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Aussie Lobster Men - Season 5 - Episode 03
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00:01Previously...
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
00:17is 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 Squeezy's gear is here as well.
00:33I knew it! I told you!
00:35Squeezy, I think there's a buoy hooked up in your propeller.
00:38F*** Christ!
00:39Fighting over the same bit of ground, but I was here first.
00:42Hey, Miles.
00:43That's you right in front of me, is it? Yeah.
00:45You're shooting right through my parts.
00:47Thanks, Bryce.
00:48They might be pissed off that I'm here.
00:49That proves he can't catch his own fist,
00:51but I'm pissed off there, are you?
00:53No!
01:10See what a f***ing price.
01:11It's like a f***ing gimbal hanging off the side of my f***ing boat.
01:14Just go find your own f***ing fish.
01:19It's 5.30am,
01:20and the crew of the Pira is on the hunt for lobsters.
01:25Going good this morning.
01:26Can you fish about?
01:28Great.
01:33We got up to 3 o'clock this morning.
01:35Started to find our night shot.
01:36Bryce has come and shot pots in the middle of our pots.
01:39It's just really annoying.
01:41We ran into one about here.
01:43It's another queue of these pots up here.
01:45We've got all this rope hanging on the surface of the water.
01:48It makes it bloody impossible.
01:49It pushes you out of the area, really.
01:51Bryce tries to work up top of me again today.
01:53I'm going to be losing my patience very quickly,
01:56and I'm going to get f***ing really wild.
01:59Then I will not be holding back.
02:02Miles of tally for the season stands at 163 lobsters,
02:07worth a massive $10,000.
02:10That'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.
02:32What 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 counting.
02:47Lockie and Jock can joke all they want about the low catch rate.
02:49However, if I can't catch fish, it's really not looking good.
02:53Three!
02:54Ah, ah, ah, ah.
02:55Three loxter, provided this one goes, and it does.
02:58Ah!
02:59If we get three pots, that'll give us $150 for the shop.
03:01If we get another $150 for the day shop.
03:03That's $200 for the day.
03:04$200 for the day.
03:05Call that $200 kilo.
03:06Bills are paid.
03:07$240 kilo.
03:08Hey?
03:08$240 kilo.
03:09Oh, sorry.
03:10I'm so glad you've missed that exacto knife over here.
03:13If we get $100, I'll be happy.
03:20F*** all in that one.
03:22Um, I mustn't have packed their lunch very well.
03:24The crew of the Buran is fishing in close, searching for monster-sized reds.
03:30This is what a monster lobster looks like.
03:34Two kilos.
03:35Three kilos.
03:37Four kilos.
03:40Well, it won't fit in the hole.
03:41Ha, ha.
03:48But so far this morning on the Buran...
03:50Bip-bip.
03:52There's no reason there shouldn't be beefy, so I guess we'll soon say.
03:59First shot always gets you a bit f***ing anxious.
04:03Jack may only be 29, but he knows these waters well.
04:09A couple of rocks just under the water over in there, so sort of want to try to avoid them.
04:17A lot of blokes that do it usually do it out of the tinny, so we don't have that luxury,
04:21so I've got to use the big buck for it.
04:25So the closer you are in, the closer you are to their little home sort of thing.
04:29F***.
04:30Come on, Lobos.
04:31The prize for fishing inshore are lobsters worth more than any other.
04:35Got high hopes for a couple of these, but...
04:37Anything above two kilos is currently fetching $85 a kilo, versus 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, we just need lots of f***ing papa bears.
04:58Female 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?
05:09A little bit more promising.
05:11They're all good.
05:12All looking good.
05:13Four.
05:14I've 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.
05:26Five.
05:26We hit some good numbers.
05:29Definitely can't complain.
05:30They're awake.
05:34Five, Kazzy.
05:37I'm out of that one.
05:38Pretty consistent.
05:39We're probably looking around this area for sure.
05:41Six.
05:42Six.
05:43Nice.
05:43Can we go this one, please, bud?
05:44Six, brother.
05:47Six.
05:48Six again.
05:51Seven.
05:51Seven.
05:52Eight, actually.
05:53Eight.
05:55That's a good number.
05:57It's under 50 out of the first sort of dozen pots.
