NARRATOR: All season...
TYLER: Yeah, buddy! Woo!
NICK: Yeah!
BRANDAN: Yes!
CLIFF: Woo!
CHARLIE: Awesome!
STEVE: Better to be
lucky than good, baby.
NARRATOR: It's been the closest
race in Outer Banks history.
DUFFY: Another whopper!
GREG: Yes!
NICK: Hey, we're coming
after you, Frenzy.
CHARLIE: Wouldn't it be funny
if the littlest boat
in the fleet won the thing?
NARRATOR: And now...
DUFFY: Stick him!
TYLER: It's anybody's game.
MIKE: Whoa.
TJ: Got 'em on the stick, baby!
JASON: Hey, here we go.
GREG: We're tight,
double-header.
CAINE: Woo.
NARRATOR: With only two days
left of fishing...
NICK: Oh, boy.
TYLER: It's over tomorrow night.
ED: It's a real close race,
we're gonna be right there
in the pack.
BRANDAN: It all ends today.
NARRATOR: And the front-runner
battling a breakdown...
CHARLIE: Woo.
STEVE: No oil pressure.
CHARLIE: Oh, man, this could be
the end of our season.
NARRATOR: It's a race against
the clock and each other.
TYLER: Right now,
it's our competition to win.
BRITTON: You want to see
what somebody's made of?
Tell him he's got a handful
of hours to make a living.
NARRATOR: To finish on top.
CAINE: There he is!
Come on. Come on.
NARRATOR: This is...
GREG: Damn it.
DUFFY: Oh!
NARRATOR:
The season finale of...
BRITTON: Woo!
NARRATOR:
Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks.
With only two days left until
the bluefin season closes
and the fleet's top earner,
Reels of Fortune,
currently stuck at the dock
with engine problems,
northern boat Pinwheel
and the Southern fleet
are all fighting
for the top spot.
Meanwhile, Northerner Hot Tuna
struggles to stay in the race.
[music]
[birds squawking]
[music]
CLIFF: I keep seeing birds.
See all them birds?
NICK: On the hunt.
There's birds and porpoises
and bait on top here, boys.
Where there's bait,
there's got to be bluefin.
Come on, meat. We need you.
Two days and we're gonna be
out of a job.
The tension level is very high.
I got three families to support.
NICK: So, we got to
find these tunas
and we got to put 'em
on this boat.
Porpoises, birds,
a lot of signs of life here.
The Reels of Fortune is
broken down at the dock.
Everybody is gunning
for that top spot.
If he's not here,
there might be a good chance
for the rest of us to move up.
That's a lot of tunas there.
[beeping]
Marking the piss out of them
right now.
[beeping]
Damn, porpoise and the tunas.
The tuna are showing up.
They're all around,
I seen 'em everywhere busting!
TYLER: Yo, we got to go.
Line them up.
I'm seeing nothing here, and
Nick's seeing the mother lode.
Look, I want to bring 'em in,
you go right there.
I'm gonna see where
this 80 and 14 is.
But I know we're not the only
boat that's hearing the report.
I'm out of here.
I want to be the first
Northern boat to take the title,
so we got to get
over there fast.
Two days left,
it's anyone's race, you know.
Little Shell sees them jumping
all over the place.
Good marks, that's where
we need to be.
We're not marking them
where we were last night.
You got the stick ready?
DUFFY: Working on it, bro.
GREG: We got one mile.
Get all your stuff ready.
I don't want Pinhead
beating us to the bite.
We've dominated the fleet
for the last three years.
I don't want this streak to end.
It's make or break.
If we catch one good fish,
we could shake up
this whole competition.
NICK: They're still
coming across there.
There's more marks.
[beeping]
That's 200 feet of fish.
CLIFF: Get 'em pissed off.
BRANDAN: Get 'em dancing, baby,
get 'em dancing.
NICK: Here we go!
Here's the meat.
It don't get no prettier
than that.
That's epic, epic meat.
BRANDAN: They're all
underneath the boat.
CLIFF: That's a nice tuna.
NICK: Yeah, a big one.
Dang, look at that tuna.
CLIFF: Come on, meat!
[snap]
NICK: Got him on! There he goes.
Look it there, boys. Uh!
Taking off.
CLIFF: Woo-hoo!
NICK: Bigger ones, you know,
they're smart.
Why don't you let me
hop on it, Cliff?
Let's bring in this fish.
We need this b*stard.
Oh, boy, we need him.
Frenzy just set out off her bow.
We had a bite
and the new captain
trying to play by the rules,
trying to report my bites,
and you know,
so I don't get shunned.
Oh, boy.
Hope we get this one.
Just right.
CLIFF: The name of
this game for us,
with there only being
a few days of the season left,
is for us to be able to get
this fish, get it in the boat,
and get back on another one,
because it's all numbers.
We need as many fish
as we can possibly get
at this point in time.
[snap]
NICK: Ooh. Damn it.
CLIFF: Oh, no.
NICK: It's come off.
Check. Nope. Broke him off.
BRANDAN: Damn it!
NICK: And here comes
more damn competition.
[music]
GREG: Wow. Rookie move.
You never call in the fleet
before you get yours.
JASON: Greg, right here, Greg,
Greg, right here to the right.
Right here to the right.
BILLON: It just came up, boss.
GREG: Alright, got it.
[beeping]
There it is.
Wish me luck.
They're busting off
our rigger here.
[beeping]
DALE: Nick wasn't lying,
the tunas are everywhere.
They're busting right here.
ED: Wow.
DALE: Rolling on 'em right here.
These are big fish busting
all around the boat.
Each of them is worth
Landing just one of these fish
could put us in a great position
to take the lead.
ED: Psssh! Come on, long rigger.
[beeping]
BRITTON: Alright, coming
into the mark here now.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, look at them.
They're coming right there,
see, look at that.
GRAHAM: There you go.
BRITTON: Oh, come on, please!
GRAHAM: Come on, come on.
