19x10 - Between Payday and Mayday

[bunniefuu]

Coming up!

No.

Damn it!

What are we gonna do?

Whoa.

Just got word that the processors
are gonna quit processing.

Wow, wow, wow.

Canneries are
starting to close down,

you know, they wanna send
their people home for the holidays.

But a lot of guys
are still fishing.

And so you're fighting to
get the crab, number one,

and you're fighting the weather,

and then, you know,
you're fighting time.

We're really in trouble.

We miss that delivery day,
we might lose a bunch of crab.

On this set, we're going
to put a little bend in it.

We win or we fail.

Going over!

When you set this, you didn't
go where we talked about.

A little bit of free will there.

It's not like I'm stealing 'em.

Hey, listen. Don't
touch our gear.

Run, run, run, run.

- Yeah!
- Yeah!

Yeah!

210 miles
northeast of Dutch Harbor.

First spot's coming up.

On the Northwestern...

So, we're up on
our northern-most string.

Get 'er done!

Right at the end of our
trip, we just need to get this done.

Could use a little
luck on this one.

Racing to deliver his
remaining 10,000 pounds of crab quota

before processors close,

Captain Sig Hansen and his
daughter, co-captain Mandy Hansen

bet on strings running
north from 64 to 70 fathoms.

I don't wanna do this
Eastern Bering run in the winter.

It's just more risky, we
need to make this happen.

Here we go.

I hope this string hits, man.

Womp-womp.

No. That's not gonna do it.

- Man.
- Kinda weak.

- Fifteen.
- Maybe.

- 15 crabs?
- Yeah. Roger.

All right. Number two. Let's
see what she's got in her.

Come on, baby.

Yeah, baby.

There's a few. Small, but
there's some crabs. There's life.

It's getting better.

All
right! Keep going!

At least we're
getting some info.

- Hold!
- Much better.

That's what we need right there.

- 39!
- That's awesome.

I know there's crab
just right up here.

But I didn't get any
more pots that way.

And problem is we don't have enough
gear to start prospecting right now.

Whoo! 37.

I need more pots.

If Harley's got a
string right there,

all you wanna do
is just bump it up.

Just 4 miles southeast...

Whoo!

Whoo!

So we're just hammering them.

Hey if this keeps up, cowboy,
we'll be going home soon.

You'll be calling
me Cowboy Jack.

Aboard the Barbara J...

25 hours right now.

We got another 10,000
pounds to put on the boat.

That's quite a bit of crab.

Targeting 60 thousand
pounds of family-owned quota,

rookie skipper Jack Bunnell, alongside
veteran Steve Harley Davidson,

hauls a 20-pot string set in
the northern bairdi grounds.

Okay. Bring it up.

I just wanna make my dad proud.

Yeah! Looks good.
Got some crab in there. It's a big boy.

Damn good, girl. Damn good.

Yeah, I got you.

This is Jack.

Saw you guys in the
area, and we're out of gear.

We got nothing but soak, and right around
this area, there's a pretty good sign.

I was thinking maybe you could
send a few of those pots I see.

Just up to the north a little
bit and do a little prospecting.

Well, I appreciate that,

but we're on a
pretty good average,

I think I'm just gonna
hang out right here

and grind up what we
need and get out of here.

I hear you. I understand.
It was just a thought.

I'll catch you on
the next one, okay?

Yeah, you bet, bud. Good luck.

Can't run around and waste a day

spot-checking everything
and not putting any crab on.

We need to haul a lot more pots

and just grind, grind, grind.

I understand, you know?

It's like, you can grind away,

then you finish up
and you get it done.

But, if I'm right,

you're gonna get it
done twice as fast.

The only problem is
they don't wanna play ball.

What if we play ball for them?

What if we borrow their pots?

I mean, it wouldn't be like
we're moving them that far.

It's not like I'm stealing 'em.

It's just a mild bump.

I agree. It's just
a little bump.

Hey, get ready. We're
gonna haul some pots.

Yeah, buddy!

I just didn't say whose.

215 miles west,
aboard the Time Bandit...

Hawaiian hula.

Look at Freddy.
That's one scary hula girl.

You can't miss
your delivery day,

especially when
your crab are this old.

I don't have time
to mess around.

- Here we go.
- Yeah!

With his sights set
on a million-dollar fall season,

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand
takes aim at his final 5,000 pounds

before hustling his 10-day
old crab back to Dutch.

Come on. Come on.

Come to papa!

Give it to me, baby!

Coming on deck.

Got a pot, coming up!

Yeah, we got crab
legs. Yeah.

That was a good pot.

