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Aussie Lobster Men - Season 5 Episode 3
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00:00Previously...
00:01This pot? Oh, my goodness.
00:03Who could be on here? Yeah!
00:05The winter lobster hunting season has officially kicked off.
00:09They seem to work a lot better when you put bait in them.
00:11Right in front of the squizzy.
00:13Risking it all in pursuit of the world's most prized seafood delicacy
00:18is a fleet of young gun lobstermen
00:20and an old sea dog who bites as hard as he barks.
00:27Thanks, Miles, for sending Bryce my way.
00:30And he does.
00:31And Squizzy's gear is here as well.
00:33I knew it! I told you!
00:35Squizzy, I think there's a booger hooked up in your propeller.
00:38Fuck Christ!
00:39Biting over the same bit of ground, but I was here first.
00:42Hey, Miles, that's you right in front of me, is it?
00:44Yeah.
00:45You're shooting right in front of my parts.
00:47Thanks, Bryce.
00:48They might be pissed off that I'm here.
00:49Now, it proves he can't catch his own fist,
00:51but I'm pissed off there, are you?
00:53No!
01:00It's 5.30 a.m., and the crew of the Pira is on the hunt for lobsters.
01:25It's going good this morning.
01:26Get a fish about.
01:28Three.
01:28We got up at 3 o'clock this morning.
01:35We tried to find our night shot.
01:37Bryce has come and shot pots in the middle of our pots.
01:40It's just really annoying.
01:41We ran into one about here.
01:43It's another queue of these pots up here.
01:46We've got all this rope hanging on the surface of the water.
01:48It makes it bloody impossible.
01:50It pushes you out of the area, really.
01:51Bryce tries to work up top of me again today.
01:54I'm going to be losing my patience very quickly,
01:56and I'm going to get f***ing really wild.
01:59And I will not be holding back.
02:02Miles' tally for the season stands at 163 lobsters,
02:07worth a massive $10,000.
02:11That's a handy lead on what Bryce and his crew have landed.
02:15Jack started late,
02:16but he has a cheeky 100 big reds tucked away from his last trip.
02:21And then there's Squizzy,
02:23the 11th hour intruder who's neck and neck with Bryce.
02:32Whoa!
02:33What have we got?
02:34One nautical mile away from the Pira,
02:37Bryce's boat, the Chieftain, is pulling its night shot.
02:41One!
02:42Ah, ah, ah!
02:44I'm going to do my Count Dracula County.
02:47Lockie and Jock can joke all they want about the low catch rate.
02:49However, if I can't catch fish,
02:51it's really not looking good.
02:53Three!
02:54Ah, ah, ah, ah!
02:55Three loxter,
02:56provided this one goes,
02:57and it does.
02:58Ah!
02:59If we get three a pot,
02:59that'll give us $150 for the shop.
03:01If we get another $150 for the day shop,
03:03I'll sit for $100 for the day.
03:04$300 for the day.
03:05Call that $200 kilo.
03:06Deals are paid.
03:07$240 kilo.
03:08Hey?
03:08$240 kilo.
03:09Oh, sorry,
03:10bloody Mr. Exacto knife over here.
03:13If we still get $100,
03:14I'll be happy.
03:15F***ing all in that one.
03:22I mustn't have packed their lunch very well.
03:25The crew of the Buran is fishing in close,
03:28searching for monster-sized reds.
03:31This is what a monster lobster looks like.
03:34Two kilos,
03:36three kilos,
03:37four kilos.
03:40It won't fit in the hole.
03:41But so far this morning on the Buran...
03:50There's no reason there shouldn't be beefy,
03:54so I guess we'll soon see.
03:59First photo-wise gets you a bit f***ing anxious.
04:03Jack may only be 29,
04:05but he knows these waters well.
04:07A couple of rocks just under the water over in there,
04:12so I sort of want to try to avoid them.
04:17A lot of blokes that do it,
04:19usually do it out of the tinny,
04:20so we don't have that luxury,
04:22so I've got to use the big buck for it.
04:25So the closer you are in,
04:27the closer you are to their little home sort of thing.
04:29F***.
04:30Come on, lobos.
04:31The prize for fishing in shore
04:32are lobsters worth more than any other.
04:35Got high hopes for a couple of these,
04:37but anything above two kilos
04:39is currently fetching $85 a kilo
04:42versus around $60 for lobsters under a kilo.
04:46No females until I think November.
04:50Means we've got lots of new babies for the following year.
04:53We've got to have babies.
04:54Babies are there.
04:55We just need lots of f***ing papa bears.
04:57Female lobsters and undersized lobsters have to go back.
05:01There's a little family in there.
05:03It's illegal to keep them.
05:05Heavy fines apply for breaking the rules.
05:08How's it been better?
05:10A little bit more promising.
05:11They're all good.
05:12All looking good.
05:13Four.
05:14I'll put up with pots of four, Johnny.
05:17So at this stage, every pot counts.
05:19I've just got engaged.
05:20I've got a wedding to pay for.
05:22We need to land some fish.
05:24What was in that one, bud?
05:25Five.
05:26We're getting some good numbers.
05:27Definitely can't complain.
05:30They're awake.
05:34Five, Kazzy.