BRITTON: Everybody out here
wants a chance
at these big fish.
I'm praying that
we can land one.
CAINE: There's a pack of them
right over there on that chain.
BRITTON: Come on, boy, come on.
Please, Lord, come on.
[beeping]
TJ: There's some marks there.
Probably a dozen boats
fishing at the moment.
There's a lot of boats here,
the fish are being skittish.
Right now we're about 20 grand
behind the fleet's top earners.
But catching two big tuna
could get us out of the hole
and back in the race.
MIKE: Come on, big boy.
Let's go.
TJ: The fish are here.
The fish are biting.
GREG: Come on, baby.
Come on, baby.
[beeping]
JASON: Hey, here we go.
GREG: Here we go.
JASON: Alright.
[grunting]
GREG: Double.
BILLON: Come on, baby.
This is fishing.
Doubled up, baby.
GREG: Oh, good, we're tight,
double-header.
TYLER: Greg just
hooked a double.
We just want a bite.
Must be going over the mark.
They stopped right there.
TYLER: We're on.
DUFFY: Here we go. Fish on!
DUFFY: Oh, yeah.
TYLER: Got 'em on.
TYLER: Pow goes the breaker!
GREG: Tyler's on. We got to land
both of these fish, guys.
BILLON:
Alright, alright, alright.
JASON: Alright,
alright, alright.
BILLON: Hopefully everything
will work out here.
TYLER: We got a big, big bite
on the stick.
Time to go to work.
Ready to go
a million miles an hour.
Let it go.
Just let it free spool.
Don't hold him.
He's got the ball and the bird
down right now,
so there's a lot of pressure
on this fish.
So, we're not putting
any on our end.
We don't want to break any hooks
or have anything come apart.
I mean, right now,
we got a lot at stake.
If we can get this fish
and get in,
we're still in the competition.
BILLON: Doubled up, baby.
BILLON: You got two fish on,
you know,
you really got to pay attention.
Make sure everything's
like you want it.
Right now,
we got one down and tight,
and we got the other one
stretched out.
So, sometimes they like
to go together,
and that's a recipe
for disaster.
GREG: Oh, wow.
JASON: Damn it, he's running.
GREG: Go! Keep going.
Keep, go, go.
I'm gonna see if I can pull
your fish down here, Billon.
BILLON: Okay.
BILLON: Kick the boat.
Kick the boat.
[snap]
GREG: Jay, do you have him?
Is he still on?
GREG: Son of a [bleep].
GREG: Pinwheel's got
a fish on right now.
We've got to catch this fish.
I'm not gonna get outfished
by a punk from New England.
Alright, here we go.
Go to work on this one.
Pulled the first one off.
It's tough, you got two
big fish like that,
and one of them is out so far.
You can only put so much drag
on them and we pulled the hook.
Billon, we have to
land this one.
BILLON: Gaining
real steady here.
DUFFY: Yeah, we're finally
gaining on him.
TYLER: Just keep pulling.
DUFFY: Alright.
TYLER: Our bird and our ball
finally emerged,
which means we're starting
to get close to this fish,
and it's getting tired.
It was holding that stuff
underwater,
and now it can't
do that anymore.
We're getting close.
Right now there's a lot
on the line here.
Greg's hooked up,
and we're hooked up.
And with the fleet leader out,
whoever lands their fish
can take over the top spot.
Got to get this fish.
JASON: Come on, baby!
TYLER: Woo!
DUFFY: Hey!
TYLER: We need this fish bad.
[music]
[music]
TYLER: Right now, there's a lot
on the line here.
Greg's hooked up,
and we're hooked up.
And with the fleet leader out,
whoever lands their fish
can take over the top spot.
Got to get this fish.
JASON: Come on, baby.
GREG: We got one on here,
let's go to work on this.
You ready?
We need to land this fish,
or we've got no chance
of taking the lead.
JASON: There he is, on top.
BILLON: Oh, baby, come on.
Oh, beautiful.
GREG: Don't back up to him.
BILLON: Glowin'.
GREG: Get the gaff ready.
No, you need a tail gaff.
Alright, take yours out, Billon.
There you go. Tail rope
on my side, right here.
BILLON: Got her.
JASON: Woo!
GREG: Then pull him
right through.
JASON: Okay, you're out, Billon.
BILLON: I'm out.
JASON: Come through
the door with it.
GREG: Come on, Billon.
Help us out.
JASON: There we go.
BILLON: Here we go.
JASON: Alright. Nice fish.
That's a full-grown one
there, Cap.
[laughs]
How much?
GREG: 105.
JASON: Nice.
BILLON: Pretty, man.
Look at that color.
GREG: Wow, man.
That's a beautiful fish.
JASON: Yeah.
I smell a fourth championship.
[laughs]
DUFFY: There he is.
You got me over there?
Oh, my God.
We're all tangled up.
TYLER: You got to handline
this [bleep].
DUFFY: I got him.
TYLER: Big bluefin.
DUFFY: Oh, got you.
Throw the dart, throw the dart!
DUFFY: Nice, T.
TYLER: Got him!
TYLER: Whew! Tail gaff.
TYLER: Oh, my God.
Huge fish!
Woo! A behemoth.
An absolute behemoth.
DUFFY: Yeah, baby!
TYLER: Yeah, buddy!
Woo! Yes!
DUFFY: Game-changer.
TYLER: Huge game-changer.
Let's put him aboard.
TYLER: Ha ha!
DUFFY: Hey hey!
TYLER: Butterball on deck.
It's a great-looking fish, bud.
DUFFY: Beautiful.
TYLER: Let's measure him, bro,
let's measure him.
DUFFY: 99, alright, dude.
TYLER: We're going to market.
DUFFY: Alright!
TYLER: Woo!
DUFFY: Back at it.
TYLER: Welcome aboard, buddy,
welcome aboard.
And tomorrow's the last day.
The fat lady, she's warmed up,
she's gonna be singing
loud and clear tomorrow.
