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00:01Ah!
00:02Previously...
00:03Are you not going to let the boys tie it on?
00:04I've still got to move everything, man.
00:07Ah!
00:08We're going to have to make some changes here.
00:10There he is.
00:11There you go, mate.
00:12It's going to make it a hell of a lot easier.
00:15The winter lobster hunting season is underway.
00:18It is a good-looking fish, aren't it?
00:20Risking it all in pursuit of the world's most prized
00:24seafood delicacy is a fleet of young gun lobster men
00:28and a crafty old sea dog.
00:31We're in, baby! We're in!
00:32Let's go!
00:34An Aussie lobster legend.
00:36Yeah, baby.
00:37That's what we're after.
00:40150.
00:41Woo-hoo!
00:42Payday, baby.
00:43Well done, boys.
01:03Close your eyes, and I'm going to tell you a bedtime story.
01:05It's going to go.
01:06Once a man called Bryce, and he grew up around crayfish.
01:11He loved it.
01:12He loved watching all the crayfish, and he loved watching his dad fish.
01:15But his favourite person to watch fish was Squizzy.
01:20Squizzy!
01:21He said, I want to be like Squizzy.
01:23Oh!
01:24He's like Squizzy.
01:25Woo!
01:25I think we're here.
01:26Oh, yeah, we've got to go.
01:27I'll continue that one later.
01:29That was a good story, John.
01:31It's a story of Master versus Apprentice,
01:35but there are more players in this tale than just two.
01:39I'm going to be losing my patience very quickly.
01:42There are three ambitious young guns out here.
01:45Risk versus reward, mate.
01:47All trying to topple Squizzy, the lobster legend,
01:50to become the new king of the Southern Ocean.
01:54I'm pumped.
02:03You all right there, mate?
02:04I nearly threw myself in.
02:05Did you have a good trip?
02:07I yielded that to the moon.
02:09What, love?
02:11The Friars.
02:12Day six at sea.
02:14And Bryce's target for the morning is 100 lobsters.
02:18Thanks, love you lobster.
02:20But it seems the full moon is wreaking havoc
02:23on the chieftain's catch rate.
02:25It's not really happening this morning.
02:26We've only got how many lobsters are in the bin job.
02:29I don't really know how it works,
02:30but the full moon does impact catch rates.
02:34Is that a shark?
02:35That's a shark.
02:36Do you want to hold it?
02:36Yeah.
02:37There you go.
02:38He's trying to bite you.
02:39The full moon definitely brings out all the creatures.
02:41There's some weird stuff goes on during a full moon.
02:44You can have fantastic shots.
02:46You can have horrible shots.
02:48Come here, baby.
02:49Nothing normal happens during a full moon.
02:51Oh, buddy, I'll let you go now.
02:52Thank you for your help.
02:54Thank you for your help.
03:00That full moon, mate.
03:01Yeah.
03:02That's why we're out.
03:04We're f***ing crazy.
03:06A full moon is a double-edged sword,
03:10a soothing light bulb for the weary skipper,
03:12but it also turns on all kinds of predators below.
03:16When the full moon's up, you know, the fish, the fish can just go quiet.
03:20And the octopus love it.
03:22They can see what they're doing down there in and out of your pots,
03:24flat out all night.
03:25We've got a bit of an array in here.
03:27We've got f***ing sharks and we've got octopus.
03:30We've got a f***ing seafood basket, mate.
03:32This is what the ockies do to the crays.
03:35They don't leave much of the poor buggers.
03:37We just lost three kilos of crays there.
03:40So that's probably, you know, that's 300 bucks there.
03:43They're an awesome creature, aren't they, bro?
03:45S***, bruv.
03:47It's probably Jason.
03:48He's on that boat out there.
03:49He had 18 pots dumped by ockies this morning.
03:51F***ing hell.
03:54The giblet.
03:56And the baran is pulling its first shot here for the season.
04:00Jack needs the giblet to deliver.
04:03We've left an area where we were fishing by ourselves
04:05and no-one really around.
04:07We've steamed up here, hoping for greener pastures,
04:10and there's actually another couple of boats here,
04:11so I'm hoping they haven't worked where I am already,
04:14you know, because you can't catch the same fish twice.
04:17It does look like a busy little area.
04:19I did notice a few boats about.
04:22Oh, it's not good.
04:24Come on, little snappies, where are you?
04:27Come on, Lobos!
04:28Come on!
04:31Very cold on the home front.
04:34A full moon, a crowded neighbourhood,
04:37and a choppy swell.
04:39The conditions are testing.
04:41We're not getting much today.
04:43Gamble's not paying off at this stage, Johnny.
04:45Where we've got them,
04:46they don't really like a great deal of swell.
04:48So when you're fishing shallow waters like this,
04:50too much movement in the water, a bit too much swell,
04:52the crays hate it.
04:53They'll just sit down there and hold on.
04:54Won't move at all.
04:56Come on!
05:04We're not greedy, Johnny.
05:05We just need a lot more than we're getting, bud.
05:08Oh, I know!
05:09There we go!
05:10It's got my brain going a million miles an hour now.
05:12It's on it.
05:13Think up a game plan, think about what to do.
