[Narrator] Atlantic bluefin season is open...
[Bob Cook] New season, new boat, new fishies.
[Michelle Bancewicz] Let's go get 'em, Lea.
[Tyler McLaughlin] This is the most fired up I've been in a long time.
[Narrator] And as the world's oldest seaport
celebrates a landmark.
[Paul Hebert] This is the 400th anniversary of Gloucester.
Amazing.
[Narrator] Gloucester's top captains are back
to make history.
[Michelle Bancewicz] We're not stopping until the job's done.
[Narrator] With the most fish ever caught on Wicked Tuna.
-[Geordie Sousa] Giant bluefin tuna. -[Lance Sistare] Big jumbo.
[Narrator] The herds are here.
[Paul Hebert] Look at all that meat!
[laughter]
[Narrator] The tuna are super sized.
[Jack Patrican] This is the year of the big fish.
[Lance Sistare] You see the boat list?
[Sandro Maniaci] Dude, he's a monster.
[Bob Cook] That is a slammer.
[laughter]
[Narrator] And so is the action.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Oh!
[Michelle Bancewicz] Going under the boat.
[Lance Sistare] Play through the pain, dammit!
[TJ Ott] Watch out! Get out of my way.
Sorry, Jarrett.
[Narrator] This season, the battle rages on.
[Dave Marciano] Ha, mule! Ha!
[Narrator] As the best of the best put it all on the line.
-[Jack Patrican] Careful, careful! -Ah! Get me up.
[Dave Carraro] That's why people die out here.
[Narrator] To catch...
[Jason Muenzner] That's a big old boy.
-[Marissa McLaughlin] Woo! -[Narrator] More fish.
[Sandro Maniaci] A Slobasorus Rex, baby.
[Jack Patrican] I've never seen anything like that.
[Narrator] Than ever.
[Manny Pereira] My leg, guys! Cut that line.
-[Paul Hebert] Done! -[Jason Muenzner] Come on, Dave! Get him!
-Ship's gonna hit us. -He's right here!
-I'm in it! I'm in it! -Gonna run him over!
-Go that way! -[Lance Sistare] Boom!
[Dave Marciano] I'm a tunacorn, or a unicorn.
One or the other.
[Narrator] On Wicked Tuna.
[Dave Carraro] That is a true giant bluefin tuna.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] You guys ready to rock?
-[Tim Ott] I'm ready. -[Mike Ott] Yeah, man.
We're gonna catch one.
-Bye Bubbies. -Love ya.
[TJ Ott] I'm Captain TJ Ott, Captain of the Hot Tuna.
Last year's champ.
This year I have my brother fishing with me,
my father as well as my first mate, Jarrett.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] High five! Boom shakalaka.
[TJ Ott] It's tuna fishing season.
At this time of the year,
we're some of the hugest paid workers in the world.
We can make $10,000 a day.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] First tuna trip of the season.
We're gonna come out swinging.
Big money.
[excited cheer]
[Bob Cook] We've got some work to do.
[Manny Pereira] Let's go! Here we go.
[Bob Cook] Let's go, yo!
I'm Captain Bob Cook of Fishing Vessel Fat Tuna.
My mates are Johnny "Ice" Kusler and Manny Pereira.
Big change this year. Brand new boat.
It's been under construction now for two and a half years.
Now we just got to go out and pay for this thing.
[Manny Pereira] Fat Tuna all the way this year, baby. Woo!
[Dave Marciano] All right, boys. Here we go.
[Joe Marciano] First trip of the season.
[Jason Muenzner] Let's make some money.
[Dave Marciano] I'm Captain Dave Marciano.
Owner and operator of the Hard Merchandise.
I fish with my son, Joseph Marciano
and Jason Muenzner, my nephew.
It's great to be back.
Health-wise I'm doing great.
Last year we were dealing with my health issues
and the passing of my father and we put in a good showing.
This year we've got nothing holding us back
from taking the title.
We need this paycheck.
[Lea Pinaud] Hell yeah, first day back, Michelle. What do you think?
-I'm ready. -All right.
[Michelle Bancewicz] Let's get the hell out of here.
I'm Michelle Bancewicz.
I'm the Captain and owner of the FV No Limits,
and Lea Pinaud is my first mate.
Well, we got new rods.
This is a lucky one, this is a pretty one and
this is the wicked one.
Let's see which one bends first.
This season we had to have the engine rebuilt.
I owe $150,000 on this boat.
I'm a single mom and this is all I got, is my boat and my family.
I'd love to be the first boat to catch the first fish.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Let's get out there and let's start
this season off with a bang.
I'm Tyler McLaughlin, Captain of the Pinwheel.
Two-time champion.
My deckhand's my sister, she's a badass.
We're gonna kick some butt this season.
This season we've got a quota of 355 metric tons.
We got four fishing days a week.
Coming into this season we know that bluefin stock is really healthy.
So, there's a lot of tuna available.
I want to catch mine.
[Anders Slicklen] Yo! What's up, buddy?
[Jack Patrican] Hey, bud.
-Good to see you. -[Anders Slicklen] Yeah.
[Jack Patrican] I'm Captain Jack Patrican on the Time Flies
and I go a new first mate this year, Anders Slicklen.
I put a lot of money into the boat this season
with all new electronics,
so I really need to be profitable.
Anders is a pro, he's grown up fishing just like me
and we're gonna out there and do whatever it takes to get paid.
All right, man, let's go out there and get it done.
-Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.
-Opening day. -Are you guys ready?
[Sandro Maniaci] Yeah. Let's get out of here.
-[Geordie Sousa] Let's go, man. -[Woman] All right.
-Calvin and I are going home. -[Dave Carraro] All right, see you later.
-Goodbye. -[Woman] Take care of business.
[Dave Carraro] I'm Dave Carraro, I'm the owner and operator.
And my two deckhands are Sandro and Geordie.
Our strategy is to find fish close to home.
Let's go down to the bank.
[Sandro Maniaci] Let's do it. Sound like a plan.
-[Lance Sistare] Good morning. -[Paul Hebert] There he is.
-What's happening, man? -Attaboy. Another year, huh?
[Lance Sistare] Yep, another year, man.
[Paul Hebert] I'm Captain Paul Hebert.
I'm the owner of the Wicked Pissah
and this season my first mate is Lance Sistare.
We have a one fish per day per permit.
Strict fishing limits.
You have to have the fish in before midnight.
-Payday, baby! -[Lance Sistare] Clear!