But this one could put us
in first place.
Starting to look good
on the Wheel.
Yeah, buddy.
No better time for it.
We really needed
this fish today.
[music]
CHARLIE: Boys are on the fish,
and here we are
stuck fixing this thing.
I am literally a nervous wreck.
My oil pressure's down,
and I don't know why that is.
This late in the game,
could be the end of our season.
There's my partner.
Let's get this thing started.
You ready, Steve?
STEVE: Yes, sir.
CHARLIE: Steve got us
new filters, new oil.
Hopefully, that's all we need
to get out there
and defend our number one spot.
Alright, baby.
[engine struggling]
Please, Lord, let me go fishing.
[music]
BUBBA: What's up?
GREG: Alright, Bubba. We got
a fat one here today for you.
BUBBA: Alright,
let's get him up, then.
GREG: Okay.
This whole competition's gonna
come down to dollars and cents.
With the right fish we can come
from behind and win this thing.
Alright, Bubba. How big is he?
BUBBA: 479 pounds dressed.
JASON: Yeah.
GREG: 480 dresser, man.
That's the way to go.
Buyers will pay top dollar
for fish that are rich in color
and glistening with fat.
Having the first place boat
off the water
creates a huge opportunity
for us right now.
But Pinwheel's got a fish,
he said it's a big one.
So we need a good price per
pound in order to move ahead.
You got a nice fish there.
What do you got for us?
BUBBA: This is a very big fish.
The color's pretty good in it.
Got fat all the way through.
GREG: It does have fat.
BUBBA: Yeah. Good core.
It's actually a really
nice-looking core.
Good color on it.
GREG: Good.
So what do you got for us?
BUBBA: $16 a pound.
GREG: You know what?
That's not a bad way to end up.
JASON: Bam.
GREG: Cool.
GREG: Bubba, I appreciate it.
We'll come back and
see you tomorrow.
BUBBA: Alright.
BILLON: Nice.
GREG: Let's get
a fourth title here.
NARRATOR: With a little over
a day until the season closes,
Fishin' Frenzy's almost
eight grand payday
knocks the grounded
Reels of Fortune
out of the number one spot.
Meanwhile, Pinwheel have
a big fish on board
they have yet to weigh in.
[music]
TJ: That can't be.
MIKE: I think it is.
TJ: You just got to
give him credit,
because he's just sticking to
what he knows how to do best.
BRITTON: He's on a roll, boy,
I'm telling you.
DALE: Where'd he come from?
That [bleep] back in action.
CHARLIE: The little engine
that could, still chugging.
[laughs]
ED: Here comes Griff,
pops out of nowhere.
TJ: Wow, he came right back out,
holy [bleep].
CLIFF: Look, there's Charlie.
BRANDAN: He's got blood
in his eyes.
TYLER: I have to give it
to Griff,
he just shook things up
big time.
CHARLIE: I've used a lot
of my luck up for today, man.
Hopefully not all of it.
I can't explain how happy I am
that Steve and I
got my boat fixed up.
Now we've got chance to catch
some more fish,
make some more money
before the season ends.
We have a second chance
to take back the lead.
DALE: I'll tell you one thing,
that guy knows how
to make an entrance.
NICK: Still anybody's game.
Just got to get a fish.
TYLER: I want a bite.
Need a bite bad.
[beeping]
Marking 'em. Here we go.
[beeping]
CHARLIE: Here's the mark!
Here's the mark!
You've got to get
a bite there, Steve.
[beeping]
[rod snaps]
STEVE: There we go, Griff.
CHARLIE: Is he on there?
STEVE: Yeah.
CHARLIE: Huh?
STEVE: We got him on.
CHARLIE: Got him on.
TYLER: Griff's tight.
We need to catch another fish
to stay in this thing.
We got a good fish on board,
but that's not gonna be enough
to keep the pressure
on the Southern boats.
God!
GREG: He's here to
finish the season.
That's one more boat
we got to worry about.
[bleep]
We got to get a bite.
Come on, baby. Come on, baby!
BRITTON: Midnight
tomorrow night.
It's gonna be over.
CAINE: And we're gonna get us
some fish today.
GRAHAM: I mean, there's tuna all
over the place caught out here.
You would think one tuna
would find us.
BRITTON: Griff's fighting one
up ahead.
[beeping]
Looks like some of them
are coming our way.
[beeping]
Come on. We need a bite.
[beeping]
[reel unspooling]
CAINE: Oh, oh, oh.
Got him on!
BRITTON: We're on.
GREG: I don't believe
this [bleep].
CAINE: Whoa.
GRAHAM: It's a big one, Shack,
he's taking a lot of line.
BRITTON: Got to get
that line back.
We don't have time to lose her.
Come on, boy.
[laughs]
[beeping]
TJ: There's some marks there.
[beeping]
We're in dead last place, and
time's running out on us fast.
I'm hoping we can
get a fish here.
I don't want to end the season
behind every single boat
in the fleet.
Wow.
Huge mark.
[beeping]
Come on, tuna, come on.
[beeping]
Jig the stick, Bubby.
[snap]
MIKE: Oh, there he is.
TJ: Got 'em on the stick, baby,
got 'em on the stick.
NICK: Oh, boy.
Boats are calling in
their hookups and...
MIKE: Got 'em on the stick.
TJ: It's on now.
BRITTON: Caine, he's running.
CAINE: Taking her, son.
He's gonna strip us.
GRAHAM: Come on, Caine,
you got this.
Put some more drag on it.
CAINE: That's all we got.
Go to reverse.
Go put her in reverse.
[music]
TJ: We finally, finally got
a shot at a paycheck here.
And there's no time left in
the season for second chances.
Let's pull this one on the boat.
MIKE: Feels like a nice one.
TJ: We needed this one, baby.
TJ: Just get him on the deck
and we're in the money.
MIKE: It's a shark.
Damn it.
It was a sharky.
TJ: Let's release it.
