22x15 - Aleutian Solution

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[narrator]
On the northern bairdi
grounds...

[Jake speaking]

You lost your first tooth!
Oh, my God!

Show Sammy.

Show Sam your tooth.

[Jake] That's so funny.
Thank you so much.

-That made my day.
-[woman] Oh yeah.

All right, love ya.

I'm a family man.

You know, I want to
be a father.

You know, I want to provide for
my kids.

So I got to catch this bairdi
and then I can go home.

Spent a lot of money coming
way up North.

But what the survey told me,

this is the depth
that they're gonna be in.

[Jake speaking]

-Here we go!
-Whoo!

[Jake] We have


I'm pretty nervous right now.

-Whoo!
-Let's do it!

Come on, crab!

Let's go, let's go!

-Coming up.
-Hey, coming up.

[crew] What do we got?
What do we got?

[bleep] nothing.
[bleep]

-What is that?
-Garbage.

[sighs], four.

Come on.

[Jake] The second one's
the scariest one.

I really need to find crab.

-Oh, no.
-Oh, [bleep].

Oh, we got to get [bleep] going.

-[Jake speaking]
- Roger.

Just going to load them on
and go try to find a home.

Watch the rail.
Watch the rail, please.

-Whoo!
-Ha!

[bleep]

AL.
It's Rick.

He's out to here.
You can see him right here.

Let's see what Rick's up to.



All right, guys, 20 pots in
this string.

First one coming up.
Let's get going.

...on Rick Shelford's
Aleutian Lady.

[Rick] We moved on all of our
gear down south

because the crab don't stay

in one place, right?
They move.

After trading his opilio crab
quota for $1.3 million worth of

notoriously hard-to-catch
Western bairdi this winter,

Captain Rick prepares to haul


betting they'll reveal
fertile grounds

that he can call his own.

Whoo!
There's some crab.

-That's what I'm talking about.
-Oh, yeah.

[crew cheering]

Here we go.

Oh, yeah, baby.
Whoo!

-Money in the bank.
-Whoo!

Hell yeah, baby!

-Yee-haw!
-Yee-haw!

Whoo!

I mean, right now, I got
my gear four miles long.

This area is only about four
square miles wide.

So if it maintains, that will
be something really good.

[phone ringing]

-Up here doing the grind.
-[Bruce] Yeah, us too.

[Jake] I'm up to the north.
What's going on?

You see anything good?

-Whoo!
-Yeah, baby!

Oh, damn.

Yeah, I'm just getting going.

And I really don't got
my footing yet.

So...

What do you mean, don't have
your footing?

Well, I just haven't hauled
a lot of pots.

What are you seeing?

[Jake]
I'm still looking.

Yeah, well, I mean, I'll stay
in touch with you.

[Jake]
All right, later.

[bleep]

Well, now I'm suspicious.

As a fisherman, I'm always
trying to figure out somebody
else's tell.

He just kind of sidestepped me

and went into saying that
he was trying to

get his footing.

I'm gonna go take a look.

[Rick]
Damn, that's another good pot.

I got a feeling Jake's gonna
end up coming down here.

I'd be more open
to sharing everything,

but this area is so small.

Let me get my stuff dialed in,

and then I'll let Jake know
what's up.

We got to do something
about this.

Um...

I mean, the Time Bandit's
the only boat

through this area.

I'm gonna give
Hillstrand a call.



on the Golden
King crab grounds.

-Come on crab!
-Whoo!

-Yes!
-Whoo!

[cheering]

Whoo!
[indistinct vocalizations]

-Whoo!
-Get some!

[cheering continues]

OK, guys.

...aboard the Time Bandit.

[indistinct]
Let's go!

Going over!

Go get it!

[phone ringing]

[Johnathan] Hey, Rick.

[Rick speaking]

I just got done setting here
in the canyon.

Finally found some
golden crabs.

So I have to
precision b*mb 'em.

Hey, if you guys are about done
for the night,

it would be really helpful if
you could pretend like

you're setting gear next to me.

Yeah, I could do that.
I got to jog anyway.

I might as well come over there
and jog north and south right

next to you there.

Sloppy joes for some
sloppy weather.

[metal clattering]

[bleep] down.

[laughs]
[bleep]

[Rick]
This is full-on combat fishing
right now, and any help

would be appreciated.
-[Johnathan speaking]

All right, man.
Thank you.

[Johnathan] I'll go help Rick.
I'd love to help.

He's a good guy, like him.

I know how he feels, you know?

He's got his little spot there,
and then

they start coming in on him.

It's gonna be fun.
[laughs]



All right, let's let her fly!

