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00:01Ah!
00:02Previously...
00:03Are you not going to let the boys tie it on?
00:05I'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.
00:12I'm going to pick up Cody and it'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 seafood delicacy
00:25is a fleet of young gun lobster men
00:28and a crafty old sea dog.
00:31We're in, baby!
00:32We're in!
00:33Let's go!
00:34An Aussie lobster legend.
00:36Yeah, baby.
00:37That's what we're after.
00:40150.
00:41Woo-hoo!
00:42It's payday, baby.
00:43Well done, boys.
00:58Close 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.
01:19Squizzy.
01:20Squizzy!
01:21He said, I want to be like Squizzy.
01:23Oh!
01:24He goes like Squizzy.
01:25Woo!
01:26I think we're here.
01:27Oh, here.
01:28We've got to go.
01:29I'll continue that one later.
01:30That was a good story, John.
01:32It's a story of master versus apprentice, but there are more players in this tale than just
01:39two.
01:40There are three ambitious young guns out here.
01:45Risk versus reward, mate.
01:47All trying to topple Squizzy, the lobster legend, to become the new king of the Southern Ocean.
01:54I'm pumped.
02:03You're all right there, mate.
02:04I nearly threw myself in.
02:05Did you have a good trip?
02:07I yielded that to the moon.
02:09All right, 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 on 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.
02:28Four.
02:29I don't really know how it works, but the full moon does impact catch rates.
02:34Is that a shark?
02:35That's a shark.
02:36Do you want to hold it?
02:37Yeah.
02:38He's trying to bite you.
02:39The full moon definitely brings out all the creatures.
02:42There's some weird stuff goes on during a full moon.
02:45You 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.
02:52I'll let you go now.
02:53Thank you for your help.
03:00Full moon, mate.
03:01Yeah.
03:02That's why we're out.
03:03Crazy.
03:04A full moon is a double-edged sword.
03:09A soothing light bulb for the weary skipper, but it also turns on all kinds of predators below.
03:16When the full moon's up, you know, the fish can just go quiet and the octopus love it.
03:21They can see what they're doing down there in and out of your pots flat out all night.
03:25We've got a bit of an array in here.
03:27We've got sharks and we've got octopus.
03:30We've got a seafood basket, mate.
03:32This is what the ockies do to the crays.
03:34They 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?
03:46Shit, bruh.
03:47It's probably Jason.
03:48He's on that boat out there.
03:49He had 18 pots done by ockies this morning.
03:51F*** hell.
03:55The Giblin.
03:56And the Moran is pulling its first shot here for the season.
04:00Jack needs the Giblin to deliver.
04:03We've left an area where we were fishing by ourselves and no one really around.
04:07We've steamed up here, hoping for greener pastures, and 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.
04:21Oh, it's not good.
04:24Come on, little snappies.
04:25Where are you?
04:27Come on, lovers.
04:29Come on.
04:31Very quiet on the home front.
04:34A full moon.
04:36A crowded neighbourhood.
04:38And a choppy swell.
04:39The conditions are testing.
04:41We're not getting much today.
04:43The gamble's not paying off at this stage, Johnny.
04:45Where we've got them, they don't really like a great deal of swell.
04:48So when you're fishing shallow waters like this, too much movement in the water, a bit too much swell.
04:52The craze hate it.
04:53They'll just sit down there and hold on.
04:54Won't move at all.
04:55Come on.
04:56We're not greedy, Johnny.
04:57We just need a lot more than we're getting, bud.
04:58Oh, I know.
04:59It's got my brain going a million miles an hour now from us.
05:00Think up a game plan, think about what to do.
05:04At Pedra Branca...
05:05Stretch the back around.
05:06Why don't you have to do it?
05:07You're special or something, Jets.
05:08The crew of The Bold Contender is warming up.
05:09I know.
05:10I know.
05:11I mean, he's got my brain going a million miles an hour from us.
05:14Think up a game plan, think about what to do.
05:22At Pedra Branca...
05:23Stretch the back around.
05:26Why don't you have to do it?
05:29You're special or something, Jets?
05:30The crew of The Bold Contender is warming up.
05:33Oh, yeah.
05:35Feel it.
05:36Feel it.
05:37Work that body, work that body.
05:39Hoping for a bonanza day for more big, higher-priced lobsters.
05:44This is the new stuff.
05:46Get this party started.
05:52Thanks.
05:53236 lobsters yesterday, I want to beat that today.
05:56I'm not gonna be happy if we get less.