When we hook up to a shark,
we carefully release them
back into the ocean to help
maintain a balanced ecosystem.
But, man, with only
a day left to fish,
we really needed that
to be a bluefin.
[slam]
I wanted that one.
CAINE: Yeah. I need some help.
Ready?
Back up.
BRITTON: Watch out
for that line!
When that line is
stretched out...
Stay on it, Caine,
stay with him.
...if you don't get
the fish stopped
or you don't get some line
back quick...
Please don't lose that fish.
...it's pa-yow, game over,
thousands of dollars gone.
CAINE: Got to hurry up.
GRAHAM: Back up.
Keep backing up.
Keep backing up. Back up.
BRITTON: I'm backing up!
CAINE: Oh, my God.
We're out of drag.
Holy [bleep].
He's getting away,
he's getting away! Na na na na!
GRAHAM: Back off.
CAINE: Back, back, back,
back, back.
Oh, my God, we're down to
the wraps. Got to hurry up.
GRAHAM: Back up.
Keep backing up. Back up.
BRITTON: I'm backing up!
CAINE: Oh, my God.
We're out of drag.
Holy [bleep].
He's getting away,
he's getting away! Na na na na!
BRITTON: Get some line back,
Caine.
Don't let her come off the hook.
Turn that drag up
if you need to!
GRAHAM: Come on, baby,
we need you.
CAINE: We're good, we're good,
we're good.
GRAHAM: Good job.
CAINE: We've been out here
day and night.
You know, you're tired?
Suck it up.
CAINE: Woo.
CHARLIE: Come on, baby.
STEVE: There's your color
back there.
CHARLIE: We've got a really good
fish on right now,
and with the time running out,
we could take back the lead.
CHARLIE: Is he?
STEVE: Oh, yeah.
STEVE: Oh, he come off.
CHARLIE: Damn.
Are you kidding me?
God dang.
We only have one day
left in the season.
This is, without a doubt,
the worst time to lose a fish.
This is devastating.
We're in trouble, Steve.
CAINE: Forward.
Forward. Forward.
[engine rumbling]
GRAHAM: Yeah, there he is
right there on top.
That thing's huge, dude.
CAINE: He's going
the other way now.
BRITTON: We've been on this fish
for two hours now.
She's a really big fish
and she's still fighting hard.
It's gonna be a very bitter
pill to swallow
right here at the end
of the season
if we lose this fish
after fighting her so long.
CAINE: Forward,
forward, forward.
GRAHAM: Nice tuna. Woo!
Keep cranking, keep cranking,
keep cranking.
Crank, crank, crank,
crank, crank, crank.
Oh, oh, oh.
CAINE: Oh, no.
GRAHAM: There he is. Tough fish.
CAINE: Very tough.
Big freakin' fish.
Get ready, get ready,
get ready, get ready.
Get ready.
BRITTON: Throw the dart!
There you go.
GRAHAM: Let's get the gaff here.
CAINE: Got him?
GRAHAM: Yup.
CAINE: Got him.
BRITTON: Nice fish.
Alright, come on.
Come on, boys, pull.
Son of a g*n, man.
CAINE: That's the biggest,
holy cow.
GRAHAM: Good God.
[laughs]
GRAHAM: Good God.
Holy cow.
[laughing]
BRITTON: This is by far
the largest fish
the Doghouse has seen
this season.
What a blessing.
CAINE: Look at that.
BRITTON: 105.
CAINE: 105.
GRAHAM: It's a pretty fish,
dude.
That's beautiful.
BRITTON: That's where it comes
from, buddy, right there.
I thank you. Thank you.
CAINE: One more, guys.
Great season, my friends.
Big freakin' fish.
BRITTON: Thank you, Jesus. Woo!
It's been a very up or down
season for the Doghouse.
I feel extremely blessed to be
coming in with a fish like this
at the end of the season.
CAINE: Way to overcome every
obstacle put in front of us.
BUBBA: How's everything?
BRITTON: I think this is gonna
be the nicest fish
of the season for us.
BUBBA: Perfect.
Let's get it up and we'll see
what it looks like.
[music]
BRITTON: What do you got, Bubba?
BUBBA: 622 pounds.
BRITTON: 622.
CAINE: Yoo!
BRITTON: Nice, boys.
He blessed us, boy.
CAINE: Let's check her out.
BUBBA: Alright,
see what we got here.
As soon as I touch it,
just oily, so much oil in it.
Nice color on it, too.
That's a beautiful core.
I don't see anything
wrong with it.
BRITTON:
You're the ultimate judge.
BRITTON: What do you say?
CAINE: Come on, Bubba.
BRITTON: Babies need shoes.
GRAHAM: That's right.
BUBBA: $20 a pound.
GRAHAM: Sweet!
CAINE: Yes!
BRITTON: How about that, boys?
GRAHAM: Pretty work, boys.
CAINE: 20 bucks.
GRAHAM: Good job, Caine.
BRITTON: Bubba, thank you.
BUBBA: Thank you very much.
BRITTON: Thanks, man.
We'll see if we can go add to.
GRAHAM: Yeah, man.
See you. Thank you.
BUBBA: Thank you, guys.
BRITTON: Let's try to catch
another one before it's over.
CAINE:
Biggest one of the year, boy.
Biggest one of the year!
[music]
[music]
TYLER: What's up, Bubba?
We got a nice fish for you.
The season's over tomorrow.
If we get a good price for it,
we could win this thing.
BUBBA: Alright.
Let's not waste any time.
Let's get it off.
TYLER: There you go.
There you go.
Frenzy brought in a fish
that pushed them into the lead.
But we're hoping this baby
is high quality enough
to help us get ahead of them.
What's it dress?
BUBBA: Got, uh, 544 pounds.
TYLER: Awesome.
Let's see what it looks like.
BUBBA: Alright,
see what we got here.
Nice color on it.
Core's nice. No burn.
TYLER: Well, what do you think
you can give me for that?
I'm chasing Greg and Griff.
