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NARRATOR: As the clock ticks towards the
final days of the season...
PAUL: This is it.
This is the endgame right here for us.
DAVE: This could be the last fish of the season.
GEORDIE: Could be.
MARCIANO: We could still pull a rabbit out of our hat
for sunset and get in by midnight here.
NARRATOR: The pressure is on...
JACK: Woo, big boy! BOB: This fish is a maniac. MANNY: Get him, Bob, get him!
LANCE: We're on, baby, we're on! TYLER: Come on, Merm.
NARRATOR: In a fierce neck and neck race...
NICHOLAS: Watch it! Watch it! Watch it! Watch the poles!
TJ: Harpoon, Danny! Stick him! Stick him! Harpoon him Danny!
NARRATOR: Doing whatever it takes to win could push
the captains to a breaking point.
LANCE: He's tail wrapped.
JACK: We broke the crankshaft in my port engine there.
NARRATOR: As the quota dwindles...
TYLER: Woo, got 'em on!
NARRATOR: The crown is on the line.
LANCE: This is gonna make or break my season right here.
This one fish.
SANDRO: No, no, no, no, no.
NARRATOR: This is...
PAUL: Oh-ho! TJ: Pa-pow! Blue gold!
NICHOLAS: Turning head shaking. JOHN: He's on the meat.
TJ: Gaff, get the gaff! TYLER: Off!
NICHOLAS: Keep going reverse. He's coming at us.
(celebratory grunt)
NARRATOR: Wicked Tuna.
DANNY: Bro, I'm so pumped right now.
TJ: It makes it all worth it, doesn't it?
NARRATOR: Family operation Hard Merch commands the lead and
Time Flies is in second place by a narrow margin.
Five time Gloucester champion Dot-Com rounds out
the top three with Fat Tuna on their heels.
Meanwhile, Wicked Pissah is fishing for redemption.
PAUL: We're all by ourselves over here.
There's mackerel up high.
LANCE: I see 'em. Billions of 'em.
Good morning from Stellwagen Bank.
I got plenty of mackerel in the live well at the moment.
There's a lot of energy, the mackerel,
they fire around in there.
And just like to have a nice mix of bait in there.
PAUL: Lance is over there capitalizing on the bait that's here at this time.
The bait's not at Stellwagen like it was a few days ago.
Everything moved.
But I know behind that bait there's gonna be a couple tuna and they're gonna be big.
For me, the bills are so much bigger than they ever have been.
I really desperately need a paycheck.
Today could be the very last day of fishing.
This quota's gonna get caught.
SANDRO: We were fishing up north.
It was pretty dead.
Made the long journey back down to the cape.
Hope is to score here.
DAVE: You know, if we don't get a big quality fish,
coming down here is a waste of time.
We got to catch a fish.
Hard Merch and Time Flies,
you know, they've been a threat all season.
And Fat Tuna's coming in hot behind us.
Everybody's competitive, everybody knows how to fish.
It's anybody's for the taking.
SANDRO: Hopefully we catch a fish before we catch a lot of sharks.
JACK: Stellwagen Bank.
NICHOLAS: There's a lot of sharks here.
JACK: Scared the macs away.
NICHOLAS: Oh. That good one fell off.
JACK: These things are everywhere.
NICHOLAS: We could just roll.
JACK: Should we scoot?
NICHOLAS: Yeah, let's get the (bleep) out of here.
JACK: It's a huge risk going down to Chatham on a
center console like mine,
but Hard Merch is ahead of us right now but not by much.
So that means that Nick and I are gonna do whatever
it takes to get that top spot to win.
It's a competition.
We're neck and neck. We're coming for Marciano.
NICHOLAS: All day.
MARCIANO: Come in and bite our stuff.
JASON: We got a bait out, we got a chance.
MARCIANO: We, overall, have had a great season.
But it seems like fishing is getting slower where we
have been on Jeffreys Ledge.
So I shift over into Essex Bay.
We're getting down to the wire so I expect that announcement
that the fishery is gonna close for good,
could come any day now.
Really anybody could still take this thing.
There's only a fish or two separating everybody from that top spot.
JASON: Come on fish, come on.
JACK: Can't stress too much about what the other guys are
doing and where they're fishing.
We just got to go out and catch 'em.
Go big or go home, baby.
PAUL: I'm not doing this for a pat on the back.
I'm doing it to make money.
BOB: What we've done at this point does not matter,
we gotta keep doing it.
We gotta win this thing.
It's gonna happen out here.
MANNY: Porpoises?
BOB: Today we're fishing a bit deeper.
Yesterday we got our bite in 305 something like that.
290 to 305 in here seems to be pretty good.
Right now we're at 322.
First baits are out.
Hopefully we can get one and get out of here quick.
JOHN: We found some life just setting up for the morning.
It looks pretty good right now.
Hopefully the fish if they're not here they'll be
showing up shortly in the bait in the whales, so.
BOB: Today in Chatham we got Dot-Com, Hot Tuna.
We all need fish before the quota ends and that's coming soon.
That's coming in days.
Who knows at this point,
but we know that we have precious little time, that's for sure.