[Paul Hebert] How happy are we right now leaving?
[Lance Sistare] This is it. Tuna season 2023.
[Dave Carraro] Dust off the cobwebs.
A lot of bait here.
[Sandro Maniaci] As long as there's plenty of bait here,
probably a good chance the fish are gonna run through here,
so I like it.
[Tyler McLaughlin] All right, Merm let's try to get
-the first one of the season. -[Marissa McLaughlin] All right!
We're marking!
[Tyler McLaughlin] What time is it?
[Marissa McLaughlin] 6 minutes.
[Dave Marciano] Let's get ready to tuna.
[Joe Marciano] First bait of the season going out,
hopefully we're gonna get lucky early in the season.
[Jason Muenzner] Got to put the tuna rods in the water,
so we can catch that first one.
[Michelle Bancewicz] 12:01, puttin' the first bait in the water.
[Jack Patrican] First bait in the water, gonna be home early.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Line's going out. Woo!
[Bob Cook] Well, here we go. New season.
Just marked a slob right there.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Was that a tuna mark?
[TJ Ott] Look at the screen.
-That's a tuna mark, right? -[Tim Ott] Yep, that's one.
[TJ Ott] Marks right here.
[Jack Patrican] That's a fish. We just marked one.
[Jason Muenzner] Marking real good. There's three fish on the screen.
[Joe Marciano] Ready to get bit?
[Michelle Bancewicz] Get ready, Lea.
He's looking at that bait.
Oh, come on.
[Dave Carraro] Oh, yeah. Look at it. That's a fish.
Yeah, he's up high now.
[Tyler McLaughlin] I just want to get the first one. Set the tone.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Come on.
[beeping]
[Marissa McLaughlin] Something cranked.
-[Tyler McLaughlin] Yeah, we're on! -Hey!
-Good job, Merm. Oh, yeah! -Yeah.
How do you like that?
Woo! Woo!
It's the first bite of the season right here.
This is what we came up here for.
He's coming at the boat.
It's all about understanding how these fish are moving.
Right now he's just swimming at the boat.
Took a while for this fish to wake up
because they're swimming all around us.
They're eating all the baits around us, all the food.
And they just get so drunk on all the food
they don't even know they're hooked.
We didn't fish the Outer Banks this season,
but North Carolina recorded one of the best
tuna fishing seasons in a long time.
Catching bigger fish than they have in years,
and now those big boys are migrating up to us
and feeding all along the way.
That's a really good sign we're gonna have a banner season.
[Marissa McLaughlin] Whoa.
[Tyler McLaughlin] This is a bigger fish than we thought.
[Marissa McLaughlin] This is a big bite right now.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Let's go! First bite of the season.
[Marissa McLaughlin] We're very close to that boat.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Oh, jeez, I don't like that.
We're going right into him.
We're gonna lose this fish right into him.
[Marissa McLaughlin] He needs to get off his anchor
and just drift away.
It's going right towards his boat.
This fish is going to the only boat here.
It's going right over to his anchor.
It's not good.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Dangerous. Dangerous.
Fog, can't see anything.
Don't know where our anchor ball is.
[Marissa McLaughlin] Going this way.
We might be okay.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Come on, we got to get this to stick
to the rest of the fleet.
[Marissa McLaughlin] Oh my God, there he is, look!
[Tyler McLaughlin] Oh, there he is.
Keep reeling. Keep reeling.
-[Marissa McLaughlin] He's right here. -[Tyler McLaughlin] Swimming at the boat.
[Marissa McLaughlin] He's right here. Definitely a bluefin.
He's long.
Tyler!
-Yes! -[Tyler McLaughlin] Woo!
Oh, shoot! He's pissed.
-Did you see how sweet that shot... -[Marissa McLaughlin] That was awesome.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Watch out. We got a lot of dart line here.
Bad things.
Come here and get the tail rope.
Wow! Big huge fish.
I'll see you at the scales, baby.
[Marissa McLaughlin] We have him on the cleat.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Bull's-eye, baby! Bull's-eye.
[Marissa McLaughlin] Huge tail.
[Tyler McLaughlin] He's a big fish.
[Marissa McLaughlin] First fish of the season.
-[Tyler McLaughlin] Way to go, sis. -[Marissa McLaughlin] Big fish.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Yes! Been a long time for us.
It was a long winter.
First one of the season, baby.
-Woo! -[Marissa McLaughlin] Bring him aboard.
-Oh my God. -[Tyler McLaughlin] Whoa!
[Marissa McLaughlin] Oh my God.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Jumbo!
What a plug. Let's get a measurement.
I want to see what we're working with here.
106-inch bluefin.
Way to start the season, sis.
We're going to the scales.
[Marissa McLaughlin] Tuna's bigger, man.
[Tyler McLaughlin] This is the year of the bluefin.
It's all about how much tonnage.
How many pounds you put across that dock.
Snugs, we're going to Gloucester.
[Tyler McLaughlin] We got 'em!
[Dave Carraro] The first fish of the season is nothing
other than bragging rights.
Good for him.
[John Kusler] Oh, it's [bleep] Tyler.
[Bob Cook] Unreal. Come on, [bleep].
[Dave Marciano] Tyler got him.
-Wow. -Wow.
[Tyler McLaughlin] C'mon! Who's better than me?
Boom! He's on the cleat.
[Michelle Bancewicz] Oh, that sucks.
-[Jack Patrican] Get out of here. -[Anders Slicklen] Brutal.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Let's come out of the gates swinging.
[Tim Ott] Yes. Sounds like a plan.
We're on the Regal Sword. We're drifting right now.
So it's outgoing tides, so we're going to the southwest.
We're gonna fish a mackerel right now.
Mackerel seems to be the bait of choice down here.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] It's about to get light out.
It's like the prime time.
I don't want to get my hopes too high,
but they're pretty high right now.
[Paul Hebert] Nice calm dark day, overcast.
Really nice for fishing conditions.
[Lance Sistare] How long's the bank, Paul?
-[Paul Hebert] 21 miles. -[Lance Sistare] 21 miles.
We're on a place called Middle Bank.
Dot-com's over here about a half a mile.
It's already fishy out here.
[TJ Ott] I just heard that whale. You hear him?
Whales pursue the same bait that tuna does.
So if you find whales feeding,
you know there's tuna are nearby.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] I'm feeling pretty good about this.
[TJ Ott] You know we're here for that first fish of the season.
We're returning champs.