05:37Five out of that one.
05:38Pretty consistent.
05:39It's worth having a look around this area for sure.
05:41Six.
05:42Six.
05:43Nice.
05:43Can I go this one for us, please, bud?
05:44Six, brother.
05:47Six.
05:48Six again.
05:51Seven.
05:51Seven.
05:52Eight, actually.
05:53Eight.
05:54Eight.
05:55Eight.
05:55That's a f***ing good number.
05:57Just under 50 out of the first sort of dozen pots.
06:01If we can stick it out, yeah, it'll be a good shot.
06:07Now, that's the sand shark.
06:09Pain in the arse.
06:11The Pyrrha's fast start to the season...
06:13No good for nothing.
06:14...has started to decelerate.
06:16Is there much bait left in there?
06:18Buggerel.
06:19Is there any loss there, do you reckon?
06:22Yeah.
06:22Oh, the knife shot, it's been a little bit patchy.
06:28Sea lice have eaten a bit of our bait.
06:30Sea lice are tiny parasite crustaceans.
06:33They cost the local fishing industry tens of thousands of dollars a year in lost income.
06:39I hate sea lice, yeah.
06:41Bait is what catches crayfish.
06:43You've got sea lice there and they eat all the bait out.
06:45Well, the crayfish, they're not going to go in the cray pot.
06:48Is there any bait at all left in there?
06:51No, nothing.
06:52Skeletal?
06:53They've become a huge problem, but, you know, you've just got to work out a bit of a system
06:57and try and work around it.
06:59So, I've sort of got to make the decision whether we might start putting a bit more bait in the pots
07:02just for the night time.
07:04First Bryce, the mozzie, and now I've got another parasite I've got to deal with.
07:10Look at that.
07:11First line.
07:13Nice.
07:16Stoked.
07:16This area is just miles and miles and miles of cray lobster bottom.
07:21And we're trying to catch craze, but...
07:23So, we're getting no lobsters in the pots.
07:27Lobbies!
07:28Not enough.
07:29Oh, my God, you're one of those people that go to a restaurant,
07:32they give you a bowl of bread with some olive oil, and you say,
07:34I want another bowl of it.
07:35It's not enough.
07:37Not many sides coming out of here, lobster.
07:39Got miles just out to the harvard side.
07:41He would have been getting a few.
07:44And I know where Squizzie is, he would have been getting a few.
07:47They would have been reds, and they would be very nice out wide there.
07:50No.
07:51What about you?
07:53That's not good.
07:54No.
07:56Little, little.
07:58No.
07:59No.
08:03Finally.
08:04Finally one.
08:05One's better than none.
08:07Way too ratty for my liking.
08:09I want to get at least two out of that one, Johnny.
08:16F*** yeah, baby.
08:17At Port Davie, the reds just keep on coming.
08:21Jack wants pot consistency.
08:23More, bruv?
08:24Four.
08:24That's 102, Johnny.
08:27Not a bad shot for the first up.
08:29100.
08:3018 spots left to go.
08:32Best trip I've ever had.
08:35As far as numbers go.
08:36Smiles on the dials.
08:38And we want to win.
08:40Yeah, it's looking good.
08:43Thought of what I was hoping for this morning, but I wasn't really expecting it.
08:47Beautiful, bruv.
08:49Just another day in my office.
08:52Day bin's looking pretty good.
08:53Day bin's looking beautiful.
08:55It's awesome.
08:57When that's full, it's a good thing.
08:58One to bloody go.
08:59That was the snazzy throw.
09:02Last pot, brother.
09:10Put the boys back on it, mate.
09:12Step away.
09:13Watch out, just in case that rope breaks.
09:15Shit, this last pot's snagged up under a rock.
09:19You ever hear it struggle like that?
09:20Just put the boys' front back on and get out of the way of it.
09:25The boat weighs around 40 tonne, and we've got 2,500 psi of breath.
09:29Pressure runners with the hydraulics.
09:31There's a lot of strain.
09:33And we don't want the deckhand.
09:34I'll have the rope flick out and grab him.
09:38It's jammed up.
09:39Really bad.
09:41The west coast of Tasmania is not the place where you want anything to go wrong.
09:49Come on, ****.
09:53Sometimes you tie another rope onto it, steam away, and pull it from a different angle.
09:58It'll come straight out.
09:59Sometimes it'll just be a ****.
10:06If I lose this pot, it could be five grams worth of fish, depending on how it goes.
10:09See one, Jesse?
10:21Oh, yeah.
10:22On the bold contender, 17-year-old deckhand Jesse has recovered from his seasickness.
10:28Trouble is, the crew's lobster catch ratio is well below par.
10:32Squizzy, the old dog intruder, may be out of his depth.
10:37We're not going real well this morning, that's for sure.
10:40We're looking like a bit over a fisher pot, so we might have to shuffle them around and move them around a bit.
10:46Senior decky Rhino reckons it's Bryce's fault.
10:49Bryce, the nerve of the bloke, dropping his gear all over our house.
10:54The crayfish get pot shy.
10:56Oh, another blank.
10:57Oh, another blank.
10:58That's halving the fish catch.
10:59It's not fair.
11:01Squizzle.