06:07Thanks!
06:09That's a f***ing good pot.
06:21We're off to a flying start.
06:23Tens and sixes.
06:24Let's keep it going all day because that'd be f***ing awesome.
06:27Whoop!
06:28Captain Blood in there's got them dialed.
06:31We're making money today.
06:37Oh!
06:39Look out, the sun's come out.
06:41Look how bald he is.
06:43Balder than me.
06:45Can you see that in the wheelhouse?
06:55Nearly there, Lucky.
06:56Nearly there.
06:57The Chieftain crew is hauling in the second half of their night shot.
07:01Oh, man.
07:03Decky Locky is struggling.
07:05No.
07:06You're hurting.
07:07F***ing you.
07:08How?
07:09Locky has a sore testicle.
07:11Basically, I had to get an ultrasound because I've got a cyst on my testicle and that's
07:17what Jock's out here helping me because 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.
07:30F***ing ache.
07:31But five gruelling days at sea has taken its toll.
07:34Not feeling too good.
07:35In a bit of pain.
07:37Um, yeah, 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.
07:45Yes.
07:46Chief.
07:47I think it's hard for Locky himself to slow down and, um, he went too hard and, yeah,
07:54you can see he was hurting.
07:56Being a deckhand is very physical.
07:58You're lifting pots multiple times a day, about 40 kilos each.
08:01You're walking up and down a deck that's moving.
08:03And being in pain or being half capacity like Locky is at the moment, it's very dangerous.
08:09It'd only take one little thing to happen and he could be in a serious amount of pain and
08:13this could end the whole trip.
08:18It used to be hell on wheels.
08:21Back when I was a younger man.
08:24My team's happy now.
08:26He's, um, got someone to order around to tell what to do.
08:30Team Pira is re-energised.
08:33The arrival of 23-year-old Cody has lifted everyone's spirits.
08:48Question is, how long can it last?
08:52These guys worked together before.
08:54Cody, he's a great young guy.
08:55He's a really nice, nice fella and he's, um, really enthusiastic and he loves fishing.
09:01Still a hundred percent, brother.
09:04My guy's here.
09:05I think I've made the right decision to be honest, so I'm happy.
09:09Do whatever the rest of the boat people want.
09:12Heaps more energy this morning.
09:14Cody here.
09:15Haven't had to do much.
09:17I almost feel lazy.
09:18I 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're pro fish over the side.
09:26Try to keep cool?
09:28Famous last words.
09:30But can Timmy really do that?
09:33Stay calm as a new duo under pressure.
09:36Tim and Cody have done great trips together.
09:39And they've had a bit of history.
09:41I mean, I think Cody 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.
09:51I 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.
10:02Pedro Branca and Squizzy is fishing 100 metres down, hunting for monster sized brindles.
10:21The 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.
10:29So that's what we're going to concentrate on for our night shot and day shot.
10:34You 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?
10:53I'm a little bit disappointed where we are here at the moment.
10:58Because I've made human error.
11:02I didn't allow enough for the tide.
11:04And they drifted back to the top.
11:07And I want them down on the bottom of the ledge.
11:10So I've missed the bottom.
11:12When you fish the deep water and the tide's running,
11:15you've got to sort of know what you're doing.
11:18If I drop a pot here and I don't allow for that tide,
11:21and I'm trying to hit something here, that pot will end up down here.
11:28Yep!
11:31I'm going to shoot these pots straight back in the same area
11:35because I know, but I think there's some fish here.
11:40I just, uh, stuffed up.
11:45Shooter McGavin's going to have another go.
11:51Geez, he was a wanker wasn't he?
11:58Where are all the f***ing crows?
12:03Not f***ing here, Johnny.
12:05The Buran boys are down on their luck and burning cash.
12:10If this doesn't work out coming up here,
12:12we've just wasted six or seven hundred bucks 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.
12:19Catching up and really f***ing.
12:22Really drags the idiot.
12:24It is so disheartening.
12:27You're f***ing for nothing.
12:31Poor Jackie boys put all the fuel in and all the food.
12:36And all his knowledge.
12:41And it must just f***ing knock the motivation straight out of you.
12:44Well, it does.
12:47Makes your day hard. Makes everyone's day hard.
12:49And their day is about to get even harder.
12:55We'll 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.
13:12I don't know where the f*** it is.
13:14There should be a pot right in front of us.
13:16If not for some reason, so a bit of a look.
13:20Someone 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.
13:31If 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 ropes 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.
13:53Look at them.
13:54Delicious!