You know we've got to prove that it wasn't just
made the right moves and got lucky.
[Paul Hebert] See if we can get a couple macks.
There they are right there. Oh, that's a tuna.
[Lance Sistare] We're gonna go off right now.
[TJ Ott] We're marking one at 100, one at 100.
[Lance Sistare] The rest of the fleet should be worried about us.
Really close to winning last year.
This year we're coming for everybody.
[Paul Hebert] I love fishing.
I love, love, love the sport.
[Lance Sistare] Lean mean fighting machine.
[reel clicking]
[reel unspooling rapidly]
[Paul Hebert] Get it. Get it. Get it. Get it. That's him!
[Lance Sistare] We're on, baby! We're on!
2023, baby, first tuna!
[TJ Ott] Jarrett get ready.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Something's bouncing
-over here, I think. -[reel unspooling rapidly]
[TJ Ott] You're on. You're on. You're on.
[Tim Ott] We're on! We're on! We're on!
[TJ Ott] Down and tight, baby! Line going out, woo!
[Lance Sistare] Yeah! That's a real one.
-[Paul Hebert] 50 feet. -Mack, no weight.
-[Dave Carraro] All right, go get 'em. -Paul, just hooked up.
Mack, 50 feet no weight.
[Dave Marciano] Put a lame mackerel out.
All we got to do is mark a fish and the rod's gonna bend.
[Michelle Bancewicz] That'd be epic if we hooked up.
[Mike Ott] Hot Tuna, got 'em on!
[Bob Cook] [bleep] I just came out of the feed here.
[Jack Patrican] Dingleberries!
[Anders Slicklen] Well, they're still biting.
[Jack Patrican] Yeah, I mean that's good.
They're here. They're out in the deep.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] He's on! He's on!
-Get this other one out of the way. -[TJ Ott] Yep.
We're down and tight, baby.
Bluefin season, woo!
The first fish of the season is always the toughest ones.
Bluefin tuna captains can make a lot of money
in a short period of time,
or you can go backwards very quickly and
we want to get ahead of that curve
and be in that green as soon as possible.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] The tuna just hasn't woken up yet.
[TJ Ott] Seems sharky to me.
[TJ Ott] That was a stick bait with no weights on it.
-Swivel! -Swivel's right here.
[Paul Hebert] He's good. Look at the rod bend.
[Lance Sistare] It's a good fish.
[Paul Hebert] I'm just happy to have a bite.
[Lance Sistare] We got a bite and we got a fight.
It's always important to break the ice.
Feeling nervous.
Oh, no!
[Paul Hebert] Keep going! Just reel.
80-inch fish. They do that.
[Lance Sistare] Just got to keep the heat on him.
Keep that rod bent.
You got to watch that tip.
That tells the whole story right there, the tip of the rod.
[Mike Ott] Might be him. Hope it's him.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] All right, swivel.
Shark!
[TJ Ott] Giant [bleep] porbeagle.
Stretch us on the leader.
I'm gonna try to get a bait out.
It's not what we wanted.
We have to try to get the hook out.
Release him safe and put the baits out and try to get a tuna.
[Mike Ott] Broke him off.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] All right.
Let's get the lines back out and do it again.
[Lance Sistare] He's right up on the surface.
Get to see him.
Keep going. Circle!
Dude, that's a jumbo!
[Paul Hebert] Tail rope behind me.
We got one!
We got a big boy.
(cackle)
Yeah, baby! And we're gonna head for home.
Breakfast, baby!
[Paul cackles over radio]
[Geordie Sousa] I can hear Paul laughing.
[Sandro Maniaci] Did you? They must have caught it.
[Lance and Paul laughing over radio]
[Lance Sistare] Oh, man, what a beauty.
Man, that's a jumbo.
[Paul Hebert] He's a good one.
[Lance Sistare] Let's get a measurement on this thing.
What do you got?
[Paul Hebert] 96.
[Lance Sistare] Beauty!
[laughter]
[Paul Hebert] Woo! That's a great first tuna.
[Tyler McLaughlin] All right! Cowabunga.
[Joe] Hey, Tyler, how you doing?
First one to come in.
[Tyler McLaughlin] That's a hell of a way to start off the season.
We fish locally.
We adapt and we catch them wherever we go.
[Joe] Well, I'm happy to see you're fired up
and get the job done.
[Tyler McLaughlin] Yeah, well, let's get this thing out of here.
[Joe] Sounds good.
[Tyler McLaughlin] How do you like me now, pally?
The other captains are still sitting out there.
They all knew I was gonna get the first fish.
The Pinwheel's the best in the fleet and I'm here to prove it.
What's the dress weight of this beautiful tuna?
[Joe] 556, Merm.
[Tyler McLaughlin] A lot of tuna right there.
-That's a good fish. -[Joe] It definitely is.
Let's check it out.
[Tyler McLaughlin] These are the first fish the buyer's gonna see.
Looking to see if that fish has some fat,
if it's got good color.
And the main and most important thing you can have
is a solid core sample.
-Let's see what we got here. -First one of the season.
What are we dealing with here?
-This is a nice fish, Tyler. -Really?
[Joe] I see a little bit of fat out here on the bottom minors
and a little bit of fat starting to develop in the majors.
Which I like the core a lot.
Bottom line, you know, first fish of the season.
What are you gonna get us started with?
[Joe] Well, Tyler...
-$22 a pound for this fish. -[Tyler McLaughlin] Woo,
wow, that's great man. Thank you very much.
[Joe] Well, this will keep you fishing, keep 'em coming.
-Thank you. -Woo.
That's relief right there. I'm out.
This fish was 106 inches.
This fish has been here for a while,
and that means there's more of them.
And where there's more of them, there's gonna be the Pinwheel.
[♪ guitar groove plays]
[Bob Cook] Oh, there's TJ.
[TJ Ott] Just marked one right here.
[Manny Pereira] They're coming up right behind us, Bob. In the bubbles.
[Bob Cook] There's whales right behind us, bud.
I don't know if you maybe want to set up back there.
We're in good bait here too.
[TJ Ott] All right, I'll give this like five minutes.
I'm coming that way.
[Jack Patrican] I spy with my little brown eye, the Fat Tuna.
The prettiest girl at the prom.
[Bob Cook] Fishing in Chatham is vastly different
than fishing close to Gloucester on anchor.
You're fishing in a fleet with a bunch of lines in the water.
A bunch of competition, but it's been difficult.
Oh, we got one on the bottom, here.