06:01If we can stick it out, yeah, it'll be a good shot.
06:07It's a sand shark.
06:09Pain in the ass.
06:10The Pyrrha's fast start to the season...
06:13So good for nothing.
06:14..has started to decelerate.
06:16Is there much bait left or nothing?
06:18Bugger all.
06:19Is there any loss about you, reckon?
06:22Yeah.
06:25Oh, the night 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
06:35tens 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?
06:51Nah, nothing.
06:52Skeleton.
06:53They've become a huge problem,
06:54but, you know, you've just got to work out a bit of a system
06:57and try and work around it.
06:58So I've sort of got to make the decision
07:00whether we might start putting a bit more bait in the pots
07:02just for the night time.
07:04First, Bryce, the mozzie,
07:06and now I've got another parasite I've got to deal with.
07:10Look at that. First line.
07:13Nice.
07:15Stoked.
07:16This area is just miles and miles and miles
07:19of the cray lobster bottom.
07:21And we're trying to catch craze.
07:23So we're getting no lobsters in the pots.
07:26Lobbies!
07:28Not enough.
07:29Oh, look on.
07:30You're one of those people that go to a restaurant
07:31and they give you a bowl of bread with some olive oil
07:33and you say, I want another bowl of it.
07:35It's not enough.
07:37Not many sides coming out of here, lobster.
07:39We've got miles just out to starboard sides.
07:41He would have been getting a few.
07:44And I know where Squizzy 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.
07:52What about you?
07:53That's my guy.
07:53No.
07:56Little.
07:57Little.
07:58Little.
07:59No.
07:59No.
08:03Finally.
08:04Finally one.
08:05One's better than none.
08:07Way too ratty for my liking.
08:13I 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, brum?
08:24Four.
08:25That's a hundred and two, Johnny.
08:27Not a bad shot for the first half.
08:29Woo!
08:29Twelve pots left to go.
08:32Best trip I've ever had.
08:34As far as numbers go.
08:36Smiles on the dials.
08:38And we want to win.
08:40Yeah, it's looking good.
08:43I thought of what I was hoping for this morning,
08:44but I wasn't really expecting it.
08:47Beautiful, bruv.
08:48Just another day in my office.
08:52The day bin's looking pretty good.
08:53The day bin's looking beautiful.
08:55It's awesome.
08:56When that's full, it's a good thing.
08:58On the bloody go.
09:01How was the snail you 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.
09:15Oh, shit.
09:16This last pot's snagged up under a rock.
09:18You ever hear it struggle like that?
09:20Just put the boys back on and get out of the way of it.
09:25The boat weighs around 40 tonne.
09:27And we've got two and a half thousand pairs of pressure
09:29running through the hydraulics.
09:31There's a lot of strain.
09:33And we don't want to deckhand.
09:34I'll have the rope flick out and grab him.
09:37It'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.
10:02Sometimes it'll just be a ****.
10:05Yeah, if I lose this pot, it could be five grand's worth of fish depending on how it goes.
10:18Do you want Jesse?
10:21Oh, yeah.
10:22On the bold contender, 17-year-old deckhand Jesse has recovered from his seasickness.
10:27Trouble is, the cruise lobster catch ratio is well below par.
10:33Squizzy, 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
10:44move around a bit.
10:46Senior decky Rhino reckons it's Bryce's fault.
10:50Bryce, the nerve of the bloke, dropping his gear all over house.
10:54The crayfish get pot shy.
10:56Oh, another blank.
10:58That's halving the fish catch.
10:59It's not fair.
11:01Squizzle!
11:03Far out.
11:05I want to come out here to make money, mate, not bloody catch hermit crabs.
11:11I'm pretty sure Bryce is getting to him.
11:14Bryce is not getting to me.
11:15Precious man, it's up to him.
11:17Mate, I can't be perfect all the time.
11:20Sometimes you have bad days.
11:22Just 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 pots off.
11:41I nearly ran over one of his this morning.
11:43Because he's just got deer in between mine.
11:45If I can send him back over your way, I will.
11:49I'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've done it.
11:58Yeah, well, Bryce is all over up there, so I'll f***ing work.
12:02It's not this team of doing that shit.
12:04Is he back where you are now?
12:06Yep.
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.
12:42No point throwing at the ends on the sand now.