JOHN: We got high mid and low.
DAVE: We got two on the machine come up from the bottom
all the way up to 150 feet.
BOB: Just had our first mark on the bottom here bouncing.
JOHN: Surprised he didn't bite.
MANNY: Come on.
BOB: You might want to consider putting one out at 200.
(beeping)
(reel clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
We're on here.
MANNY: Here we go. Here we go.
BOB: Come on, that's him. Yeah, we're tight.
BOB (over radio): We're tight.
DAVE: Bob is on.
JOHN: There he goes. BOB: We got the first bite here.
Nobody else is tight around us.
The first set of baits we put out in the day we went tight.
That's why we keep coming down here.
We're so dialed in here it's not even funny.
JOHN: Head shaking. MANNY: John's working 'em up.
Working his magic.
The fish is only about 80 feet down right now and
John is muscling him up now.
JOHN: We seem to have him under control here.
Oh, come on. Crazy.
MANNY: John, get it! Get it, get on it!
JOHN: Still a little deep.
BOB: We're gonna see him here in a second.
JOHN: Be ready here. Deep color, forward to port.
MANNY: Come on, baby. BOB: Oh, my God.
He is black back. Got him.
MANNY: Got him. What the hell is he doing?
BOB: This fish is a maniac. MANNY: What is that?
JOHN: Right there.
MANNY: Get him, Bob. You got him?
BOB: No. No. (bleep).
JOHN: All right, he's coming around here.
MANNY: He's coming around.
JOHN: You want to control that harpoon line, Manny.
BOB: Right here, right here!
MANNY: You got him?
BOB: Yup, I'll put another one on after that.
MANNY: Yup, yeah, woo! JOHN: Going home!
MANNY: Woo! JOHN: Going home!
BOB: Going home once again. I love it.
JOHN: Fat Tuna stays on the meat!
(celebratory grunt).
MANNY: Look at this fish.
BOB (over radio): We got him. DAVE: Congrats.
BOB: You guys need anything anybody?
DAVE: A couple macs if you got 'em.
DAVE: We have most likely enough bait but if it gets
sharked out a bunch we're gonna be getting skinny and
then we're gonna have to run inside shallow water and
jig some which would kill some time.
You guys are crushing it.
Not a bad one.
BOB: No, he's not bad.
DAVE: Quota's almost gone.
BOB: Absolutely.
DAVE: A day or two at best.
BOB: Now you know why we're coming down here every day.
It's either sit up north for nothing for four days or
come down here for something.
DAVE: Thank you.
Hopefully we'll be a little bit behind you.
BOB: Oh, you will. Great. DAVE: Thank you, good going.
BOB: See you guys later. SANDRO: Thank you, nice work.
BOB: Bye-bye, all right.
MANNY: We got him.
GEORDIE: Hey, John, don't help him pull or anything.
It's okay.
JOHN: I'm here for support. BOB: We got it.
JOHN: That's a nice one. BOB: That is a nice one.
Look at him rolling around there.
MANNY: Let's get a tape on this guy.
JOHN: Absolutely. MANNY: What do we got today?
JOHN: 86. MANNY: Yeah, 86?
JOHN: Yeah. MANNY: All right, all right.
BOB: That's a fat 86. MANNY: That's a fat 86.
BOB: There's nothing better.
TYLER: Hopefully today is the day.
Hopefully we can get on 'em. Starting to swing around here.
Fishy morning. We wanna get a fish today.
We just marked our first little pod of bait.
We got some wind coming.
Whenever wind comes in usually that turns on a bite.
Hopefully we're on fish and that when they come through
when that wind snaps the tunas are chewing.
I love fishing Mackerel Cove, there's a lot of bait here.
There's a lot of mackerel here.
Wherever the mackerel are that's where you're gonna find these tunas.
Now that the season is winding down.
My goal is to stick to my strategy,
keep fishing the backyard,
look for big, good quality fish.
That's how we pay our bills.
Bait is a really good sign 'cause usually whenever the
bait gets pushed up onto the high ground,
which we're fishing on top of humps.
So the bait's getting pushed up on top of humps.
Usually it's getting pushed around by whales and tunas.
We're on this hump right here.
See, the closer the lines get together the more on
top of the hump we are.
And then here is like deep water all around here.
But the bait gets pushed up here.
The bait comes in the deep water, it's pushed up.
(beeping)
Oh, we're marking our first fish.
We're marking 'em right here, Merm.
(beeping)
Come on, we need one today.
(beeping)
(reel clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
We're on, we’re on, we’re on, we’re on,
we’re on, we’re on, we’re on!
Woo, Merm, wake up, Merm!
Wake up!
First line out, baby. Got 'em on!
TYLER: We're on, we’re on, we’re on, we’re on,
we’re on, we’re on, we’re on!
Woo, wake up, Merm!
First line out, baby. Got 'em on.
Nice bite right here.
Woo, woo, let's go!
Got 'em on!
Come on, Merm!
We got 'em on. Thank God. We need a bite.
This is what we were waiting for, a nice big fish.
Good morning, Merm.
We're the only boat out here, we got...
