Wicked Tuna

For the past six years.

(bleep) the hell could go wrong! (bleep) you!

It's a tough battle over here.

No captain has had worse luck.

If we didn't have bad luck, we had no (bleep) luck at all.

It's like getting a black eye from Mother Nature.

We're gonna hit!

Than Dave Marciano.

Dammit. Dammit. Dammit.

And now, as the rest of the fleet bank more Bluefin buck.

We're on! We're on! We're on! We're on!

Here we go. We got him! Whoo!

Can Dave and his kids.

Come on, fish.

Land their first paycheck of the season?

Oh we're on! We're on! We're on!

That mark is showing me an 800-pound fish.

Come on.

Give up already!

This, Let's go.

Color! Stick him!

Is Wicked Tuna.

Bottom line, either luck's with you or it's against you.

At the start of week three of fishing, the young do on Pinwheel are off to a hot

start with four fish.

Meanwhile, family operation Hard Merchandise is the only boat

that has not landed a Keeper Bluefin this season.

All right. Well, this one's ready to go. All right.

I'll pick the bait this time.

Ooh, that looks like a tasty one.

I've had seasons where we didn't land a single Keeper and it was devastating

to work so hard for nothing.

All right, you can start on that.

There's no way I can let that happen this season.

What do you got going on in here?

That's either, is that your fish?

Yeah, that's our bait.

And then is that also your bait? Yup.

Most people, at the end of the week, they know a paycheck is coming.

We've worked just as hard,

but you can't count on that paycheck every week

to pay the bills, to feed your family.

This is how it's always been with my dad.

What's she saying?

She was seeing our bait. Oh.

She just wasn't sure.

My dad's under a lot of pressure right now, but it just takes landing that first Bluefin

of the season to start changing things in the right direction.

It's really a game of patience right now.

Come on.

The longer we go without a fish, the longer we go without a check.

There's a fish coming up. Coming up! Coming up.

Come on.

Come on, fish, bite it.

Bite me! Bite me!

Come on.

He's all over it. Which one? That inside one!

Come on!

Oh. Oh, we're on! We're on! We're on! We're on! We're on!

Yep, yep.

Got him, Joe? Not yet.

Is that him?

Yeah, it's him.

He just doesn't know he's hooked yet.

Come on, run.

Run away from me.

Usually a big fish like that will empty the reel. Run.

There's something definitely weird about him.

There you go. Yup.

Let's go, up to the fight holder.

Back it up. Back it up a little so we can ease it up.

Yup.

Okay, go ahead.

We're just gonna keep going slow and steady.

Hopefully, he's just so fat he can't swim very good.

Let me go look at the machine.

That mark is showing me an 800-pound class fish.

This could be a $15,000 or $20,000 paycheck.

Yeah, that's a tuna.

Good job.

It's a sea monster.

He just figured out he's hooked now after an hour.

I'll tell you one thing, this is a big fish.

Ready, Gel, you gonna get on him for a little, I'm gonna drive at him.

Me? Yup. Go ahead.

I'm gonna drive at him. Yeah, you. get on him.

It's all just pull down and reel.

Uh, it's, uh, all right, get going. You pull and reel, that's all.

I'm definitely nervous right now and I don't wanna do anything wrong.

Pull and reel when you have to, hon. Pull and reel.

This is a big fish, yeah.

But is it not tight enough?

No, it's fine. There you go.

All right, I gotcha. I gotcha. You got it? Okay.

Here you go. Yeah, I got it. Good job.

With all this talk about an 800-pound tuna, I'm not the one who wants to be

on the line right now being as inexperienced as I am.

The only way you're gonna get experience. Yeah.

Is to do it with us. Yeah, I know.

If I didn't have faith in you, I wouldn't give you a shot.

Thanks.

This jumbo fish could be Angelica's first.

We'll be here all night if we have to.

Gonna be here all night long.

It's like a stalemate.

Ready Joe? Yeah.

Just like we've been doing slow and steady even.

I'd really like to put this fish on the boat for the kids.

We'll all make a nice paycheck.

Come on, tuna.

We've been on this fish for four hours.

We need this fish. We're so far behind, so I'm hoping that we get this fish in soon.

Here it is, right on the screen.

That's a jumbo tuna mark.

I'm betting this is one of the biggest fish of the season.

He's trying to pull the boat upwind and up current.

We want him to do that.

That will tire him out.

But we're just gonna keep this slow, steady tension on that rod and hopefully over time,

it's gonna wear him down.

Come on, fish.

Wow.

This is a tough fish.

There's no magic, there's no secret, you just have to wait and not (bleep) up

and that's so stressful.

Doing great.

Good job. You got this.

I'm a little nervous honestly.

We've been on this fish for about seven hours.

The stakes are pretty high, we're still at 50 feet.

He's really not showing signs of getting tired and, um. And there he goes again.

And it's, uh, getting really frustrating. Yeah.

Entire header off the rod again. (bleep).

You're kidding me!

It's a really big one.

We got a quick look at him at the boat, but he's not done yet.

There's just no way to land this thing.

Can't put any more heat on it.

Can't budge it, but we really need it.

Here you go, Joe.

There he is.

Might get a shot at him, guys.

Reel, reel, reel.

Oh. Pulled the hook. Huh?

Pulled the hook. Ugh. (bleep)!

Well, that was a waste of a day.

Keep reeling.

Pulled the hook.

So much for a good season for us.

I was not prepared to be as emotionally attached as I was to a fish that I've never

met before in my life.

We did everything right and we still lost this fish.

Pulled the hook.

Seven and a half hours.

Had to be at least an 800-pounder.

Uh-oh.

That don't sound good.

No way.

When you're not catching fish, it just flat out stinks.

We've all had tough runs.

It comes with it, it's part of it.

You just got to keep going through the motions.

I know Dave's gonna get his. He's a good fisherman.

That sucks.

It's sad.

He needs every fish, man.

Holy (bleep)

Oh. Ouch.

That sucks. That's terrible. Wow.

Bummer.

(bleep).

When you lose a big fish after a long time, those ones haunt you for the rest of your life.

You guys ready to roll or what?

Yup.

I just wanna prove that we can lead the fleet and that we can take this thing

and that we can be a competitor.

No more middle of the pack. No more bottoming.

That's not happening this year.

Just keep on grinding, man, we're right there.

We got off to a great start this season as one of the top earning boats.

Right now, we're in second place, but we don't plan on staying there for long.

We've got my dad and my nephew Danny coming with us this trip.

What's up, gentlemen? Hey.

Yeah. What's going on, guys?

You bring some good luck, buddy?

Yeah, myself. Oh, yeah. (laughs)

How you doing? Get on.

Every time Daniel's onboard, we catch fish.

He's a very good luck charm to us.

Woo-ho!

You got him, Danny.

There's your first tuna, brother!

You got him, baby. Welcome aboard.

He wants to pull on one this year, too.

Yeah, you wanna turn the rod this year? Yeah.

You think you're capable of that?

Let me see your muscles.

Eh. Whoa. Wow.

The last two years I helped my uncles and my grandpa catch two big Bluefin,

but I never got to crank on the rod before.