11:03Far out.
11:05I come out here to make money, mate, not bloody catch.
11:09Hermit crabs.
11:11I'm pretty sure Bryce is getting to him.
11:14Bryce is not getting to me.
11:15Precious mounted up to him.
11:17Mate, I can't be perfect all the time.
11:19Sometimes you have bad days.
11:23Just to make it clear, Bryce has given me the shits, but he's not getting to me.
11:29Yo, what's going on?
11:32Bryce is getting to me.
11:34Yeah, righto.
11:35It's like a mosquito.
11:39Yeah, well, I ran one of these poxers.
11:41I nearly ran over one of his this morning, because he's just got deer in between mine.
11:45If I can send him back over your way, I will.
11:47I'm going to take 20 down to that next bit, but two and a half miles down.
11:53Well, ****, I was saving that for a few days.
11:56Anyway, you haven't done it.
11:58Yeah, well, Bryce is all over up there, so ****, I'll get the team of doing that shit.
12:04Is he back where you are now?
12:06Yeah.
12:10He had a bad reputation pretty quick.
12:13If I'm going to teach Bryce a lesson, I need to get my boat running smooth.
12:17And at the moment, it ain't running smooth.
12:22Yep.
12:23At the end of the day, it's new crew.
12:26They're doing the best they can, but they've got to get better.
12:29Yep.
12:32Hang on.
12:34Yep.
12:35We're still going to tangle.
12:38There you go.
12:39There you go.
12:40There you go.
12:42No point throwing at the end, it's on the sand now.
12:45Huh?
12:45Ah.
12:46If I say yep, and you don't go, no point down **** ten minutes later, that could be 50 metres deeper.
12:54Pretty stuffed up.
12:55When I said yep, set the pot, they fixed the stuff up and they just threw the pot, which was 10, 20 metres after I said yep.
13:07If I'm babysitting deckhands, I'm not concentrating on my job.
13:11I need to get my head back in the game.
13:13One or two to go.
13:16Yeah, then we've got to go and get the one we lost.
13:18Oh, we've lost one, haven't we?
13:21We left one of our pots up.
13:24When Bryce settled around us, yeah, I left one there by mistake.
13:29You don't want to lose a pot at the start of a trip.
13:34It'll cost you thousands of dollars because you don't get another pot back to catch more fish.
13:39I don't have a clue where the pot is, but it's over near Bryce somewhere.
13:42Now I've got to ask Bryce to look for me pot.
13:45I've got to eat a bit of humble pie.
13:56Come on.
13:57The Buran's last pot of the shop is 40 metres down, and it might be staying there.
14:05It's that good.
14:06It could mean a loss of income of up to $5,000 or worse.
14:12You've got to be careful.
14:13Johnny's standing too close.
14:15Gets a hand wrapped in the rope.
14:16If I lose Johnny, it's only me on the boat, and I'm going to try and do what I can to get him back on board.
14:23Last pot caught.
14:24Of course, the pot's actually caught on rocks on the bottom.
14:29So we're just trying to drive around it so I can pull it up from a different angle.
14:33Come on, you f***ing prick.
14:42Got him.
14:43Yeah, baby.
14:45Poor old pot's probably going to be destroyed.
14:48We got it.
14:49Assistance.
14:50Yeah, f***ing blank.
14:52I'm not too upset about that.
14:55That was pretty healthy.
14:56Beautiful catch.
14:57Yeah, pretty stoked with that for the morning shot.
15:01So I ended up with 135 from this morning.
15:04A few nice sized ones in there.
15:06120 kilos.
15:07Easy.
15:07If we can do anything similar for a day shot and do that sort of every morning, yeah, it shouldn't take too much to put a load on and get out of here.
15:14We exceeded all our expectations.
15:17But look at the way we're doing it.
15:19Way rather be out here doing this with a good boss than stuck in a shitty office.
15:24Nicest thing I've heard you say, Johnny.
15:26Oh, ruff.
15:27Yeah, you're right.
15:30Nah, it almost is the nicest thing I've seen.
15:32I'm not asking much.
15:39I just need 15 to 20 out of the last couple and then we'll hit nearly 100.
15:45What we really want to see today is 100 a shot at minimum.
15:51You do that over 10 days, a tonne and a half.
15:53If I get $60 a kilo, you know, you're talking $90,000.
15:59Probably 80 grand of that's cost.
16:00Hey, get in there a bit.
16:0310 grand, you know, one little thing goes wrong, you lose a few pots, that 10 grand's gone.
16:09If something breaks on this boat, it's not hundreds, it's thousands.
16:14And if it's not thousands, it's hundreds of thousands.
16:17Looking average.
16:18I don't think we're going to hit our minimum target, but we'll find out in about 40 seconds.
16:28The answer is...
16:3050.
16:3350 on the dot.
16:34Yep.
16:36What did we get earlier?
16:3640?
16:3742.
16:388.
16:3842?
16:39I think so.
16:4092.
16:40That sucks.
16:4192 is rough.
16:42100 should be there.
16:44But whether it's because we're rushing, I don't know.
16:46But 92 is rough.
16:47There's a little bit more pressure in tap making sure we get fish in the day, sir.
16:51I feel pressure.
