Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks

Abandon all hope, he who enter here.

On this episode of Wicked Tuna Outer Banks...

Got 'em on! There they are! Woo!

When top captain Greg Mayer of the Fishin' Frenzy's

season is threatened by injury...

We may have caught the biggest fish of the season, but it kicked my ass.

Other skippers in the fleet...

There's a mark. Here they are.

See an opportunity...

Did you see that?

To strike.

Oh! It's taking a lot of line!

But can his inexperienced mates...

Fend off the competition?

We're just hoping we can stay ahead of everybody.

Or will another boat...

There he is! There he is! Oh, my God!

He's pulling us.

Run away...

There he goes! This is nuts.

There he is! There he is!

Get it off! Get it off! Don't let it bind like that.

We're in trouble here.

With the lead?

Yeah, buddy! Oh, yeah!

This is Wicked Tuna Outer Banks.

Look out, Frenzy! We're coming for the top spot.

Former southern champion Fishin' Frenzy leads the fleet for the first time

this season, but Hot Tuna ad Little Shell are in striking distance of the lead.

Meanwhile, the ill-fated Foolish Pleasures looks for its second fish of the season.

What's happening?

What's the word with Greg?

Uh, far as I know he's coming.

He was in pain yesterday, but he's coming.

The other day we caught the biggest fish of the season.

One, two, three.

Three.

And we're in first place for the first time this year.

Holy crap. -Woo!

That's a big fish, there. Oh, (bleep).

Unfortunately, while fighting the fish, Greg hurt his shoulder.

I can't do anything. I don't know what the hell it is.

We've finally gotten ourselves to the top, and now our season's in jeopardy.

There he is.

-Uh-oh. Our fearless leader.

He must be feeling a little bit better.

Uh, maybe not. I see the dogs.

I can't do it today. It's not very good.

I'm waiting on an MRI. I just really wanna go fishing, but.

I've never let anyone run my boat bluefin fishing.

It couldn't have a worse time to happen.

Right in the middle of the season.

But this is a critical point in the season and I don't have a lot of options right now.

All righty, well.

I'm a little surprised that Greg wants me and Dirty to go fishing without him.

Just don't let Nick move ahead of you.

It's a lot of extra pressure.

Keep up with me and I will see you.

We have got less than a $5,000 lead over the Hot Tuna.

This boat's got to keep fishing.

All right, Dirty. It's all ours.

All right.

We got a little surprise this morning.

Greg's gonna take the day off and Dirty and I are gonna go out there and see if we can

catch something by ourselves.

If we can get out and get back.

That's all I'm worried about right now.

We'll be fine.

There's a lot of pressure to not do anything wrong right now.

Whenever you're ready.

Clear.

Wish us luck. Well, they're off.

I know they can do it.

At least I hope they can.

I brought the paintbrush in case we scratch something.

Good idea.

Am I a bad person if that makes me really happy?

I'm behind the Hot Tuna and the Frenzy.

With Greg off the water, I think this is a chance that Little Shell could pull ahead.

He's unbelievable. He's a piece of work.

This is huge, you know, Billon and Jay are out here by themselves without Greg.

It's anybody's to take right now.

Nick on the Little Shell, I know he wants to take out Frenzy in the worst way,

but the Hot Tuna is here to play.

And it's gonna come down to the guy who makes the right turn of the wheel.

And we're just trying to make it happen.

We're only one fish away from taking that top spot.

Should I wear the hat?

There. Now we'll get a bite.

With Greg out of the picture, every boat in the fleet is thinking this just might give

the rest of the guys a little bit of an edge.

Come on, fish. Let's do this.

Any minute now.

Any minute now. It should happen.

Monkeys could fly out of my butt, too.

Uh-hmm.

If there's anybody that loves catching bluefins, it's Greg Mayer.

Obsessed.

I truly hope he's okay.

Your key player is gone.

And you just, you're making do with the team that you have on the floor.

Billon and Jay are gonna have a difficult time.