13:57What's the magic number, Captain?
14:00120.
14:02120.
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.
14:10Mate, 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 loxters, like these two kilo tractors, are the new target.
14:27They'll fetch over $200 each on the current market.
14:30Yeah!
14:31Woohoo!
14:32Yeah, baby!
14:3326.
14:34Bryce has fallen short of his 100 lobster target.
14:47This morning was just very average.
14:50There's nothing really good about it.
14:51There'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 it 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, do something completely different.
15:05Lachie's temporary injury break is not helping things.
15:09You want to shoot gear?
15:12He 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.
15:25Jock and I are just going to shoot the gear in.
15:28We're just going to take it slow.
15:30It'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.
15:39See what happens, eh?
15:40It'll be sweet, yeah.
15:41He's finally up.
15:50Chuck about an hour with the float.
15:57Went way too early.
15:58No, that's still fine.
16:03Uh, should I get pots or not?
16:05Jock's biggest challenge is 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.
16:23I'm all right if I'm focusing on one thing at a time.
16:25If I'm trying to do two things at once, that's where I fall apart.
16:28So, just got to stay focused.
16:31Yeah, all right, bro.
16:32I'll grab that in a second.
16:33Yeah.
16:34Cook him on.
16:35Team Pira is finally running at full operational efficiency.
16:38Two deckies and two shots a day.
16:39Yeah, you know, Cody is pretty fresh.
16:40He's done a little bit of squid and, um, he's up to four or five grade trips now.
16:44Tim and Cody have set aside their past grievances.
16:45Yeah, sometimes I get a big crabby at the poor young fella, but it's never for no reason.
17:01The 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, had a pot come down and smacked me out the side of the leg, jam it in between the basket.
17:15I guess it's just all, all learning.
17:21Those floats again, Cody.
17:24One more fish.
17:25One more fish.
17:26Miles' night shot catch rate has slowed down.
17:29Hey, uh, would you better give us a pot count when you're ready, bro?
17:35There's 137.
17:37I mean, look, it's okay.
17:38If we were catching, like, 160 or something like that, that would be sort of more where I want to be.
17:43Miles needs his day shot numbers to outperform.
17:46If they don't, he'll relocate to Pedra Branca to hunt for the higher priced tractors.
17:53I reckon I'll have a pretty good idea whether we're going to stay by the end of today
17:56or I'm going to go down to Pedra Branca.
17:59Pedra Branca has been good to Squizzy, but like all casinos, there are winners and losers.
18:06We'll see how the fish come up.
18:08I mean, I know Squizzy's down there.
18:09I 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 Pedra Branca and I'm sort of trying to look for excuses to just go down there.
18:21Today is officially the shortest day of the year, and Decky Jock is honouring a winter solstice Tassie ritual.
18:34It's a bit of a Tassie tradition that you go swimming in the nude on the solstice.
18:39Mid-winter, water's cold, just, I don't know, it's just a Tassie thing now.
18:43So the winter solstice in Tasmania is when you've got the full moon and the shortest day of the year.
18:47Now, in Hobart, what we do is we all get naked together on a beach, hundreds of people, and jump in the ocean.
18:53Now, I haven't been a part of that. I don't think Lachy's been a part of that.
18:56Jock is always a part of that.
18:58As soon as he jumps in the water, I'm going to throw this across ways.
19:01That way, as he drifts back, he'll be able to grab onto something if he needs it.
19:06Worst case, we'll just both jump in after him and leave an unmanned boat.
19:10We're about 12 kilometres offshore, so it's one of the more extreme winter solstice swims I've done, but we'll go for it.
19:18We're currently situated in the Southern Ocean.
19:21Next stop is Antarctica. It's about 11 degrees in the water.
19:25Jock'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 when he hits the water.
19:33I'm going to jump off here.
19:34Go on, leave you under.
19:35OK, we'll face this way then.
19:36All right, enough, Jock. Let's go!
19:38Go, Jock!
19:46Jock was lit up like a reflector. He was that white.
19:49I think Jock needs to get out of that office more frequently.
19:51Go, Jocky!
19:59Oh, yeah!
20:04Good.
20:05That was good.
20:06Well done, Jock.
20:08Hello!
20:11I might have any people that will do that willingly, but...
20:14I'm coming through, are you ready or not?
20:16That was refreshing.
20:17I feel alive!
20:18Let's go get some love!
20:19You're a weapon, Jock.
20:20You're a weapon.
20:21I don't know anyone else.
20:22You won't even come outside, man.