We got to win this thing.
BUBBA: It's got
a good amount of fat.
Decent shape on it, nice core.
$21 a pound.
TYLER: Awesome! Yes!
DUFFY: Alright, dude! Yes!
TYLER: Woo! Thank you.
DUFFY: Bubba!
TYLER: Yes! Woo!
NARRATOR: With only one day
until the season closes,
Pinwheel's high quality catch
gives the young Northern duo
a lead of almost five grand
over longtime champion
Fishin' Frenzy.
And Doghouse's 12 grand payday
pushes them ahead
of fellow Southerners
Reels of Fortune
and Foolish Pleasures.
[music]
DALE: Things aren't going good
for us right now.
So hopefully, we can turn
everything around here tonight.
Try to put some fish
on this boat.
Time is on no one's side
right now.
We're competing against
the clock and each other.
That's the Little Shell
right there, ain't it?
NICK: Long day here
on Little Shell.
We've been at it
since way before daylight.
Now, it's dark.
No tuna bites.
This is it, we got less than
As a new captain,
I got a lot to prove and
not a lot of time to do it.
Stay out here tonight
and we'll use everything in
our arsenal again, you know.
Try the ballyhoos, the stick.
Whatever we got to do
to try to get a bite.
Damn it, dude.
[beeping]
DALE: Marked something
under the boat. 30 feet.
[beeping]
CLIFF: Damn. Come on, now.
[beeping]
Come on, take it, take it.
Come on.
[reel ticking]
[reel unspooling]
ED: There he is.
CLIFF: We're on here, guys.
Got him on the rod.
NICK: Here we go!
ED: Got 'em on!
NICK: Got 'em on!
ED: That's him.
ED: Blistering this stuff
off of here, man.
CLIFF: Bump her ahead.
That thing's got
some weight to it.
You think it's a tuna?
NICK: Yeah, it's acting like it.
Bumping that rod up and down.
See the tail beat, you know.
See the rod, just bumping,
bumping, bumping.
CLIFF: Let's make him ours.
[reel unspooling]
WILL: Come on back, Dale.
DALE: Coming back.
ED: We're hooked up
to a sea monster.
He took a lot of line
real quick.
We got to get it back.
DALE: These big fish are always
hard to hold on to,
especially on rod and reel.
You only got so much line,
you can only put
so much heat on them.
We're hoping to hold on
to this thing.
We need every fish we can get.
This is the last morning we're
gonna be able to be out here
till next year.
Got to make it happen.
NICK: Brandan,
switch with Cliff.
CLIFF: There you go. Good job.
We need one.
We need to break the ice
tonight.
Maybe this is our chance,
I don't know.
[reel unspooling]
Kick her around.
There's 100,000 ways for us
to lose this thing.
ED: He's burning it, dude.
WILL: We need to start
getting some line.
Keep on coming, Dale.
DALE: Fish is taking line faster
than this boat can go backwards.
Hopefully, we can get some
of this line back on him.
ED: And he's still got close to
It gets pretty sketchy when
a fish got this much line out.
I mean, it's just a lot of drag.
A lot of line in the water,
a lot of things that can happen.
And it's so much tension
on this line,
it doesn't take much to pop it.
WILL: Keep on coming.
ED: Come on back a little, Dale.
DALE: Yeah,
I'm in reverse, dude.
ED: We got to try our best
to get as much back
as quick as we can.
DALE: Bigger fish will put
everything you got to the test.
CLIFF: Well, we got to be
getting somewhat close,
I would think.
Bump her ahead.
BRANDAN: Hopefully,
we can get this fish
and finish this thing up.
ED: We got quite a bit of line
back on him right now.
It's a give-and-take game,
and we don't like to give.
We like to take.
WILL: Alright,
I got the mono back.
ED: Oh, yeah.
DALE: Nice job, guys.
WILL: This is definitely
a big fish.
We definitely need it.
It'll be next year before
we can come back out here
and do it again.
CLIFF: There he is.
There he is, boys.
BRANDAN: It's a tuna.
Just came up to the surface.
NICK: There he is.
CLIFF: Get your dart pole
ready now.
That's him. Get your dart ready.
NICK: Talk to me, Cliffy.
CLIFF: Forward.
BRANDAN: Bump her ahead, Nick,
bump her ahead.
CLIFF: Brandan, get ready.
It's coming up here now.
Got him right here.
BRANDAN: Get him. Stick him.
Missed him.
NICK: It's alright.
That's alright, bud.
CLIFF: Go ahead.
Here, give me the dart.
NICK: Brandan, stick the fish.
DALE: Throw it. Throw the dart!
DALE: Get him! Get him!
CLIFF: There he is.
There he is, boys.
NICK: There he is.
CLIFF: Get your dart pole
ready now.
That's him. Get your dart ready.
NICK: Talk to me, Cliffy.
CLIFF: Forward.
BRANDAN: Bump her ahead, Nick,
bump her ahead.
CLIFF: Brandan, get ready.
It's coming up here now.
BRANDAN: You're good.
CLIFF: We got him right here.
BRANDAN: Get him. Stick him!
Missed him.
NICK: It's alright.
That's alright, bud.
CLIFF: Go ahead.
Here, give me the dart.
NICK: Brandan, stick the fish.
WILL: Got him, Dale.
NICK: Alright, get your gaff.
DALE: Pretty work, guys.
Pretty work.
CLIFF: Alright, tail rope.
Got it?
We just caught a fish.
ED: Hell to the yes.
DALE: Pretty work, guys.
Pretty work, pretty work.
We can go in and get paid.
I just lost 10 years
off my life,
but maybe I get
at least one back.
[laughs]
CLIFF: We just caught a fish.
NICK: Nice fish.
CLIFF: Are you alright?
NICK: Yes.
I'm just tired, buddy.
CLIFF: Everybody's tired.
That's alright.
NICK: He's got
a destructive personality.
Alright, let's get this rascal
on the boat so I can lay down.
