[narrator] As the competitive harpoon season enters its final weeks,
the high value bluefin they hunt...
There they are.
[man] Fish up guys.
[narrator] ...gorge themselves on schools of fatty bait fish...
[over radio] Shiner is coming up to your left, Joe.
To your left, look down.
[narrator] ...setting the stage for the harpoon fleet...
I really wanna beat Tyler.
[narrator] ...to land...
[Tyler] Good job, good job.
I don't [bleep] believe it.
[narrator] ...late season, high fat, monster tuna...
[Sean] Oh, they're right under us.
[narrator] ...worth over $10,000 each.
-[man 2] Can't let Tyler take the lead. -[man 3] Oh, God.
-I had the fish on the ledge here! -[man 4] I don't see her!
[Joe] I hope they show today, Mike.
[Mike] We'll see what happens.
I got a feeling we're gonna run around today.
[Joe] Now, as long as Tyler don't get nothing, we're good.
Tyler gets none, that's-- That what would make me happy.
[Joe] It's a crucial day for us out here on the Redrum.
We are in a tight battle
with the Ezyduzit and the CynthiaC2,
and I don't like to lose.
[Mark over radio] Now, just take your time through here,
see what you can see.
I'm gonna spread it out a little bit.
[Joe over radio] Yeah. I got you.
[in normal voice] With Marky up in the sky,
and Tyler in the same area as us,
we really need to pack this boat with fish today.
With me and Niko working together.
I like Niko. I like to see him catch fish.
But I refuse to be out-fished by Tyler.
And one thing.
When you put me and Tyler in the same area,
we do better.
On our boat today, we have two VIPs.
Brad McHale from NOAA out of Gloucester,
and we have John Walter from NOAA
out of the Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Miami.
You know, I was very happy these guys could make it today
'cause been trying to get 'em out for a couple of years,
just to kind of see what's happening in the fishery
'cause they don't get out of their office as much.
They're just getting third party report,
so maybe today will be that day
they get to see really what's going on out here.
The US Fisheries are some of the best managed in the world.
We're doing a lot more collaborative work with fishermen
both tagging
as well as a lot of outreach and communication,
trying to listen to what they're seeing on the water.
And I think we're saying very wholeheartedly
that people should be eating bluefin.
It's sustainable fishery, it's well-managed
and it should be on the menu.
[Tyler] You know, we'll see what happens.
The fog just opened up a little bit here.
So, I'm gonna send the boys in the power and start rigging.
As excited as I am to have Brad and John on the boat,
the main focus for me today is to get back in the competition.
I'm behind Ezyduzit and Redrum,
and that does not sit well with me.
[Niko] Hey, Cap.
Is that blue boat, is that Joe?
That, I don't know. Tyler should be here.
-[Niko] Yeah, that's Tyler going to the north now. -[man 5] Yeah.
But to the south of him,
-that looks like that's blue, right? -It does.
So, then that's, that's Redrum.
Recently, Joe and I on the Redrum
teamed up to share information and keep Tyler in check.
That strategy paid off with a three fish day.
Right now we're in the top spot with Joe close behind us.
But we need to stay sharp
and make sure Tyler doesn't sneak up and take it from us.
The first couple of weeks, I guarantee you.
They thought they had us dead in the [bleep] water.
Well, they're not catching any fish, do you know what I mean?
And I think as we've been going, Cap,
it just gets worse and worse.
'Cause now they see that the ball is [bleep] rolling
-and they can't [bleep] stop it, you know? -Right.
We still have every opportunity to end up on top.
[narrator] After striking out at the start of the season,
strongman Niko changed strategy
to stack up seven big bluefins
earning him the top spot.
Rivals Joe on the Redrum and Tyler on CynthiaC2
fight a pitched battle to bridge the gap,
while underdog Dylan and his son, Emmett,
on the Pine Box,
must take extreme measures to get back into contention.
[Dylan] Wow, his place is gonna be a zoo in a few minutes, I bet.
Well, everybody caught fish yesterday
down in Cape Cod Bay.
So, we've decided to come down here and try it.
We're 50-something miles from home,
down in the middle of Cape Cod Bay.
Not our normal place to fish,
but it's just really far inside
and it's not close to home.
For all these guys, this is, like,
10 miles from their harbor.
So, it's convenient.
So, for us to come here, it's kind of a big production.