Bunch of females just came up,

it looked like a
really good pot.

Zero males.

Yeah, stack it.

Females, we got
one crab for a hundred, that's 1%,

and they could
take your whole load.

That's a $25,000 fine.

All the deckhands could
get fined 5 grand each.

Might be a little too shallow.

Okay, here we go.
Pot number two.

Let's go, baby!

Okay. The males are
going out deeper, I think.

Sometimes female, and the next thing
you know, a bunch of males show up.

It's all a little deeper.

Last one, brother.

That's a good pot there.

Really good find.

Just a little couple fathoms
means a lot sometimes.

I mean, the crab is
gonna be two weeks old.

And I don't wanna keep
them any longer than that.

John's choice? Safely
run his weakening catch to town

or stalk the biomass
and risk dead loss.

Yeah, baby! Whoo!

If the king crabs aren't
alive, it's poisonous.

Kills all the other
ones in the tank, too.

You know, last year we
made some good money,

but this year, it
really needs to count.

Well, let's do it and go home.

We're gonna set three strings.
Right in between 200 and 240.

And then all our gear
will be tied together.

Okay, guys. Be careful, be safe.

Let's get them in the
water and go home.

- Roger!
- Yes!

Get as much crab as I can,

don't hurt nobody, and
come home safe.

Is all I can do.

Hope we don't
have any dead loss.

Going over!

Big pot going over.

185 miles southeast,

in Dutch Harbor...

- Beautiful.
- That's gotta go under.

Is there a couple nice, strong
pallets anywhere up on the dock

so we don't have to
around trying to find pallets?

- Roger.
- Yes.

Delivering
$126,000 of eastern bairdi crab,

co-captains Linda Greenlaw
and Wild Bill Wichrowski

stack on an extra 30 pots for
their final push on the grounds.

Bill, how did we make out?

We made a little bit of money.

We caught what we were
supposed to and then some.

Hey, that's good news.

We probably gotta take
off in about 40 minutes.

I heard Erik may have
screwed his hand up in town.

Doing what?

Is he able to work?

I guess that's a question
for him, it looks like a mess.

We need him, we can't really afford
to try to find somebody right now.

Right on. Yeah.

I don't know, I've done whole
seasons with broken bones.

Hopefully he'll come
back from the clinic

with a good report and a fistful on
antibiotics, and we'll get out of here.

Doctor says my hand
has a small break from the top.

And the doctor looked
at me and told me

he doesn't recommend me to work.

I'm really just gonna tell
the crew it went a little better

than it actually went.

There's no possible way

that I'm not going crab fishing.

In Dutch Harbor...

- Hey, Erik.
- Let's see.

What'd they say?

Um, they just, they
gave me antibiotics,

and um, he says I
should take my meds.

We're okay.

It's just a bone in there that...

Did you break that?

So you punched something
and broke your hand.

Something like that. Allegedly.

Yeah, let's see.

- It's ugly.
- Yeah.

But I have all the
functionality of it.

All right, well...

- You're in it now, man.
- Yep.

- I don't wanna hear anything about your hand.
- All right, I'm ready.

Now get your gear out,
we're gonna throw the lines.

Hopefully he'll, you
know, keep getting better,

'cause he's gonna do
nothing but aggravate it once...

- He's always gonna be doing it.
- we get going.

We need to be on our
way. You ready to go?

- Yeah.
- Super ready to go, yeah.

- I'm more than ready to go.
- All right.

Here we go. Let 'em go.

We're out of here.

Updraft? Easy peasy.

440 miles southwest.

Two days steam
from Dutch Harbor.

Whoo!

Near Adak Island.

We're getting rich!

There's some good
numbers. Healthy fish.

Dude, look at that.

On the Saga...

I'm gonna go home, and I have
my own boat to run this winter.

So I just have to keep
the big goal in mind,

and just take in all
the experience I can.

- Wow.
- Baby!

This is the last
pot of the string.

I think that went really well.

How many fish did we get?

1,800.

- Nice job.
- Thank you, boss.

With four days till
their scheduled offload,

captains Jake Anderson
and Sean Dwyer,

with skipper-in-training
Sophia Bob Nielsen on deck,

take aim at their final 150,000
pounds of black cod quota.

That was where our best
fishing was here, it was in 380.

But the problem is it's
three tight little spots.

Getting here and here.

If we wanna get in a
steady flat of 380-yard depth,

- we have to go a round trip in 26 miles.
- Yeah.

At least we're getting close.

We're gonna have to
get creative on this one.

What do you think about
this little spot right in here?

It's tight, but that's
what we want.