Good mark on the bottom.
[Manny Pereira] Yup. Yup. Oh, come on.
[Bob Cook] They're getting up in Maine.
They're getting them close to home.
We're hoping this 90-mile trip was not for nothing.
[Manny Pereira] I want to fight a fish.
[Bob Cook] Oh, [bleep].
-There's a stack of them on the screen. -[Manny Pereira] Oh, [bleep].
[Bob Cook] 100 feet. Stack of them.
[Manny Pereira] Yeah. Big ones too.
Oh, baby.
[reel clicking]
[reel unspooling rapidly]
Oh, momma. Oh, oh, here we go!
[Bob Cook] Tuney, Manny. Tuney!
[rod cranking]
[Bob Cook] Got some weight to him.
Just had a bite there.
We're hoping this guy here is a tuna.
It definitely feels like he is.
He's taking a lot of line.
He's no short, we know that.
[John Kusler] You want to move it up to the rod holder?
-Yeah, I'm trying to grab this. -I'll get that.
[Bob Cook] I feel pressure going into every season.
I take it personally when we lose.
We have a lot at stake with a new boat.
Year in and year out,
we want to win probably more than anybody else
and I'm kind of proud of that fact.
This fish took a lot of drag.
We already know he's over an 80-inch fish,
but we're hoping for something bigger.
We just want to see him here.
[Manny Pereira] You see him yet?
[Bob Cook] There he is.
[John Kusler] Get ready, Manny.
Drill him!
[Manny Pereira] Got him! Got him!
[Bob Cook] Yeah, buddy.
[Manny Pereira] Tail rope.
[Bob Cook] I got him.
Yeah!
First one on the new boat, baby.
-[John Kusler] Let's go, baby! Woo! -Woo!
This thing is a good luck charm already.
Woo! Yeah!
Good to get the stank off the new boat, you know.
That was nice.
[TJ Ott] Oh, good for you, man.
I feel good about it. I just would like to see
-more marks. -[Jarrett Przybyszewski] I know, right?
[Jack Patrican] So he just hooked a good one.
They're here. We're doing our best.
Just need a little, a little love.
A little love from the Tuna Gods.
[Bob Cook] Yeah. First fish, boys.
[Manny Pereira] Yes, sir.
[Bob Cook] Want to see how long this thing is?
[Manny Pereira] 80.
-80! -Woo!
-We'll take that. -All day.
[Bob Cook] Take that for sure.
It's not the biggest fish, but big fish are here this season.
Other boats are getting them,
and we need them to pay for this boat.
New season, new boat, new fishies.
We'll take 'em.
Oh, yeah!
[Lance Sistare] Feeling good, baby.
Feeling good. Fish number one.
[PJ Mead] Hello, boys.
[Lance Sistare] PJ, what's happening, brother?
[PJ Mead] Way to go. You're breaking the ice, huh?
-[Lance Sistare] Hell yeah. -[PJ Mead] First one of the season?
[Paul Hebert] We're just picking up where we left off last year.
[PJ Mead] Let's bring it up. See what we got here.
[Lance Sistare] Let's un-package it.
Spicy meatball.
[John Kusler] Back on the meat.
-[Bob Cook] What's up? -[Bubba] First catch, huh?
[Bob Cook] First day out.
First catch. First day with the new boat.
[Bubba] Why don't we get it up here and we'll check it out.
-Yeah, man. -Sounds good.
[Bob Cook] Let's do it. Yeah, buddy!
[Paul Hebert] What do you got for a weight on this, PJ?
[PJ Mead] Nice first piece, Paul.
318 pounds dressed.
-[Lance Sistare] Sweet. -[Paul Hebert] Wow,
that's beautiful. Thank you.
[PJ Mead] Good size, right?
[Bob Cook] All right, Bub, what do we got for weight there?
-222 pounds. -Hey.
-We'll take it, man. -We'll take it.
It's better than nothing, right?
[Paul Hebert] We got good news?
[PJ Mead] It's a decent fish for this time of year, Paul.
I mean, it's, you know, it's got beautiful color.
It doesn't have a lot of fat,
but it does have a little bit of skin fat here
in the triangles in the corners a little bit.
[Paul Hebert] What do you think you can get for this fish?
[PJ Mead] $19 a pound.
-Ah, God, that's awesome. -Sweet.
-[PJ Mead] Nice little paycheck, right? -[Lance Sistare] Thanks, PJ.
-Yeah, I appreciate it, man. Hell yeah. -So much.
-[PJ Mead] Keep 'em coming, boys. -We needed that.
-You know it. -All right. Catch 'em up, boys.
-All right, PJ. Thanks. See you soon. -Thanks, PJ.
[Lance Sistare] Yup, take it easy.
[Paul Hebert] Payday, baby!
[cackle]
-Come on aboard. -What's up, buddy?
-[Bubba] Nice new rig you got going on. -[Bob Cook] Thank you so much.
-That is gonna help me pay for it, so... -[Bubba] Yeah.
-It's a good start, you know. Good start. -[Bob Cook] ...Hook me up.
So, it's not a bad looking fish at all.
Pretty decent color coming through.
You can see it's starting to show fat right here in the minors.
[Bob Cook] What, what do you think you can do
for us per pound?
[Bubba] $17 a pound.
[John Kusler] All right.
-All right. We'll take that. -We'll take that.
-Nice way to break the ice, boys. -[Bob Cook] Absolutely.
-Thank you for that. -We got a fish down here in Chatham.
It wasn't the biggest fish here in the world.
I'm already feeling a little bit impatient
to get those bigger fish.
We have to stay competitive.
And in order to do that,
we may have to go after those bigger fish.
[Dave Carraro] Paul's got one. Tyler's got one.
Bob's got one and hopefully we can join the pack.
All right. Give Tyler credit.
-He got a big one. -[Geordie Sousa] Yeah.
[Dave Carraro] Pretty sure he got it at night.
He was up at Boon at a nightspot there.
And that's 50 miles.
Not terrible, but imagine Bob is gonna go offload in Cape Cod.
The backyard boys are gonna stay right here.
[Geordie Sousa] Yes, sir.
[Dave Carraro] Just when we get in,
we rinse off and we go home and get some
dinner and go watch some TV.
I can go hang out with my girlfriend,
I mean, my wife. Forgot about it.
I got to, I got to stop saying girlfriend.
[Geordie Sousa] Have you slipped up on that one
-in front of her yet? -[Dave Carraro] Oh, yeah.