I came down because Tyler, he called me last night
and told me there were fish here and,
and, you know, Cape Cod's
good for some people, not so good for others, so.
We've only got two fish so far,
And with the quota filling up really fast,
chances are running out.
Even though I don't like fishing out of my comfort zone,
I trust Tyler to tell me the truth.
And, uh, if there's fish down here, we'll go try it.
Now, what do you think about driving strategy
on these big singles in Cape Cod?
[Tyler speaking over radio]
[Dylan] Yeah, go ahead.
[Tyler] What's happening?
[Dylan over radio] Nothing, bored out of our minds as usual.
Well, everything happened yesterday.
So, I met Dylan 2009.
Dylan and I have worked together for years,
and he ended up buying my boat.
The Pine Box was once a CynthiaC.
I built CynthiaC from the ground up.
Dylan's very good at what he does,
and he's got a great boat 'cause I built it,
so I was a little surprised at the number of fish he caught this year.
So, I wanted to let him know what I was seeing down south.
So that if he chose,
he could come down and possibly get into the fish.
Anyways, all right, well, we're driving around here.
I don't know why.
Can't wait for the day to end.
All right. I'll talk to you in a bit.
All right, good luck. Go get some more.
Well, we just have to hope they come up.
-But Tyler, most of all your fish sold overseas. -[Tyler] No.
I have not exported a fish since 20, 2017.
We used to export 98% of our bluefin
and now it's down to about 13%.
So, how does the US build that market,
-that local consumption market? -[Tyler] Well, that's...
That's what we're trying to do.
It's just a public awareness
that bluefin is no longer overfished.
[John] And the catch rates are still high.
And I think it's really a success story
that's a testament to basically good fisheries management.
And we're still trying to get over that hump with bluefin,
uh, you know, let the general public know
that there are US fishermen, your neighbors
that are doing exactly what Tyler is doing.
When you know where it was harvested and how it was harvested,
it's, it's no different from the farm to table dynamic,
-that, uh, it just needs to be strengthened. -[John] Yeah, bluefish should
be on every single restaurant in this area.
I'm assuming you have control?
-[Todd] Yep. -[Tyler] All right.
I'm really glad that Brad and John took time out of their schedules today,
so it's crucial that we catch.
I want these NOAA reps to see firsthand
how we capture these fish and understand our process.
We are at a little bit of a disadvantage today though,
because we don't have our pilot.
[John] Do you have a spotter playing up?
[Tyler] He's in Nantucket right now, and he's fogged in.
[Todd] You ready, Cap?
-I think we got a bunch. -[Brad] All right.
[John] Game on.
-[Tyler] You got 'em? All right. -Oh, yeah.
-Plowin'. -Look at that, Cap.
[Brad] What do you got?
[Tyler] I got a single plowin'.
[Todd] I got him, I got him.
[Tyler] Slow the boat down.
Don't terrorize this place away.
All right, there's two of them here.
[Tyler] Yeah, all right.
I got 'em, I got 'em.
Keep going this way, keep going this way.
Perfect. Hold it just right there.
Hold it.
I got him. Start your turn. Go right at him.
Easy on the RPM, Cap.
Don't wake this place up too bad.
Well, it's right over here.
-[camera shutter clicks] -[Tyler] Got him right here.
Right here, right here.
[John] Jeez, that's a big fish. [chuckles]
[Tyler] I got him, I got him. It's a fish.
Follow my stick.
Follow.
Follow. Follow. Follow. Follow.
Oh! Hit him, hit him, hit him, hit him!
Back it down! Back it down! Back it down! Back it down!
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
Okay, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Slow down.
Right through the tail.
Just whacked that fish right through the tail.
-Get down here. This guy's going fast, Todd. -[Todd] I'm coming.
[Tyler] This rig's gonna go and dump in about two seconds.
Goodbye.
[Todd] Wow.
[Tyler] Well, our guests got to see at least us hit one.
It was going deep.
That fish was 15, 20 feet down when I threw.
[Brad] So, you hit the tail,
so the shark doesn't quite take the effect.
-[Tyler] Right. It went right through the tail. -Yeah.
But the beautiful part is when you hit the wiggly end,
they don't tow for long at all. [chuckles]
Nice.
-Yeah, there you go. -[Tyler] Let me get my apron, Cap.
You feel the weight of the fish, right?