20:23No, mate.
20:24Just put some clothes on, mate.
20:25Skin's burning.
20:26Very refreshing.
20:27I feel a bit like a drowned rat, but...
20:28Jock has bigger balls than I think I'll ever have.
20:31Yep.
20:32Yeah, if you can put both of mine together and it'll still be smaller than one of yours,
20:33I reckon.
20:34Nah, that man.
20:35You can tell he's bored and bred to Tassie, that's for sure.
20:36Like, you know when you're naked and then you feel like so naked?
20:38You feel so naked coming up the ladder, like...
20:51There really is naked and naked and he really was the second option.
20:55I felt like a little, like, out of the room, baby, like...
21:02He's just...
21:04Everyone's looking at him.
21:05Everyone's having a laugh.
21:06Like, you know what I mean?
21:07Like, for some time, do you feel extra naked?
21:09It's not your normal naked swim.
21:19Everyone celebrates the solstice differently.
21:22A naked squizzy just won't happen.
21:25A couple of nice ones in there.
21:27It's business as usual for the crew of The Bold Contender.
21:33Hey, Miles.
21:34Captain Squizzle.
21:35What's going on?
21:36Are you still down at Pedro?
21:37Uh...
21:39Yep.
21:40Yep.
21:41Yeah, right-o.
21:42We're not getting the numbers we were up there at the Fries.
21:44You know I like it down your way, like down at Pedro, but I just...
21:47I don't know.
21:48We're catching fish here, so I don't know what I'm going to do, to be honest.
21:51Big gamble to come down here, isn't it?
21:53Yeah.
21:54Yeah.
21:55Takes big balls to leave fish.
21:57I know, and I've done it before, and bloody...
22:00You know, run back me car, we'll turn me legs.
22:02All right, mate.
22:03We might get into this so we get these pots in before dark.
22:06Roger, mate.
22:07All right.
22:08Good fishing.
22:09They're all trying to find out how we're going.
22:12You know, a few days ago, when I thought we only had 60, I was doubting myself.
22:17When I was set about, I can't catch a lobster down here, I might try and catch a fisherman.
22:22Well, now I'm catching lobsters down here, I don't want to catch a fisherman.
22:26To be honest, I'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 and started writing my bullshit down in a book,
22:36so I can remember how much bullshit I'd told so I could try and keep the truth going.
22:41Does that make sense?
22:42I'm starting to confuse myself sitting here right now.
22:46We've got the whole area to ourselves.
22:49And I want to keep it that way.
22:59This is Miles' way of celebrating the winter solstice.
23:02The break will also give him time to contemplate his next move.
23:07I was enjoying a nice lunch.
23:09You've got about an hour and a half break.
23:11Recharged the batteries a bit.
23:14He's done it again with his cooking.
23:16What, not enough in there for you?
23:18No, it's just good.
23:21Will Miles press on and 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 to go down to Pedra Branca and have a look.
23:35But I hate running away from Fitch.
23:38Because there's been plenty of times where I've been down to Pedra Branca and just caught absolutely nothing.
23:43I don't want to say it, but I think someone might have been through and cut them off.
23:50Jack and Johnny are looking for a lost pot.
23:53Should be sort of just here off our starved side.
23:55There it is.
23:58You see it?
23:59I can see the rope, but it's going to be a nightmare to try and grapple.
24:04Yeah, because it'd just be floating to nothing, wouldn't it?
24:07It's like it's tangled.
24:08Oh, you're on it, bro.
24:09You've actually got it.
24:10Yeah.
24:11Oh, yeah.
24:12So that's how they used to do it back in the day, yeah?
24:13F*** that.
24:14F*** that.
24:16F*** that.
24:20F*** that.
24:34Lachie is temporarily out of action.
24:38Jock's now running the deck.
24:40Fingers crossed we're halfway through now.
24:44See what happens.
24:46Lachie 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.
24:58Lachie 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 Lachie can easily shoot the gear in.
25:06It's very easy to look at on the sounder.
25:09You can't really miss.
25:11All yours. Press 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.
25:20Shit.
25:22Yeah, little bitches in there.
25:24We'll see if he can get something out of four pots.
25:26All I want to see him do is what I told him to do
25:29and zigzag up and back and shoot on one particular ledge.
25:33That's where the fish have been.
25:34So, hand of the reins over to Lachie.
25:36It's the easiest 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.
25:47No pressure.
25:47No pressure.
25:47Yeah, lobster!
25:59Work Skippy!