12:44Huh?
12:45If I say yep, and you don't go, no point down f***ing ten minutes later,
12:51that could actually be 50 metres deeper.
12:54Pretty stuffed up.
12:56When I said yep, set the pot, they fixed the stuff up,
13:00and they just threw the pot.
13:02Which was ten, twenty metres after I said yep.
13:07If I'm babysitting deck hands, I'm not concentrating on my job.
13:11I need to get my head back in the game.
13:13One or two to go.
13:15Yeah, then we've got to go and get the one we lost.
13:18Oh, I think we've lost one, haven't we?
13:21We left one of our pots up.
13:23When Bryce said all around us, yeah, I left one there by mistake.
13:31You don't want to lose a pot at the start of a trip.
13:34It'll cost you thousands of dollars.
13:36Because 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.
13:58The Buran's last pot of the shot is forty metres down.
14:03And it might be staying there.
14:05It's stuck good.
14:05It could mean a loss of income of up to $5,000 or worse.
14:11You'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.
14:18And I'm going to try and do what I can to get him back on board.
14:22Last pot of course.
14:24The pot's actually caught on rocks on the bottom.
14:29So we're just trying to drive around it.
14:31So I can pull it up from a different angle.
14:38Come on, you brick.
14:42Got him.
14:43Yeah, baby.
14:45Poor old pot's probably going to be destroyed.
14:48We got it.
14:49Persistence.
14:50Yeah, blank.
14:52I'm not too upset about that.
14:54That was pretty healthy.
14:56Beautiful catch.
14:58Yeah.
14:59Pretty 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.
15:05120 kilos. Easy.
15:07If we can do anything similar for a day shot and do that sort of every morning.
15:11Yeah, it should take too much to put a load on and get out of here.
15:15We exceeded all our expectations.
15:17But look at where we're doing it.
15:19Way rather be out here doing this.
15:21With a good boss.
15:22I've been stuck in a shitty office.
15:24Nicest thing I've heard you say, Johnny.
15:26Oh, right.
15:27Yeah, right.
15:30No, it almost is the nicest thing I've seen.
15:37I'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.
15:50You 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.
16:01Hey, get in there big.
16:0310 grand.
16:04You 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.
16:13And 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...
16:3150.
16:3250 on the dot.
16:34Yep.
16:36What did we get earlier?
16:3640?
16:3742.
16:37Hey, 42.
16:39I think so.
16:4092.
16:40That sucks.
16:4192's rough.
16:42100 should be there.
16:44But whether it's because we're rushing, I don't know.
16:46But 92's rough.
16:47There's a little bit more pressure in making sure we get fish in the day.
16:52So...
16:52If 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.
16:59I don't feel pressure.
17:00I don't feel pressure.
17:01I don't feel pressure.
17:03Hey, mate, how you going?
17:05Yeah, not too bad.
17:07Um, I'm missing a pot, but I'm pretty sure it's over where you are, where we had them pots
17:11together the other day.
17:12Yeah, right.
17:14Can you please keep a lookout, mate?
17:15If you find it, let us know.
17:17Yep.
17:18No worries.
17:19Squeezy's asked me to find his lost pot.
17:21Who would have thought he'd ask me for help?
17:23Maybe Squeezy 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 Squeezy.
17:41What do I get if I find this pot?
17:44Uh, nothing.
17:46Friendship back.
17:47What was that?
17:47I get everything that's in it.
17:49Nah, you're a bully.
17:51An absolute bully.
17:53Piss off.
17:53Don't wait.
17:56Can you give us the mark for it, please?
17:58Yeah, I'll send you the mark.
18:00Well, that was nice to bring the radio up.
18:03Yeah, maybe he's not such a **** after all.
18:12So I'm going to duct tape a banana to his pot line.
18:16Squeezy is very, very superstitious.
18:18Does not like bananas.
18:20Bananas are just a no-go.
18:23He might get angry if he gets a banana in his boat,
18:25but he ran my pot over.
18:26You know, it's only retaliation.
18:28I don't want to lose Ernie.
18:30No, Ernie was failing.
18:31So the idea of this, the idea of this is they will be holding their pot.
18:35It'll go boom into the hole and it's just going to go splat everywhere,
18:38preferably over the deckhand.