I'm a newlywed and I want to catch fish more than ever
to support my family.
But time is really important.
I don't want to run 50 miles to catch a fish that I know
I can catch at home.
Operation no ice.
[Geordie Sousa] No ice. No ice needed here.
[Sandro Maniaci] Get it done up here.
[Dave Carraro] Let's catch one. Then we can make a statement.
Then we can talk more.
[Geordie Sousa] Oh, wow, that's a big one.
I just caught his tail.
-Nice [bleep]. -Yup.
That was like jumbo splash, dude.
[Sandro Maniaci] Do it again.
[Geordie Sousa] That was not a little one.
That was full on like Volkswagen status.
[reel clicking]
-[reel unspooling rapidly] -[Sandro Maniaci] We're on!
[Dave Carraro] We're on! We got him on. We got him on.
[Dave Marciano] Carraro is hooked up.
What's taking so long?
[Jason Muenzner] It's called fishing.
[Dave Marciano] Tide's too strong.
Too rough out. Too foggy out.
[Jason Muenzner] There's actually no [bleep] tide.
[Dave Marciano] It's too calm out.
[Michelle Bancewicz] Dot-com's fighting one right now.
[Lea Pinaud] Good for them. That's great.
[Michelle Bancewicz] Where are the fish?
[Dave Carraro] Right here. Right in our own backyard.
[Sandro Maniaci] Get down. Got this other guy here.
Go past that guy.
[Dave Carraro] We're gonna be in that anchor.
[Sandro Maniaci] Go ahead.
[Dave Carraroi] A little switchy-switch.
Going right for an anchor.
-No way. Yup. -Not looking good. We're in it.
-We're in it? -Yup.
-[bleep].
-Of course we are. -Got to go around.
[Geordie Sousa] We're in your [bleep].
-Oh, [bleep]. -Oh, no.
[Sandro Maniaci] [bleep]. We're in it good.
[Dave Carraro] Hop off. We're in your anchor.
I'm gonna come right around.
-[Geordie Sousa] We're in it! -[Sandro Maniaci] Hop off!
[Geordie Sousa] It's coming up, right here.
[Dave Carraro] Yup, right here, Sanchi.
We're gonna grab that tag line.
-Yeah. -Yeah, pick it up, Geordie.
How is it in the wheel, okay?
-Yeah. -Don't put it in gear.
[Geordie Sousa] Don't put it in gear. Float back.
[Dave Carraro] Go, go. Pull it up.
Pull that, pull that poly up.
Pull, pull, pull, pull!
I'm gonna go forward.
[Geordie Sousa] Yup. Stay neutral.
-Yup. -All right.
-[Dave Carraro] All right! Woo! -[Sandro Maniaci] One obstacle down.
-[Geordie Sousa] Hopefully the last one. -Thank you.
Thanks, guys.
[Dave Carraro] Remember that line might be compromised.
[Geordie Sousa] All right, now back us the [bleep] out of here.
-Because who knows who's beyond us? -[Dave Carraro] Yeah.
[Sandro Maniaci] Got another one back there.
[Dave Carraro] Where's the other one?
Oh, my God.
[Sandro Maniaci] Going right for him.
The problem is if these fish keeps running the edge here,
you're just gonna keep running into anchor lines.
A lot of times, you know,
they'll go up on the high ground.
They'll go out in the deep water, you know,
and you get nice and open.
First one of the season.
Gonna make you work for it.
[Geordie Sousa] Shaking now. He's gonna come up
-and make a run here. -[Sandro Maniaci] Holy [bleep].
[Geordie Sousa] Sandro, jump in here.
[Sandro Maniaci] Ooh, he's pissed off now.
[Dave Carraro] One hour and 45 minutes, guys.
I wonder what Bob has down there up at 200, 300,
most likely if it's a Chatham fish.
[Sandro Maniaci] Oh, he's got like a 115-incher.
-Yeah, right. -Yeah. It could be.
[Sandro Maniaci] There's some big ones there.
[Dave Carraro] It's a different year.
[Sandro Maniaci] Another boat over here.
-Yeah. Oh, man. -[bleep].
Right for his [bleep] anchor. Un-[bleep]-real, dude.
[Geordie Sousa] This fish is just taunting us at every
single boat we pass.
He kind of swims towards the anchor
and he goes out and around.
[Sandro Maniaci] Swivel right here.
Get the harpoon, get the harpoon.
He's right here. Go, go, go, go, go!
Nice shot.
-Nice job, Dave. -Get a gaff.
[Geordie Sousa] Come on, baby. Hang on.
-Gaff, gaff, gaff. -Yeah, boys!
[Dave Carraro] I don't have him yet.
[Sandro Maniaci] I got it. I got it. Get a tail rope.
[Dave Carraro] I got it.
-Wow! -That is a sea monster.
-[Geordie Sousa] Nice job. -Wowser. Here we go, boys.
[Dave Carraro] Here we go. That's what we're.
[Sandro Maniaci] That's a hell of a first fish right there.
-Yes, it is. -All right, ready?
[Dave Carraro] Here we go.
Good news, boys.
There's a lot of fish here and a lot of big ones here.
Oh. Oh, my.
[Sandro Maniaci] He's round. Holy [bleep].
[Dave Carraro] Oh, my God. Let's measure him up.
[Geordie Sousa] 106 and a half.
[Sandro Maniaci] That's a hell of a way to start.
[Dave Carraro] Well, let's go home.
Operation no ice.
[Geordie Sousa] No ice. Let's go.
[Sandro Maniaci] What a monster. Wow!
[Dave Carraro] Dude, that is absolute sea monster
of epic proportions.
-What's up, PJ? -[PJ Mead] Hey, Dave.
Starting off 2023 with a big boy.
-That's right. -We are.
Yeah, we got this right in our backyard.
-Put 'em up? -[PJ Mead] Let's check it out, boys.
-See what she looks like. -[Dave Carraro] All right. All right.
First day of the season.
We're gonna stick with the plan.
Stay close. We're gonna catch fish.
Maybe not as fast as furious as Chatham,
but today wasn't that good.
Bob got a small 80-incher and that really just doesn't make
good business sense for the Dot-com anyway.
[Sandro Maniaci] What do you got, PJ?
[PJ Mead] 525 pounds.
-[Sandro Maniaci] Wow. -[PJ Mead] That's like two small ones.
[Dave Carraro] Two Chatham fish.
-[PJ Mead] Let's see what we got, boys. -[Dave Carraro] All right.