CLIFF: One, two, three.
[groans]
What a nice fish.
NICK: Pretty work, boys.
ALL: Yeah! Yes!
BRANDAN: That's awesome.
CLIFF: That's great.
NICK: Alright.
BRANDAN: The old 100-incher
over here.
NICK: A fish on the last day,
we needed this one.
[music]
DALE: That thing is a blimp,
dude.
You guys ready?
WILL: Alright, Dale.
Pull him in the boat.
ED: This is awesome.
This is absolutely awesome
to land such a big fish
at the end of the season.
[grunting]
That is a pig, dude.
WILL: Woo.
DALE: Wow, they don't get
no rounder than that.
ED: God almighty.
DALE: Last day of the season.
Glad to have this one, though.
She looks like a honey.
Pretty work.
[music]
[music]
DALE: What's up, Bubba?
BUBBA: What's up?
DALE: We got one hell of a fish
for you.
BUBBA: Let's get it up here.
ED: Knowing that this may be
our last fish
and our last paycheck
of the season,
stakes are really high
right now.
We're hoping this fish
is good enough
for us to move up
that leaderboard.
DALE: What do we got, Bubba?
BUBBA: Got, uh, 608 pounds.
DALE: Ha ha! Hell yeah.
Alright, Bubba, let's see
what we got on this guy.
BUBBA: Alright.
DALE: Whoa-h*-h*-h*.
What do we got?
BUBBA: Well, it's a big fish.
Had a nice shape on it,
nice and round.
I mean, the weight on it
for the length is just abnormal.
You can see the fat.
Color's absolutely fine on it.
DALE: Good.
BUBBA: The core, I don't see
a problem with it at all.
That...
DALE: We need this bad, dude.
BUBBA: $19 a pound.
DALE: Yes, dude.
Awesome, thank you,
thank you, man.
That's a big fish,
that'll be a great payday.
We definitely earned it.
Let's try to go out
and get another one.
ED: Hopefully Little Shell's
fish doesn't top that.
NICK: Now we're real jacked up.
We got one nice one, 100-incher.
We're neck and neck with
the Foolish Pleasures, Dennis.
We need top dollar on this one
to edge him out,
and I think we can do it
with this fish.
It looks like a damn good one.
DENNIS: You're getting me
excited.
NICK: Good. I like you excited.
DENNIS: Oh, that's a beast!
[saw whirring]
NICK: How much does it weigh,
Dennis?
DENNIS: 524 pounds dressed,
guys.
NICK: Alright. Nice one.
Let's take a look at him.
Oh, my goodness, slice me off
a piece right now. Uh!
I see big dollars.
DENNIS: You guys got
a diamond here.
NICK: Oh, really?
DENNIS: Yeah, you can see the
fat just marbled through here,
fanning out through
the major lobes.
It's like glycerinated
it's so oily.
NICK: Yeah.
DENNIS: Let's see what the core
looks like, Mary.
NICK: Alright, moment of truth.
MARY: This is gonna
tell the tale.
Wow.
NICK: Oh, beautiful.
DENNIS:
Beautiful cherry red core.
This is about as good
as the color's gonna get
with this much fat.
This is the best fish
I've seen all season.
NICK: Alright.
CLIFF: Alright.
NICK: You hear that, boys?
CLIFF: Yeah.
NICK: What's that mean for us?
DENNIS: $30 a pound.
NICK: Alright!
Good finish, guys.
We got $30 a pound for our fish.
That's the highest price
anybody's gotten paid
so far this season.
We are jacked up
on the Little Shell.
Alright, Dennis, thank you.
DENNIS: It was pleasure
doing business with you.
NICK: Thank you very much.
CLIFF: Thank you so much.
NICK: Give 'em hell,
Little Shell!
NARRATOR: With only hours
until bluefin season closes,
Foolish Pleasures' giant fish
edges them ahead
of fellow Southerners Doghouse
and Reels of Fortune.
And Little Shell's
record-setting catch
puts Captain Nick only narrowly
behind his former skipper Greg
on Fishin' Frenzy.
NICK: Let's bring home
the title.
[music]
[music]
TYLER: Just get that rigger out,
don't even worry about
coiling your [bleep].
It's the last day of fishing,
and we're leading the fleet.
My goal is to be
the first Northern boat
to take the title down here.
And we're so close
I can taste it.
This is [bleep] intense.
[beeping]
GREG: Oh, that's the meat.
We're trailing Pinwheel
of all people.
That's got to change right now.
JASON: Come on, long rigger.
GREG: This is it.
This is where we show the fleet
why the Frenzy's been number one
for the last three years.
Damn, up to 12 and 15, huh.
[beeping]
NICK: Here comes the mark!
One more fish will
put us in the lead.
I may be a new captain,
but that doesn't mean
we can't be the best.
I want to show them
that this new crew
is a force to be reckoned with.
BRANDAN: Today's the last day.
Everything we got is right.
I ain't been asleep
in a few days.
I couldn't tell you
the last time I had a shower,
but it all ends today.
NICK: Coming up to 125.
Get that thing hopping.
[beeping]
DALE: There it is.
Right in front of me.
Right off the bow.
ED: Last day of the season
closes at midnight tonight.
So, we're gonna try like hell
to get a couple more fish
before it ends.
So, it's a real close race.
But come the end of the day,
if we can catch more fish
maybe we can be right there
in the pack.
DALE: Come on, tunas, come on.
[beeping]
BRITTON: Ooh, there's a mark.
Ready for my day.
It's a heated battle
for number one.
CAINE: Come on, baby girl.
BRITTON: You want to see
what somebody's made of?
Tell him he's got a handful
of hours to make a living.
Come on, Lord,
give me something here.
[beeping]
CHARLIE: Oh, boy.
I just had a mark.
Let's stop 'em, let's stop 'em.
Let's go.
It's go time, baby.
Go time.
With us losing a day
because of our engine problem,
right now we're behind.
