Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks

Pa-pow! We got him.

Northern boat Hot Tuna is having the comeback season of their lives.

Woo.

Another one baby. Yeah.

But the southern fleet is determined to take them down.

He's huge! Gonna be a big fish.

Come on, baby!

And when two monster fish.

Big fish, big bite.

Maybe the biggest one I've ever seen.

And their giant paychecks.

Baby. Woo.

We got 'em.

Blow the season up. Woo.

What the hell is that? Look at him dragging 'em!

What is that? Look at that bird go!

I need some help, now. No. No. Brandan, I got the gaff.

Who will prevail?

Time is not on our side right now.

Got 'em on, baby! Woo.

And who will collapse?

I could be done for the season.

Now we're taking line, Joe!

This is, (laughs) Go pelican!

Thank you, Jesus.

Look at that tuna! Far and away, biggest ever.

Northern boat Hot Tuna continues its domination in $4,000 lead

over southern vessel Little Shell.

And former champions Fishin' Frenzy and Reels of Fortune are also within striking distance.

While southern boats, Foolish Pleasures and Doghouse run at the back of the pack.

Jig 'em up, Jarrett.

I'm working on it.

Come on, baby.

Got a little sunlight left.

About 20 minutes.

Just trying to zone in on where guys are seeing stuff, where the mark is.

We have not gotten the mark we wanna see.

Fingers crossed. We don't have much time left.

All it takes is one.

It is what it is. Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.

We've been in the lead for quite a few days now.

But we know that if we don't catch a bluefin today, another boat will

and they'll move ahead of us in the earnings.

Where they at, Reba?

Huh, where they at?

We've come so far after ending last season at the bottom of the fleet,

we can't let up now.

You got any kind of mark over there, Nick?

Little Shell is right off our bow.

Falcon and Pinwheel are out here, even Fishin' Frenzy's out late.

So, they haven't caught today either.

Nobody's hiding from anyone tonight.

No, I seen 'em, you know, five or ten minutes ago, but I haven't seen nothing.

Sick. TJ: We had one connection and two misses and I'm pretty sick too.

The Hot Tuna's catching some fish this year, but this is his fifth year down here

and this is anytime he's ever shown any initiative.

So, I'm not gonna judge him on that.

I'm judging him on the other four years he didn't do (bleep).

Oh, I know we had our shots.

What are you gonna do?

I wanna make a connection.

I wanna make a connection with the tuna. Hell yeah, dude.

Like a hundred-inch bluefin.

We don't even know what that's like anymore. We need like four of 'em.

The quota of 39 metric tons of bluefin tuna is dwindling fast.

Time is our enemy right now.

Ay, ay, ay.

This might not happen.

There's four boats ahead of us and I'm just not sure if we're gonna be able to make up for lost time.

At least a northern boat's leading the fleet right now, even if it is the Hot Tuna.

I'd rather it be us on the Pinwheel, but hopefully, we can stay out here tonight,

get a fish, and catch up.

Running out of time, Duff-Duff.

We're running out of time.

There is the Pinwheel.

See if Duff wants to come over for dinner.

There a northern boat leading the fleet, the Hot Tuna.

We're almost five grand behind.

That could be one fish, but if we don't catch, we're gonna fall further behind.

Oh, let's get a big bite right now, come on.

We need a southern boat to get back on top.

It needs to be the Fishing Frenzy.

We're gonna stick it out till we get him.

That must be Merch there again.

The moon's good, everything's good.

We should (bleep) be snapping.

We've only caught three keeper bluefin tuna, but that's a lot better than catching zero,

which I've done the last two seasons down here.

I'm just happy my kids are fine, the boat's running great now, and it's a nice night.

Do this till dark and we'll make a couple drifts and make a decision.

Okay.

Come on, baby.

That's a mark of 'em that might bite, man.

Markin'. Jig it, Bubby.

They're jigging perfect. I dropped it low gear. You need to jig a little bit.

(bleep). Things are bouncing perfect.

Here they are.

There's the mark, Brandan. Come on, fish.