[Todd] That's a wicked heavy rope.
-Okay. Okay, we're up. -[Tyler] Yeah, we're up right here.
-Just like that. -[Todd] That's a fatty.
[Tyler] Oh.
-[Sean] Are you ready? -[Todd] Yep.
-[men grunting] -[Sean] One, two...
-[Tyler] You need my help, Sean? -[Sean] Yeah.
It's not that big. Come on, you big wench.
Let's go.
Door closed?
-Let's do what we do good. -[man 6] Free reign.
-One hundred even. -[Tyler] I like that length.
-No pilot, no problem. -Not bad.
[Tyler] I'd like to see Joe do that.
[narrator] Half a mile east on captain Joe's Redrum...
[Joe] Well, Tyler got the first fish of the day.
[Mark over radio] I figured as much.
I think that's a CynthiaC right south of me here.
[Joe over radio] Yeah, we're fishing right next to him today,
so we gotta catch more than him.
-Coming up. -[Nathan] Ah, if you don't mind.
It's hot down there.
Right there. See it?
-See it? -[Joe] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I got something gurgling here.
Single making water.
Yeah, pay attention. Go get him.
[Joe] Yep.
[man 7] See him right there?
-See right there? I think he's way up there. -[Nathan] Yeah.
-See that water up there? -[Nathan] Yeah?
Think that's him.
-[Nathan] Do you see him? -[Joe] No.
Oh, yeah, I see it right there.
There's a shiner in it. There's three.
You got two going to your left to right
at your 1 o'clock and five boats,
and then you got one more coming dead on at you,
about 12 boats.
-Put it in gear, 1 o'clock. -Yeah, see him?
-They're up there. -[Nathan] Yeah.
[Mark] All right. They're at 1 o'clock now.
One o'clock and five boats.
Coming right now, 1 o'clock.
Go left in a half--
You gotta start coming left a little bit, left a little.
[Joe] Missed him!
[Mark bleeps]
[Nathan] Right there. Right there, Joe, I have him!
[Mark] Another one coming up on your left, Joe.
To your left, look down to your left.
[Nathan] Right there. Right there, Joe, I have him!
[Mark] Another one coming up on your left, Joe.
To your left, look down to your left.
Look down to your left.
Good, good.
I don't [bleep] believe it.
We just saw three big fish running.
We got up on 'em.
They split up.
It was a shiner,
which one has a hurt eye, so it always swims sideways.
And then all of a sudden, the shiner came
from behind the boat out in front of us,
where we slowed down,
and then we sped back up
and Joey made a great shot on it.
Got another one in the boat, let's go.
Nice [bleep] hit, man.
Another shiner. Another shiner, baby.
[Joe] Repeat re-rig. Repeat re-rig.
[Nathan] One-o-three.
-Nice, nice hit, buddy. Nice hit. -[man 7] Good job.
[Joe] That's how we roll.
One down, four to go, baby.
[narrator] Five miles south in Cape Cod Bay
on the Pine Box...
[phone ringing]
[Dylan] Tyler's calling, hold on.
-Hey, Tyler. -[Tyler over phone] Hey, where are you at?
Uh, I'm out here just the east of you.
[Tyler] Oh, yeah. Is that you?
[Dylan over radio] Yeah, I'm east of you, what's up?
Have you seen anything yet?
We saw one patch of wake,
it was definitely tuna, but that was it.
Other than bass, that's all we've seen.
Okay.
I haven't seen [bleep] in a while.
-Maybe on the tide. -[Tyler] Gotcha.
I'll talk to you later.
[Dylan] All right, buddy, talk to you later.
That's Tyler. He hasn't seen anything.
He got one, but he hasn't seen any fish, uh,
in an hour or two.
But he saw something earlier.
I'll be happy to see anything, the way things are going.
On Tyler's advice,
we took a trip to fish part of the bay.
We rarely fish.
And so far, it hasn't paid off.
So, I hope it wasn't a stupid decision
to come all the way down here.
There they are.
[man 8] Fish up, guys.
Which way they moving?
I think they'll be going to the east, northeast,
maybe right towards us.
Let's just see what they do.
There they go. They're going away from us just like this.
You're behind them. Go straight at 'em.
Okay.
-You still got 'em? -[Joe Jurek] I got 'em.
[Dylan] Slow down and just come over here, Joe.
All right. Just take it--
Oh, there they go over there.