Hopefully we'll catch
another fish
and show these boys just
what this little boat can do.
STEVE: Alright.
[beeping]
There we go.
CHARLIE: Look at that!
Look at him take off.
STEVE: That's awesome.
That's awesome,
back her off, Griff.
Got the drag back?
CHARLIE: Yeah.
STEVE: Okay.
TJ: I don't believe it.
Charlie just had a bite.
MIKE: Time's a-ticking.
TJ: Tuna gods aren't
loving us lately.
NICK: Look at 'em
piling on Griff's stick.
Hold on, Griffsky,
they're piling on Griff's stick
right now.
NICK: Look at that poly ball!
STEVE: Yeah, baby,
that's a big one.
CHARLIE: I've never,
never in my life.
A bluefin just hit this thing,
I'm letting it out.
Oh, my God,
he's zipping around crazy.
STEVE: Fighting tuna.
CHARLIE: Happy, happy.
CHARLIE: Maybe this one will
put us back in the lead, Steve.
STEVE: Big tuna.
CHARLIE: This is
a good thing here.
TYLER: Griff's on.
It's gonna be a fight
to the wire, that's for sure.
We just want a bite.
Come on, eat that bait.
We need this one, man.
[beeping]
[reel ticking]
[reel unspooling]
DUFFY: There he is. We got him!
We're on, Tyler, we're on!
TYLER: Thank God.
Woo! Got 'em on.
This one can help us
win this thing.
Let's land him.
It's the end of the season,
and now more than ever,
every fish that we catch counts.
We're in first place right now,
and this one fish could
seal the title for us.
If we can land it,
the Outer Banks could be
looking at a new champ.
I'm hoping it's
the Northern boat right here.
DUFFY: Yeah, he's stretched
way out.
Big fish.
TYLER: Pinwheel down and dirty,
just doing what we got to do.
Griff's fighting a fish,
we're fighting a fish.
It is a big one.
GREG: I dropped right in 'em.
Come on, long rigger.
[beeping]
Griff and Pinhead got
another thing coming
if they think we're gonna hand
the title over to them.
Uh!
[reel unspooling]
There we go. Long rigger.
You got to play to
the end of the game.
We're in the fourth quarter
right now.
We're not ready to give up.
Come on, baby. One more. Yeah.
BILLON: Jacked up, baby.
JASON: Yeah, baby.
Feels like a good one, Cap.
GREG: Nobody's gonna stop.
TYLER: We really need this one.
CHARLIE: Wow, man.
I'm telling you, he's a big one.
TYLER: We need this fish bad.
CHARLIE:
I hope we got us a big one.
TYLER: Woo!
That's a big one, baby.
DUFFY: Yeah, baby!
GREG: Nobody's gonna stop.
TYLER: We really need this one.
CHARLIE: Wow, man.
I'm telling you, he's a big one.
TYLER: It's a big one, baby.
DUFFY: Yeah, baby!
CHARLIE: I hope we got us
a big one.
GREG: Ease her up, guys,
and be careful.
Let's not screw this up.
Our fourth championship hangs
on the end of this line.
We need to catch this fish.
Turn the handle. Turn.
BILLON: I'm turning it.
TYLER: We got to get this fish.
It's definitely a big fish,
Right now it's
our competition to win.
We're so close, I can taste it.
This is the one we need
to seal the deal.
Duffy, we need this fish.
CHARLIE: I'm gonna do,
I want to get this thing,
I want to try to get him away
from these other boats.
STEVE: This fish still got
some power over this thing.
CHARLIE: I know Tyler wants
to prove that a Northern boat
can do well down here.
But he's gonna have
a hard row to hoe
fishing against us local boys.
Ease him along.
Let's see if we can get
a look at him.
STEVE: Alright.
GREG: Crank on that thing,
Billon.
Here she comes.
Let's get a look at her.
Oh, please be big enough.
We're gonna find out.
Come right around with him.
Right now. Come around.
Come on, here he is.
Oh, no, a short.
JASON: Damn it. Little boy.
GREG: Don't crank anymore.
De-hook him.
He's smaller than 73 inches.
We have to let him go.
Leader him right up.
That sucks.
BILLON: See ya, Bubba,
thank you for playing.
GREG: That pisses me off.
Oh, damn it.
I hate that [bleep].
We really needed that fish to be
a keeper to win this thing.
Damn it!
It was a short.
I'm one step away from punching
my fish finder right now.
TYLER: So now it's down to
Reels of Fortune and us.
If we land a keeper here,
it could cement our lead.
But if we don't, Griff has
a chance of beating us.
We got a really big fish on.
We got to get this fish
right now.
Crank, crank, crank!
[snap]
Oh! No, no, no!
Come on.
TYLER: Pulled the hook.
DUFFY: Yeah.
TYLER: Ah. Pulled the hook, man.
Come on!
God, we needed that one.
DUFFY: You stupid rod, dude.
TYLER: That one really hurts,
you know.
You pull hooks is
part of fishing, but...
Oh, pulled the hook.
GREG: Thank God.
STEVE: It's coming around here.
CHARLIE: He's doing a circle
right there, Cap, ain't he?
STEVE: Yeah.
CHARLIE: Talk to me.
Oh, Lord. Watch that line!
STEVE: He's pulling.
CHARLIE: I can't see.
I can't see by you now, bud.
STEVE: You're alright,
you're alright.
CHARLIE: A lot of color.
This is a big fish here.
Maybe this one will
put us in the lead.
Be careful, Steve.
Don't pull him off.
Careful.
STEVE: He's right here, bud,
you can do whatever you want.
CHARLIE: Right behind you, bud.
STEVE: You just tell me
when you're good.
CHARLIE: I'm good.
Need the meat hook.
Hurry, please.
Under his jaw, in his jaw.
Just cleat him off right there.
Cleat him off. Okay.
STEVE: Pretty work, Griff.
CHARLIE: Good going, brother.
STEVE: I ain't lost faith
in you, Griff.
