
SANDRO: That really is a slap in the face.
It's fishermen's code to help anybody in need no matter where you are or
what you're doing.
But towing someone in is a super big inconvenience because that pretty much
ruins your trip.
And if you don't have a fish, it makes it that much worse.
-Oh, yeah, he's done.
This is gonna take forever, and we'll be in the red.
-What a joke.
RICK: Whales are coming back.
PAUL: Yeah.
I enjoy being here right now with my friend, Rick Schrafft.
-Attaboy!
PAUL: Trying to break the will of a tuna.
When it comes to earnings, we're behind almost everybody in the fleet.
But Rick and I plan on working around the clock and banking as much money
as possible before this season closes.
Ba-boom!
We can sleep when we're dead.
Bam!
(beeping)
We're marking, we're marking!
Nice to see a mark anyway.
Looked like a very small tuna, 75-incher.
They're biting baby, they're coming.
-Why's our balloon over there, Paul?
-What?
I didn't hear you.
-This line's tight and our balloon's over there.
-What?
Oh yeah, it's on.
-That's a fish. -Reel it, it's on.
You got one on, Rick.
That balloon's tight.
Yeah, you're on, brother.
Every fish matters at this point.
-Straight down now, Paul. -We're running out of time.
We need to make more money for our families.
Yeah, he's a nice fish.
I hope we get this one.
This is a beautiful fish.
Okay, ready?
-There he is!
-Reel!
-Get him?
-Yeah, loosen up.
Crazy tuna, he's crazy.
Get the gaff behind you, Rick.
You got his meat?
-I got his tail.
-Good, nice fish.
We wanted this one, Rick.
-It's great because it's so close to the end of the year and we know we just put
another one on deck.
We got to keep catching more, that's all there is to it.
-He is a fat guy.
83, curved measurement.
Woo, it's a beauty.
We still got a chance at winning this thing.
Rick and I, last two weeks, pulling off a miracle.
TJ: What are we doing wrong here?
No marks.
No bites.
I don't know what we should do here, you know.
I was tempted to try another spot, but there's a bite there,
there's a bite down the edge.
MIKE: We started this season as one of the top earning boats,
now we're back at the middle of the pack.
We have to turn every mark on the screen into a hook up and every hook up
to a tuna on deck.
With less than two weeks left to fish,
we can't afford to take our foot off the pedal.
Give us a shout if we start marking.
♪ ♪
(beeping)
(snoring)
(beeping)
TJ, seeing anything?
-Oh, man. I must have dozed off.
-You're seriously sleeping when you're supposed to be watching the
fish finder for marks?
-Oh, (bleep).
MIKE: This isn't gonna help us catch fish.
Dad would not be happy.
PAUL: We're waiting for the magic.
Nice wad of bait coming through.
That's herring there.
Come on, tuna.
Streak, (bleep).
We landed a tuna this morning.
Rick and I are gonna do our darndest to land another one.
We may be the smallest boat in the fleet, but what we lack in size,
we more than make up for in work ethic.
We are not out of this race.
Nice mark, dude!
(beeping)
(clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
-We're on! -Nice! -Yeah, we're on!
PAUL: Yeah! Come on, baby. Another one!
PAUL: Good job, Ricky.
Rick's doing a phenomenal job fighting him.
Go ahead, Rick, you can give half a turn.
When you get him coming like that Ricky, keep him coming, you know what I mean?
RICK: Yeah.
-Go ahead, get a half crank.
Half crank, half crank.
See how you can get half cranks with the waves, Ricky?
Always get when you can.
Yeah, he's tiring, buddy.
That was good, Rick.
You were on that!
-Headshakes again.
-He's big, man.
He's a tough fish.
He's staying right there now.
This is where it's gonna happen.
-Right here in the back.
Now, Paul, now!
-Got him!
He is crazy.
-Oh, my God!
-This thing is crazy.
-Yee-ha. -Good job, Ricky. -Now, we're back in the game.
-Let's get him in.
84 inches.
-84. -What a nice fish. -I'm psyched.
We got another one.
