Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks

Uh-oh.

On this episode of Wicked Tuna Outer Banks...

There is fish everywhere.

Get ready, hold on!

Every bluefin caught...

Pretty work, boys.

Has taken a toll...

That's a big fish.

On the Outer Banks quota.

Woo, now that's the meat.

And now...

The fat lady has not sung but she's mic-checking.

It's a race against the clock...

As long as that thing right there is up, I got to try.

And each other.

Now, it's a showdown for the lead...

I want him worried.

We don't wanna fall short.

To catch in the final days...

What the (bleep) are we doing wrong here?

Before time...

It's all coming to an end soon.

Runs out...

Get some of that, Hot Tuna!

This is...

Go, go, go, go, go.

Wicked Tuna Outer Banks.

Any day now they're gonna tell us,

"That's it, boys. It's over."

The final days of the season have Southern vessel,

Fishin' Frenzy, holding just a $1,000 lead on their Northern rival,

Hot Tuna, and Southern boat, Little Shell.

And the rest of the fleet looks for their opportunity to change the game.

Oh, God.

I hope we can get this done this morning.

That looks sweet.

At 15 knots?

The old fast lane.

After last season, I've had one goal and one goal only,

that's to end this season on top.

We're only $1,000 ahead of TJ and Nick.

These last few days, whoever can catch the most quality fish is gonna win this thing.

-I mean, there's a good chance we're gonna get the word tomorrow or the next day,

so we're out here trying to catch one more while we can.

It's all, it's all coming to an end soon.

All it takes is one great big one, and either TJ or Nick could take

the lead like that.

And TJ definitely looks like he's chasing fish.

He's up there running to the north at 14 knots.

He ran up there for something.

The clock is ticking on everybody's boat.

When you're all fishing the same area, you got to play defense.

It's like driving a car, you know.

A guy gets in your lane, you got to, you got to rub him a little bit.

Rubbing's racing.

And it's the same with bluefin tuna fishing.

If I wanna get a pass, I got to turn and burn and get in there.

I can't just, you know, let it go.

We got to shove him right off of him.

GREG (over radio): Not if I get across there first.

NICK (over radio): Just go ahead and try, big boy.

Come on, baby.

They're crashing over here, TJ, up to the right.

What?

They're, like, directly off the side of the boat; they're crashing.

They're crashing. See them? Right there.

Second place is not exactly where we wanna be, so it's definitely a little

frustrating to be behind the Frenzy with only a few days left in the season.

There's that little slick-kind-of-looking thing.

They're right in the middle of that.

After finishing last place last season, it would be amazing to be the first

Northern boat to finish on top of the leaderboard in the Outer Banks.

It's a good sign. It's a fishy morning already.

We're gonna get them. We're gonna get them.

You out here, Dave? Dave, you seeing this?

They're all above us.

Oh, oh, right here, right here.

TJ (over radio): Let's get a few to the north before this thing's over.

32, like, 72 and 30.

TJ has made about 20 more thousand dollars than me.

$20,000 in my household would go a long way.

I need a bite, there's no holds barred.

We're running 109 octane now.

Show me the money.

10:00, not far from us.

We're about 32 grand behind the dirty, red boat.

You don't have to be a mathematician to do the numbers.

We got a lot of catching up to do.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I see them. I see them.

Oh, yeah, right there.

We can drag over that, Joe?

It's gonna (bleep) explode.

Nick, they're busting the water behind us!

Straight behind us. Just turn right around. Go right down your ball.

Look at them back there. Look at them throwing water.

Yeah. Hang on, boys.

(bleep), oh man, right off the bow.

They just (bleep) blew up.

Tunas are crashing them, dude.

Go right, we're a little bit wide.

Pull the stick right over top of them.

We're desperate as hell to finish strong here.

Foolish Pleasures has got to put up or shut up.

Desperate times take desperate measures.

This is the zone. Definitely the zone, man.

Nothing.

I'm running out of time here, dude.

I'm running out of time.

I can't worry about who's winning.

I know that I'm not doing so good and I need one bad.

That's the only thing I'm worried about right now, is trying to get myself in

position to catch another fish.

Ugh. Somebody is gonna catch the next one.

I'd really like it to be us.

So would everybody else that's out here though.

Man, they're busting over there. Everywhere.

You're good, bud.

Keep going forward and I'll tell you when she comes tight.

Here they come.

Come on, baby, just takes one, just take one!

Man, these Southern boys are swarming in on us.

Bro, it is game on right now.

Oh, my God, get ready, get (bleep) ready.

Oh, there they are. There they are, 35 to 40.

All right. Oh, yeah. There he is, right low!

Got them on.

Got them on, piled on it!

We're on!

I don't know which way to turn.

I'm gonna keep her walking.

We're only $1,000 behind the Frenzy.

That's, that's nothing. That's less than a fish.

Here they come again. Here's the mark.

Deep, a little bit deep.

Greg has won this thing three times.

But I was with him, so I won too.

There ain't nothing like victory, nothing.

I think we both wanna taste that victory again.

Come on, Cliff, they gonna come.

Here they come.

They want it, come on, baby!

Come on, man.

There he is! Bingo, woo.

All right, get your thing, Brandan.

Good job.

Nice fish, are your hydros on?

They're on, we're on here.

I got you, I got you, put her in gear.

Burning us down here.

Little Shell just hooked up.

Hope he loses it.

Oh, come on, baby. Stay on there.

Beautiful.

Drag going out. We got us a bite.

Billon's on the pole right now.

Hopefully this is the one.

Acting kind of funky.

Tight one minute, slack the next.

He's on there.

There's a lot of tide.

That's what's going on here now.

I figured.

It's not easy when you're battling a fish in the tide.

The fish is getting pushed one way and you're getting pushed another.

Every move you make is a chance to lose that fish.

Come on, baby, stay on there.

That was a nice fish, man.

I saw him come out of the water.

I saw him too. Pretty work.

I'm gonna take her out of gear.

Yeah, just get, do what you got to do.

He's still burning me down, get that rig out of the way.

All right. Woo, he's burning me down.

It's a nice one, dude.

Let's just take out, oh, look at him dragging the ball up the sea.

Okay. Get over to us, so, if we can get one before the Frenzy,

it's gonna put the pressure on them.

He's gonna have a big shiver go down his backbone, and that's just what I want.

I want him worried about the Little Shell.

Keep your eye on that ball.

Yes, sir.

He's on the front one, so we might have us a chance here.

Yeah, we was on that number five, I think.

It was a nice fat fish, dude.

I saw him, he's a big bastard.

He is a nice one.

This might be our hundred-incher, might help us.

Well, let's not talk about it, let's get him.

Damn, that's better.

I feel like we get a fish on and we do everything right, we'll get him,

but there's always that one chance.

You're right, we're in high gear.

It, it's coming, it's coming.

Not easy, but I don't think that fish ain't stronger than that crimp, you know.

Don't think that little knick or that chafe won't give.

Never underestimate your opponent.

Dude, look at him go.

Not only do we want this fish to put us ahead of Frenzy,

but we got families back home that depend on these paychecks,

so we desperately need this fish.