I don't understand how you think
you're gonna fit everything in that crater

when we have miles
and miles of line.

You're doing it with the
mouse, bud. It's a circle.

- Circle?
- Spiral it in there. Yeah.

The chances of you losing
them are just real high.

I don't wanna risk
$22,000 in lost steel.

Honestly, we're
running out of time.

All right.

But I ain't doing it.

We're going to do something
a little different on this set.

We're going to put
a little bend in it.

So, it's gonna be a little
goofy going over to the side,

but just keep your
wits about you.

- Roger.
- Roger that.

Aiming at a cod-rich
depression just a half-mile wide,

Sean sets in a corkscrew,
gambling a high pot per square foot

will return a high fish
per square pot average.

I just hope that
all the pots aren't tied off

in one big pile that snaps
off while we're hauling.

Okay, you can throw the
bags when you're ready.

Let her rip!

Whoo!

Here we go.
Cranking the turn in.

God, I hope those
bags don't get tangled up.

Up now, here we go!

Tossing in.

These have been big fish,

and if we can hammer this
spot, I think we're gonna get them.

We're in before the plants
close, and we're out of here.

Either we win or we fail.

600 miles northeast...

Whoa!

Do it, boys!

Just a little test spotter. This is
our furthest north string right now.

On the Barbara J...

Seems that
the crab came up here.

We're getting a solid 25 average
on some of the other ones.

We're getting there, we're getting
close now. Just get 25, man. 25.

With these canneries
shutting down,

we've gotta see if we
can get our number,

and get in there and
get in line, offload.

Let's see.

I don't know where this
buoy is here, I'm not seeing it.

I guess a tenth of a mile
off your port side there.

I don't see
nothing on this side.

We can't see this first one,

let's see where the
hell the second one is.

Coming up on the second
one. 600 feet to the port again.

Should be right here?

Yeah, it should be right here.

- Nothing?
- No.

Sig, you on here?

Hey, Harley, I got you.

Hey, man, my pots were
here and they're gone.

You wouldn't know what
happened, would you?

Yeah, I know, I'm looking
at you. I moved them.

You did what?

I just bumped 'em up the hill we
talked about, just a couple of miles.

I just didn't have the pots to go
try it, but all signs lead this way.

Stand by, I'll get you the
bearings, is that all right?

Yeah, I guess, I
gotta have my pots back, so...

Hey, listen, don't
touch our gear.

Hey, listen, don't
touch our gear.

On the eastern
bairdi crab grounds...

Yeah. No, I just can't believe
he did that, but all right.

That's crazy, man.
That's just unacceptable.

You know how it
is. You got a hunch...

- A hunch with your own pots, not mine.
- Yeah, right?

They're gonna hit,
man. I'm telling you.

I'm hoping. They better.

Yeah, they better.

If they hit,
great. Everybody wins.

If they miss, well, then I
got a scrap coming my way.

There better
be some crab in 'em.

She's coming up.
She's coming up.

At least they were
where you said they were.

- There it comes, right here.
- What do you got?

What is
this? Nothing in this one.

- Nothing?
- Doesn't look like hardly anything.

We got no crab. We got no crab.

Yeah, awesome work,
Sig. That one had zero crab.

Well, give it a chance. Let me
know what's in the next one, okay?

Sig wouldn't this bad, would he?

He had a hunch, he
had a hunch for a reason.

You can see, he's getting
down in that gully now.

Come on, baby.

Dude.

Yep, second one. Four.

Four crab. This is awesome.

They'll be there.

Just be patient.

See what this one does.

It's getting better. Let's go.

Look at that! On
the upswing, man.

- Look at that one.
- That's pretty nice.

That's a dandy.

Sig, pretty damn good pot.

No kidding.

Yes!

Eighty plus. That's a
short soak. That's big.

Let's go grab our gear.

Pick 'em up, and let's go north.

Let's napalm this
. Let's hit it.

Going over.

Who knows how
big this area can be?

You know, it might be
good for both of us, right?

Hopefully we'll find something.

90 miles southwest.

On the Summer Bay...

If it gets worse, we're just
gonna have to amputate.

I understand.

I got a hatchet in
here. It's a little rusty...

- I sharpened it up the other day.
- Yeah.

I got my tetanus shot.

You know, we've been
working at 74, 75, 77 fathoms.

With 12,000
pounds of quota still to catch,

captains Wild Bill
and Linda Greenlaw

ready a final 30-pot barrage

125 miles north of Dutch Harbor.

In 2.5 or 3 miles, we'll set.

Roger.

You wanna put them
a little more shallow?

How about trying this one in 67?

The deep water's
been pretty bad.