26:05Well, Skippy's not messing around.
26:07He's on to it.
26:08When you shoot a pot turning to port,
26:11don't be turned any more than, like, ten degrees.
26:15Yeah, I turned back up.
26:16Oh, you'll put it in the prop.
26:18It's too cold to swim today.
26:26Oh, f***.
26:27What's up in there?
26:28F***ing 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, Lachie, I 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 Lachie sped up at the same time.
26:46Like, that rope started really going out.
26:48It'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 Brassford.
26:58Yeah, but that part doesn't hurt.
26:59Yeah, we'll see.
27:00You might not need him.
27:07Here we go, Johnny!
27:08I'm a bit sceptical about this day shot that I've chucked in.
27:13The giblet.
27:15And Jack is hoping that 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 out 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 lobster, is it?
27:58Just seeing where it come from,
27:59there's no way it doesn't have lobos.
28:02Three, two, one.
28:06Blank.
28:10Come off some real juicy-looking bottom and...
28:15Blank.
28:18Juicy-looking.
28:22I 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 here, 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.
28:54Oh, you f***ing bastard.
29:04There are no rainbows on board the Pira.
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 f***ing...
29:19Nah, I don't...
29:20It's just a bottom one.
29:21He's a perfectionist
29:22and demands the same from everyone else.
29:26Nah, do your pot battles.
29:28Timmy and Cody's honeymoon period
29:30is officially over.
29:33Is this the start of a marriage made in hell?
29:36We ran out of bait savers.
29:39What are you doing?
29:40Is there more stash somewhere?
29:41Well, that's all that...
29:42What are they?
29:43I'm f***ing f***ing 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.
29:53You 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' marriage advice is good.
30:03But will Timmy listen?
30:05Oh, f***ing mate, when you do this, Cody.
30:07Why am I going to put something to me feet?
30:09We'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 f***ing 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?
30:47That'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.
31:20And 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.
31:31I'm just going to take my time,
31:32measure crays, pay 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.
31:47This 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.
31:53Ready, Jocky?
31:54No.
31:55What's the worst that can happen?
31:56Hit Bryce in the head with a set of plates?
31:58It's already happened.
31:58Oh, this is your time to shine.
32:01You've got to grapple every pot.
32:03I know.
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.
32:16Wow.
32:16He's got a circle of shine.
32:20Are you Jocky?
32:21That's Jocky.
32:21Go.
32:22Throw it.
32:23Beautiful.
32:24Pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull.
32:27You're lucky.
32:28No.
32:30What?
32:31You've got to pull fast, man.
32:34Oh, Jock.
32:36This thing with the grapple is,
32:38it 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 got this, bud.
32:48I'm stressing.
32:50You really are wasting a lot of the day.
32:52Oh, maybe not.
32:56Oh, 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, okay.
33:15Oh, yeah.
33:16Oh, yeah.
33:17Oh, nice, Danny.
33:19Oh, yeah.
33:21Happy 30, too.
33:21I caught Daddy.
33:23We've just got to catch 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.
33:36Oh, yeah.
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.
33:48They were blank.
33:49And today, I shot them all to hit the bottom of the ledge.
33:54And guess what?
33:55Bingo, baby.
33:56All righty, 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.
34:19It's like a drug.
34:19Outside, on the outside, a big one.
34:22On the big one still.
34:24Yeah, Rhino.
34:27Dongies, mate.
34:28Suck 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, Ian?
34:49How did you go?
34:53Yeah, 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 crate price 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 we're just going to pull this gear in the morning.
35:16We're going straight to Pedro.
35:17Yeah.
35:17Yeah, so we'll get down there for a day shot in the morning
35:19and, yeah, we'll get up at 2.30 and we'll just get going.
35:23It's crazy.
35:24What'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.
35:34I'm getting shitty again.
35:35So when's next to you go?
35:36Is he not listening to you anymore?
35:38Nah.
35:38The only last trip I've done that he's the same thing.
35:40Wouldn't listen.
35:41Doing them pots and I got hurt.
35:43Happens again.
35:44Him getting hurt.
35:44Yeah.
35:46Seems Timmy's potty mouth has context.
35:49It's all about OH&S and personal safety.
35:53Ah, f***ing snakes, man.
35:58F***ing dickhead.
35:59Oh, shit.
36:01It's sort of been building up throughout the day, but I can see Tim's getting really frustrated.
36:05I swear 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...
36:12I'm f***ing tired I don't have the rope doing a f***ing figure eight around the pots.