16:53If I feel it though.
16:54I don't know, the bags under your eyes tell a different story, mate.
16:57I know this man like the back of my hand.
17:00I don't feel pressure.
17:00I don't feel pressure.
17:01I don't feel pressure.
17:01I don't feel pressure.
17:02I don't feel pressure.
17:03Hey, mate.
17:04How you going?
17:06Yeah, not too bad.
17:07Um, I'm missing a pot and I'm pretty sure it's over where you are, where we had them pots
17:12together the other day.
17:13Yeah, right.
17:14Can you please keep a lookout, mate?
17:15If you find it, let us know.
17:17Yep, no worries.
17:19Squizzy's asked me to find his lost pot.
17:21Who would have thought he'd asked me for help?
17:24Maybe Squizzy does need glasses.
17:25He can't even find his own gear.
17:28We might even have a little fun here.
17:32Just grapple this pot for one sec.
17:34Grapple it?
17:35Just grapple it.
17:35I need to do something to it.
17:37What are we doing to it?
17:39Oh, he's squeezed.
17:41What do I get if I find this pot?
17:44Uh, nothing.
17:46Friendship, mate?
17:47What was that?
17:47I get everything that's in it.
17:49No, you're a bully.
17:51An absolute bully.
17:53Kiss off.
17:53Don't wait.
17:56Can you give us the mark for it, please?
17:58Yeah, I'll send you the mark.
18:01Well, that was nice to think of the radio app.
18:03Yeah.
18:05Yeah, maybe he's not such a **** after all.
18:08So I'm going to duct tape a banana to his pot line.
18:16Squizzy is very, very superstitious.
18:19Does not like bananas.
18:20Bananas are just a no-go.
18:23He might get angry if he gets a banana in his boat, but he ran my pot over.
18:26Yeah, that's only retaliation.
18:28I don't want to lose an Arnie.
18:30An Arnie will fail, man.
18:31So the idea of this, the idea of this is they will be holding their pot.
18:35It'll go boom into the holler and it's just going to go splat everywhere, preferably over
18:39the deckhand.
18:40But no hard feelings against whoever is standing at the holler.
18:44This is purely because Squizzy just loves a good banana.
18:48Yeah, good to go.
18:49That a go?
18:50I'll back away.
18:52See you, Arnie.
18:57He's one called a banana bomb.
18:59Bananas are coming for you, buddy.
19:01A little fruit and veg never hurt nobody.
19:0911.
19:09He's got 11 out of that pot.
19:12That's the high pot so far of the trip.
19:18It's quite good to see fish in the pot.
19:20Then to get to his shot, this happens all the time.
19:23That 11 in the first one, next view.
19:26He's barely been getting the fish out of the pot.
19:29Team Pira has landed 103 lobsters for its night shot, but the young gun skipper has a
19:35problem to deal with.
19:36There's just no bait left in him, is there?
19:40Yeah, so these pots have been liced out.
19:44Yeah, lice are pretty bad.
19:46Give me bait savers back, not even no bait in him.
19:48So, cooter ants are gone.
19:51Pots in the water for, I don't know how many hours without baiting them, so they're not
19:56big and fish in them either.
19:57A bait's a huge expense.
19:59We put about three to four boxes of bait in a shot.
20:02We've got $70 to $80 a box of bait.
20:05Sea lice moved with the tides.
20:06Miles will have to stay uptight if he's any chance of holding his ground on the tally board.
20:12We'll probably move these in a bit shallower, and I reckon we'll double bag them tonight,
20:16I reckon.
20:17So tonight we'll just hang two baskets in them.
20:21Don't really want to feed the lice our bait.
20:23If we can get a 30% increase with an extra box of bait, well, you know, I think that's
20:27money well spent.
20:30Put a basket on either side, hang a cooter ant on the outside, give him a bit to chew on,
20:36pay for the extra bait elk there.
20:38It's a lot of work for Tim, double baiting for tonight.
20:45Yeah, he's under the pump, but he's doing really well.
20:48He's a really good decking, he's experienced.
20:51I mean, usually I have two crew doing this.
20:55He's getting by, he's doing it all by himself, so he's doing a great job.
20:59Did that bottom one up there, you baited it?
21:04None of them got baited in them, yeah.
21:06Oh, righto.
21:07Yeah, I thought you said there was only a couple to pull on, then we're steaming up
21:09the other end, so that's why.
21:10Yeah.
21:11Been getting to them as I can, but.
21:13Nah, it's all right, we're going to have catch up in too long.
21:18I'm eight pots fine, bro, I'm not talking.
21:21Not at the moment, I've got to catch up.
21:25Being a deckhand on a cray boat, like, it's such a hard job.
21:29How hard they work, the conditions they've got to be in.
21:32It's important to look after your deckhands.
21:34The more you look after them, and the harder they're going to work, and they benefit the operation.
21:38Do you want a vegan light sandwich or something?
21:40Yeah, please.
21:41Just one or two?
21:42Ah, probably two.
21:43Yeah, righto.
21:44Oh.
21:46Timmy has six kids.
21:48He used to work in the mines before he made the switch to decky work.
21:52Yeah, I spent probably six, seven years underground.