05:21At Pedra Branca...
05:23Stretch the back around.
05:26Why don't you have to do it?
05:27Are you special or something, Jets?
05:29The crew of The Bold Contender is warming up.
05:32Oh, yeah!
05:34Feel it.
05:35Feel it.
05:36Watch that body.
05:38Watch that body.
05:39Hoping for a bonanza day
05:41for more big, higher-priced lobsters.
05:44This is the new stuff.
05:46Get this party started.
05:52Thanks!
05:54236 lobsters yesterday.
05:55I want to beat that today.
05:56I'm not going to be happy if we get less.
06:07Thanks!
06:08That's a f***ing good pot.
06:11F***ing good.
06:21We're off to a flying start.
06:23Tens and sixes.
06:24Let's keep it going all day
06:25because that'd be f***ing awesome.
06:27Whoop!
06:28Captain Blood in there.
06:29It's got them dialed.
06:30We're making money today.
06:36Oh!
06:39Look out.
06:40The sun's come out.
06:41Look how bald he is.
06:43Balder than me.
06:44Matt, can you see that in the wheelhouse?
06:54Nearly there, Marky.
06:56Nearly there.
06:56The Chieftain crew is hauling in the second half of their night shot.
07:01Oh, I hurt them.
07:03Decky Locky is struggling.
07:06You're hurting.
07:07F***ing you.
07:08Ow.
07:09Locky has a sore testicle.
07:13Basically, I had to get an ultrasound
07:15because I've got a cyst on my testicle
07:17and that's why Jock's out here helping me
07:19because I'm in a lot of pain.
07:20So, yeah, there you go.
07:22The entire world.
07:23You now know about that.
07:26He's done well so far to manage the pain.
07:29F***ing ache.
07:30But five grueling days at sea has taken its toll.
07:34Not feeling too good.
07:36In a bit of pain.
07:39Yeah, it makes it a bit hard.
07:41But that's why we've got Jock out with us at the moment.
07:44Stack that pot up, please, Jock.
07:46Yes.
07:46Chief.
07:48I think it's hard for Locky himself to slow down
07:51and he went too hard and, yeah, you can see he was hurting.
07:56Being a deckhand is very physical.
07:58You're lifting pots multiple times a day,
08:00about 40 kilos each.
08:01You're walking up and down a deck that's moving
08:03and being in pain or being half capacity
08:06like Locky is at the moment, it's very dangerous.
08:09It'd only take one little thing to happen
08:11and he could be in a serious amount of pain
08:12and this could end the whole trip.
08:18It used to be hell on wheels
08:21back when I was a younger man.
08:25I think he's happy now.
08:26He's got someone to order around to tell him what to do.
08:30Team Pyrrha is re-energised.
08:33Rhythm of energy.
08:34Rhythm of energy.
08:35Rhythm of energy.
08:37Rhythm of energy.
08:40Rhythm of energy.
08:59Rhythm of energy.
09:16Question is, how long can it last?
09:16I almost feel lazy. I feel like I'm robbing miles.
09:20I'm going to try to keep me cool this trip out of your corridor.
09:23Unless you broke fish over the side.
09:25Try to keep cool? Famous last words.
09:29But can Timmy really do that?
09:32Stay calm as a new duo under pressure.
09:35Tim and Tati have done great trips together.
09:38And they've had a bit of history.
09:41I mean, I think Tati sort of struggles to listen to Tim at times.
09:45And Tim gets really frustrated quite easy.
09:48Me and Timmy have had our ups and downs, that's for sure.
09:52I know you're living in close quarters together constantly.
09:56You're going to have a crack at each other.
09:58Me and Timmy both don't like to back down.
10:00So, yeah, we get into a little bit of it.
10:14Pedro Branca and Squizzy is fishing 100 metres down, hunting for monster-sized brindles.
10:22The reason I'm fishing deep here at the moment at Pedro is a stunning place we're seeing fish.
10:27We're only getting good pots in the deep water, so that's what we're going to concentrate on for our night
10:31shot and day shot.
10:35You put that on snug beach, I reckon.
10:38Caught him on the sand.
10:41Pedro Branca, the casino in the sea, has already paid out some good numbers to Squizzy.
10:47But the bold contender's catch rate is slowing.
10:50Is Squizzy's good luck now in reverse?
10:55I'm a little bit disappointed where we are here at the moment, because I've made human error.
11:02I didn't allow enough for the tide, and they drifted back to the top, and I want them down on
11:08the bottom of the ledge.
11:10So I've missed the bottom.
11:12When you fish the deep water and the tide's running, you've got to sort of know what you're doing.
11:17If I drop a pot here, and I don't allow for that tide, and I'm trying to hit something here,
11:23that pot will end up down here.
11:31I'm going to shoot these pots straight back in the same area, because I know, but I think there's some
11:39fish here.
11:40I just stuffed up.
11:45I'm going to shoot them and Gavin's going to have another go.
11:51Geez, he was a wanker, wasn't he?
12:01Where are all the pros?
12:03Not here, Johnny.
12:05The Buran boys are down on their luck, and burning cash.
12:10If this doesn't work out coming up here, we've just wasted $600 or $700 in diesel.