(tension snap)
Oh! Broke him off.
(bleep) gone.
We can't wait like that, Merm.
I think he's gone.
Just the wait.
Yeah, we're not too happy over here.
MARISSA: We're running out of time.
The quota's getting full.
TYLER: Hopefully we can get one more.
MANNY: Blue gold, blue gold!
PATRICK: Hey, what's up boys? MANNY: What's going on? BOB: What's going on?
PATRICK: Keeping it rolling every day, are you?
BOB: That's right, baby. PATRICK: Nice. BOB: Anything could happen.
PATRICK: All right, let's get this one up boys and
see what it looks like.
BOB: This one's got some shape to it.
We need a high price to make a big leap ahead as the quota
is about to close any day now.
The buyer looks for three things.
He looks for a translucent core,
a cherry color, and he looks for fat in the
majors and minors.
This bluefin isn't a huge fish,
so we really hope that he evaluates well.
What do we got here PJ?
PATRICK: Yeah, nice little package.
257 pounds dressed.
JOHN: All right, we'll take that.
PATRICK: Let's check the meat out, Bob, see what we got.
MANNY: All right, let's see what we got.
BOB: Let's check it out. JOHN: Awesome.
BOB: Buddy, beautiful piece there.
PATRICK: Yeah, nice looking fish guys.
Beautiful color. Nice cherry core.
It's got enough fat up under the skin here.
Loaded with fat.
Nice little fish here guys.
Uh, this fish here...
We'll get you $17 a pound.
BOB: All right.
PATRICK: You guys have been consistent in that range.
JOHN: Everyday. BOB: All right.
PATRICK: Thanks Bob, Manny. Keep 'em rolling boys.
BOB: Absolutely, sounds good. MANNY: Sounds good.
PATRICK: Thank you, boys. MANNY: All right, thank you.
PATRICK: Take care.
BOB: The quota is about to close.
Any day could go down they could say it's our last day.
I feel that sticking with my strategy of going to Chatham
is the right thing to do.
I mean we're so tired,
but man we wanna go out on top and we wanna go out with a bang.
We needed this one, man.
MANNY: Must be why they call it blue gold.
TJ: Hope the tunas come along. It's definitely a fishy day.
I mean, everything looks right. The whales are here.
The feed is here.
There's some scattered bites around us.
We got some beautiful baits in the tank.
DANNY: T, when does the tide change?
TJ: About 45 minutes.
Daniel is my 13-year-old nephew and Danny's back fishing with
me in Chatham.
Unfortunately this season we've had some bad luck with Danny on board.
Reel, reel, reel!
DANNY: Ooh, that's hard.
TJ: But Daniel is a huge asset. He knows what we do.
He knows the procedure,
so it's always great to have an extra set of hands especially at the
end of the season with the final push and the quota about to close.
DANNY: When we reel in the lines every time,
we got to make sure that the weight's on
because we want our bait at a certain depth.
We use a 48 if the tide is strong and a 20 if
it's not too strong.
Right now on our down rod we're just using
the 48 to go down deep.
The tides about to change in a little bit
so we might go lighter.
And it's like the perfect depth so they can see
it wherever they are.
DAVE (over radio): Hey, TJ, give me a shout when you can.
DAVE: Bites everywhere around us here.
TJ (over radio): It's shocking to me that you didn't get a bite it really is.
(beeping)
TJ: We're marking. Huge herd right now.
We're going over a huge herd.
(beeping)
(reel clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
JARRETT: We're on, TJ, we're on! This one.
TJ (over radio): We got something on.
DAVE: TJ's on.
GEORDIE: Oh, we need a shot. Come on, pretty please.
JARRETT: We're on!
I think it took a minute for him to realize he was hooked.
That's a tuna though.
TJ: It's the Hot Tuna. We only hook crazy ones.
We can't get the easy ones anymore.
That is blue gold, baby. Down and tight.
JARRETT: A lot of these fish have been staying out on top
and just going wherever they want.
Can't really control where he's going when he's got
100 yards of line out.
TJ: We thought he was settled in.
JARRETT: Swivel.
He's going kind of straight down.
Get that harpoon ready, Dan.
TJ: Oh man, I thought he was gonna come right through you there.
JARRETT: It's all right, he's tiring out.
TJ: See him?
JARRETT: No, but he's got to be getting close.
TJ: He won't circle you know.
JARRETT: I see him glowing now.
Swivel is right at the top of the water.
TJ: Big glow? JARRETT: Yeah, he's glowing.
All right, TJ you might get a shot here when he
comes back up to your side.
DANNY: Holy (bleep)!
TJ: Got him. JARRETT: Nice shot. TJ: Get another harpoon.
Harpoon. Here!
TJ: Harpoon him Danny. I'm gonna pull him to you.
Harpoon him Danny. Stick him, stick him!
Whoa, oh!
a shot here when he
comes back up to your side.
DANNY: Holy (bleep)!
TJ: Got him. JARRETT: Nice shot.
TJ: Get another harpoon. Harpoon. Here!
TJ: Harpoon him Danny.
I'm gonna pull him to you. Harpoon him Danny.