21:55Too political, I don't even know how to spell my own name.
21:58You've got to write down everything you do under there, that's, everything's safe to you, mate.
22:03Out here, you just use common sense.
22:06I don't really like people, so this suits me pretty well.
22:18Here's our lost pot.
22:19Oh, he's coming.
22:20He's over there.
22:21He's just there.
22:22Here he comes, loggy.
22:24He's going to come and see his little surprise.
22:27He really loves a banana, I'm telling you.
22:30He really does.
22:32He'll be there in a sec.
22:40You reckon he would have played with it?
22:45He's about to pull the pot.
22:47I reckon he's going to be really cautious when he hauls it.
22:50Nah.
22:51Nah, he won't expect it.
22:52If I was squizzy, I'd be cautious, knowing that Bryce has been near that.
22:56You, sir?
22:57You're a tumble maker?
22:59It's in the hauler.
23:00Here it comes.
23:01Look at all that.
23:02Oh, ****.
23:03Get the knife.
23:04**** bananas.
23:05**** bananas.
23:06**** bananas.
23:07**** bananas.
23:08Oh, that's ****.
23:09It looks like they're all out on deck, so hopefully it works.
23:24He loves it, doesn't he?
23:28I don't even want to touch it.
23:35I did save him the pot.
23:38That pot could have just cost him five grand.
23:40He couldn't find it, so it just required a banana on it.
23:45Banana's just bad luck and I don't want him on the boat.
23:49Proven fact for us.
23:52Bloody Bryce.
23:54Drops his gear all over our gear and gives us bananas.
23:58Cheeky bugger.
23:59He hasn't said anything.
24:00I don't know what's going on.
24:01Takes him a while to load what he needs to say.
24:05Yeah.
24:06It's buffering.
24:07He's got a few lobs through it, though.
24:22Just playing with a straight face.
24:24Be a nice guy.
24:26All right.
24:27Thanks for that, mate.
24:29Very good of you.
24:30Thank you very much.
24:31No worries, mate.
24:33Potassium helps with nerves and heart, so...
24:36And muscles.
24:37Muscles as well.
24:38So potassium should help you.
24:39What are you talking about?
24:41Was there not a banana wrapped around your rope on that pot?
24:46No.
24:47There was no banana on the front.
24:50Well, that sucks.
24:51Nani fell off.
24:52I was hoping it would just splatter on your ball lawns and that was about it.
24:56So, oh well, nothing happened and therefore nothing happens.
25:00It's a win-win for everyone.
25:02Oh, for sure.
25:04Oh, mate, you had my beautiful nice day and you take care.
25:07It's just what you've done.
25:09I'm not giving any of the satisfaction.
25:16He's saying it didn't work, but then he sounds very...
25:20He's just like, you just have a good day with your crew.
25:23Oh, no.
25:24He's sore.
25:25He's not going to let you know it works because he doesn't want you to be like,
25:29yes!
25:30Oh, well.
25:32We're one Nani short now.
25:34Damn it.
25:35Mate, we're going to get scurvy.
25:37We're running out of fruit.
25:38Oh, well.
25:39What goes around comes around.
25:41Uh, what?
25:42Eh?
25:43How's this up?
25:44That's a big old twist.
25:45What have you done, Brycey?
25:46What have you done?
25:47Nothing.
25:48It's one squeeze he ran over.
25:49Yeah, look.
25:50There's all the paint.
25:51Here, you chuck this in.
25:52I'll pass it with you.
25:53See?
25:54Banana.
25:55Banana happened for a reason.
25:56Because he ran a pot over.
25:57What else, please?
25:58How long have you been driving both still away?
25:59So just in the last 24 hours, Bryce shot on the top of us.
26:05I ran one of his pots over.
26:06We found our pot and he put an arm on it.
26:07We've always got to have the last say.
26:08We'll get him back somehow.
26:09Will success be Squizzy's best revenge?
26:10His pots are bursting with brindles.
26:11How do we get this morning, Bryno?
26:12How do we get this morning, Bryno?
26:13How do we get this morning, Bryno?
26:14Just in the last 24 hours, Bryce shot over the top of us.
26:18I ran one of his pots over.
26:20We found our pot, and we put an arm on it.
26:24We've always got to have the last say.
26:27We'll get him back somehow.
26:29Will success be Squizzy's best revenge?
26:33His pots are bursting with brindles.
26:37How are we getting this morning, Bryno?
26:41112.
26:41112.
26:43Quick weight, 112.
26:45Really?
26:46112.
26:47Yeah!
26:49If we give another 100 today, it's 200 for the day.
26:5210 days, 2,000 fish.
26:54You always want more, but...
26:56The Pirah still leads with 266 lobsters.
27:01But the bold contender is just seven behind.
27:05The Chieftain is on 238 lobsters.
27:08And the Buran is closing in with 135 after one shot.
27:15All you do is cause drama.
27:18That's all you do.
27:19That's why I'm the drama llama, mate.
27:21I'm not eating crayfish, mate.
27:23I'm eating drama llama, right?
27:25That's all you care about.
27:26Okay, we were in on the banana being put on Squizzy's road, but...
27:30He's always pulling these things behind the scenes.
27:32That's all he does.