12:14We don't have that many days to be able to put fish on the boat.
12:17We're not moving forward.
12:19Yeah, catching up and really f***ing.
12:22Really drags you out of here.
12:24And it's so disheartening.
12:27You f***ed for nothing.
12:31Poor Jackie boys put all the fuel in, all the food.
12:35And all his knowledge.
12:40And it must just f***ing knock the motivation straight out of here.
12:44Well, it does.
12:46Makes your day hard.
12:47Makes everyone's day hard.
12:50And their day is about to get even harder.
12:55Can we see a pot over here somewhere?
12:58There's one right behind us.
13:00Ah, that's the next one.
13:01Jack and Johnny have lost another lobster pot.
13:04It's the second time they've misplaced a pot for the season.
13:08We're down one pot at this stage.
13:09I know where it's meant to be, but I just can't seem to find it.
13:13I don't know where the f*** it is.
13:15There should be a pot right in front of us.
13:16There's not for some reason, so a bit of a look.
13:19Someone could have steamed through here, run one over.
13:22Johnny might have f***ed and not put the buoys on.
13:24Could be a tangle in the line.
13:26Could be a few things.
13:28They don't usually just go missing for no reason.
13:30If we lose the pot, we're looking at 400 bucks, 450 bucks just to replace it.
13:34And if we don't have it, we can't catch fish with it, so...
13:37Can you see any floating rope sort of around us, Johnny?
13:40Four or five days left in this trip.
13:42It could cost us two or three grand's worth of fish not having that one pot on board.
13:52Look at them.
13:54Delicious!
13:57What's the magic number, Captain?
14:00120.
14:01120.
14:03120 this morning.
14:04That's a good shot out here for a nice shot of Pedro this time of year.
14:08Nice big fish.
14:09Mate, I'm stoked.
14:12That one Jesse's got definitely over two.
14:14This is the f***ing one of the train to eat rice, mate.
14:22Monster lobsters, like these two-kilo tractors, are the new target.
14:27They'll fetch over $200 each on the current market.
14:30Yeah!
14:32Woo-hoo!
14:33Yeah, baby!
14:4226.
14:44Bryce has fallen short of his 100 lobster target.
14:48This morning was just very average.
14:51Like, there's nothing really good about it.
14:52There's one pot of seven here, one pot of seven there.
14:54Blank's all in the middle.
14:56We ended up with 88 total, so...
14:58It is what it is.
14:59There's worse shots out there.
15:01It just means I need to change up the night's game plan,
15:04do something completely different.
15:06Lockie's temporary injury break is not helping things.
15:09You want to shoot gear?
15:13He needs more rest.
15:15The pressure's on Jock to perform.
15:18All right, Jock.
15:19You ready, mate?
15:20The best precaution we can take is just get him off deck.
15:23It's not worth him doing anything.
15:24He just needs to rest.
15:26Jock and I are just going to shoot the gear in.
15:28We're just going to take it slow.
15:29So, it's time for the baby giraffe to step up.
15:32Stop with the wobbly legs.
15:34It's no time to fall back over.
15:36He needs to really step up.
15:38All right, see what happens, eh?
15:39It'll be sweet, yeah.
15:40We can only f*** up.
15:49Chuck about an hour with the float.
15:56Went way too early.
15:58No, that's still fine.
16:03Should I get pots or not?
16:05Jock's biggest challenge
16:06is going to be remembering what he's doing at one time.
16:12Jock really is a million miles an hour.
16:14Like, he clearly gets things done.
16:17It's just a matter of where he is now.
16:19We don't need that many things done.
16:22I'm all right if I'm focusing on one thing at a time.
16:25If I'm trying to do two things at once,
16:27that's where I fall apart, so...
16:29Just got to stay focused.
16:35Yeah, bro, I'll grab that in a second.
16:37Yeah.
16:37Cook him on.
16:38Tim Pira is finally running at full operational efficiency.
16:42Two deckies and two shots a day.
16:45Yeah, you know, Cody is pretty fresh.
16:47He's done a little bit of squid and...
16:50I think he's up to four or five grade trips now.
16:53Tim and Cody have set aside their past grievances.
16:57Yeah, sometimes I get a bit crabby at the poor young fella,
16:59but it's never for no reason.
17:02The question is, how long can the calm last?
17:05We've had a few incidents on here in the couple of trips we've done already,
17:08so I had a pot come down and smacked me out of the sword of the leg,
17:14jam it in between the basket.
17:15I guess they're just all learning.
17:20Those floats again, Cody.
17:23One more fish.
17:24One more fish.
17:25Miles' night shot catch rate has slowed down.
17:29Hey, would you be able to give us a pot count when you're ready, bro?
17:36There's 137.
17:37I mean, look, it's OK.
17:38If we were catching, like, 160 or something like that,
17:41that would be sort of more where I want to be.
17:43Miles needs his day shot numbers to outperform.
17:47If they don't, he'll relocate to Pedro Branca
17:50to hunt for the higher-priced tractors.
17:53And I reckon I'll have a pretty good idea
17:55whether we're going to stay by the end of today
17:57or we're going to go down to Pedro Branca.