Decent sized fish probably get a good paycheck.
With so little time to go, this is what we needed.
-Hey man, we catch pretty fish.
Grrr!
TJ: No bites.
I don't know what we should do here, you know.
I was tempted to try another spot.
But I mean, Paul's a quarter mile from us.
We're on the same bank.
I just don't get it.
I don't see why we don't mark one or have a nibble.
Doesn't make sense.
DUFFY: The baits are looking good.
While T is getting some rest,
I'm here doing whatever I can to make sure we hook up early
and we hook up often, that's all we can count on.
(beeping)
Good mark.
(snoring)
(beeping)
(clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
We're on, baby, we're on! Wake up, we're on!
-T, we're on!
-Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!
-Stretching one out.
Great way to wake up.
-Hooked up in the middle of nowhere.
No boats around us right now.
This fish could put us in the lead.
Beautiful fog.
We're gonna put this fish on the boat.
And it's gonna tell Dot Com to kiss my (bleep).
Dot who?
-He's right here too, dude. He's pissed.
-He's big, another 90-incher.
-Yeah, this is another nice one.
Made some big, crazy, crazy runs.
We might have him broke.
He's probably gonna bring us back down to the Jerry Brown in a minute, but.
-Operation Shock and Awe is working wonderfully.
Because the rest of the fleet just, they keep on finding out that,
"Oh, Pinwheel got one.
Oh, they got another one.
Oh, they got another one."
Better get used to hearing that.
-There he is!
Hey, let's go, Skipper.
Watch the lines.
-Keep going.
-I know, I'm trying.
-We need this one, man!
-Throw the dart!
We got him!
T, T, T!
-It's stuck. I got no harpoon line.
-Oh. Stick him!
Oh, no!
-Missed another one.
-It's a pig. -It is a pig.
-Yes! -Get him, Duffy. -I got him, brother.
-Yes.
-Oh, my God, another good one, bud.
-Beautiful fish.
-Hey!
-The boys are back at it again.
-This big fatty is just what we needed.
Another beeeeeast, another moneymaker.
Time's running out and it's running out even faster for the Dot Com with a
beauty like this one, oh.
-Hey-oh, super round.
-Let's get a measurement on this one.
99 and a half.
Yeah, buddy!
-All day, baby!
-Dot Com is twitching.
-I think everyone's twitching.
-This is what we do best, Duffy.
-Hell, yeah.
-Yo-yo, what's up, homie?
-Hey, what's going on?
What do you got?
-Two fish.
-Beautiful, you can't beat that.
-Two fish hanging, it doesn't get much better than this.
We're definitely coming in with the chance of taking the top spot.
What are we looking at, Gut?
-236, 382 dressed.
-Right. -Beautiful, we're coming up. -All right.
-Our buddies on the Fish Hawk jumped into the lead yesterday with a double.
And they're about eight grand ahead of us in the earnings.
So first place hinges on what we get for these two fish.
I need a big paycheck, brother.
What can you do for me?
Hook it up.
-This one's kind of red, but I like the core.
It's got a really.
-They're all red.
-It's got a really bright core...
$12 on this fish.
-Okay, all right, well, I mean, it's better than nothing, dude.
We'll take it, I'm happy.
-Yup.
-Hopefully this next one's better, Gut.
-This fish here's not too bad, Tyler.
-That one's a beauty, bro.
I want to eat that myself.
-Not bad.
Nice core, got a little fat in the majors here. Hmm.
-Come on. Give me some big money, bro.
I need a hookup.
-I'll give you, hmm...
$17.
-Perfect. -All right. -Thanks Gut, appreciate it.
-Okay, yup. -See you later, dude. -All right.
-Beautiful.
Nine grand, I'll take it, and we're heading right back out to get some more.
Pinwheel, baby!
NARRATOR: Pinwheel's double catch gives the young duo a $1,300
lead over their friends on Fish Hawk and Wicked Pissah have two fish
on board they have yet to weigh in.
Meanwhile, the fleet's longtime top earner, Fishing Vessel Tuna Dot Com
has not hooked up this week.