Stick him, stick him!
DANNY: Got it. JARRETT: Nice shot Danny!
TJ: Nice shot buddy, yeah! Pull him up, pull him up here!
Pull him up, pull him up!
JARRETT: Gaff, get a gaff! Gaff over here on my side.
My side, my right.
TJ: I knew I didn't have him good.
DANNY: Got him, get his tail.
TJ: Here, go get the rope, get the rope.
JARRETT: I don't have him good though.
DANNY: I got his head, I got his head.
Yeah buddy!
TJ: Woo! JARRETT: Yeah!
TJ: Good harpoon shot buddy! JARRETT: Nice shot buddy!
TJ: Good job, buddy. JARRETT: Oh, we finally got it.
DANNY: It was a nice fish.
TJ: Man we keep hooking these sea monsters and
we finally got one to hold on.
JARRETT: Oh, my God. Hold on, jumbo dude, woo.
TJ: I knew I got the dart in him but I wasn't sure how good I had it in him.
I saw his gill plate and my little man came to
the rescue and nailed him.
JARRETT: That was a nice shot buddy.
TJ: He redeemed himself for the last time he came to Chatham.
We're going back to Gloucester, baby.
Pa-pow! Blue gold.
JARRETT: Oh, man.
Oh, that was a (bleep) huge fish, man.
TJ: Woo...
TJ (over radio): We got him.
DAVE: Good going, TJ.
DANNY: All right, T. Slow down, stop.
TJ: Watch that gaff. JARRETT: It's (bleep) big.
TJ: That's why he fought so hard. Wanna measure him up Danny?
JARRETT: Yeah.
TJ: This might be your biggest one yet, kid.
JARRETT: That's a big fish man. DANNY: It's really big. JARRETT: How big is it Danny?
DANNY: 101.
TJ: Tough fish but he's hanging from the cleat, baby.
Blue gold is headed back to Gloucester.
DANNY: Bro, I'm so pumped right now.
TJ: It makes it all worth it, doesn't it?
JACK: Headed to Chatham.
NICHOLAS: Some whales over this way.
JACK: Yeah, that's where I kind of wanted to go up,
on the more higher side.
Ooh, this is starting to look fishy, like, right under us.
We decided to come down to Chatham.
You know there's not too much going on up north
and you know the bite down here is pretty darn good.
Puts a lot of pressure on us.
Once we leave the dock,
you know, we're already in the hole so.
JACK: Uh-oh, what was that?
The worst sound I've ever heard on a boat.
Can you hear how loud that one was?
NICHOLAS: Yeah, me too.
JACK: The other one you don't even hear.
NICHOLAS: You can't even hear it.
JACK: The crankshaft snapped in half,
which is the biggest strongest piece of metal
in the engine an $11,000 part.
NICHOLAS: That's what happens when we go out every day.
You know, no days for (bleep) days off for maintenance.
JACK: We got a big decision to make here if we're gonna fish.
There's a lot on the line to fish with one engine.
Not only could, you know, we blow another engine and
not get back, but, you know,
we could go even further in the hole with more
expenses on that engine.
So, now, despite only having one engine we could
still win this thing.
We've worked hard all season and, you know,
we're not gonna give up now.
NICHOLAS: Ah, (bleep)!
JACK: Now going to Chatham and made it about
two thirds of the way.
You know one big fish could be the deciding factor between
first and second place.
So you know getting close to the end of the season.
That's where the fish are and, you know,
we got to go.
Let's keep going anyway. Headed out with one engine.
DAVE: We should've had a bite this morning here.
GEORDIE: You know where there's no bites?
SANDRO: Right here. GEORDIE: Where we are, ah!
DAVE: No bites here.
Let's get those mackerels out that Bob gave us.
On Stellwagen we're dialed in.
We know what the fish are biting on.
Down at Chatham we are out of our comfort zone.
So we're figuring out the best bait depths
in this deeper water.
If we don't get a bite here we're wasting more time and
more money while the other boats are getting ahead.
The clock is ticking towards the end of the season.
GEORDIE: This is one of Bob's mackerel.
SANDRO: We should be on pretty quickly then.
GEORDIE: Well, unless this is one of the,
one of the ones he cursed before they put it
in the bucket.
DAVE: Come on Bob's bait bring us some luck.
We are only allowed one fish per day and one day is
from midnight to midnight.
If everybody's catching everyday its tough to, to leap frog
in front of someone.
You just got to wait your turn and that's
exactly what we're doing.
(beeping)
There he is right there on the machine.
GEORDIE: There he is. We finally got one, Sandro.
DAVE: Come on.
(reel clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
SANDRO: He's on it. We're on, we're on!
DAVE: Here we go, here we go, here we go, we're on!
SANDRO: We're tight.
No wonder why Bob gets the bites here.
These baits are awesome.
DAVE: Saved the day. About time.
I mean this could be the last fish of the season.
GEORDIE: Could be.
DAVE: If we get him we barely have enough time
to get home for midnight.
The longer it takes to reel this tuna in the more time
we lose for steaming back to Gloucester to make
this midnight cutoff.