Speed up a little bit, Joe.
Get behind him.
We gotta go over here and then go in.
Looks like two of 'em maybe.
[Joe Jurek] I see one good one go.
[Dylan] All right, turn on him.
There they go. Put in gear, forward.
Speed up a little. I got color.
-That's good. -Which one do you want though?
[Dylan] Far right, right here.
Right here. Come on, Joe. Turn, follow my pole.
Oh, my God!
I can't believe I missed that.
-That was a big fish too. -[Dylan] I can't believe I missed him.
That was a huge fish.
It was right there.
Threw it, and he just faded
and it went right down his side.
[Emmett] Wow, that sucks.
[bleep].
[Dylan] That sucks.
That was right [bleep] there.
[Dylan] He was-- couldn't have been any closer.
Oh, definitely. You went for the biggest one.
[Dylan] I just saw his wake the best and he was up the highest.
-At least they're running though. -[Dylan] Yeah.
Nice job driving though, that was totally my fault.
-Whiffed that one. -[Joe Jurek laughs]
[Dylan] That was a complete whiff.
[Tyler] Pretty sure that's a bunch.
Probably about half a mile or so.
Twelve fifteen.
[John] Now, they're not feeding right now.
-They're-- They're-- -[Tyler] No, they're digesting.
-Yeah. -[Tyler] Yeah, they're digesting.
They're using the upper water level.
-[John] Yeah. -Going up water to digest, yeah.
[John] 'Cause essentially, they're a warm-blooded animal.
-Warm-bodied, yeah. -But they can--
-They maintain that heat through digestion. -Yeah.
-And muscle activity too, they transfer... -Yeah.
-You got 'em? All right, keep going. -[Todd] No.
-It's the reason these bluefin can go to-- -Anywhere.
Anywhere in the world.
And they're the fastest-moving, best predator in cold water
'cause they're much faster, their eyes are working better,
-their brains working better. -[Tyler] Yeah.
See, we get to have a conversation about marine biology.
It's awesome.
Man, we are missing that plane today.
[Sean] Oh, they-- Right under us.
-Oh, [bleep], my God. Oh! -[Tyler] Oh. Yep.
-You never would've seen those. -[Sean] Nope.
[Tyler] How the hell would we ever see those without a plane?
Is that a fish plowin'?
No. Or Is that a wake?
-[Sean] No, it's just a big wake. Yeah. -[Tyler] Wake.
These fish might come right back up.
You didn't spook 'em. They just...
-They went right by us, yeah. -Kept goin', yeah.
Good spot, Sean.
I never look that close.
-I was just like, "What the, what the--" -Got 'em.
Twelve o'clock, going away from us.
-[Todd] All right. Yep. -[Tyler] You got him?
Shoot time.
-[Todd] Ah, come on, fish. -[Tyler] Still got him.
-I got him. 11:30, Todd. -Come on, fish.
[Tyler] 11:30. There you go.
-[Todd] I have, I have, uh... Gonna be a-- -[Tyler] Oh, got him.
-I got him. Yep, yep, yep. -[Tyler] Still got him.
-I got him. -[Tyler] Still got him.
Still got him.
Back it down just a little bit.
-Now I got nothing. -I got nothing either.
[Tyler] Right here, right here, right here, right here.
Right here. Right here.
Right here.
Hit him!
Hit him! Back it down! Back it down!
Back it down! Back it down!
Good job, good job, good job.
Easy, easy, easy. Todd! Todd! Todd! Todd!
You'll blow my transmission up, buddy.
Thank you. We're good. Dead fish.
Okay. We'll be doing dead fish, Sean.
-Sean, dead fish. Port bow, portside. -[Sean] Yeah.
[Todd] He took this out. Nice stuff, Cap.
[Sean] I don't know if he's just heavy and he's going to the bottom.
[Tyler] I think he's just heavy, Cap.
He's there? He's still there?
-[Todd] Uh... -[Tyler] He's still there, Todd?
[Todd] I feel, I don't feel much.
[Tyler] Are you kidding me?
[Tyler] He's there? He's still there?
Is he still there, Todd?
[Todd] Uh, I feel, I don't feel much.
[Tyler] Are you kidding me?
[Todd] Oh, yeah, he's there.
Okay. Oh, God, that scared the [bleep] out of me.
[sighs in relief]
Okay, work together. He's coming, he's coming.