18:00Pedro Branca has been good to Squizzy,
18:02but like all casinos, there are winners and losers.
18:07We'll see how the fish come up.
18:08I mean, I know Squizzy's down there.
18:10I know he's staying there, so he must be finding something.
18:12I've just got it in my head that I want to go to Pedro Branca
18:15and I'm sort of trying to look for excuses
18:19to just go down there.
18:25Today is officially the shortest day of the year
18:29and Decky Jock is honouring a winter solstice Tassie ritual.
18:34It's a bit of a Tassie tradition
18:36that you go swimming in the nude on the solstice.
18:39Mid-winter, water's cold.
18:41I don't know, it's just a Tassie thing now.
18:43So the winter solstice in Tasmania
18:45is when you've got the full moon and the shortest day of the year.
18:48Now, in Hobart, what we do is we all get naked together on a beach,
18:52hundreds of people, and jump in the ocean.
18:54Now, I haven't been a part of that.
18:55I don't think Lachie's been a part of that.
18:57Jock is always a part of that.
18:59As soon as he jumps in the water, I'm going to throw this across ways.
19:01That way, as he drifts back,
19:04he'll be able to grab onto something if he needs it.
19:06Worst case, we'll just both jump in after him
19:08and leave an unmanned boat.
19:10We're about 12 kilometres offshore,
19:12so it's one of the more extreme winter solstice swims I've done,
19:17but we'll go for it.
19:19We're currently situated in the southern ocean.
19:21Next stop is Antarctica.
19:23It's about 11 degrees in the water.
19:26Jock's going to jump in naked.
19:27Fortunately, Jock's a very strong swimmer.
19:29It's just a matter of hopefully he doesn't go into shock
19:31when he hits the water.
19:33I'm going to ship off here.
19:33Guys, leave you under.
19:34OK, we'll face this way then.
19:36All right, no, Chak, let's go!
19:39Go, Chak!
19:46Jock was lit up like a reflector.
19:48He was that white.
19:48I think Jock needs to get out of that office more frequently.
19:51Go, Ducky!
19:55Oh!
19:59Oh, yeah!
20:02Woo!
20:04Good.
20:05That was good.
20:06Well done, Jock.
20:08Hello!
20:11I might have many people that will do that willingly,
20:13but I'm coming through.
20:15Are you ready or not?
20:17That was refreshing.
20:20I feel alive.
20:21Let's go get some love.
20:23You're a weapon, Jock.
20:25You're a weapon.
20:26I don't know anyone else.
20:27You won't even come outside, mate.
20:28No, mate.
20:29Just put some clothes on, please.
20:31Skin's burning.
20:32Very refreshing.
20:33I feel a bit like a drowned rat, but...
20:35Jock has bigger balls than I think I'll ever have.
20:39Yep.
20:40Yeah, if you can put both of mine together
20:41and it'll still be smaller than one of yours, I reckon.
20:44Ah, that man.
20:46You can tell he's bored and bred in Tassie, that's for sure.
20:48Like, you know when you're naked
20:49and then you feel, like, so naked?
20:51You've got so naked coming up the ladder, like...
20:54There really is naked and naked,
20:56and he really was the second option.
20:58I felt like a little, like, out of the womb, baby, like...
21:02He's just...
21:03Everyone's looking at him.
21:04Everyone's having a laugh.
21:06Like, you know what I mean?
21:06Like, for some time, you feel extra.
21:09It's not your normal naked swim.
21:11Ah!
21:19Everyone celebrates the solstice differently.
21:22A naked squizzy just won't happen.
21:25A couple of nice ones, man.
21:27It's business as usual
21:28for the crew of The Bold Contender.
21:32Hey, Miles.
21:34Chapter Squizzle, what's going on?
21:36Are you still down at Pedro?
21:38Ah, yep, yep.
21:40Yeah, righto.
21:41We're not getting the numbers we were up there at the Friars.
21:44You know I like it down your way, like, down at Pedro,
21:46but I just, I don't know.
21:48We're catching fish here,
21:49so I don't know what I'm going to do, to be honest.
21:51Big gamble to come down here, isn't it?
21:54Yeah.
21:55Yeah.
21:55Takes big bulls to leave fish.
21:57I know, and I've done it before,
21:59and bloody, you know, run back to me car,
22:01we're trying to leave.
22:02All right, mate, we might get into this,
22:04so we get these pots in before dark.
22:06Roger, mate.
22:07All right, good fishing.
22:10They're all trying to find out how we're going.
22:13You know, a few days ago,
22:14when I thought we only had 60,
22:16I was doubting myself,
22:17when I was set about,
22:19I can't catch a lobster down here,
22:20I might try and catch a fisherman.
22:22Well, now I'm catching lobsters down here,
22:24I don't want to catch a fisherman.
22:25To be honest,
22:26I'm starting to talk too much shit to him.
22:29I don't even know what I have said.
22:32You'd think I would have learnt by now
22:33and started writing my bullshit down in a book
22:36so I can remember how much bullshit I'd told
22:39so I could try and keep the truth going.
22:41Does that make sense?
22:42So I'm starting to confuse myself
22:44sitting here right now.