27:33He's going, I might sit here because I know this person will want to be there, but we'll
27:36get there first.
27:37Exactly.
27:37He gets in everyone's way.
27:39All right, Jock, we've got to distract him somehow.
27:43Yeah, we've got a little surprise for Bryce, but we don't want him to see it until at least
27:47we shoot in the pot.
27:49Jock and I have got a little stuffed llama that we're going to stuff into a pot.
27:58Dang!
27:58Stage one completed.
28:07Now we've just got to keep him from seeing it until we shoot the pots in.
28:14The next hand, mate, we'll just start on 40 feather mines, yeah?
28:17You really did, mate?
28:18The crew of the Buran has landed 135 lobsters for its night shot.
28:23If Jack's day shot is close to that number, the Buran will be vying for the lead.
28:30Trying to day shot a little bit deeper, a bit over 70 metres sort of thing.
28:35Just keep that momentum going, get a couple of brindles on.
28:39They pay a bit less, but we might be able to boost up a couple of numbers for the day,
28:43I hope.
28:43Get a couple of hundred fish a day, I'll be over the moon with it.
28:46I'm interested to know how the other boys went today.
28:58No, leave it there because it's hiding it from where you can see it.
29:03Hey, Bryce, how it going?
29:05Good, yourself?
29:07Mate, it's like a milk pond here, it's awesome.
29:10Not a breath of wind, the sun's actually out for once.
29:13Yeah, it's a glorious day here today.
29:16Yeah, right, how'd you go this morning?
29:19Ah, we didn't do too bad this morning, we had 135 this morning.
29:22See, you did well, flogged us.
29:24Yeah, I was happy with it too, like, have a good fish.
29:28Yeah, you're behaving yourself down there, it was a pleasure you'd be playing up again.
29:31I tried playing up this morning, but it didn't work.
29:34What did you do?
29:36I put a banana on his pot line, but...
29:38Now he's f***ing done like bananas, mate.
29:40I don't really like bananas, but he...
29:41He ran over one of my pots, so it was sort of like pre-emptive.
29:45Playback.
29:46How'd he run over your pot?
29:48Oh, he reckons I shot too close to him, but I was shooting around his gear and I didn't
29:51run over one of his, so...
29:52I reckon he's just getting old.
29:54You're going to play nice?
29:56I'm always nice.
29:57Ah, listen to it.
29:59Let us know how you go for your day shot.
30:01Yeah, we'll do, bud.
30:02He thinks he's too switched on smart.
30:03F***ing pranks pulled on him, though.
30:06How are you doing?
30:07Staying in the wheelhouse?
30:08No, we've got to get some pots in the water, mate.
30:10Oh, well, what do we need to do?
30:11How do you?
30:12Because we need to get moving.
30:14Because the next gear's only just there.
30:15And you're in the way.
30:16You've just wasted five minutes.
30:17What's happening here?
30:21Go over and turn the deck.
30:22Yeah.
30:2476.
30:24What are you doing?
30:25Oh, dear.
30:31I don't know if you saw it or not.
30:33He was, like, literally looked at it.
30:36Come on.
30:44What's that, mate?
30:46What?
30:47Is that you?
30:48What is that?
30:48Oh, my God.
30:50It's you.
30:52It's a big one.
30:53Oh, my God, I love you.
30:55You're not going to cause any more drama, I say, Bryce.
30:58That's twice the trouble now.
30:59There's two llamas on deck.
31:01Come on, mate.
31:01Take this in your wheelhouse.
31:03Cheers.
31:04It's been a bit wet.
31:05Why is it so wet?
31:07We've been sitting in the pot for, like, an hour.
31:09Has it?
31:10We've been trying to hide it from you the whole time.
31:12Yeah.
31:13It was an incognito mission, getting it out,
31:16hiding it up the back.
31:17Oh, it smells horrible.
31:19There you go, little drama llama.
31:20You can keep an eye on these two bloody hard workers.
31:23He's like, f***.
31:25He thinks he's the king out of here.
31:27No one could outsmart him.
31:28We've only got him done it.
31:30Come on, Brycey.
31:31Let's get these pots in.
31:33Let's go.
31:33It's our new team mascot.
31:35The prankster got pranked.
31:38Now he's got to think of what's going to do to us.
31:40You enjoy your fishing more if you've got a bit of room to move.
31:49You don't have to be on top of each other.
31:51Plenty of bottomy.
31:52Squizzy's heading south in search of clear ground
31:56and a new strategy.
31:58Lobsters above two kilos fetch $85 a kilo.
32:03Brindles under a kilo are selling for $60 a kilo.
32:06Now Squizzy decided to go after the larger reds
32:11and there's a place nearby to hunt them.
32:15I'm really, I'm really itching to go to Pedro.
32:19The rock.
32:21When they're going out there, they are a bigger run of fish.
32:25The red ones as well, it's awesome.
32:27When it's not, it's an arsehole of a place.
32:32This is a huge gamble if we go to Pedro.
32:34I've been out there many times.
32:36Many times I have failed.
32:38And we've come out here to Pedro and had our arses kicked.
32:42Definitely showing us who's boss.
32:45It's going to be a big gamble if we win.
32:47It's not for the faint-hearted.