Bairdi 2026, let's go!

-It's good luck, let's go.
-All right, let's go.

You guys ready then?

[crew] Yeah.

[Sig speaking]

...on the Northwestern.

This is a new season.

Bairdi season.

I don't think
anybody's been out here

this far west.

I want to stay a step ahead
of the fleet.

We are still gambling because
this is new, fresh ground,

but it'll be our ground.

We got a really good quota
this year,

which is exciting, because...

You know, I'm just trying to
stay optimistic about it

and get this done.

Knock on wood.

[Sig]
One of the new guys, Adam,
he's gonna go on the stack

for a little bit.

I typically don't like to have
a new guy up there,

but got to learn some time.

And hopefully, he becomes
an asset.

Set it when you're ready.

Yep! First one!

All right, here we go!

-Yeah!
-Whoo!

Whoo!

The plan for now is to get
these started in the deep,

you know, the 80 fathom range.

Oh, yeah.

[Sig speaking]

Roger!

[deep rumbling]

[metallic groaning]

Felt like we ran something
over, you know?

Like, uh...

It's like a wobble once
in a while, you know?

No, you're dry!

It doesn't feel
right, you know?

It's like a little movement.

[bleep]!

Holy [bleep]!

-Clark!
-Yeah?

There's water in that laz.

It's sloshing around.
Go pump the laz, would you?

With water flooding into
the laz, or lazarette,

a 25-by-6-foot storage hold

at the stern
of the Northwestern...

The damn alarm didn't go off.

...Captain Sig Hansen orders
first mate Clark Pedersen to

activate the boat's bilge pump,
betting it will send the surge

of seawater overboard
before the flood

destabilizes the vessel.

[Sig] Fill that lazarette
with water...

down on the stern she goes.

-[Sig] What?
-It's not pumping!

Get back there!
Get into the damn thing!

-Get those pots out of the way!
-Go, go, go, go, go, go!

[Sig] Move these.
Get in the laz!

-As fast as you can,
you understand?
-Yeah.

I got to keep the boat up
against the [indistinct].

I don't know if we got time to
[bleep] move all that.

-Just cut it.
-[bleep].

Go down, watch out.
Watch out!

After a safety camera reveals
water flooding

the stern compartment
and with their bilge pump

not functioning,
the Northwestern crew carves

their way
to the access hatch...

Oh!

...to find the leak before


capsize the vessel.

[Sig]
The primary doesn't work.
It's still not pumping.

You need to get in there to see
what's going on.

[bleep] dang it.

-There it goes.
-[Sig] You gotta get in there!

-Got it?
-Yep!

[bleep]

He's to the hatch!

He's in?

Yeah, he's in.

Oh, my God.

[groans]

Karl!

[Sig]
I knew something was wrong.

I mean, it just didn't
feel right.

There was something going on
back there.

Come on.

I don't know if I stopped it,
but I can't feel the pressure

coming out of the pipe anymore.

OK.
OK.

So is water still coming
in, or...?

[Clark]
You're getting a little bit,
but that splash zone takes,

you know, 12 hours to set.

[Sig] I want to get this gear
off the boat, OK?

OK, start.

Going over!

[Sig] We're not out
of the woods here.

We just got to make sure we can
get that pump working that's in

our engine room.

That's what sucks all the water
out of that lazarette.

We just want to get these pots
off first, clear the deck,

and then we'll go from there.



[phone ringing]

Hey, John.

...on the Aleutian Lady.

Hey, Rick, I'm here.

So what are you thinking
we should do here?

And the Time Bandit.

[Rick] Jake is charging
down the hill with 200 pots.

So I got to try to protect this
area as best as I can.

[Johnathan speaking]

I'm just gonna be hauling
north and south,

up and down these strings.

I got my gear gapped out at
every half mile.

I'll set like four strings,
four for ten strings.

All right, John.
Thank you much.

-I'll chat at you after a while.
-[Johnathan] OK.

With a fully loaded
Cornelia Marie steaming

towards his position,

Captain Rick enlists Johnathan
to create the illusion that

the 16-square-mile hotspot is
already laced with gear.

We got to get this going fast,

and I'm hoping John coming over
will help,

but we'll see.

Just four miles to the north...

on the Cornelia Marie.

[Jake]
Rick's hiding something there.

I think Rick's on crab.

There's Rick right there.

Looks like he's hauling
and setting back.

That's not what you do if
you're on blanks.

John's here, too.

I didn't know you could fish
brown crab this shallow.

[Johnathan]
Oh, Cornelia Marie.

Yep, here they are.

OK, here we go.

Turn right here.

Eh-heh!