Well, the bottom looks
good at 69, the contours.

Lot of eggs in a basket there.

I've been wrong before, but...

Okay.

- Let's see what happens.
- Roger.

Well, can I spell you
for a while and set a few?

Sure. Set 'em off at
sixth of a mile to the east.

We'll get them in
the water, and...

See you in a bit.

All right, guys,
get ready to set it.

Positive. Let's go.

Now we got Bill down on deck.

I'm not too surprised.

Bill's always willing
to get his hands dirty.

That's what makes him Wild Bill.

We haven't tried a lot of 67.

It's a fairly flat type of
bottom that they're liking.

Yep. I'm gonna shoal
it up a little more.

- Let it go.
- Roger.

Don't call me Roger.

It's going over.

We don't have many differences of
opinion, but you know, there are a few.

I may be a rookie here in the
Bering Sea, in this crab fishery,

but I'm no stranger to fishing.

I mean, my God, I've been fishing
lobster traps since I was 8 years old.

Going over.

Bill and I want the same thing.

We both want to put crabs
on the boat and go home.

170 miles northwest...

Coming up.

Yeah, look at my shot!

Look at that.

On the Time Bandit...

We set everything
we have, all our pots.

And we're right in
between 240 and 220.

So, hopefully, it comes up good.

We might have a problem.
We might lose a bunch of crab.

Resetting gear 20
hours away from Dutch Harbor,

Captain Johnathan sprints
through 15-foot waves

to haul his final three
strings of the season.

It doesn't give us
much time. Come on, crabbies.

Big snag.

We need block assistance.

Yeah, keep doing that, Freddy.

- Think we can get around it?
- Yeah.

Tangle ups are just not
good. Nothing good about it.

Give me a sec.

This is dangerous.

God help us out here.

No, no.

Hang on,
guys. Run, run, run, run.

- Go!
- Watch out.

- On the Time Bandit...
- No, no.

Hang on,
guys. Run, run, run, run.

- Go!
- Watch out.

You guys okay?

Good job, guys.

Holy moly.

All right.

This is all getting really dangerous.
If all of a sudden that knot comes out,

and you have your hand in a
loop, lots of guys die right here.

Get pulled over
board, pulled under,

and then you gotta grab the line

and when you pull on it, it only
gets tighter and rips their arms off.

Come
on, baby. Come on.

We got you now, you.

- Yeah, baby!
- Yeah!

There we go. Now we got it.

That was nerve-wracking.
Very stressful, that one.

We work safe together,
nobody got hurt, got it in.

That's how we do it. Teamwork,
Time Bandit style, baby.

Back in action.

Come on, baby.

Let's get it aboard!

Boo.

That doesn't do nothing.

No.

I had high hopes for this, but
it's not coming up too pretty.

Ouch.

Just gonna keep fishing,
hold my head up high.

It's all I can do.

No good.

Damn. Nothing.

We're out a quarter-mile deeper.

Hope we get us some
better numbers right here.

- Come to papa!
- Come on up.

Better find something quick.

Coming in.

Yeah, baby!

Looks pretty good. That's
back in the numbers we need.

Yeah, baby, look at that!

That's a huge crab, dude.

Yeah, baby.

Hell yeah! That's
a good looking pot.

Yeah, baby! Look at that! Yeah!

Look at that, those
are big. Holy smokes!

Ooh, we're on 'em, baby. When
you're on 'em, you're on em.

Golden boys.

The white and blue
string hit, saved our a*s.

Woo-hoo. That's
a lot of crab love.

Love to be there and kiss
every crab. We love every crab.

Boss!

This will be the
longest we ever held a hull of crab for.

So hopefully
everything works out.

215 miles east.

This is cooking right here.

- There's lots of crab.
- Yeah.

After an
unrequested assist from Sig,

Jack and Harley zero in on the last
750 pounds of their eastern bairdi quota.

Whoa.

What the hell was that?

What is this?

Say that again?

It says, "Thanks for
gear, you're welcome."

The nerve?

- The nerve.
- Wow.

Big crab!

Looks good?

That is really
good looking bairdi.

There's some volume.

Keeper.

They're like 4 or 5 pound
crab. It's amazing.

That adds up so quick.

Instead of a cheap
Christmas card this year,

maybe I owe Steve an actual
gift for a change.

All right, last pot.

Flame on!

- Hit it.
- Don't miss.

Whoo!

Good one.

Bairdi!

Yeah!

600 miles southwest.

Sean, I can't find these bags.

A spiral stream.

On the Saga...

All right, maybe you
got better eyes than I do.

Or maybe I see twice as well.