22:45We've got the whole area to ourselves
22:49and I want to keep it that way.
22:58This is Miles' way of celebrating the winter solstice.
23:02The break will also give him time
23:04to contemplate his next move.
23:06I was enjoying a nice lunch.
23:08You've got about an hour and a half break.
23:11Recharge the batteries a bit
23:12and he's done it again with his cooking.
23:16What, not enough in there for you?
23:18No, it's just good.
23:20Will Miles press on
23:22and go to Pedra Branca,
23:24the place where fortunes are made and lost?
23:29I'm so torn at the moment.
23:31I think it's a good move
23:33to go down to Pedra Branca and have a look.
23:35But I hate running away from pitch.
23:38Because there's been plenty of times
23:39where I've been down to Pedra Branca
23:41and just caught absolutely nothing.
23:46I don't want to say it,
23:47but I think someone might have been through
23:48and cut them off.
23:49Jack and Johnny are looking for a lost pot.
23:52Should be sort of just here off our starved side.
23:57There it is.
23:58You see it?
23:59I can see the rope,
24:00but it's going to be a nightmare to try and grapple.
24:04Yeah, because it'd just be floating to nothing,
24:06wouldn't it?
24:07That's like it's tangled.
24:11Well, you're on it, bro.
24:13You've actually got it.
24:17Oh, yeah.
24:19So that's how they used to do it back in the day, yeah?
24:22F*** that.
24:23F*** that.
24:28Lockie.
24:35Lockie is temporarily out of action.
24:38Jock's now running the deck.
24:40Fingers crossed.
24:41We're halfway through now.
24:44We'll see what happens.
24:46Lockie needs to rest up,
24:48and the wheelhouse seems as good a place as any to do that.
24:51Yep.
24:52Even though I might not be feeling very comfortable,
24:55I will take this opportunity to learn.
24:58Lockie has gone and got one of his tickets.
25:00He can't drive this boat by himself.
25:02However, we're coming up to a piece of bottom
25:04where Lockie can easily shoot the gear in.
25:06It's very easy to look at on the sounder.
25:08You can't really miss.
25:10All yours.
25:11Press zero.
25:14He'll be shooting four pots in.
25:16That's a good enough chance for him to catch maybe five or ten fish.
25:19Shit.
25:20F***.
25:21All right.
25:22Yeah, little bitches in there.
25:23We'll see if he can get something out of four pots.
25:26All I want to see him do
25:27is what I told him to do
25:29and zigzag up and back
25:31and shoot on one particular ledge.
25:33That's where the fish have been.
25:34So hand of the reins over to Lockie.
25:36It's easy this way.
25:37Me in there.
25:38No point.
25:39Just let him do it.
25:41Get a feel for it.
25:42And we'll find out what he gets out of the next four pots.
25:46No pressure.
25:55Yeah, Lobster!
25:59Work Skippy!
26:05Well, Skippy's not messing around.
26:07He's on to it.
26:08He wants it.
26:08When you shoot a pot turning to port,
26:11don't be turned any more than, like, ten degrees.
26:15Yeah, I'll turn back up.
26:16Put it in the prop.
26:18It's too cold to swim today.
26:26What the f***?
26:27What's up in there?
26:28F*** the hell.
26:28I've come out on deck for four pots
26:30and they're already trying to kill me.
26:32Floats around the neck is my least favourite.
26:35Getting a rope around your neck on deck,
26:37especially the floats,
26:38like, Lockie's...
26:38I don't know how much attention he's paying,
26:40but if I was in there,
26:41I would have already slowed down
26:42and gone in a reverse sort of thing,
26:43but I swear Lockie sped up at the same time.
26:46Like, that rope started really going out.
26:47It's incredibly dangerous.
26:49I'm going back in the wheel.
26:50That's where I'm safe.
26:51I'm not safe around him, I don't think.
26:54That looks wicked.
26:54Good work, John.
26:56Apart from killing Brasford.
26:58But that part doesn't work.
26:59We'll see.
27:00You might not need him.
27:07Here we go, Johnny!
27:10I'm a bit sceptical about this day shot
27:12that I've chucked in.
27:13The giblet.
27:14And Jack is hoping
27:16that today's day shot for reds
27:18is a profitable one,
27:19that their run of poor form turns good.
27:22We took a bit of a gamble
27:23by chucking him in on the reds too, so...
27:25He's a ripper.
27:26He's a ripper!
27:28Red lobsters mostly feed at night
27:30in shallower waters
27:32around 20 metres below sea level.
27:35The redfish don't really like daylight.
27:37They prefer to move around in the dark,
27:39whereas brindles, you know,
27:40if they're in 100 metres of water,
27:41it's a lot darker down there for them,
27:43so they can be active day and night.
27:46Red-day fishing is painful,
27:47and I do it to myself all the time.
27:52Hurt myself emotionally.
27:56No way this doesn't have lobsters, in it.
27:58Just seeing where it come from,
28:00no way it doesn't have lobsters.
28:02Three, two, one.
28:06Blank.
28:09Come off some real juicy-looking bottom and...
28:14Blank.
28:18Juicy-looking.