If we push the boat really hard we can make
it back in six hours.
That means we only have an hour and half to get this tuna
on the boat if we're gonna make it back by midnight.
SANDRO: Easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy.
Cut the wheel left.
DAVE: All right, let's go. It's game time, baby.
SANDRO: Reverse, neutral.
DAVE: Take your time, boys. We got him.
DAVE: Gut hooked. SANDRO: Definitely gut hooked.
GEORDIE: The downside of that is that line instead of just
being in the corner of his mouth and being clean and clear
comes out of his gut and it's got to go across all of his teeth,
so if he does any head-shake that line
gets dragged across the crusher out,
that's down in his throat which can lead to
chafe him off.
DAVE: Been on him one hour. Exactly one hour now.
GEORDIE: Got a six-hour ride home at least.
SANDRO: Coming up. DAVE: Color?
Come on the comeback fish right here.
SANDRO: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't let him go under the boat.
DAVE: Oh, we need this fish.
SANDRO: No, no! Did we lose him?
no, no, no, no, no.
, no,
Don't let him go under the boat.
DAVE: We need this fish! No, no!
SANDRO: It's like I'm having a bad dream.
Did we lose him?
DAVE: There it is, color.
SANDRO: A lot of ziggin' and zaggin'.
Reverse, hard reverse, hard, hard and neutral.
DAVE: We got to hurry up.
Otherwise we're not gonna make the cutoff at midnight.
SANDRO: Neutral, neutral, neutral, hard right.
DAVE: Nice glow here.
SANDRO: And reverse.
DAVE: 50 feet away. GEORDIE: He's coming up.
SANDRO: Neutral, neutral, neutral, neutral.
Dave come (bleep) spike this (bleep).
Come on over, in the middle.
DAVE: In the middle. GEORDIE: Coming. DAVE: Woo!
GEORDIE: We got him. DAVE: Thank God. GEORDIE: We got him.
DAVE: Great time for celebration but we got get the hell out of here.
SANDRO: Let's get out of here.
GEORDIE: We got to get this thing home by midnight.
DAVE: Ready? GEORDIE: Yup.
DAVE: That went very smooth. SANDRO: A long skinny one.
DAVE: There you go. Let's be quick.
We don't have time.
SANDRO: Let's check him out. GEORDIE: 105 right there.
SANDRO: No (bleep). DAVE: Wow. SANDRO: Wow.
DAVE: That's a big fish however if we don't get in by midnight
we're not gonna be able to fish tomorrow and
right now I'm running the boat hard.
JARRETT: We got one! Woo!
PATRICK: What's going on, fellas?
TJ: The little guy threw the dart for the first time.
PATRICK: Did you, Dan? DANNY: Yeah, stuck him.
PATRICK: Nice, good for you buddy.
That's awesome.
TJ: Ready to get him up there?
PATRICK: Yeah, let's check it out buddy.
TJ: All right, brother.
The fishing around here hasn't gotten completely dry.
I mean, the Dot-Com is down on Chatham.
A guy who doesn't wanna burn any fuel or spend any money.
That tells you that fishing locally off Gloucester is
not happening right now.
The fish we caught today was another sea monster and
we've lost some heartbreaking losses this year,
but we came back with a gorgeous fish.
DANNY: So, PJ how much you think we're talking?
PATRICK: This one here you got 437 pounds dressed.
DANNY: Nice.
TJ: Nice. Your first harpoon, pal.
PATRICK: All right, let's check the meat out,
see what we can get for you.
TJ: Let's do it.
PATRICK: Got a nice one here, huh?
Big boy today.
TJ: Yeah, finally, man.
PATRICK: No, nice looking fish, guys.
You know a good size. It's got some skin fat here.
It's a little bit empty in the majors,
but the meat quality is good.
The color is great. Nice cherry core there.
Took good care of it.
This fish here...
I can get you $16 a pound for it.
JARRETT: Yeah, yeah, brother, nice work.
TJ: Hey man, that's almost seven grand.
We've been struggling, so we need fish like this to close out.
JARRETT: Thank you.
Hopefully see you tomorrow, buddy.
PATRICK: Yeah, thank you, guys.
Way to go Danny. Happy for you.
TJ: Nice, brother. See you later.
PATRICK: Take care. TJ: All right, let's go fishing.
PATRICK: Five minutes to spare before midnight here.
What's up? How's it going, Dave?
DAVE: Hello, PJ. All right, we got one more.
PATRICK: Got another one, good for you.
DAVE: Just in the nick of time again.
SANDRO: Yeah.
PATRICK: Just in the nick of time on the hour, all right.
DAVE: Yeah, let's get this fish up before midnight.
PATRICK: All right, let's do it.
DAVE: If this bluefin doesn't have the high quality we're
hoping for we could have a big setback in this competition
as the quota is about to close any day.
SANDRO: What's the dress weight, PJ?
PATRICK: 450 pounds dressed.
GEORDIE: Not bad for a skinny fish.
SANDRO: Yeah. DAVE: That fooled me, yeah. GEORDIE: Yeah, yup, that's nice.
DAVE: All right, we're tight on time.