I'm just pretending I'm setting.
I'm setting speed.

They're tracking me.

They'll know I'm setting
because I go straight up,

straight over,
straight back down.

They'll think I just set
four strings here.

[Jake]
There's John right there.

Get a closer look.

There's nobody on the deck.

Oh, look at these guys.

I got ghosts.

OK, guys, you're moving faster
than I've ever seen you move.

[laughs]

Back to the north.

The trap is set.

Snap!

John, you got me?

Yep, nothing.
That tells me everything.

We're gonna go stealth mode.

All right, guys, let's get
ready to set.

I just saw Jake Anderson set
his AIS off.

He was heading straight at us.
Now he's gone.

Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye.

[Jake speaking]

On the Cornelia Marie.

[Jake and crew speaking]

I think Rick has hired John

to come over and pretend...

-Yeah, Roger!
-Roger!

-28, ready.
-All right, let's go, guys.

-Get some.
-All right, boys, here we go.

Going over!

Got to set real slow,
too, because...

it's dark
and you can't see.

And I don't want John
catching on.

His radar can see me at
two miles.

So if I get too close,
he's gonna spot me.

[Johnathan]
Just disappeared.

I don't know where Jake went.

I like that guy.
I like both those guys.

I like everybody.

It takes everyone to make this
world go round.

I'm gonna just keep doing what
I told Rick I would do.

But, uh...

Jake Anderson knows what
I'm doing.

Pot going over!

It's risky, but we're fishing
bairdi now.

Like, I really need to
find crab.

You know, Rick brought this
on himself.

Going over.

Nobody can trick a trickster.



Whoa.

You want me to slow down...

That's fine.

...on the Northwestern.

The lazarette was taking
on water.

The hatch was covered with
a lot of pots, so we had to

throw them in the water
in the blind.

Clark managed to get splash
zone in that area.

It's holding the leak,
but it's still leaking water.

There it is right there.

[Sig]
And then that primary pump

that we have down in the engine
room isn't working.

So, we do have
a secondary pump.

There's a vent back there,
so he's gonna see if he can

get through that and just have
it plumbed and ready to go.

The whole plan here is to be
able to have all

the hatches secured,

but still have a way to pump
out that laz using

the secondary pump.

Oh, it just fits.

-You got it?
-Yeah, hold on.

-Keep pushing it through!
-All right.

Hopefully, we'll be fishing
here a little bit.

-Got it?
-Got it!

OK, we'll secure that.

[Adam]
Is the power still out?

[Adam's fiancée
speaking over phone]

[Adam] Damn.

I bet that's...
I bet it's cold in there, too.

I know.
I wish...

Just [bleep],

that you're alone doing this
right now.

All right.
I love you.

Bye.

[Adam] Uh...

My fiancée, she's --
we're expecting, and so she's...

just handling a lot alone
right now, you know,

without me there.

[Sig]
This thing has to work.

-But we are about to find out.
-There she goes, yeah.

Yeah, look at how nasty
that water is.

All that [bleep]
bottom of the laz.

[Sig]
We're looking good.

We just need to start
working here.

-Nice.
-Nice.

[bleep]

-[Adam] Sig?
-Hey.

[Adam]
Um, some unfortunate news.

My fiancée, yeah, she's...

Um, she needs support.

I think that I'm gonna need
to go back and, um,

and help her out.

So you want to, what,
cut your trip short or what?

[Adam] Yeah.

Is she begging you to
come home?

Negative.

Well, in my mind,
it's like, you know, if,

a doctor says,
"Hey, we got issues here,"

then yeah, I would take you in
like that.

Medical emergency,
you know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

[Sig] And it's not?

[Adam] No, no.

[Sig] I don't get it.
So you want me to go to town?

[Adam] Yeah.

[Sig]
I mean, [bleep].

It costs time and money.

I don't understand.

On the Northwestern.

[Sig]
So you want me to go to town?

[Adam] Yeah.

[Sig groans]

I think being there is
important right now,

just in case.

You know you can't come back
here if you leave

on those terms, right?
-Yeah.

Yeah, unfortunately,
I figured that

that would be the scenario.

I appreciate everything that
you guys have done.

You're a good man, Sig.
You really are.

Well, I want to be a bad man
so bad right now,

you have no idea.

All right, we'll just do
our thing here, right?

OK, yep.

[Sig]
I feel a little bit...

betrayed.

There is a code out here.

And it's always been, at least
in my mind, what I've been

taught is, like,
"boat comes first."

You broke that code.

It's plain and simple.

We need to haul these pots.

But then we got to go to town.

[laughs]
[bleep]



on the Aleutian Lady.