28:21I guess at that point, Johnny,
28:23sometimes you don't laugh, you cry, I think.
28:25Yeah, I know, you've got to.
28:27Earlier on in the year,
28:28we were having some really good numbers
28:29down through here where we've shot them,
28:31but there's no fish coming up in the pots, really.
28:34We're struggling to even get a fish a pot here.
28:36It's going to be a pretty average day today.
28:38We've just got to keep the morale up, Johnny.
28:41There's a rainbow over there.
28:44There's a rainbow right for you, mate.
28:46Yeah.
28:48His frog goes in the water.
28:49It's great, mate.
28:50Johnny, if the rainbow's here,
28:51where's the pot of gold, mate?
28:53Right in here.
29:01Oh, you bastard.
29:04There are no rainbows on board the pier.
29:09Timmy's mood has shifted from jovial to critical.
29:13Bro, look at them.
29:15Look at how you've got them stacked, man.
29:18Oh, that's...
29:19Nah, I know.
29:20It's just the bottom one.
29:21He's a perfectionist
29:22and demands the same from everyone else.
29:26Nah, do your pot, man.
29:28Timmy and Cody's honeymoon period is officially over.
29:33Is this the start of a marriage made in hell?
29:36We ran out of baits, I just...
29:39What are you doing?
29:40Is there more stash somewhere?
29:41Well, that's all that...
29:42What are you doing?
29:43I'm...
29:44..f***ing hell.
29:45Tim looks a bit grumpy and pissed off.
29:48And, look, I don't know whether it's because
29:50we've all picked up Cody or what's going on.
29:52You know, he's got to try and keep a positive attitude
29:55because as soon as someone gets a shitty attitude on the boat,
29:59like, it brings everyone else down.
30:01Miles's marriage advice is good.
30:03But will Timmy listen?
30:05Oh, f***ing hell, I hate it when you do this, Cody.
30:07What am I doing with pots under me feet?
30:11I've still got more to go.
30:12F***ing, they should all be over that side of the boat.
30:21I think Tim's getting quite frustrated with Cody.
30:24He reckons Cody's not listening to him.
30:27But I think, you know,
30:28Tim's just got to sort of chill out a little bit
30:30and, you know, try and explain things a bit better to Cody.
30:33It's not the way to teach someone.
30:35Now, Cody, I'm not being a c*** man,
30:37but you've got to f***ing stack them pots better.
30:40Just watch this.
30:44I was about to put more up against it.
30:46How are you going to put more up against it?
30:48That's no more pots, man.
30:49It's not a question of if,
30:51but when will Miles step in?
30:54Ah!
30:55You know, I'm going to have to try and manage that now.
30:57So now I've got to hold another bloody thing I've got to do, you know?
31:02That's how f***ing accidents happen.
31:05When people don't listen,
31:07three times this,
31:08I ask to tell him to stack them in so they don't wobble.
31:11Grab one pot, look what happens.
31:12And they're tied in.
31:18The chieftain.
31:19And Lockie's back out on deck.
31:22His pain has eased.
31:24Bryce has reinstated light duties.
31:26He'll need to go easy.
31:28I'm not allowed to grapple.
31:29I'm not allowed to lift pots.
31:30I'm just going to take my time,
31:33measure crows,
31:33bait pots.
31:34That's all I'll do.
31:35I can't fathom just staying down there
31:37and not doing anything
31:38because this is what I love to do.
31:40This is what I live for.
31:41And plus, I shot some pots in.
31:43I want to see what's in them.
31:44I've got to beat Bryce.
31:45I've got to get the best pot of the day.
31:48This afternoon,
31:48all I need is Lockie to be the brain
31:50and Jock to be the muscle.
31:51That's it.
31:52Nice and simple.
31:52Ready, Jockies?
31:54No.
31:55What's the worst thing that can happen?
31:56Hit Bryce in the head with a set of plates?
31:58It's already happened.
32:00Oh, this is your time to shine.
32:01You've got to grapple every pot.
32:04So this will be Jock's first time
32:05to grapple all the gear.
32:08It's 52 pots.
32:09He's got to grapple it 52 times.
32:11Jesus Christ,
32:11I can just pick this up with my hand.
32:13You want to throw it earlier?
32:14Yeah, I do.
32:15Wow.
32:16He's got a circle of shame.
32:20Are you Jocky?
32:21That's Jock.
32:21It's the rocker.
32:22Throw it.
32:24Beautiful.
32:24Pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull.
32:26Oh, well, ****, you're lucky.
32:28No.
32:30What?
32:31You've got to pull fast, man.
32:33Oh, Jock.
32:35This thing with the grapple is, it is incredibly frustrating
32:39because it's the boat stopping.
32:41We're not in gear anymore.
32:42We've come to a complete standstill.
32:45This is stressful.
32:47You've got this, bud.
32:48I'm stressing.
32:49Listen, you really are wasting a lot of the day.
32:53Oh, maybe not.
32:55Oh, no.
32:58Oh, the shame.
33:00We just lost, like, 30 minutes because of that.
33:0330 minutes.
33:05Help.
33:06Help.
33:07Someone help.
33:08I think you probably should just stick to your day job.
33:10Yeah, OK.