Yeah, I got deep color now.
Here he comes.
-Here he comes. -[Sean] That him raising, or what?
[Tyler] I stuck him right square in the middle of the back.
Oh.
He's got mud all in him. So, he went to the bottom.
That was a surprise.
For those fish to stay in like that in that calm water,
I was very, very surprised.
Todd's on the wheel now,
and he just held me right there as soon as he got color, and...
We got a great shot of the fish.
Hit him at his center mass, exactly where I wanted to.
And I'm tired. [sighs]
Phew. This is, like, work.
Okay, Todd, grab the head to your... go... walk backwards, Todd.
Start walking backwards, Todd.
Keep walking backwards, Todd.
[sighs]
[groans softly] Nice job.
Another little one. Damn.
Cut the tail, get him bleeding, all that good stuff.
I'm going up.
[exhales]
They're gonna be busy for a while, so... [sighs]
[Sean] You want to get a quick measurement?
-[Todd] Yep. -[Sean straining] Uh, yeah.
Official measurement.
One hundred and four.
-[both] 104. -Okay.
Back ahead of Joe for the day.
Let's keep it going.
[Todd] We need another fish, Captain.
[Tyler] All right. I'm gonna go find another one now.
[Todd] Okay.
[Joe speaking]
[Mark speaking]
Yes, sir.
-[Joe sighs] -[bleeping]
I really want to beat Tyler.
I really want that to happen.
[Joe chuckling] I know.
[narrator] Three miles south, on the Ezyduzit...
I'm curious as to where the scientist is.
[Kevin speaking]
[Niko] We're in the lead in this competition right now,
and I know Tyler isn't happy about that.
But this is no time to take our foot off the gas.
If we want to finish this thing on top,
we need to keep filling the boat with fish every day.
-[Kevin] Is that bait? -[Niko] I think so, yeah.
Eleven o'clock, are these birds in the water?
Porpoise?
Uh... I don't think so.
It didn't look like porpoise.
Oh, yeah, that's porpoise. [chuckles softly]
-Never mind. -Yeah.
What's this right here?
There they are. There they are.
[Niko] That's fish.
[Thomas] Oh, yeah. Let's go get 'em, baby!
-[Niko] There they are! -Yep, yep.
Just a little more speed, Kev.
Give it torque. Let's go!
Stick me one, baby!
[Kevin] It's going right to left.
[Niko] There he is.
Oh, it's a tiny one.
[Thomas and Niko] Wow!
[Niko] That's one of the smallest ones I've ever seen.
-[Thomas] Oh, yeah, baby! -It's like six feet. Look how graceful he is!
Damn!
All right, let's get back to work.
[chuckles softly]
Can't let Tyler take the lead.
[Kevin] Try not to fall in the water and get slurped by a...
juvenile white shark.
-[Thomas] Yeah, wouldn't that be something? -[Niko] Yeah.
It'd be the story of my [bleep] life.
[Joe] Whoa! [bleep]
There goes my phone.
Mark, there goes my phone.
It just fell out of the tower.
[Mark] You're [bleep] kidding me.
It bounced off the rail and went in to drink?
Yep.
I'm just gonna blame Tyler.
[both chuckle]
[Joe] So far today,
Tyler and I have been going back and forth.
He got one, then we got one.
And now, he's got a second.
We came into the day with a small lead,
so at the very least, we have to match him fish for fish.
Hey, Joey!
Why don't you call it? See if a tuna answers!
[laughs]
I know the quota is starting to fill up,
so letting our lead over Tyler
slip away is not an option.
At this point in the season,
there might not be enough time to get it back.
-I didn't want the thing anyways. -[Mike chuckles] Oh.
That's one of you.
Oh, there's a jumper right there.
-[Mike] See some spraying? -[Joe] Oh, yeah.
I just had a jumper right under you.
I see an old wake right there.
I don't see anything at the end of the wake, though.
Oh, I got the fish. I got the fish.
Twelve o'clock. Keep it coming.
Set it up. Keep it coming.
Twelve o'clock now, going away from you.
Probably 12 boats.
All right, let's see here. We've got, uh...
just to your left at 12 o'clock now.
And, uh...
eight to nine boats.
Then turn it a little more left.
Come left a touch, some more.
-Left a little bit. -Yeah.
[Mark] Fisher, at your 11 o'clock.