I saw Jake creeping down this
way, but I don't see him now.

All right, guys, here we go.
First pot.

Yeah, roger.

I have all my gear in here.

It stretches north to south.

And this is imperative I get
all our quota

caught on this trip,

or else I'm gonna have to
come back out.

Let's go, baby!

Here it comes.

-What have we got?
What have we got?
-Yeah.

-Oh, man.
-What the [bleep]?

What the [bleep]?

Well, that sucks.

That's not what
we're looking for.

Well, the first pot sucked.

[Rick]
Hopefully, the second pot will
have something in it.

-Looks a little weak.
-[indistinct] pot.

[indistinct chatter]

I mean, it's starting to pick
up as I go south,

so hopefully...

Damn it.

The CM is in here?

Just three miles north...

[bleep] nothing, [bleep].

[Jake]
[bleep] damn it, man.

...on the Cornelia Marie.

[Jake] [bleep] damn it,
I need this to pay off.

I don't know what Rick's trying
to protect here.

There's nothing here.

[Rick]
Yeah, hey, Jake, I just saw
you pop up on my blotter.

I'm not seeing
much here right now.

I bet you're not seeing
much either.

Man.

No, it's not great at all.

I mean, we had some sign,

but this area is so small that

it's looking like these crab
are moving.

No, I totally get it.

I mean, you know as well as I do
that this is

a cutthroat business.

What I am seeing is the crab
are heading south.

And there's that valley just
about three miles away from us.

We can tag team these things
and try to box them in.

[Jake]
I'm not sure I have a choice...

other than take a risk.

Yeah, that's a plan.

I'll see you down there.

Let's start heading south,

and we'll sling these
things off.

Why don't you take
the west side?

I take the east side.

And let's set this [bleep]
tight together.

[Jake] Roger.

Roger.

You ready to set?

[Jake] I'm ready to set.

All right.

The weather is starting to
pick up.

Just keep your heads
on a swivel, guys.

Roger, roger.

[Rick]
Let her go in three, two, one.

There she goes!

-Whoo-hoo!
-Yeah!

There goes the first one.

Roger, first one going over.

All right, second pot.
Here we go.

All right, number two's in
the launcher, Rick.

Three, two, one.
Ah, damn it.

Big wave, [bleep].
Holy [bleep].

Watch the rail.
Watch the rail.

Watch the rail.
Watch out!

Watch the rail.
Watch the rail.
Watch the rail.

Watch out.

Ah, [bleep].

[bleep]!

We good?

[bleep]

We need to get these pots off,
get them over safely.

I mean, having Jake in here,
hopefully as we move south,

it actually works out and it
helps out both parties.

So I'm going to set in
the south of Rick.

We're in it together now.

Hopefully it pays off.



on the bairdi grounds.

[Sig speaking]

Roger.

...aboard the Northwestern.

[Sig]
Adam, he wants off the boat.

His girlfriend is
having a baby.

You know, so we'll get into
town, but first things first.

Hopefully, there's something
down here.

OK, we have the first pot
coming up here.

Come on, baby.

-Not good.
-Make that one.

No.

That's not gonna do it.

-Uh-oh.
-Oh, no!

-Looking pretty weak.
-There we are!

And to add injury to insult.

Now we got to go to town.

[groans]

-Wah.
-[Sig] From bad to worse.



[Rick] Here we go.
Let's hope this thing works.

This place is gridded out.

We couldn't put another pot in
here if we wanted to.

[Jake] Yeah.
Setting south with Rick.

Hopefully we'll have better
luck than I did alone.

This needs to be the turning
point in our season.

First one coming up.

Come on, come on, come on.

-Hell yeah!
-Yeah!

Here we go.

Yeah, baby!

That's what I'm talking about!

-[indistinct]
-That is huge!

Yeah, dude!
It's [bleep] loaded, Rick!

-Oh, hell yeah!
-[bleep] yeah!

Whoo!

This table is delicious.
It's scrum-fiddly-umptious.

That pot is at least


Whoo!



I'm glad you said the footing
thing, because I never would

have came down here and tried
to figure out

what you were doing.

[Rick] Well, let's keep
jamming on this,

and let's jam that tank full.

All right, man.
Take care.

On the meat.

Now we're getting
the numbers we need

to try to get
the hell out of here.

[Jake] So much time
and money and effort.

I couldn't afford to miss this.
Thank God.

-Whoo!
-Let's do it.

Now that's fishing.

[Rick] Even though I was
a bit pissed off when

I saw him in the first place,

we were able to dial it in,

build that trust,

and get 200 counts.
I mean...

it don't get better than that.