33:15Oh, yeah.
33:17Oh, yeah.
33:17Oh, thanks, Daddy.
33:18Oh, yeah.
33:21I'll be barely sitting there.
33:22Of course, Daddy, we've just got a cat's grandpa.
33:25Squizzy's Petrobranker gamble of reshooting his pots
33:29into the exact same locations as his previous shot
33:32is paying dividends.
33:34When they come on out here, they just go bang.
33:37Oh, yeah.
33:39Like a nine.
33:40Thanks for the nine, Rhino.
33:42Big dogs definitely come out in the daytime.
33:45Some of the pots yesterday hit the top.
33:47They were blank.
33:48And today, I shot them all to hit the bottom of the ledge.
33:54And guess what?
33:55Bingo, baby.
33:57Oh, my God.
33:59All right in, bro?
34:00Yeah.
34:01Over a kilo.
34:04Beautiful.
34:08This is why I love fishing.
34:10It's just this feeling you get right here, right now.
34:14Everything's paid off.
34:15Your experience has paid off.
34:17That's a nice pot.
34:18It's like a drug.
34:20Outside on the outside, a big one.
34:22On the big one still.
34:24Yeah!
34:27Donkeys, mate.
34:29Suck on that.
34:31This is why I love being a lobster fisherman.
34:33Yeah!
34:36That's a big fish.
34:38Yeah, baby.
34:45Hey, do you want to do the final count here?
34:51How did you go?
34:52Yeah, I got 137.
34:55That's the exact same as our night shot.
34:57We got 137 for our day shot.
35:00So it's the exact same as what we got for our night shot.
35:03Oh, well, it didn't do quite as well as I thought we would have done on the day shot.
35:08You know, the way this Craycross is and the way it's sort of looking,
35:11I think it's definitely worth going down to Pedro Brank for a look.
35:14Yeah, so, yeah, we're just going to pull this gear in the morning
35:16and we're going straight to Pedro.
35:17Yeah.
35:18Yeah, so we'll get down there for a day shot in the morning
35:19and, yeah, we'll get up at 230 and we'll just get going.
35:23It's crazy.
35:25What's going on there, man?
35:27Every time we shoot, man, I tell you.
35:30Yep.
35:30Same shit over and over and over and over.
35:33I'm getting shitty again.
35:35So what's next to you go?
35:36You're not listening to you anymore?
35:38Nah.
35:38The only last trip I've done that same thing,
35:40wouldn't listen, doing them pots and I got hurt.
35:43Happens again, him getting hurt.
35:45Yeah.
35:46Seems Timmy's potty mouth has context.
35:49It's all about OH&S and personal safety.
35:53Ah, f***ing sakes, man.
35:58F***ing dickhead.
36:01It's sort of been building up throughout the day,
36:02but I can see Tim's getting really frustrated.
36:05Swear to f***ing God you try to make my job harder.
36:08And I just don't want them to have a big blowout
36:10because it's happened before, like...
36:11I'm f***ing tired I don't have the rope
36:13doing a f***ing figure eight around the pots.
36:15It's gotten to the point a few times
36:17where I've nearly had to go back in because of it.
36:20What the f*** did you just pull all them out for?
36:22Bro, what do you want me to do?
36:25Stop laughing and just say...
36:26I'm not f***ing laughing, man.
36:27I'm dropping my hands.
36:28I've just pulled all them f***ing floats out of there like that.
36:30You're fine.
36:31Look, if someone throws a punch or if it comes to that,
36:34they're instantly bored.
36:37It'll be f***ing literally lying up there, man.
36:39It's very disrespectful.
36:41I don't know what the f*** in there.
36:43Somehow he's managed to pull floats out
36:45from f***ing halfway down the f***ing float.
36:47Is there a pot over the side now?
36:49No, that's this one.
36:50Oh, that's tied on.
36:52Yeah.
36:52Yeah, but these set of floats with this rope,
36:55I don't know what's happening, man,
36:56but just ripped all them ropes out of that float bin.
37:00If this issue gets worse between Tim and Cody
37:05and I've got to go drop one of them off,
37:07it's probably a 12-hour turnaround, really.
37:10F***.
37:11No, I don't want to get...
37:12Close to $1,000 worth of diesel.
37:15Miss fishing time.
37:17Just hang on a second.
37:18Concentrate on this one.
37:20It's...
37:20Oh, my God.
37:24F***ing hell.
37:25It's just sort of going to turn our whole trip
37:27into a bit of a disaster, really.
37:31Before you pull anything else out, just wait.
37:33Well, I had to pull those out to get to these ones anyway.
37:36Just telling you, just wait...
37:38Grabbing the top one.
37:38...until I get the next pot up and run the float line out.
37:42F***.
37:42I'm going to be one of them pots and see what happens.
37:44I'm f***ing telling you.
37:45I'm not trying to eat it.
37:45I'm f***ing hit with you f***ing more, mate.
37:47All right.
37:48Timmy's at his wits' end.
37:50He's had enough.
37:53Should have jumped off when we was in Doma.
37:57Are you excited to see how your pots went?
37:59Yeah.
38:00Are we going to hit 100?
38:01Maybe.