Come on, baby. Come on, man.

What's his name on We got some marks here, guys.

Come on, baby!

We're marking the out of 'em.

I would jig it. I'm the one marking. You guys should jig it.

Oh, there he is! There he is!

There's two of 'em. Two of 'em.

Got 'em on, Nick. TJ just got bit.

I don't think the Hot Tuna's gonna keep this lead very long.

I'm gonna take it from 'em come hell or high water.

Oh, boy. This blows nuts.

You still there? I don't know.

I don't know. Feels like they're gone.

They're gone? Yup.

Bubby, let me see. Watch out! Get on there for a second.

I think he's gone.

(bleep)(bleep). Oh, maybe not.

He was all over that (bleep) thing.

There was two of 'em, Jarrett. There was two of them.

They're still there. They're still there.

I bet they are still there.

(bleep) start the damn thing.

Oh, boy. We suck.

Got a bluefin on.

Thought they were gone, thought they wrecked the rig.

There was two big explosions, two fish hit it.

There's a lot of weight here. I think there's two.

Last ditch effort right here.

Hopefully they're legal. Come on, baby!

All we need is 73 inches, that's it.

Seventy-three inches Come on.

Got to check the lines.

How are the baits doing?

Dude, I think I just felt the tuna hit it.

Bounce off of it? Yeah.

Really, he's right on it like that?

Oh, they're all over it.

Oh. Got 'em on! All right.

This (bleep) too easy. I could catch ten of them tonight.

Reel. Reel. Reel. Reel. Reel.

I could catch 10 of them tonight if you want.

Yeah, here we go, bro.

Ow.

It's him, bro. It's him. Headshakes, woo! Banger.

Come on, baby! This is what we want. We want a big one.

We've got him close and he seems to be getting tired.

Just wanna take our time with him.

Yeah, he's legal.

Careful, let's not lose him here.

There he is. There he is. Here he comes.

Watch it. Get ready. Get the dart ready. He's coming.

No, no. He's gonna come over on this side, TJ.

Right here, he's right here, he's right below us.

Right there.

Got him! Get a gaff.

On my left.

Woo! It's a big one. Get the tail rope.

My right. Got 'em. Got 'em.

Yeah! Woo. Woo.

Pelicans are flying home again baby. Woo. Woo.

Woo-hoo-hoo.

Nice work, boys. Nice work! Woo.

We waited until the last second for that one and we got it.

Woo. The pelicans are flying west, baby.

Hot Tuna just landed another fish. Dammit!

Oh, I really wish we had caught a big, we had a big bite today and caught a bluefin.

We're gonna wrap it up, call it a night.

No bluefins today.

Hopefully we can get what we want tomorrow.

You're either the windshield or you're the bug.

Nice fish. Woo. Yeah.

Look at the color on that. Pretty, he is.

That's a beautiful fish. Woo.

The pelicans are going west, baby.

Woo. Go pelicans.

We're gonna stay at the top of the fleet with this bluefin.

I couldn't be any happier.

Not only am I getting paychecks for my crew, but we're proving to everyone that we're kickass fishermen.

All right. Let's see what we got.

Ninety-two on the button.

Woo. Woo.

Not bad for a dumb pelican.

Yeah, we thought it was a short. We did. All right.

I'm gonna see if I can get us back before midnight, man.

I'm gonna try my best, but I can't promise you guys. All right.

We're in a rush against time now. We got to get in.

If we don't get in by midnight, we cannot fish tomorrow.

We are on fire.

Come on, Duff-Duff. We really need this one, bro.

Woo.

Time is not on our side right now.

If we don't get this fish in before midnight, it's gonna take us out of the game for tomorrow.

We got to get this fish quick.

Such a painful season, we're in such a slump. We need this fish, bad.

Dammit! Come off? That one too? Pulled the hook.

Dammit, man.

I just crimped that one.

It's like tackle failures, broken lines.

We can't win.

We are within a minute or two of making this landing.

That's how close this is. There's no doubt about it.

What's up, Scotso? What's going on?