32:49The tide rips out there.
32:50When the weather's crap, you're living in it.
32:52There is no hiding out of it.
32:53Just imagine being in a washing machine for seven days
32:56because that's what it's like.
32:58People have died out of Pedro.
33:00But when the fishing's good out at Pedro, it's good.
33:04Biggest fish of the day was 1.8 kilos.
33:07That's pretty small for a Pedro.
33:09I'm going to take the gamble.
33:10I'm going to show the young guns.
33:13As a fisherman, you make your own decisions.
33:16You don't follow the leader.
33:19The name of the boat says it all.
33:21I've got to be bold.
33:25Was there anything in that one, Johnny?
33:26No.
33:28No, they won't get better than me.
33:30Today we're going for some deep-water crays.
33:35The brindles.
33:36For our day shoot.
33:37Come on.
33:38It was looking so promising for the Buran.
33:41Oh.
33:42None after me.
33:44Not a good start.
33:46We can't get in every shot.
33:48Be good.
33:49We're over halfway through the gear.
33:51We've got six fish.
33:52I was hoping to get at least a fish a pot from this.
33:54So what we've got so far, it's definitely not 60.
33:58Not even 16.
34:01Six at this stage.
34:02So, yeah, definitely got some healthy cause.
34:06Oh, I just want to cry.
34:07Today on Aussie Lobster, M.C.
34:09It's five.
34:09Jack and Johnny are captain.
34:11F***ing cold.
34:13Need another good night.
34:14So I'd like what we had this morning to sort of try and pick up a few numbers.
34:17Jack's heading back in shore.
34:1922 lobsters for his day shot.
34:22It's a fail.
34:23Five nice, big, juicy lobs in that pot.
34:32We'll take that.
34:33The chieftain is faring better.
34:35Bang.
34:36Bryce is finally starting to land some lobsters.
34:39First half, we ended up with 80.
34:42Fingers crossed for 100 in the next half.
34:45It's time to just focus on getting the night shot in and then pull the other half.
34:50Oh.
34:50Look at the light.
34:51That is pretty cool.
34:52The light's shining down over there on Southport.
34:55That there is the most southern town in Australia.
35:03The pier is banking on Timmy's double baiting and surveillance to give them the edge over
35:09the rest of the fleet.
35:11Keeping an eye on for us.
35:13He's everywhere.
35:14He's over there.
35:14He's over here.
35:16Pain in my arse.
35:18Just thinking about where to shoot these pots tonight.
35:20So we might just go in shore and get the prize for a bit of a look.
35:23And then we're going to see, you know, the red craze, which are worth a little bit more money.
35:28So it's definitely worth having a look.
35:29Squizzy's decision to go south has paid off.
35:35He's already netted 100 lobsters.
35:38The old dog can do no wrong today.
35:41He's got 20 pots to go.
35:43That's bloody awesome fishing this time of year.
35:45I'm absolutely torn to bits thinking that I couldn't go to Pedro and catch nothing.
35:50That's a huge gamble.
35:51As night falls, so too does Bryce's position on the tally board.
35:55We are not seeing many sized lobsters at all.
35:59We're halfway through the second half of the gear and it's not looking good.
36:04We've pulled 34, 6, 8, 10, 12.
36:06Pulled 14 pots and we don't even have 10 lobsters.
36:09Yeah, something's got to give.
36:10Otherwise, llamas are going overboard.
36:18Kyle!
36:18Hey, mate, what's happening?
36:21I've got an inch to go to Pedro.
36:25Ah.
36:26Yeah, I was thinking about going to Pedro Branca in a couple of days' time.
36:30I really don't want him to get a jump on me.
36:34Yeah, well, you'll make me jealous if you go down there, that's for sure.
36:37I'm thinking, well, should I just go right now?
36:40I mean, we were seeing some pretty decent numbers at the Friars
36:42and it's hard to run away from fish.
36:44You know, it's like out there, you go out there and get nothing.
36:47It's going to cost me big time.
36:50Yeah.
36:51Well, you go and I'll give you 50 bucks to do.
36:54LAUGHTER
36:55I reckon 500 bucks, mate.
37:00If you give me 500 bucks, I'll go for a look.
37:03I reckon you give me 500 and I'll go for a look.
37:06LAUGHTER
37:06Got four out of that pot, Bryce.
37:12You know what four rhymes with, Lottie?
37:14What?
37:14More.
37:15I want more.
37:17Sadly, by the looks of it, Squizzy got the best numbers.
37:19Now, it's incredibly frustrating knowing that only a few kilometres away
37:22a boat's getting twice of what you are.
37:24At the end of the day, Squizzy got the best spot out there.
37:27There's nothing we can really do about it.
37:29We've got the least prime location out of anyone else.
37:32Some trips are good, some trips are bad.
37:34Some shots are good, some shots are bad.
37:36The second half of the day shot was just poor performing, really.
37:38It's not called catching, it's called fishing.
37:44There's another boat inshore.
37:46It's heading right where I wanted to go.
37:49It's either Squizzy or Miles.
37:52You know what, save a white ball?
37:53Miles.
37:55off, Bryce.
37:59I was just going to see if he was going to answer.