38:02That's a size one.
38:02The chieftain is pulling the last four pots of its day shot.
38:06They're your pots coming up last, mate.
38:08Yeah.
38:09Hopefully we get some lots out of them.
38:11Don't move the f***ing pot.
38:12Don't lift.
38:13Don't miss.
38:15Go.
38:17Good work, Jocky.
38:19Come on, Lucky.
38:20I'm excited.
38:22Fingers crossed.
38:23Oh, she feels heavy.
38:28Come on, Lucky.
38:30Get the fruits of your labour.
38:31I'll say, Lovey!
38:34Oh, Lockstar!
38:36Come on, Lovey's, mate.
38:37Will I get any size out of it?
38:39Don't I?
38:39Probably not.
38:40They look pretty small.
38:41But there's craze in the pot.
38:43And a quarter shark, too.
38:45How many out of your first pot, Lucky?
38:47None out of that one.
38:48But there was craze in it, so I was doing something right.
38:51Craze in it, mate.
38:52Craze in it.
38:52We're on Locky's second pot now.
38:55There's Locky's pot coming out.
38:57First one.
38:57We had a zero.
38:59Hey!
39:00Got one.
39:01Well done, Lockstar.
39:02First lobster for the Lockstar.
39:04Got two out of that one, Jock.
39:05Woo!
39:06Two's definitely better than none.
39:08He's getting there.
39:09Get it, Jock.
39:10A few lobs.
39:11Got three out of that one.
39:13Three!
39:15Three's better than two.
39:16He's getting there again.
39:17More than a fish pot.
39:19Woo!
39:20Last pot.
39:20My last pot, Jocky.
39:25Three colour.
39:26It's a good change at all.
39:27Yeah, hello, Jocky!
39:29It's a lobster!
39:30It's a lobster!
39:30Can't catch a lobster.
39:33This is the fourth pot.
39:34The last three have pulled five sides on there, which, judging from how we've been going,
39:39is actually quite good.
39:40That's one of you.
39:41All right, these four.
39:42Woo-hoo!
39:43What's this one?
39:44Five!
39:45Yeah!
39:45He's going to talk so much shit later.
39:48He's got five.
39:49Now he's getting there.
39:49He won't stop nagging for shots now.
39:51He won't stop.
39:52He will.
39:52Carry on.
39:53Let me shoot the gear.
39:54Let me shoot all the gear.
39:55Ten out of four pots, mate.
39:57He's so proud.
39:58So what?
39:59Without my last four pots, we wouldn't have hit 100, I don't think.
40:03Team Cheapton has landed 197 lobsters for the day.
40:07But will it be enough to keep them at the top of the tally board?
40:12Jack's shocker of the day means he's in fourth place on 509 lobsters.
40:18Miles remains in third place on 1,107 lobsters.
40:23Bryce is in second place with 1,124.
40:27And Squeezy's big Petrobranca move has paid off.
40:32Big time.
40:33The lobster legend is on top with 1,153.
40:38Slowly creeping towards our two-ton mark.
40:43Don't jink us, mate.
40:45Slowly creeping towards it, mate.
40:47You know, a lot of big ones, heaps over one kilo.
40:50It was a good day.
40:56Squeezy's final task for the day is to measure his last haul into the holding tank.
41:01At the end of the day on the bowl contender,
41:03the only person allowed to measure into the holding tank,
41:06the final tank, is me.
41:10It's my livelihood on the line.
41:12It's my reputation.
41:14The buck stops with me.
41:23Oh!
41:25One just fell in there on the sides.
41:27Oh, for sake.
41:30Pulling broke.
41:31That's bad.
41:32Like, I'm paranoid about that shit.
41:34I dropped an undersized one in the holding tank.
41:37My fault.
41:39I knew it was undersized.
41:41I went to throw it over the side.
41:43It slipped out of me hand as I went to throw it.
41:46We're in the tank.
41:48The fines for undersized fish in your tank are massive.
41:51Thousands of thousands of dollars, and it could end your career.
41:54Your fishing days are over.
41:55Torch for you, mate.
41:57Marine police checks can happen at any time.
41:59You could be sleeping in your bunk.
42:00The next minute, they'll wake you up.
42:03And the super bad news about that is, uh,
42:06there's nearly 400 crays in where it is.
42:08So I'm looking for one cray in 400.
42:11I don't know how long this is going to take.
42:15And we're doing it.
42:17There is no ifs, buts, f***ing maybes.
42:21We're doing it.
42:23Right now.
42:24Pumping the tank out.
42:28And...
42:30I'm going looking till I find it.
42:33If I have to chuck 300 crays out here on deck, I'll do it.
42:39Please be easy to find.
42:42We have to find it.
42:44Otherwise, my reputation will be shot to s***.
42:49What a f***ing disaster.
42:55This is one of the biggest stuff-ups of my career.
42:58I need to get it fixed.
43:00ASAP.
43:05Go, Ducky!
43:11Oh!
43:14Oh, yeah!
43:18Ha-ha!
43:20Oh!
43:20I think that's my f***.
43:22Hello!
43:25Oh, yeah!
43:29Oh!
43:30Oh, yeah!
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