Greg is injured and can't use his arm because of his shoulder.

I know a thing or two about having to go to work with only one arm.

Greg, it ain't gonna hurt you. I've been doing it for years.

I don't know if Greg's in as much pain back on the dock as

we are out here not having a fish.

Man, I hope we get our shot.

Right now, we're a man down.

We're kind of playing defense.

We're just hoping we can stay ahead of everybody.

Come on, baby.

We need a damn fish.

We really need a fish on deck early today.

There's a deep mark. I know what's gonna happen.

If I go take a (bleep), we'll hook one.

This is interesting.

Now we got some fish on the screen.

Come on, fish, give us a break.

All right, bud.

Hook me a fish. -We got you covered, Cap.

See if we can get one to go.

Keep an eye on them tunas, boys.

Come on, big boy. Let's go.

-That's a tuna. That's a tuna, dude, it's got a tail on it, dude.

That was a bluefin.

Oh, they're blowing up right next to us.

Marking here.

We're (bleep) marking good every circle up there.

There's a mark. There's a mark right there.

Come on, baby.

Give us break. Big breakaway.

-Come on, baby. -Come on, fish. Where you at?

Whoa, we're on!

Is that the real deal?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah! Attaboy, yeah!

The quota's going fast and basically we're one rung up from the bottom of the ladder.

We've got to kick it in here and see if we can do some damage.

I've got something on here. Not sure what.

-Come on, baby. Come on, man.

Oh, there he goes! There he goes! Got 'em on!

There he goes, got him on!

Catch him up, guys. I'll be out in a minute.

-We're not gonna be satisfied until we've taken the lead from Frenzy.

We're gonna fish as hard as we can to make that possible.

Got 'em on! Look out, Frenzy!

We're coming for that top spot.

Hey, Brandan, come on, boys.

Let's send that Hot Tuna packing back to Gloucester, guys.

(bleep), man. All these slicks, you think you'd be, like, going off instantly.

Yeah.

All right, Gel. One engine.

We're gonna see him in a second. There he is. Joe, get your gaff ready.

-Yup. It's a, no, no, no, no, no.

Oh, (bleep). It's a baby bluefin.

Oh. See how he's got the Mackerel patting, Joe?

That's how you tell.

He's under 73 inches, we got to release him.

There he goes.

Little baby bluefin.

Not even close enough to really measure, but someday he'll grow up to be 1,000 pounder.

So far, no gold tickets.

-It's time for a new sheriff in town.

With the number one captain off the water, this is our shot.

We got a fish on early in the morning.

I don't wanna jinx it.

Still pulling hard there, bud. Pulling real hard.

All right, here's your first drop, Brandan.

-All right, I got it. There you go. All right, here he comes.

I can see the fish, but something ain't right.

He's wrapped up. Stop the bandit reel, Cliff.

The fish is getting close and we got a tangle on the greenstick.

I got the mainline in this hook here.

If we don't get these lines untangled, this fish could very easily come off.

Take this, Brandan.

-Yes, sir. All right, turn the bandit reel back on, Cliff.

There you go. We're clear now.

All right, let's get him. All right, here he is.

It's our chance, boys. Turn your bandit reel off.

-All right, boat's out of gear.

All right. Now, Brandan.

It's in the gill plate, you got to go!

Dart him! Good job, Brandan. Get a gaff.

Ugh!

Tail rope. Careful, let's not lose him.

That's money in the bank, baby.

It'll pay the bills!

NICK (over radio): We're coming for the top spot.

Oh, God, please no.

NICK (over radio): Billon, take notes. This is how you captain a boat.

Cringe-worthy. Staying at the top is just as hard, if not harder,

than getting to the top.

-We caught a fish and it feels good.

Quota's disappearing.

This is one more for Little Shell and that's one more that somebody else can't catch.

All right, pull it in.

Okay, one, two, three.

Yeah! Nice. -Let's go, team Little Shell!

84 incher. -All right! -All right.