38:03I don't think he is.
38:05I've called Miles, no answer.
38:07I know his radio is on the other side of the wheelhouse,
38:09but, you know, I thought he would have answered by now.
38:11There's another boat inshore.
38:14The fish is shit.
38:15Squizzy's got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.
38:19Bryce is actually broken right now.
38:21We need a fixed price, Jock.
38:23It's not looking the best at the moment.
38:26It really isn't, but I feel like I've got to sit down with him
38:28and have couples therapy.
38:29He's made a bit of a sook.
38:31We'll find some lobsters.
38:32We'll find some Bryce.
38:34It's just taking too long, mate.
38:35Well, things take time.
38:37Nothing good in life comes without a bit of hard work, mate.
38:42Is that why you've got nothing good?
38:45The passive aggressiveness is just through the roof.
38:48He looks so f***ed up the set.
38:50I am as f***ed.
38:52It is shit, Bryce, but what the f*** do you want to do?
38:55I'm giving you a bit of tough love right now, mate.
38:58Turn that brown upside down.
39:00Stop being such a drama-lama.
39:03All we can do, Bryce, is keep on trying, all right?
39:06Get him up.
39:07Turn him back in.
39:08Oh, no.
39:13I missed him.
39:14I missed.
39:15I've disappointed Bryce.
39:20There's a big fat lobster on the side of the pot.
39:24And I didn't go.
39:25I missed him.
39:26Yeah.
39:28Yeah.
39:29Absolutely buggered.
39:32Came from feeding bed.
39:35It's day three at sea for the young guns.
39:37All good?
39:38Yeah.
39:39Decky Timmy's been up since 3am, double-baiting all 50 of the Pyrrha's pots.
39:45I haven't even got to bed the last two days for a sleep and lunch.
39:50I could have another crew on here so I didn't have to do half as much work, but it just shows
39:55how much I like beer money, eh?
39:58I've backed Timmy to do this, and he's been doing an amazing job.
40:01He's been working so hard, but I really hope it's going to pay off.
40:07Whoa!
40:07Slick action!
40:08F*** money.
40:23I'll slide down a bit off the front.
40:24Yeah, that'd be good.
40:27Still got to do me bait, yeah?
40:28Still got heaps to do.
40:3744.
40:38The day shot tallies are in.
40:41124 for the shot.
40:44Gross, it's been disappointing.
40:47Hey, Miles, can I have that little light on, please, dude?
40:54I ended up 159 for the day shot.
40:56Yep.
40:59That's more fishing this time here.
41:01The overnight leader, the Pyrrha, bagged 132 lobsters for its day shot.
41:06Miles' tally stands at 397.
41:10Bryce has 362 lobsters.
41:14And Jack has 257.
41:17The big surprise is the bold contender.
41:21Squizzy has 418 lobsters and is the new tally board leader.
41:27Prede Blanker.
41:30It's hard to leave 270 a day to go to Pedro.
41:34Oh, you want to go?
41:36I think it's worth the gamble.
41:39I want the deckhands to know that it's their decision as well, because if I go out there and don't catch anything, it's going to cost them too.
41:49I don't know.
41:50I'll let you sleep on them.
41:51You sleep on it, right?
41:55Right now, all I'm thinking about is dinner.
41:57We didn't get anywhere near our target.
42:00Anyway, not much we can do about it.
42:04Takes a few days to, you know, get amongst them and figure out what's going on where.
42:08I know we want more, but we'll still f***ing go over 100.
42:12Yeah, that's not good enough.
42:14150 or something.
42:15Oh, my God.
42:16Okay, I want that too, because I know that's over there.
42:19Okay, well, forget what we get.
42:21We don't get up.
42:21Yes, boss?
42:23Well, what do you want me to f***ing say?
42:24Nothing.
42:25You made a suit.
42:25You need to clean up.
42:29Yep.
42:31Woo!
42:31Lobster hunting is all about risk versus reward.
42:35I'm straight, boys.
42:36Jack's also gambling on more inshore monsters.
42:41I sort of come back to where we were this morning.
42:43Over in the fish are sort of pretty similar.
42:45But after our day shot, we need every single pot to fish well.
42:48You know, we need to make our night shot count.
42:49We need to get the boat in tight.
42:52Righto, Johnny.
42:57There's a f***ing rock here somewhere, Johnny.
43:01Ah, f*** me.
43:03That was straight rock on steel, I think.
43:05Steel scraping on a rock.
43:06Yeah, it's something you don't want to hear at all, ever.
43:10Just f***ing hit a rock on this side.
43:12F***ing didn't see that.
43:13Hit pretty hard, didn't it?
43:14I need to go check the end room to make sure there's nothing that's happened there.
43:18That's the one part where we hit a rock and we are going to sink.
43:21We hit pretty hard, so...
43:23Did it do any damage?
43:25Not really too sure yet.
43:27Just double checking.
43:28But it might be bad.
43:29If you can't stop the water coming in, that boat's gone and under the water in minutes.
43:33They might push the ground and log in her.
43:35I'm out.
43:40Yeah.
43:40No, no, no!
43:40No, no!
43:43No, no!
43:44No, no!
43:47No, no, no!
43:47No, no, no, no!
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