[Sandro Maniaci] Not too shabby for a big fish.
[PJ Mead] It's a nice fish. It's a great color.
It definitely could use some more fat, but there's not
a lot of fish around right now,
so this fat will bring some decent money.
This fish here...
-$18 a pound. -[Dave Carraro] Yes, sir.
[Geordie Sousa] Yes, sir.
-Thank you, PJ. -Paid for some fuel.
-Thank you, sir. -See you, boys.
-Thanks, PJ. -Thanks, pal.
-Way to get it started. -Yes, sir.
-See you soon. -[Dave Carraro] Let's go do it again.
There's gonna be a lot more big fish to come.
Not just on the Dot-com, but all the other boats.
This is gonna be a great season.
This is a great start for us.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] All right, boys. Let's do it.
[TJ Ott] We better get our [bleep] together, man.
[Tim Ott] What time's the tide change?
[TJ Ott] Right now.
We need this fish in the worst way. You know, we're struggling.
We're on Stellwagen Bank right now.
We're actually at Middlebank.
We were hoping to get a bite up in Chatham,
but that just didn't pay off,
and we need to get the first one on the deck.
So us and Time Flies made the decision to steam back
close to home today.
Just rigging a dead bait right now.
Something a little different.
Sometimes these dead baits
will get a bite out of a bigger fish.
When the rats are eating your live baits and stuff,
they'll stay away from these dead baits sometimes.
But sometimes they won't.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] We got whales all around us now though.
[Tim Ott] Yeah, yeah.
The life's, the life's, the life's showing up, you know.
[TJ Ott] We're fishing a little different than we fish down on Chatham.
We're fishing lighter line and
smaller hooks and mid water baits.
Where in Chatham we're fishing mostly the bottom.
And that's the thing about this boat,
we can catch 'em anywhere.
The only problem is, there's a lot of boats here.
That's what's gonna shut these fish off.
[Tim Ott] Oh, my God.
[Mike Ott] Oh, we're marking. Big mark.
[Tim Ott] Look at that [bleep] mark.
[beeping]
[reel clicking]
-[reel unspooling rapidly] -Oh, we're on!
[TJ Ott] Start the boat, Bubby.
[Tim Ott] Woo! We're on, baby!
Want to move him?
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Yes.
[Tim Ott] Come on. Come on, Bubba.
[TJ Ott] We're just trying to get out of this fleet.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] The fish is heading right
for that boat TJ.
[TJ Ott] Drop off! Drop off!
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Somebody drop it.
[Tim Ott] Get off your anchor.
[TJ Ott] Get off your anchor. Drop off your anchor, come on!
[Tim Ott] Do you feel him?
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] I don't feel it, but I guess
he's underneath it.
[Tim Ott] Thank you.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Thank you, guys.
[Mike Ott] This guy's got to move.
[TJ Ott] Might want to move.
[Tim Ott] Coming your way, bro.
[TJ Ott] Might want to move.
[Tim Ott] Come on, baby. Get out in the open. That's it, boys.
Come on.
[TJ Ott] My nerves are hitting a peak right now.
We need to get this monkey off our back so we can
get this season started.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] I'm just worried about this fish.
Right now, it's the first fish of the season.
That's all I give a [bleep] about.
[TJ Ott] Bring him out.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] I'm working on it.
[Tim Ott] Bring him up, Jarrett, please.
Push him, Jarrett. Bring him around.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Look, look, look, look, look, look!
-On your side, TJ. -Right there!
[TJ Ott] Missed him. [bleep].
-He turned weird. -[Tim Ott] Yeah, he did.
He went black back on you.
[Mike Ott] All right. He's coming your way, guys.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] He's gonna come back up at top.
Right, right, right, right, right!
-Take the shot! -Got him.
-I got him. -I got him, too.
-Bubby, tail rope over here. -[Tim Ott] Get the rope, come on.
[TJ Ott] On my right. On my right.
No, no, no, no! All right. That's right.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Got him. Got him.
[TJ Ott] All right. On Bubby's left.
[Mike Ott] Let's go, boys.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] To my left. To my left.
[Tim Ott] Take this gaff. Take the gaff.
[TJ Ott] Just go slow. Oh yeah.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Oh! All right!
You guys want to get a measurement?
[Tim Ott] Yes we do. Let's see what he is.
What do we got?
-95. -Hey.
-Nice job. -95.
[TJ Ott] All right, boys. Good job.
We'll take it. Back to the dock.
Over the rail and in the pail.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] The pelicans are going east.
[TJ Ott] The pelicans are flying west.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] West, whatever it is.
[Tim Ott] The other west.
[Jack Patrican] We drove all the way to Chatham.
Came back.
[Jack Patrican] Those Chatham trips, I mean it's a long way
from home and we're, we're burning a lot of fuel.
I mean, the boat takes 300 gallons of fuel.
Right now we got 63 gallons, which is pretty much
the lowest I've probably ever let it run.
That's one of the reasons I wanted to get out of Chatham.
Last year the boats that made the Chatham trips,
us, Fat Tuna and Hot Tuna were the top 3 boats.
So we were ready to get on the program again.
But if we can fish closer to home, it'll be way better for us,
especially fishing on a smaller boat.
Look at the bait right here on the surface.
-See this? -Oh yeah.
See all the nervous water there?
That's either tuna or something pushing mackerel
up on the surface there. That looks really good.
[Jack Patrican] Yeah. Let me get a down line out.
Let this one out Anders.
-Yep. -C'mon now.
[reel clicking]
-[reel unspooling rapidly] -You're on.
Get off anchor. Get off anchor! Get off the anchor.
And now get on the rod.
Push the rod out! Push the rod out!
[Anders Slicklen] I can already tell it's a big one.
It's got a lot of weight to it.
[Jack Patrican] All right.
Got a, got a battle in the rain going on.
Hopefully, this one stays.
There he is.
Oh.
Oh, reel!
[Anders Slicklen] I mean, he was right there,
but he was black backed and green as hell.
[Jack Patrican] Oh, yeah. No shot.
These early season fish are staying up on top.
We just can't get 'em to go down.
We want them to go down so he gets in this pinwheel
and starts he starts settling down.
That's when we start to break him.
It's our first fish this season and it's my chance to see
how Anders and I work together.
[Anders Slicklen] He feels all wrapped up or something.
-Oh, he's right there. -Yeah, I see him.
[Jack Patrican] Got it on the line.