We got to get back out. Let's keep, let's keep it going.
PATRICK: All right, let's check it out see what we got, Dave.
DAVE: All right.
PATRICK: Just snuck in before midnight here so you could get another one tomorrow.
SANDRO: Yup. PATRICK: This fish here,
I mean, it doesn't have a lot of fat, you know,
it's like kind of darker color.
The core is good.
It's a good color fish but it just doesn't have much fat, you know,
if it had some fat I could do a little bit better.
So this one here I could get you...
$12 a pound.
DAVE: That's fine for that fish. A skinny fish like that.
SANDRO: 450 dresser.
DAVE: This one wasn't the best quality but still over five grand for that.
GEORDIE: Yeah, yeah, that'll work.
DAVE: Thank you very much. Good price. We like that.
That's good, thank you, PJ.
GEORDIE: Thank you hopefully we'll see you tomorrow.
PATRICK: All right, see you tomorrow.
DAVE: We're not done yet.
PAUL: There's a 1,000-pounder somewhere around here.
We're gonna get it today.
We are 18 to 22 miles off shore of Gloucester right now.
We're in the middle of Stellwagen Bank.
We got two lines out. We got a mackerel out.
We got a herring out.
There hasn't been much action yet,
but it's still early in the morning.
What do you see, Lance, H?
LANCE: A lot of herring on the bottom.
PAUL: We're in a good area. We're in a really good spot.
So we're just waiting our turn right now.
The quota is gonna close any day now and I have pressing
family matters to take care of.
We're gonna try and catch one more bluefin today and
finish up the Wicked Pissah's season.
One more tuna could give us that late season paycheck and
that's gonna pay our bills.
This is it.
This is the endgame right here for us.
LANCE: There he is. They're right there, Paul.
Oh, that one's nice, oh and right there.
There he comes.
(thud)
(bleep). Wipe out!
Damn son. There he is. Come on.
PAUL: We marked one.
LANCE: Oh. PAUL: You're okay right?
LANCE: Yeah, yeah, dude. That's how excited I get.
Look at that mark, dude. It's a jumbo.
PAUL: Oh, oh. LANCE: How did that not bite?
Oh, it heard me fall. That's what happened.
I scared him. Yard sale. Look at this, a jumbo dude!
That's the grander we're waiting for.
PAUL: Oh, there's another one. We're gonna get him.
LANCE: Come on, man. Snap off let's go!
(beeping)
PAUL: Come on, baby!
(reel clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
LANCE: There we go, we're on, we're on, we're on!
PAUL: I know.
LANCE: This is real, dude. This is real right here.
We're on, baby, we're on!
PAUL: I am happy to get the bite.
LANCE: Ooh, I got goose bumps, baby.
We got a bite.
PAUL: Reel like crazy. Go ahead.
♪ Every time you tear me down ♪♪♪
LANCE: Got to get this fish to the boat.
Head shaking. Head shaking.
Thank you for the bite brother.
This is gonna make or break my season right here.
This one fish.
PAUL: He's all over the place like a gut hooked fish.
Right?
LANCE: Oh, oh, oh, oh. PAUL: It's a big fish.
LANCE: It's right on top, baby.
Possibly tail wrapped at the moment.
So, the line's running down his body and it's around his
tail which we can easily lose this fish.
No, this fight's far from over.
Ooh. No head shakes. Oh, that's bad.
Oh, stop that. There he is.
Oh, my God. It's huge!
fight's far from over.
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Ooh, ooh. No head shakes.
Oh, that's bad. Oh, stop that.
There he is. Oh my God, it's huge!
Turn the boat, turn the boat!
PAUL: I got it, I see it. LANCE: Behave, sir.
There's the leader, man. He's, he's here. He's here.
Here he comes, Paul.
Color, get the dart, get the dart.
He's tail wrapped.
PAUL: Get out of my way!
Got him, got him. Nailed him.
LANCE: Hell yeah, nice shot.
PAUL: We ain't got him yet, dude.
You got to get the gaff ready?
LANCE: It's nice shot. Nice shot, brother.
PAUL: Thank you, pal. We ain't got him yet.
Get the gaff. Get the gaff.
LANCE: We wanna keep, we wanna keep some heat on him.
PAUL: Hurry up. Over there.
Come on, come on, get him. You got him right?
LANCE: Yeah, I got him, I got him good.
PAUL: You sure?
LANCE: Oh! You got him, brother.
One more.
PAUL: We got him. LANCE: Yeah, again, baby.
PAUL: Every day we've gone out we've gotten a fish.
LANCE: And that's it, man.
PAUL: Look at that. LANCE: Ah, man.
PAUL: Put that in your pipe and smoke it, bro.
LANCE: Yeah! PAUL: Look how fat he is.
LANCE: Good way to wrap up the season, man.
PAUL: It was a hard, hard year.
But it's not what you go through,
it's how you handle it, is what matters.
That's what makes the person you are.
How you handle things and how you persevere
and come above that.
This season is coming to an end and I went through
a lot of crap with Dougie.
I absolutely learned from that. My eyes were opened.