18:40No hard feelings against whoever is standing at the hole.
18:44This is purely because Squeezy just loves a good banana.
18:48Yeah, good to go.
18:49There to go.
18:50I'll back away.
18:52See you, Ernie.
18:57This is what I'm calling a banana bomb.
18:59Bananas are coming for you, buddy.
19:01A little fruit and veg never hurt nobody.
19:09Eleven.
19:09Put eleven 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 it, son, this happens all the time.
19:23About eleven in the first one.
19:25Thanks for you.
19:26We've barely been getting a fish out of the pot.
19:29Team Pira has landed 103 lobsters for its night shot,
19:33but the young gun skipper has a problem to deal with.
19:36There's just no bait left in them, is there?
19:40Yeah, so these pots have been laced out.
19:44Yeah, the laced are pretty bad.
19:45They give me bait savers back, not even no bait in them.
19:48So, cooter ants are gone.
19:52The pot's in the water for, I don't know how many hours without baiting them,
19:56so they're not getting fish in them either.
19:58A bait's a huge expense.
19:59We put about three to four boxes of bait in a shot.
20:03$70 to $80 a box of bait.
20:04Sea lice moved with the tides.
20:07Miles will have to steam up tide if he's any chance of holding his ground on the tally board.
20:12We'll probably move these in a bit shallower.
20:14And I reckon we'll double bag them tonight, I reckon.
20:17So tonight we'll just hang two baskets in them.
20:20Don't really want to feed the lice our bait.
20:22We can get a 30% increase with an extra box of bait.
20:26Well, you know, I think that's money well spent.
20:30Put a basket on either side.
20:33Hang a cooter head on the outside.
20:35Give him a bit to chew on.
20:37Pay for the extra bait elk there.
20:42It's a lot of work for Tim.
20:43Double baiting for tonight.
20:46Yeah, he's under the palm.
20:47But he's doing really well.
20:49He's a really good decking.
20:50He's experienced.
20:53I mean, usually I have two crew doing this.
20:56He's getting by.
20:57He's doing it all by himself.
20:58So he's doing a great job.
21:03That bottom one up there, you baited it?
21:04None of them have got bait in them, yeah.
21:06Oh, righto.
21:07I thought you said there was only a couple to pull on them with steaming up the other end.
21:10So that's why.
21:11Yeah.
21:11Been getting to them as I can, but.
21:14Nah, that's all right.
21:14We're going to have catch up for too long.
21:18I'm eight pots fine, bro.
21:19I'm not talking.
21:21Not at the moment.
21:22I'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're going to be in.
21:32It's important to look after your deckhands.
21:35The more you look after them, the harder they're going to work,
21:37and they benefit the operation.
21:38Do you want a Vegemite sandwich or something?
21:40Yeah, please.
21:41Just one or two?
21:42Ah, probably two.
21:44Yeah, 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.
21:56I don't even know how to spell my own name.
21:58You've got to write down everything you do under there.
22:01That's...
22:02Everything's safety, mate.
22:03Out here, you just use common sense.
22:05I don't really like people, so...
22:08This suit's playing pretty well.
22:18Here's our lost pot.
22:20Oh, he's coming.
22:21He's over there.
22:22He's just there.
22:24Here he comes, Loggie.
22:26He's going to come and see his little surprise.
22:28He really loves a banana.
22:29I'm telling you.
22:30He really does.
22:32He'll be there in a sec.
22:40You reckon he would have plagued with it?
22:45He's out to pull the pot.
22:46I reckon he's going to be really cautious when he hauls it.
22:49Nah.
22:50Nah, he won't expect it.
22:52If I was squizzy, I'd be cautious.
22:54Knowing that Bryce has been near that.
22:55You, sir?
22:58You a tumble maker?
22:59It's in the hauler.
23:06Here it comes.
23:08Look at that.
23:10Oh, .
23:11Get the knife.
23:18Oh, no, no.
23:19.
23:20Oh, that's .
23:22It looks like they're all out on deck, so hopefully it's worked.
23:27He loves it, doesn't he?
23:31I don't even want to touch it.
23:36I did save him the pot.
23:37That pot could have just cost him five grand.
23:39He couldn't find it, so it just required a banana on it.