36:15It's gotten to the point a few times where 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 head.
36:28You've just pulled all them f***ing floats out of there like that.
36:31Look, if someone throws a punch or if it comes to that, they're instantly fired.
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 from 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, I don't know what's happening, man.
36:56But just rip all them ropes out of that float bin.
37:00If this issue gets worse between Tim and Cody and I'm going to go drop one of them off,
37:07it's probably a 12-hour turnaround, really.
37:09F***ing.
37:11What do you want to do?
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.
37:23F***ing hell.
37:24It's just sort of going to turn our whole trip into 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.
37:38Until I get the next pot up and run the float line out.
37:41F***ing if you run them pots and see what happens.
37:44I'm not trying to hit you.
37:45I'm not trying to hit you.
37:45I'm not trying to hit you with your f***ing ball, mate.
37:47All right.
37:47Timmy'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?
38:01Uh, maybe.
38:02That's a size one.
38:03The 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 blocks out of them.
38:10Don't move the f***ing ball.
38:12Don't lift.
38:13Don't miss.
38:15Go.
38:17Good work, Johnny.
38:19Come on, Lucky.
38:21I'm excited.
38:22Fingers crossed.
38:23Oh, she builds heavy.
38:29Come on, Lucky.
38:30Get the fruits of your labour.
38:31I'll say, Lovey!
38:33Oh, Lox-star!
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 it's called a 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.
38:53We're on Lucky's second pot now.
38:55There's Lucky's pot coming out.
38:57First one.
38:57We had a zero.
38:59Hey!
39:00Got one!
39:01Well done, Lox-star.
39:02First lobster for the Lox-star.
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, Doc.
39:10There's a few lobs.
39:12Got three out of that one.
39:13Three!
39:15Three's better than two.
39:16He's getting there again.
39:18More than a fish pot.
39:19Woo!
39:20Last pot.
39:20My last pot, Jocky.
39:21Big colour.
39:26It's a good change at all.
39:27Yeah!
39:27It's a lobster!
39:28It's a lobster!
39:31Can't catch a lobster.
39:33This is the fourth pot.
39:34Now the last three have pulled five-sized ones out, which, judging from how I've been going,
39:39is actually quite good.
39:40That's what I do.
39:41All right.
39:41These four.
39:42Woo-hoo!
39:43What's this one?
39:44Five-a!
39:45Yeah!
39:45He's going to talk so much shit later.
39:48He's got five.
39:49Now he's coming out here.
39:49He won't stop nagging for shots now.
39:51He won't stop.
39:52He will carry on going.
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.
39:58You know what?
39:59Without my last four pots, we wouldn't have hit 100, I don't think.
40:02Team Chieftain has landed 197 lobsters for the day.
40:08But 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 big time.
40:33The lobster legend is on top with 1,153.
40:38Slowly creeping towards our two-ton mark.
40:41Oh!
40:42Eh?
40:43Slowly.
40:44Don't jink us, mate.
40:45Slowly creeping towards it, mate.
40:47You know, a lot of big ones, heaps over one kilo.
40:51It was a good day.
40:54Squeezy's final task for the day is to measure his last haul into the holding tank.
41:02At the end of the day on the bowl contender, the only person allowed to measure into the
41:06holding tank, the final tank, is me.
41:10It's my livelihood on the line.
41:12It's my reputation.
41:14The buck stops with me.
41:16That's it.
41:23Oh!
41:24What?
41:25F***ing one just fell in there on the sides.
41:27Oh, for f***ing sake.
41:30Horn broke.
41:31That's f***ing bad.
41:32Like, I'm paranoid about that shit.
41:35I dropped an undersized one in the holding tank.
41:37My fault.
41:38I knew it was undersized, and I went to throw it over the side, and it slipped out of me
41:44hand as I went to throw it, and it went in the tank.
41:48The fines for undersized fish in your tank are massive.
41:51Thousands and thousands of dollars, and it could end your career.
41:54Your fishing days are over.
41:55Of course for you, mate.
41:57Marine flesh checks can happen at any time.
41:59You could be sleeping in your bunk.
42:00The next minute, they'll waken you up.
42:03And the super bad news about that is, uh, there'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, and we're doing it.
42:17There is no ifs, buts, f***ing maybes.
42:21We're doing it.
42:23Right now.
42:24Pump the tank out.
42:29And...
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.
43:00I need to get it fixed.
43:00I need to get it fixed.
43:01I need to get it fixed.
43:05Go, docker!
43:07I feel alive.
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