DOUG: If you didn't wanna fish today,
I would've spent time with my (bleep) kid today.
DOUG: Step back. PAUL: I've learned to be humble.
Think about what you do before you do it and
most importantly respect.
LANCE: You want this button shut down?
PAUL: Yes, sir.
As a father that's, like,
a huge important lesson moving forward gonna be a very good role model
for my daughter.
LANCE: Wow, what a nice piece.
PAUL: Oh-ho! Let's measure him.
LANCE: Wow.
PAUL: Wow, 102, that's beautiful.
LANCE: Good job, man. Good way to end it.
Time to go home with the family and bring the money.
NICHOLAS: That's fishy. JACK: Nicest mackerel.
Now I'm hoping a nice big fat tuna fish is
gonna come by and eat it.
Sorry buddy. Go catch us one.
It seems like the fish are definitely keyed in on the,
on the mackerel.
NICHOLAS: It's only a matter of time before we get him.
JACK: We're still down one engine in Chatham.
We got to get a bite early today.
If we don't, we're not gonna make it back to Gloucester
before midnight and that means that we lose
a fishing day tomorrow.
We cannot afford to do that when the quota's gonna close anytime now,
but Fat Tuna and Dot-Com are getting ahead.
This is what we got to do to win.
We got another tide coming,
so we love the tides just because it's bringing bait around,
sand eels, mackerel, herring they move with the tide.
NICHOLAS: A few bites today already.
It seems pretty fishy.
(beeping)
Oh, we're marking 'em. Come on tuna.
JACK: Oh, might be marking one. Come on, eat that.
NICHOLAS: Out here doing it.
That's all we can do is just keep doing it.
(reel clicking)
(reel unspooling rapidly)
JACK: There he is. We marked him. You did it.
NICHOLAS: We're tight.
JACK: Right on, woo, big boy!
Sea monster.
NICHOLAS: That's a big boy. JACK: Dumpin' line. Dumpin'!
Screaming bite way out up on top.
Let him get that line out there. Do you wanna make the move?
NICHOLAS: Yeah, I think this is a good time.
JACK: One, two, three. Okay, that's good enough.
Fish is way out on the surface.
NICHOLAS: He dumped us on that first run, huh?
JACK: Yeah. NICHOLAS: So much line out.
Oh, he's just pulling us right now.
That's a hard fighting bluefin right there.
He's pulling us weird. Probably gonna do a big psycho
run at us at some point.
JACK: Yeah, if the tuna starts running straight at
the boat we're in trouble.
That's when the hook has the greatest chance to fall
out of the fish's mouth.
That means it's critical to keep the line tight.
But with one engine we cannot maneuver the
boat like we're used to.
So it just makes it that much harder and, you know,
that much easier to lose the fish.
NICHOLAS: He's gonna come at us hard.
50 feet. Here he comes. Reverse.
JACK: Yeah. NICHOLAS: It's a big one, Jack.
Turning. Head shaking. He's trying to pop that hook.
Keep going in reverse. He's coming at us.
(cranking)
JACK: We can't lose this fish.
come at us hard. Reverse!
JACK: Yeah.
NICHOLAS: Keep going reverse. He's coming at us.
JACK: We can't lose this fish. NICHOLAS: He's there still.
JACK: You okay?
JACK: You wanna switch? You wanna come up?
NICHOLAS: Yeah, that'd be great.
JACK: Yeah, fishing on one engine takes a huge toll on the boat.
Ready?
NICHOLAS: Yep. JACK: I'm Good.
But at this point in the season if we catch another fish
we might be able to take that top spot.
Doesn't matter what's in our way.
We're gonna do whatever it takes to win.
I got color.
NICHOLAS: Do you need reverse?
JACK: No, I like this. Got color.
NICHOLAS: Roger. JACK: Tight pinwheels.
Come up.
Okay, get on.
Bring him to me, Nick.
NICHOLAS: Dart him, bro. This is you. Get him!
Tail gaff.
JACK: Nice one, Nick. NICHOLAS: Yeah.
JACK: Nick's got him. Blue gold, baby, woo!
Nice one, Nick.
We got lucky getting a bluefin early.
NICHOLAS: That's a beauty right there.
JACK: Because it's gonna take us about 10 hours to
get back to Gloucester.
We got to book it out of here because with only one engine,
it's gonna be a very slow ride back.
We only can go seven knots.
NICHOLAS: Okay well, that's 98.
JACK: Wow, a nice fish in Chatham.
NICHOLAS: Time Flies is on their way to the top.
PAUL: How you like that? PATRICK: Hey, boys.
LANCE: PJ. PATRICK: You got another one.
Another big boy.
PAUL: We got him.
At least, we're going out with a bang this year.
PATRICK: Well, let's get her up and see what we
can do for you.
PAUL: Thank you, PJ.
I've decided to end my season right here.
Spending the rest of the season with my family will be great.
I'm hoping this last fish of the season brings us a great
price so we can finish strong.
LANCE: Glad I was here to help, man.
It was awesome.
PAUL: What do you got for a weight on this piece?
PATRICK: 440 pounds dressed.