Well, I'm... honestly, I said
that you were gonna lose them,

and I kind of want
that to happen

for some weird, sadistic,
egotistical reason.

I'm just being honest
'cause you're my friend.

Okay, well,

I set the string in a
spiral, pretty unorthodox.

It felt right at the
time, but I don't know.

If this thing comes up as a big
Volkswagen Bus-sized knot, I'm screwed.

We're gonna have to get out
of here probably after this string.

Because looking at the
weather and how it's gonna be,

that's two full days
at least, steaming.

It's crunch time.

I found it, Sean.

Right there.

Off we go.

First pot.

It's our last hope. Let's see.

Got it!

We'll see how this thing goes.

God, I hope this pays off.

Coming up.

On the Barbara J...

"Just sit here, Jack,
I'll teach you how."

Get one of those laughs.

Captain Jack
learns the wicked snicker.

From the wicked
skipper who perfected it.

You're gonna get it.

There you go. Now
you're getting it figured out.

The kid's a natural.

On the Saga...

Coming up.

What do we got?

If this doesn't come up in a tangled
mess, I'm gonna feel very lucky.

We need this play to work

in order to get
to the goal line.

We got some, baby.

It's loaded, Sean.

Whoo! They're big!

Good sizes in here, damn.

Big!

It's banging, dude.

- 148 big fish.
- 148 big doggies.

148 $100 fish.

So big!

It's working. The
spiral is working.

It's solid.

Look at them, they're huge!

So we're just gonna drive
in a circle all the time, now?

I don't know if my stress
levels can handle that.

Whoo!

Yeah, dude.

- We got 'em.
- Nice!

Look at it. They're
pretty freaking big.

We did it.

We're headed in.

All right.
Good job, everybody.

On the Summer Bay...

This stuff's
really shallow here.

Is this the right string?

When you set this, you didn't
go where we talked about.

We were going 69,
and you went 67.

A little bit of free will there.

No.

A seven?

Yeah. Good answer.

Hopefully we finish our trip.

Pretty good there, hotshot.

Hell yeah,
look at all those keepers.

They look like nice crabs, too.

Erik seems to
be hanging in there.

I don't care how tough you
are, that hand has to hurt.

I don't wanna let
my crew down here.

I gotta hand it to him for
working through the pain.

Hey, Skippy Donald,
how about 67?

Looks like a good spot.

Pretty certain we're gonna have
what we need and then some.

- You did a good job.
- Yeah.

In Dutch Harbor...

Survived another one.

Lot of nice big
crab this morning.

It's pretty good. Abby's
gonna be pretty happy about it.

Hey, Abby. We've had
twice as good as last year.

Got some crab pots.

You did good.

Thanks for coming out,
man, helped me a lot, man.

Okay, Abby, I'll give you
a call when we get home.

Okay, sounds good, man.

- Did we hit it?
- We hit our number, dude.

Yeah! Nice.

Plus a couple hund.

Yeah, that's awesome.

60,280.

- All right.
- There you go. That was a good delivery.

Now we
just gotta get ready for the next deal.

We got all our stuff in, next trip for
this boat, it's gonna be a cod boat.

I was gonna ask you if
you wanna do it, Jack.

By myself? In the wheelhouse?

This is you, man, you make
the choices, you make the calls,

you're the guy that's in
charge. You're number one.

I don't know if I wanna
hug you, kiss you, or what.

- I'm excited.
- No, we're good with handshakes.

You're good, man. You got it.
You can do this. We're good.

I gotta call and tell my dad.

- Hey, Jack.
- Hey, Dad.

- It's official.
- You took the crab off?

Yeah, we got the crab off, we
hit our quota of 60,000 pounds,

and Harley's letting
me take the boat for cod.

Nice! Good work. We're
all so proud of you, bud.

I just had to call
and tell you, Dad.

I love you and I'll see
you in a couple days.

Gotta go tell my crew.

All right, sounds good, bud.

- All right, later.
- Bye.

This one's for him.

But it ain't over yet.

I've been summoned, Capitan.

I just wanted to let you know
I haven't forgot about you.

We share similar stories,

and our trauma... going
through it can't be easy.

I know that.

And I really respect that
you're trying to carry on

what your father and
mother were doing.

I think maybe
somewhere in your head,

you don't think that you're strong
enough somewhere, but you are.

You know, I believe in you.

I know your parents
believe in you.

And I'm real proud of you.

Thanks, Jake.

I'll do my best
not to disappoint.

Well, you haven't yet, so...

That being said, get the
out of my face.

Peace.

- Thanks for the coffee.
- Yeah, no problem.