Now hopefully, we're able to land him.
[Jack shudders]
[Anders Slicklen] Big one.
Keep turning this way in a circle.
I hope this will the start of his circles
and he'll be settling in.
I don't like seeing those violent head shakes.
Back up a little I think.
-Yeah? -Yeah, back up.
He's coming over this side. He's coming around hold on.
[Jack Patrican] Where's he going?
[Anders Slicklen] Swivel!
[Jack Patrican] Shot?
[Anders Slicklen] You should have a shot here.
He's coming to the boat. Other side. Other side.
-Other side! Other side! Other side! -[Jack Patrican] I got him. I hit him.
[Anders Slicklen] He's under the boat.
[Jack Patrican] Monster!
-[Anders Slicklen] Get the tail. -Oh [bleep] that one came out.
I got him on the other one.
All right, you got his tail?
[Anders Slicklen] Yep, I got his tail.
-Nice fish, buddy. -[Jack Patrican] Nice one, buddy.
[Anders Slicklen] There you go. [Bleep].
[Jack Patrican] It's done. Yeah, buddy! Hey, good work.
[Anders Slicklen] Long couple days.
-[Jack Patrican] Long couple days, buddy. -[Anders Slicklen] Got it done.
[Jack Patrican] Hey, Bob come in.
The move to Stellwagen really paid off.
[Bob Cook] Yeah, I was thinking very seriously about
getting the [bleep] out of here soon.
-[Anders Slicklen] On the board. -[Jack Patrican] On the board with a slob.
All right, let's see how big he is.
Two, three.
[Anders Slicklen] 101. We'll take him.
-Nice one. -Happy to have him.
[Jack Patrican] We're happy. We're going home.
[♪ upbeat rock music playing]
-What's up, guys? -What's happening, PJ?
Finally broke the ice brother. We're back.
[PJ Mead] You're back.
[TJ Ott] Got the stink off the boat, Cap.
-There you go. -Let's get him up there.
-Let's get him checked out. -Yeah, let's take a peak.
[TJ Ott] We were the top boat last season, so coming out on day one
and not catching a fish, I definitely was questioning my decisions.
And now that day 2 is here and we caught a fish
we're gonna get in a groove.
What do we got, PJ?
-[PJ Mead] 303 pounds dressed. -Oh there we go, brother.
[TJ Ott] We'll take it. Let's check him out.
[PJ Mead] Let's see what we got here, boys.
[Tim Ott] You got it, buddy.
[PJ Mead] It's a nice color fish.
It really doesn't have too much fat.
Just a tiny bit up in the skin here.
[TJ Ott] Yep. How about the core?
[PJ Mead] The core is beautiful. You took good care of it.
This one here, TJ...
$21 a pound.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] Hey! All right!
[TJ Ott] That's a good way to start the season.
[Jarrett Przybyszewski] We'll take it. Yeah!
[TJ Ott] We're gonna turn and burn and head right back out, brother.
-Thank you, PJ. See you soon. -[PJ Mead] All right, catch 'em up, boys.
[TJ Ott] It's gonna be a great year.
We're gonna produce. We're gonna do our thing
and we'll be just fine.
[Manny Pereira] They're going crazy in here right now.
Looks fishy as hell.
[Bob Cook] We'll stop right here and try.
Yeah, we're just coming back from Chatham and
came by Stellwagen and
the conditions look really good at Stellwagen.
We got whales here.
We decided to drop the anchor on the way home here.
We got two more hours of fishing time.
We're at a tide right now, so trying to capitalize.
When tuna feed and the tide's moving really strong,
it makes it a lot harder for them to feed.
Once the tide slows down and slacks off,
the bait also does.
You want that bait to look right in the water.
You want it to look natural.
[John Kusler] In this competition we got to do
what we got to do to stay alive.
[beeping]
[Bob Cook] Two on the screen right now.
We just marked a slob right there.
[beeping]
[reel clicking]
Oh, there he is. I just saw it go down.
-[reel unspooling rapidly] -[Manny Pereira] Yep. Yep. Go, baby, go!
Yes! Yes! Woo!
The one and only bait Bob got.
Yes, Bobby. Bobby, Bobby.
[Bob Cook] First bait out. Here we go.
[Manny Pereira] I got to go up there and throw it.
[Bob Cook] Yep.
[John Kusler] Might as well switch this now.
Go ahead.
[Bob Cook] Off to the races, baby.
Here we go.
[Manny Pereira] We're in a freaking
Stellwagen Bank monster.
Let's go, baby!
[Bob Cook] This is not a small fish.
This one's going crazy like Stellwagen fish do sometimes.
All over the surface.
We're hoping we got the right hooks set.
We're hoping it's right in the latch,
but they keep going back and forth.
It keeps going right across their teeth
if it's gut hooked.
We're hoping he's not.
Be nice to get this second one.
Every time you think you got this fish in a pattern,
he comes right out of it and tries to come up to the surface.
[John Kusler] All right. You're gonna have to go.
[Manny Pereira] This fish is stubborn, man.
He's hanging right at 35 feet.
Just trying to get him up inch by inch.
[Bob Cook] Yeah, we get this fish real close.
Every time we get swivel he wants to be underneath
the boat, as they do.
I would get ready, Manny.
[Manny Pereira] Yeah, I'm gonna take a shot on him.
-Stick him! Hit him! -Drill him! Drill him!
-[Bob Cook] You get him? -[Manny Pereira] No, no.
[Manny Pereira] Right here. Right here.
[John Kusler] Did you hit 'em?
[Manny Pereira] I hit him that time.
-[John Kusler] Tail rope? Gaff? -I did, too.
-You hit him too? -[Bob Cook] I think so.
We got two darts in this fish, we think.
[Manny Pereira] I know I hit this fish.
I watched the harpoon stop.
I don't know how good I really got him.
This fish has got a lot of weight
even with the harpoons in him. This is insane how big this fish.
[Bob Cook] I can't see [bleep].
[Manny Pereira] There's Bob's dart.
What the [bleep]? Hold on.
[John Kusler] Oh, I'm not even--
-Dude, hold on. -I'm not even--
-I know. -The hook's not in him.
[Manny Pereira] The hook's not in. My dart's in him.
Hold on we got to get that dart line.
Oh, my God.
[Bob Cook] Holy [bleep].
[John Kusler] We should cut this dart line.
-[Manny Pereira] Hold on. Hold on. -[John Kusler] Wait a second.