CHARLIE: Ooh. That's a good one.
TYLER: Damn, Griff got a fish.
Looks like a big one, too.
Right now, we're first place
in the earnings.
If Pinwheel won this thing, we'd
be the first Northern boat ever
to do it in the Outer Banks.
But it's all going to come down
to how much Griff
gets for his fish.
We'll have to wait and see.
CHARLIE: Fat daddy.
STEVE: Need some help?
CHARLIE: Yeah. Ooh.
CHARLIE: I am so grateful to
have one last fish on this boat
before the season's over.
STEVE: Alright, you ready?
One, two, three.
Gotcha.
CHARLIE: There we go.
STEVE: Looks great.
CHARLIE: Oh, my gosh.
He's a 97.
STEVE: 97.
It's like money in the bank.
CHARLIE: That's awesome, bud.
Very, very, very good.
We're really hoping
this is a good fish.
It's got to be a good one.
I'd rather not be behind
a Yankee boat,
especially the Pinwheel.
That's a lot of meat.
It's all up to the quality
of the fish now.
DALE: I would have liked
to have had
a couple more fish this season,
but I feel like the fish we got
were top quality fish.
Tyler and Griff
are pretty close.
Hard to tell
who's gonna be on top.
ED: Yeah.
Thank God it ain't Frenzy.
WILL: Yeah, no [bleep].
CAINE: If they'd give us
just a little more time,
we'd be on their heels.
BRITTON:
Yeah, a little bit more time,
we'd definitely come back,
but it looks like this will be
a true North-South showdown
between Griff and Tyler.
CHARLIE:
Tuna fishing, baby! Yeah!
I'm telling you, Bub,
we have put a grind out.
We've done all we can do.
We can't do anymore.
Hopefully, it's enough, man.
DENNIS: Last fish of the season,
let's see what she's like.
CHARLIE: Alright.
I'm nervous.
We've never been this close
to the top spot
on the last day of fishing.
What we got, Miss Mary?
MARY: 419 pounds dressed.
CHARLIE: Good deal.
Well, that's the last one,
Steve.
STEVE: Yeah.
CHARLIE: Congratulations, bud.
Pretty work.
Let's see what the thing
looks like.
Pinwheel's leading us
by about 10 grand.
It's gonna take a really good
fish to pull ahead of him.
Alright, let's see
what we got here.
DENNIS: Heavy, heavy fat
on this fish, Griff.
Nice way to end the season.
You can see the oily meat
just fanning out
through the major lobes.
Really beautiful, fat fish.
Mary, let's see what
the core looks like.
MARY: Okay.
Oh, man, look at that.
DENNIS: That's a diamond.
CHARLIE: That's, that's good.
CHARLIE: That right there is
as good as we've seen, isn't it?
DENNIS: Really nice fish.
CHARLIE: Alright, Dennis,
neck and neck.
We need this to be a good one.
What can you do for us?
DENNIS: Heavy fat fish.
I'm gonna send this to Sapporo
in northern Japan.
Last day of the season.
STEVE: Come on, Dennis,
what do we got?
DENNIS: $25 a pound.
STEVE: Yeah, baby.
CHARLIE: Oh, my God.
CHARLIE: That's gonna do it
for us, buddy.
I think we're gonna do it.
STEVE: You're the man, Griff.
CHARLIE: I can't believe it.
CHARLIE: I can't believe it.
Thank you, ma'am.
MARY: You're welcome.
CHARLIE: I can't believe
we won this thing.
Boy, that's amazing.
We barely beat him.
We barely beat Tyler.
How about that?
DENNIS: Thanks, guys.
See you next year.
CHARLIE: Alright,
thank you, man.
Good grief, we did it.
STEVE: Holy smokes.
CHARLIE: We did it, man,
we beat all them Yankee boys.
The little boat won!
STEVE: You the man.
NARRATOR: Reels of Fortune's
11th hour catch
makes them the fleet's
top earning boat this season.
TYLER: 600 miles and counting
back to Gloucester.
We really did the best we could.
DUFFY: Cranking 'em in,
going home.
We're out of here.
TYLER: You know,
we beat Frenzy this year,
but we didn't beat Griff.
I'm just happy that
it was another steady finish
for me down here.
Second boat in the fleet.
We're not
a 'middle of the pack' boat.
We're a contender, no matter if
we're in Gloucester or Wanchese.
At least not last, like TJ.
That's a good feeling.
TJ: It's been tough.
This has been the toughest
stretch of tuna fishing
I've ever had in my life.
We had bites around us,
we had fish around us,
we had marks.
Nothing. Crickets.
We've got to k*ll it when
fishing opens up in Gloucester,
because this has
been just awful.
NICK: We did well.
We weren't a straight
embarrassment.
So, I'm pretty happy.
[laughs]
CLIFF: Hey, man, for a rookie
captain, you did really good.
BRANDAN: Next year,
I believe we can beat them.
NICK: Next year,
we beat everybody.
CLIFF: That's right.
NICK: Next year we take down the
Reels of Fortune, the Pinwheel,
the Frenzy, and anybody else
that gets in our way.
We're gonna be dangerous.
Take that to the bank.
[laughing]
GREG: Griff just edged us
out there.
We're all out here
on loser mountain.
It sucks.
You can't win every year.
But we're right there
at the top of the leaderboard.
We've always worked hard
to be in the top spot.
We deserve it.
But you got to give it to Griff,
he came from behind to put
pressure on me and Tyler
in the bottom of the ninth.
JASON: Oh, yeah, buddy.
GREG: Enjoy the win
while it lasts, Griff.
We're coming back and taking
our title from you next year.
[laughs]
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04x08 - Title Fight
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American reality television series about commercial tuna fishermen based in the Outer Banks who fish for the lucrative Atlantic bluefin tuna off the coast of North Carolina.
American reality television series about commercial tuna fishermen based in the Outer Banks who fish for the lucrative Atlantic bluefin tuna off the coast of North Carolina.