DAVE: That's the guy we towed in.
He just wanted to thank us for getting him home.
After towing in that boat, we lost precious time on the water,
and Fish Hawk and Pinwheel have both jumped ahead of us in the earnings.
But that's the price you pay when you're the good guys.
I'm home. Thank you. Will talk soon.
Hope you kill it today.
Right there.
If we don't get good karma with that, we might as well just do
bad things from now on.
-Yeah, exactly, let's hurt somebody.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Right now, I'm desperate enough to do just about anything to get on the meat
and grab our lead back, well almost anything.
I don't wanna hurt anybody. That's just bad.
Now, it's time for some good juju.
MARCIANO: We certainly got a pretty day today.
Light winds, the sun's out.
One of the nicest days we've fished so far this year.
If we can just get a fish or two, that's the only way we can make it better.
There's less than two weeks left until the season closes and the way we're going,
if we don't land some fish soon, we're not gonna make a profit this year.
That's half the battle is figuring out where the bite zone is in this tuna game.
Joe and Gel jigged up some nice herring.
We got great conditions.
We just need to mark a fish or two and these rods should bend.
All we got to do is wait, and wait, and wait.
Wait.
ANGELICA: My dad works really hard.
He works harder than most anyone else out there.
But we're operating in debt here.
I mean, as a fisherman, you can be doing everything right and you can still lose.
And that's just the worst.
MARCIANO: Marking good, good marks.
Nice fish, four fish.
I'd like to see that rod bend.
(beeping)
This is a great sign, Gel.
Look at that.
JOE: We're on, oh, (bleep).
-Five fish, what?
-Dammit, it popped. (bleep).
What happened?
-He pulled the hook, Joe.
-Now, this one's on.
-Reel, reel, reel, reel!
We're on!
-Yeah, we're on!
-We're on, we're on!
JOE: Hell, yeah.
(beeping)
MARCIANO: This is a great sign, Gel. Look at that.
JOE: We're on, oh, (bleep).
-Five fish, what?
-Dammit, it popped.
-Oh. -What happened? -He pulled the hook, Joe.
-Now, this one's on.
-Reel, reel, reel, reel!
We're on!
-Yeah, we're on!
We got this one on.
-We're on, we're on!
-Hell, yeah!
Just had a bunch of fish come through.
That line popped off.
They just popped right there, right at the rod tip.
So, I don't know what happened.
All right, ready?
-Let's do it, good.
-All right.
-Only ten minutes in this fight, but feels like a decent fish.
I think he's a keeper.
-Definitely think it's a keeper, Joe.
He took enough line for that.
-Watch out!
-Watch the line!
Don't let it get cutoff in the prop.
-Come on, now. We can't lose him.
-No, no, no. -He's out.
He's running away from us now.
That was too close for comfort.
All right, ease up a little.
-Go get her.
-Soft, there you go, attagirl.
Yah, mule!
-We've only got eight days left to fish and we need to turn every hook
up into a paycheck.
We have to land this fish.
-Gel's doing great.
-There he is!
-Good job, Gel.
I'm gonna hop on the rod now.
-It's coming right up.
Keep the line tight, Joe.
He's a monster!
He's putting up a fight!
-Take the shot!
-There you go, Gel.
Tail strap on the other side of Joey.
Attagirl.
-Yeah, buddy!
Wrap him up.
Yeah, another one tail's up for the Merch.
Yeah, another one for the Merch.
-There you go, down, down.
-We made Gel do all the work on this one, so we just sat there and looked pretty,
like we always do, so.
-It feels great to put away some more money in the bank before the season closes.
That's definitely a relief.
What is it, Gel?
-84.
-Nice, what do we say?
Over the rail in the pail.
Back to the dock to make the sale.
PAUL: Coming in hot with two beautiful fish!
-PJ!
-What's going on?
-This was a very, very good day.
I'm just pumped that our work is paying off and these two fish will get us
closer to the leaders.
Wicked Pissah is in it to win it.
What's the weight, PJ? What do you got?