LANCE: Oh-ho-ho. PAUL: That's a nice fish.
LANCE: I can't even believe it's that big, man.
I would have never guessed that.
PATRICK: Nice one. PAUL: Yeah.
PATRICK: Nice work.
PAUL: Let's see what this one looks like, PJ.
PATRICK: Yeah, let's check it out and see what we can get you.
LANCE: All right. PAUL: Come on.
PATRICK: Nice looking fish, boys.
You guys took excellent care of it.
I mean it's just, it's got that sheen to it.
Oily, plenty of skin fat working its way into the majors.
Cherry core.
It's a very, very nice fish. Diamonds.
LANCE: Yeah.
PAUL: What do you think you can get at market
for that fish for us?
PATRICK: This one I'm gonna get you...
PAUL: What do you think? LANCE: Come on.
PATRICK: $19 a pound. PAUL: There you go.
LANCE: Wow, man. What a way to go out, huh?
PATRICK: Way to go out. PAUL: We made some money, man.
LANCE: Thanks, brother. PAUL: Thank you, pal. LANCE: Thank you.
PATRICK: Way to turn the season around.
PAUL: The first couple of weeks of fishing were very tough.
We got a little over eight grand for this fish.
I never imaged getting that much money for
a tuna fish this day.
This is the most beautiful ending to a
season I have ever had.
Money in the bank right there.
MARCIANO: Why can't we get bit?
Well, here we are. A new location.
We've gone back up to Jeffreys Ledge.
So we're up here now in one of my "secret" spots all
by our onesie and hopefully there's fish here.
I just heard Jack on the Time Flies got a bluefin down off of Chatham.
That bothers me because that gives him an
opportunity to catch up or even pass us.
We need a big fat tuna.
Let's give it a fresh stretch, Jay, please.
JASON: Stretch, stretch, stretch.
MARCIANO: No, the leader. I wanna stretch the leader.
Take me to your leader.
I'll need a balloon rig too, Jay, please.
And away we go in the new spot.
JOE: Our baits are looking good.
MARCIANO: All right, Joe. Let's have him.
JOE: All right.
MARCIANO: Ready? Oh yeah, that looks nice.
JOE: Yup, that's gonna get bit. MARCIANO: That's gonna get bit.
JOE: That's a nice one.
MARCIANO: The clock is ticking on the end of this season.
We really need to get a fish.
We can still pull a rabbit out of our hat for sunset
and get in by midnight here.
The fish do seem to have moved elsewhere.
JOE: Bait and wait.
MARCIANO: This year we wanna be that top boat.
NICHOLAS: The little engine that could today.
JACK: Hey, at least we had one to get us home.
PATRICK: What's up, fellas? JACK: What's going on?
PATRICK: Got another one? JACK: Yeah.
You know, it would've been a good day besides
some engine troubles.
PATRICK: That's not good.
We only got one day left.
They're shutting us down tomorrow night.
JACK: You know engine troubles couldn't have
come at a worse time.
PATRICK: All right, let's see what we got here folks.
JACK: All right. NICHOLAS: Let's take a peek.
PATRICK: Let's do it.
JACK: It's official. The quota is closing tomorrow.
I'm happy we ended up getting this tuna down in Chatham even
though it was a huge risk going down there
with only one engine.
It might have given us a push to get ahead of
Hard Merch and Dot-Com,
but we need a great price to launch past them.
All right, what's the number PJ?
PATRICK: Nice piece guys. 360 pounds dressed.
JACK: Nice one. NICHOLAS: Nice one.
PATRICK: Let's check it out guys.
JACK: All righty. PATRICK: All right, guys.
A nice looking fish from down there.
JACK: Yeah, we're getting lucky.
PATRICK: Beautiful core color, plenty of skin fat.
It's a cherry core.
Cherry tail. Loaded with fat.
Deep in the majors here. Pretty solid fish overall.
This one...
$20 a pound for it.
JACK: We'll take that. NICHOLAS: All day.
PATRICK: Yeah, buddy, yeah, nice one.
JACK: Thank you, PJ.
NICHOLAS: You think you'll be able to go tomorrow or
you got to check things out?
JACK: There's a lot on the line for that other engine.
A lot of stress on it and we'll have to see.
NICHOLAS: Minor setbacks for a major comeback though.
PATRICK: All right, boys. Keep 'em coming.
JACK: All right, PJ. Thank you.
PATRICK: Good luck. NICHOLAS: Have a good one. PATRICK: Take care, boys.
JACK: We've only got one more day and then the season is over.
Losing one of our engines at this point in the season is, like,
losing your starting player in the Super Bowl.
We know that if we lose our good engine that we're gonna
be getting towed back and we're gonna be dead in the water.
Having one engine really messes up our game plan.
The quota's closing.
NARRATOR: With one day left of fishing Time Flies
moves into the lead with a high priced Chatham bluefin.
And Dot-Com moves from third to second place.
And Fat Tuna and Hot Tuna each put another bluefin on board
but failed to move ahead.
With a large paycheck Wicked Pissah's season
comes to a close with four bluefin.
Captioned by Cotter Media Group.