Come left, left, left, left.
Left. Steady like that, yep.
Left... The farthest one back is to the right, to the right.
-There, Nate. -[Mark] The farthest one back is to the right.
Yeah, your 12 o'clock right now.
I'm in the clear.
I just saw the fish over there.
I don't see 'em!
[Mark] Uh... I don't...
I don't see 'em.
Take it out of gear.
[bleep]
I had the fish on the ledge here!
[Joe groans]
I had the fish on the ledge here!
I had color, real good!
You were right there for a while. What happened?
I had that... I could have put...
There was a fish right there.
[Joe] That's all right. It's all right, Mike.
But he had fish
that were further back and we couldn't see.
I never picked them up.
Just take it out of gear.
Turn... Turn the wheel to the right,
so you're facing the same way the fish were going.
Oh, what have we got? Yep.
Is that them right over there?
They're up there!
[Mark] Put it back in gear now.
Come around to the right.
Left a touch. Three boats. 11:45.
Not too much!
[beeping]
[Joe] Stop! Stop the boat. Stop the boat.
Stop the boat, Mike! Stop the boat!
Doink.
[Joe] Just stop the boat.
-I did. -[Joe] Don't do anything.
[Mike] I just put it in reverse
-for a second just to straighten it out. -[Joe straining] Yeah.
Yeah, but I didn't know where the fish was.
[chuckles] Good job, buddy.
Good driving.
Now, as long as Tyler don't get nothing, we're good.
Joe got another one.
I don't like that.
[Joe] Good job, buddy.
[Nathan] Nice shot, Joey.
Nice hit.
[Joe] Zap, re-rig, repeat.
That was nice, Mark. Talk about patience.
You gotta have it down here, boss.
That was a classic cat-and-mouse game of them going up,
showing visibility, going down.
And we just were patient, and we did the right thing.
From Mike and Nate up top...
to Mark staying on the fish,
and at the end, we got a chance and we hit it.
Let's go!
One hundred and four!
Thank you.
One hundred and four.
Yeah, so he's an inch bigger.
If we can get two more...
[Mike] That would make me happy.
[Joe laughs]
[narrator] Seven miles east, on the Cynthia C2...
[Tyler speaking]
So, what we do is we collect a small tissue sample,
usually a piece of muscle meat, and put it in a vial,
take this back to a lab.
We'll look at whether it's an eastern or western-origin fish.
We'll be able to determine how old it is.
And we'll also be able to determine what sex it is.
We used all of that information in our stock assessments.
All right, let me grab a little piece of meat off of a...
All right. See if I can get these odorless.
I'm looking for the odorless.
Usually, the odorless sit underneath the brain.
The odorless are what it uses to be able to detect sound.
All right. There's one.
Let's see if I can get the other one.
There's the other one.
And these, we can section and you can count the rings
to count their age, just like trees.
Our goal is to really advance bluefin science
and maybe even tell us exactly how many are out there.
All right. This is a joke. Let's head outside.
It's too late. We've got nothing.
We're stuck here for the day... with...
-Why is that? -It's an hour and a half
just to get out of Cape Cod Bay.
It sucks, but this is where we are.
I don't know why I came here.
We're 55 miles down into the bay.
Yeah, I noticed that. I don't know why.
Why did you go so deep in there?
[Dylan speaking]
I never chase old news.
And this is why.
I don't care if they got 500 here yesterday.
This is a boneyard.
I always think when you see them run real good,
it's them leaving, you know.
So, maybe they were leaving yesterday.
I'm gonna eat some food.
[Dylan] Today, I'm fishing near Tyler in Cape Cod,
and I feel like it was the wrong decision
because I've got boats all around me.
There's no direction I can go and be at peace.
So, uh, I'm frustrated with myself
for bringing myself here,
and, uh... I should know better.
Today, I didn't go to the right place, I guess.
Just reality of failure.
[Mark] What's the Tyler report? Anything?
He'll just wait till we're done, I guess. I don't know.
I was thinking the same thing.
I just don't wanna say anything.
I don't want to ask. I just want to wait until we're done.
[Joe] It's starting to get late,
and Tyler and I both have two fish.
The goal for today
was to outfish him in the same area,
and that has not been accomplished yet.
So unless I can get one more on the boat,
I'm not gonna be happy.
-How's this heading? All right? -[Mark] Yeah, it's all right.