-181 pounds, 293 pounds.
-Very nice. -Nice little unit. -Sure.
-All right. Nice color, guys. Excellent handling.
It's not bad, uh...
$17 a pound.
-Nice. -Nice. -We'll take it.
-All right, this one. -Nice fish. -Nice fish.
Nice color, man, I'm telling you.
You guys take really good care of these things.
-This one here, guys,
$19 a pound.
-Very nice. -Yes, yes! Little fish, big return.
Adds to the pot. We're heading right back out.
If we could keep this roll going, boom!
We just gotta keep our nose to the grindstone, Ricky, and push hard to the very end.
-Let's do it, Paulie.
NARRATOR: With just over a week until the season closes,
Wicked Pissah's double catch pushes them ahead of Hot Tuna,
who have not had a bite in almost two weeks.
(phone ringing)
-Hello?
TIM (over phone): I hear everyone in the fleet is catching this week,
but not you.
What the hell is going on with you?
-Rough as (bleep) out here.
-I don't know what I'm doing wrong here, man.
-I don't know what the (bleep) we're doing wrong.
We got beautiful baits.
-What's that?
-I know, I'm (bleep) sick over it.
-All right, I'll call you tonight and let you know what happens here.
Bye.
We gotta catch something here. We gotta make this happen.
(squawk)
DAVE: Yeah, we can get it done today.
Hopefully, we can pull it off again.
We're gonna keep going here, you know.
It's coming up, the end of the season, but, you know,
we're knocking on everybody's door.
It's crunch time for the Dot Com.
We started the week as the fleet's top earner, but we lost valuable time
on the water when we towed in that boat.
And now, Fish Hawk and Pinwheel are both ahead of us in the earnings.
We're coming down to the wire.
We need to get back on our game, fast.
Never count the Dot Com out, that's for sure.
You know, right now we're having a successful season.
I just wanna tweak it and make it a little bit better.
Hey, let's stick to the plan, Geordie.
-Hell, yeah!
-We can get it done. Hey, you know what? One good day is all it takes.
Perfect.
-That's right.
-At this point in the season, we're usually the boat to beat.
We might not be used to playing from behind, but one thing's for sure,
we're not giving up our title as Gloucester's best bluefin boat without a fight.
-We gotta get one.
One or two.
-Oh, come on!
-We're marking, we're marking!
This is good.
-Come on, eat, eat!
Come on, come on, eat it, come on!
-Wow, that's good to go.
Come on, come on!
-Oh, watch that bow rod!
-Huh?
-Watch the bow rod, we're marking!
(reel unspooling rapidly)
-We're on! -We're on, we're on, we're on! -Hey, you got one?
-I got one!
Sandro literally just said, "Watch that rod, we're marking." I look back and the
was just, the rod was bent over.
-That looks like a big fish.
-Yeah.
-This fish could get us back in the lead.
It's a big one.
-It's actually a great harpoon shot.
When it comes under the bow, you just drop the pole right in his head.
-We got a nice fish here.
-Be very careful, okay?
We can't lose this one.
-Yeah, get ready to go back.
-Oh, something just unwrapped.
-Geordie, you still got him?
-I don't know.
(cranking)
Oh, he's still there.
-Nice job.
-Forward left! -Chase her down! -Chase him down, Cap!
-That's a big relief. I thought we lost him.
-I got deep color.
-Couple turns, Sandro, couple turns.
-Close now. -Couple turns.
-You got him! You got this!
-Hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him!
Hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him!
-Drop it right in his noggin.
-I missed!
Oh, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
-Stay neutral! -Neutral, neutral! -Backwards.
SANDRO: Don't run over the fish!
rns, Sandro, couple turns.
SANDRO: Close now.
-Couple turns.
DAVE: We're hooked up right now.
Fish Hawk and Pinwheel have both gained leads over us,
so this can mean the difference between us regaining our top spot
or going into the last week lagging in third place.
You got him! You got this!
-Hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him!
Hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him!
-Drop it right in his noggin.
-I missed!
Oh, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
-Stay neutral! -Neutral, neutral! -Backwards.