-Get that dart off there. -[Manny Pereira] I'm going to take,
I'm gonna let go of the gaff.
[John Kusler] Yeah, this one we can cut off and then
throw another dart in him.
[Manny Pereira] Oh [bleep].
[Bob Cook] Be careful, buddy. Don't hold on.
[Manny Pereira] Yup. Whoa!
My [bleep] back.
Holy [bleep] Holy [bleep]! My leg, guys.
Cut that line.
Please cut that line.
[Manny Pereira] Please cut that line.
-Yup, all right. -Is this the one?
[Manny Pereira] All right, I don't know.
[John Kusler] Don't hold it. Don't hold it.
[Bob Cook] Don't hold it, buddy.
[Manny Pereira] Oh, thank God, it's the right one.
[Bob Cook] Sorry, Manny. You all right?
[Manny Pereira] I'm good, dude. I'm good.
[John Kusler] Good thing I had those scissors.
[Bob Cook] Somebody cut it, please.
[Manny Pereira] Oh, that was awesome.
[Bob Cook] We have just mayhem here.
We hit him with what we thought was two darts.
Turns out we only hit him with one.
Manny hit him.
We got another dart around the line.
We got the hook holding the dart that pulled.
We got to get a tail rope on this thing.
[Manny Pereira] We got color.
Tail's coming up first.
Right here, buddy. Right here on my left.
Left side. Tail rope.
[John Kusler] Yep.
[Bob Cook] We're calling this one Manny's fish.
You little [bleep] you.
[Manny Pereira] Yeah! Yeah!
[overlapping celebratory chatter]
That feels good.
[bleep] yeah. Whoo.
[Bob Cook] Yeah, buddy! That was sick.
[Manny Pereira] New boat, new season.
We're here taking it all.
Woo!
[Bob Cook] Manny's gonna have a heart attack.
Whoo.
[John Kusler] Just another day at the office,
you know [bleep] it was an easy, [bleep] just an easy fish.
We're gonna go home,
go shoot to the top of leaderboard,
you know that's what we do.
[Bob Cook] 9:00.
Gives us three hours to drop this fish off.
We're about 2 hours from home, so...
...oh, my God.
-Two, three. -Oh nice one.
[Bob Cook] That's a nice one.
[John Kusler] Get a tape on this thing.
[Manny Pereira] 101. Whoo.
[Bob Cook] Epic, epic, epic, crazy!
[Jack Patrican] First fish. We needed that one.
-How's it going, PJ? -[PJ Mead] Not too bad, boys.
-Way to go. You got the first one? -[Jack Patrican] Yeah.
Had to go all the way to Chatham and back,
but you know, this, this one's gonna make it worth it.
[PJ Mead] Well let's bring it up and see what we got here.
[Jack Patrican] First fish of the season.
Definitely had to work for it.
We made the decision to go down to Chatham.
It was very foggy, wet, and we had to steam all the way back
to Stellwagen Bank and, you know,
I think we learned our lesson.
Might try to stay a little closer this time.
All right, what do we got for the first one here, PJ?
-We got 393, dressed. -All right.
-Way to go, boys. -Yeah.
[PJ Mead] Well let's check the meat out on this one and see
-what we can do for you guys. -[Jack Patrican] Let's do it.
All right, what do we got here?
[PJ Mead] Well, you got a nice little fish here, you know.
It could use a little more fat.
It's got a little fat in the corners here
and up in the triangle, but a beautiful core.
This fish here,
I'll get you $18 a pound for this one.
[Jack Patrican] That's huge.
-Yeah. -Thank you.
[PJ Mead] Nice little paycheck for you guys.
[Jack Patrican] Yeah, a good way to start it off.
Next one's gonna be even better.
[PJ Mead] Hopefully you burn a little less fuel and put a
-little more money in your pocket. -[Anders Slicklen] That's the plan,
-thank you very much. -[PJ Mead] Take care, boys.
[Jack Patrican] Last year we almost won the whole thing
by going to Chatham when we could,
but with the fish this big close to home
I have a feeling that all the Captains are gonna be
staying local to fight it out.
[John yawns]
[PJ Mead] Hello, hello, boys.
-PJ, what's up, buddy? -What's going on?
-Got one? -Cinderella, buddy.
What we got, 20 minutes to spare here?
[PJ Mead] Oh, yeah. Let's see what we got, folks.
[Bob Cook] Generally on Fat Tuna we play the odds.
Chatham our odds are a lot higher that we're gonna get a
fish every day.
But unlike past years there's bigger fish local.
It's a heck of a lot more efficient.
Makes a lot of sense.
What do we got for weight, buddy?
[PJ Mead] 404 pounds dressed.
[Bob Cook] Heck yeah. We'll take that.
[Manny Pereira] Nice job, boys. Nice job.
[Bob Cook] Let's take a look at the tail cut, here.
-What do you think? -[PJ Mead] Yeah.
-See what we got for you guys. -[Bob Cook] Sweet.
[John Kusler] All right.
[PJ Mead] Nice looking fish, Bob.
I mean, this fish has got a little bit of oil, but when it
chills down tomorrow morning you're gonna see a nice little
band of skin fat here.
Perfect cherry core.
-The tail looks nice. -[Bob Cook] Awesome.
What do you think you can get for us per pound?
[PJ Mead] This fish...
will get you $18 a pound.
[Bob Cook] Nice job, buddy. That's what I'm talking about.
[PJ Mead] Nice little payday, boys, right?
[Bob Cook] Nice job, buddy. I appreciate that.
[PJ Mead] All right, we'll see you soon, guys.
[Bob Cook] Sounds good. Back at it.
-We'll see you, buddy. -[PJ Mead] Catch 'em up.
[Bob Cook] The season opened yesterday and already
the action has been unbelievable.
And to see big fish this early is an incredible sign.
We're looking at a very tight competition this year.
The fish are here and everybody wants them,
but we want them the most.
Almost lost Manny overboard.
This was just crazy.
[John Kusler] Manny almost lost a leg, no biggie.
-[Bob Cook] Let's go! -[Manny Pereira] Woo!
[Narrator] The 2023 season opens with a bang,
as the brother-sister team on Pinwheel land the
first and largest fish, securing them the top spot.
Despite Fat Tuna bringing home two fish in two days,
FV-Tuna.Com, Time Flies,
Hot Tuna, and Wicked Pissah
all score bluefin close to home.
While Hard Merchandise and No Limits have yet to
make their first paycheck.
Captioned by Cotter Media Group.