[Joe] I see some water right here, at my one o'clock.
Probably ten boats.
Is that wake?
[Mark] There is a boat wake on across there.
Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. It's right there.
Your one o'clock.
That is them right there.
Six boats, going south.
About four boat lengths now.
I got 'em. I got color.
[Joe] Just square it up, Mike! Square it up!
[Mark] Start coming to the right.
Start coming to the right.
Coming to the right.
Steady like that. 12 o'clock.
Three boat length.
[Mike] We've got color. Just keep going warm.
Getting in a little weird water.
Getting a little deep, getting deep,
getting deep!
Gone. Gone. Gone.
Take it out of gear, out of gear!
Uh... I'm not seeing 'em.
I'm not seeing them.
Oh, boy, I don't see 'em.
Gone.
[Joe groans]
I dunno if we're gonna get a crack at these [bleep] things.
[Joe] Hopefully, these fish come back.
I got to get another one
'cause the only thing I care about right now
is beating Tyler, and that's it.
-I don't see 'em. You see 'em, Mike? -No.
You were going a little too slow there.
How fast were you going?
Six-six, six-five.
Try a little faster if we get another shot at this, all right?
-Yeah. -[Joe] Thank you.
Uh... Come on.
Oh! 12 o'clock now.
Coming up good. They're in the darker green water.
Right, 12 o'clock and about four boat lengths.
I'm gonna spin around.
I see 'em. I see 'em, Joey!
On the left side of the riffle there! See 'em?
[Mark] Three-and-a-half boats now.
Twelve o'clock. Come right a touch.
Right a touch.
Half-a-boat length. Right a touch.
I see 'em.
[Mark] Right a touch.
[Thomas] Oh, we got him! We got him!
Fish on!
We got him!
We got a [bleep] tuna!
[Niko] That's a bonito!
That's good eating, Thomas.
Oh, baby! That's a bonito.
[Kevin] What is that?
It's a class of tuna.
It's a smaller class.
-[both chuckle] -[Niko] Very, very small.
[chuckling] We went from the biggest to the smallest.
[all chuckling]
[both] Thomas...
[Niko] Put him in the ice vat.
-Oh, yeah. Good idea. -[Kevin chuckles]
I'm still all pumped up!
Well, take a [bleep] chill pill, would you?
[Thomas] There is his new home!
-You don't mind if I put this in your sandwich? -[laughs]
[Thomas] Good night, little buddy!
-Let's get another one! -[both laughing]
[Mark] Coming up good. They're in the darker green water.
Right, 12 o'clock, and about four boat length.
I'm gonna spin around.
[Mike] I see 'em. I see 'em, Joey!
On the left side of the riffle there! You see 'em?
[Mark] Right a touch.
[Joe groans]
[Mark] Got him.
-Hit it, hit it. Back up. Back up. - [beeping]
[sighs wearily]
[straining] Oh, it's a big fish.
Big fish!
Big Bertha!
[sighing] Oh, God.
[Joe] This is exactly what we were hoping for.
We got our third fish.
And we're back on top of Tyler.
We did it all right next to him so he could watch.
Yeah, here you go.
It feels amazing.
Good driving, Nate.
We're up the three. Let's go. [chuckles]
One hundred and two!
He's fat!
[Tyler] The biggest benefit to me today was...
we were able to have some great conversation
things we've been doing together
when it comes to bluefin management,
and also the successes that we've had
over the last...
probably 15 years.
I need two lines on the port side!
Ready?
[groans]
[Todd shrieks]
[Tyler] It's going... clean.
[sighs]
-What's going on, Bubba? -[Bubba] Hey, Tyler.
And this one was 100 inches.
All right. Let's see what we've got here.
It does have a little bit of fat, tiny bit showing.
Color's half decent.
-Shape is so-so. -[Tyler] So, what do you think?
-I'll do 12 bucks a pound for this. -Sweet.
[Bubba] All right, let's get your dressed weight,
and, uh, see what you're getting paid.
-Four hundred and thirty seven pounds. -[Tyler] Nice.
[Bubba] Let's, uh, put this on ice, and get the second one up.
Well... as you can see,
-there's not really much to this one. -[Tyler] Oh.
[Bubba] Little lean, a little sunken belly here.
All you can do is catch it, right? And hope for the best?
Yeah. What do you think?