-Don't run over the fish!
-That's all right, that's all right, you're okay.
Take your time, he's right here.
-We're gonna make it work.
-Come on, Sandro, this fish could get us back in the lead.
-Just one shot, you're good!
-Here we go, nail it!
-Got him.
-You got him?
His tail?
-Yeah, I got it.
-Right here, Geordie, right here.
Don't fall in!
-Yeah, Sandro, wrestle that fish!
I got you.
You're tight!
-Woo-hoo, that's what I'm talking about!
-Got him! -Got him, baby, nice work!
Things got pretty crazy there for a second.
-Woo.
-But we pulled it together and got it done,
just like the Dot Com always does.
-94 inches.
-Fish Hawk and Pinwheel both jumped ahead of us in the earnings this week,
but this is a good-sized fish.
Hopefully it's enough to put us back in the lead.
-Thing was a little nuisance.
MARCIANO: Scotto, what's going on?
-What's up Dave, how you doing?
-Not much, not much.
We had a great little trip.
-What up, Scotty?
MARCIANO: I really hope this fish spells an end to the doldrums for
the Hard Merchandise.
Bringing in fish three weeks in a row is the closest we've come to having
a hot streak all season.
What do you got, Scott?
-225 pounds dressed. -Nice. -Nice.
-After today, there's only one week until the bluefin season closes and that means
no more money coming in.
So, we need a good price for this fish.
So what do you think?
-Well, you can see the fat in it.
-Yeah. -Oh, yeah. -No burn on this fish.
-Nice clear core. -Yeah, this fish right here...
I'll do $16 a pound.
-Nice. -Great, perfect.
-We'll take that, that's good, that's good.
This fish isn't gonna pay off my mortgage on its own,
but it's gonna go a long way towards making sure we can keep the
heat on this winter.
-All right, guys. See you later.
-See ya.
MARCIANO: Let's go get two more like that one, except bigger, way bigger.
DAVE: What's up, Scott?
-What's going on? How many you guys have today?
-We got one nice one.
It's an absolute beautiful fish.
-Nice. -Ready to get him up? -Yeah, let's check him out.
That's a nice fish.
-That is a nice fish. -Woo, what a beaut.
-What do you got, Scott?
-462 pounds.
-Not bad, not bad, yeah, that's a round fish.
-Nice, that's a nice little fatty.
-Fish Hawk, and then Pinwheel knocked us out of the top spot earlier this week.
But with our fish as big as he is, we're hoping we can take
the lead right back.
So far this season, our fish have averaged about $17 a pound,
so I'm hoping we can keep up our good numbers and take back the lead.
-It's got a lot of fat in it, nice color.
-Look at that.
Nice core.
It's translucent.
-It's gonna be easy for us to move.
-Come on, make us happy.
-$22 a pound.
-Yeah, huge price. -Yes, nice, thank you, Scott.
This was a great fish.
Good quality, just over ten grand.
Now I feel like we've swatted away the flies that
have been buzzing around our top spot.
It's gonna be another title for us again, boys.
SANDRO: Yeah, we got this.
NARRATOR: With only one week left to fish,
Hard Merchandise get a much-needed payday.
And Fishing Vessel Tuna Dot Com's ten grand fish launches the
fleet's longtime top earner back into the lead.
MARCIANO: There's only one week until the Bluefin season closes.
Time is running out for a payday.
TJ: We started this season out to prove that we're not a middle-of-the-pack boat,
but now we're behind the pack again.
I just hope we can show the fleet what we're really made of.
PAUL: The end of the season is my time to shine.
And with one week left, we might be behind the leaders, but you can't count us out.
BRAD: After finishing last year at the bottom.
This year's already been a win.
MATT: Deep color.
BRAD: But I still want that ultimate victory.
TYLER: We're only five grand away from the top spot, that's just one fish!
It's our year.
DAVE: Nobody's been Gloucester's top earning boat as many times as we have.
And if anyone wants to take our title,
they're in for the fight of their lives.
TYLER: This is what we live for.
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