I think we can give you...
probably give you, uh, seven bucks a pound for this.
-[Tyler] I'd appreciate it. -[Bubba] We'll give your dressed weight.
-Finish weight on this and... -[Bubba] Absolutely
-All right, Tyler, you got, uh, 492 pounds. -[Tyler] Nice.
[Bubba] Let me, uh... Let me just get your signature,
and, uh, we're all set here.
-Thank you very much. -Have a great day.
-You as well. Appreciate it. -I appreciate it. Yeah.
All right, gents.
The 100, it actually dressed 437.
-We got 12 bucks. -[Todd] Wow.
-Mmm. -That's good.
-Wow. -And the second one was hard red meat,
as you kind of expected, 105.
So we did seven bucks on that.
-Oh, we'll take it. -Nothing terrible.
-A good day. -Twelve bucks will will take that one
-to seven bucks average. -[Tyler] Two cheers for two fish.
-You got 'em. -Nice. That's it.
-Nice job, Captain. -Yeah, all right. We're on it.
-We're out. -Thanks. Good day.
[Joe] What's up, Bubba?
-[Bubba] What's up? -[Joe] We got three fish for you today.
What did Tyler have? Two?
[Bubba] Yeah.
That's a nice fish.
[Joe] Today, we got three fish. Tyler had two.
We were in the same area,
and I feel like that's pretty good that we can outfish him.
And you can see, when we get in the right area,
we'll always be the top boat.
[Bubba] All right, let's see what we're looking at.
[Joe] We're one up on him now, which is great.
[Bubba] Yeah, he got two. You got three, so... that's it.
-[Joe] What are you thinking? -[Bubba] I mean, it does have...
tiniest, tiniest bit of fat, but...
nothing to go crazy over.
Any fat is better than no fat.
-[Joe] Especially, on a big fish like this, right? -[Bubba] Yeah.
-We can do ten bucks. -[Joe] Ten bucks?
-Yeah, ten dollars a pound for that. -Okay.
[Joe] You want to get it dressed weight?
[Bubba] Yeah, we'll dress it real quick.
Five hundred and thirteen pounds dressed.
[Joe] Five hundred and thirteen dressed. All right!
Fish two, coming up!
I love these three-fish days, Bubba.
We need to get more of them.
We'll get five. We're working our way up there.
[Joe] What do you think, Bubba?
Yeah, I mean,
kind of as expected...
just by the shape alone, you already knew
there probably wasn't going to be any fat in it.
The color's a little dark, too.
Not the greatest fish,
but I think I can give you six bucks a pound for this.
-Six bucks? -Yeah.
Wow. All right.
I was hoping for more, but...
[Bubba] We'll get the head and tail off, and we'll weigh it.
Three hundred and ninety four pounds.
Three hundred and ninety four at six bucks!
All right.
[Bubba] And surprisingly,
the shape on it is not bad at all.
How does it look, Bubba?
-[Bubba] Well, I've got pretty good news for you. -[Joe] Okay.
-[Bubba] It's got a pretty good amount of fat in it. -[Joe] Wow. All right. Yeah.
It's probably the best out of the three.
I think I can give you...
-probably 20 bucks. -20 bucks a pound?
-Yeah. -How about that, huh?
Hey, 20 bucks a pound on that one!
Twenty bucks?
Wow. We got a fatty, huh?
[Bubba] Let's dress it up and find out what your paycheck is.
-Five hundred and thirty eight pounds dressed. -[Joe] All right, man.
Five hundred and thirty eight sounds good.
We made $10,000.
This was our biggest day so far.
So we had three nice big fish.
Right there.
[Joe] The quota is getting eaten up, though,
so we got to keep on chugging and getting more fish...
fast before other guys do.
Thank you, Bubba. You're the best, buddy.
[Bubba] No problem. Thank you.
[Joe] It's still anyone's game.
Anyone could be up top,
but all we need is one or two good days.
This was one day. We need more than this.
Let's get some more tomorrow.
Let's roll!
[narrator] With three fish, including a $10,000 fatty,
you gun Captain Joe on the Redrum
steals the top spot from Ezyduzit
after a weak showing from strongman Niko.
For Captain Tyler,
his two low-grade bluefins aren't enough
to put the Cynthia C2 back into contention.
Meanwhile, for Captain Dylan on the Pine Box,
the only thing getting speared
is his confidence.