23:46Bananas just bad luck, but I don't want them on the boat.
23:49Proven fact for us.
23:52Bloody Bryce.
23:55Drops his gear all over our gear and gives us bananas.
23:58Cheeky bugger.
24:00He hasn't said anything.
24:01I don't know what's going on.
24:03Takes him a while to load what he needs to say.
24:05Yeah.
24:06It's buffering.
24:16Got a few lobs through it, though.
24:22Just playing with the straight face.
24:25Be a nice guy.
24:27Thanks for that, mate.
24:29Very good for you.
24:30Thank you very much.
24:32No worries, mate.
24:33Potassium helps with nerves and heart, so...
24:36And muscles.
24:37Muscles as well, so potassium should help you.
24:41What are you talking about?
24:42Was there not a banana wrapped around your rope on that pot?
24:46No, there was no banana on it, mate.
24:50Well, that sucks.
24:51Narnie fell off.
24:52I was hoping it would just splatter on your full horns and...
24:55That was about it.
24:57So...
24:57Oh, well.
24:57Nothing happened.
24:58And therefore, nothing happens.
25:00It's a win-win for everyone.
25:03I'll be sure.
25:04Oh, mate.
25:04You had my beautiful nice belly, and you take care.
25:07No.
25:10No, no.
25:14I'm not giving any satisfaction.
25:17He'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.
25:24Oh, no.
25:24He's poor.
25:26He's not going to let you know it worked,
25:27because he doesn't want you to be like, yes!
25:30Oh, well.
25:32We're one Narnie short now.
25:34Damn it.
25:35Mate, we're going to get scurvy.
25:37We're running out of fruit.
25:39Oh, well.
25:40What goes around comes around.
25:44What?
25:45Eh?
25:47That's a big old fruit.
25:48What have you done, Brycey?
25:50What have you done?
25:54Nothing.
25:54It's one squeeze he ran over.
25:56Yeah, look.
25:56There's all the paint.
25:58Here, you chuck this in.
25:59See, banana.
26:02Banana happened for a reason, because he ran a pot over.
26:05Bloody hell, Swiss.
26:07How long have you been driving both school away?
26:13So, just 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.
26:22He put an arm on it.
26:24We've always got to have the last save.
26:27We'll get him back somehow.
26:29Will success be Squizzy's best revenge?
26:32His pots are bursting with brindles.
26:37How are we getting this morning, Brian, eh?
26:39A hundred and twelve.
26:43Quick, wait.
26:44A hundred and twelve.
26:45Really?
26:46A hundred and twelve.
26:47Yeah.
26:49If we get another hundred today, it's 200 for the day.
26:52Ten 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.
27:04The Chieftain is on 238 lobsters.
27:08And the Buran is closing in with 135 after one shot.
27:15All you do is cause drama.
27:17That'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.
27:29But he's always pulling these things behind the scenes.
27:32That's all he does.
27:33He might sit here because I know this person will want to be there,
27:35but we'll get there first.
27:37Exactly.
27:37He just gets in everyone's way.
27:41Oh, Jock, we've got to distract him somehow.
27:43Yeah, we've got a little surprise for Bryce.
27:45But we don't want him to see it until at least we shoot in the pot.
27:49Jock and I have got a little stuffed llama
27:50that we're going to stuff into a pot.
27:58Dang!
28:04Stage one completed.
28:06Now we've just got to keep him from seeing it until we shoot the pots in.
28:16The crew of the Buran has landed 135 lobsters for its night shot.
28:23If Jack's day shot is close to that number,
28:26the Buran will be vying for the lead.
28:29I'm trying to day shot a little bit deeper.
28:32A bit over 70 metres sort of thing.
28:35Just keep that momentum going.
28:37Get 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.
28:45I'll be over the moon with it.
28:52I'm interested to know how the other boys went today.
28:58No, leave it there because it's holding it from where you can see it.
29:03Hey Bryce, how are you going?
29:05Good, yourself?
29:07No, mate, it's like a milk pond here. It's awesome.
29:10Not a breath of wind. The sun's actually out for once.
29:13It's, yeah, there's a glorious day here today.
29:16Yeah, you're right. How'd you go this morning?
29:18Ah, we didn't do too bad this morning. We had 135 this morning.
29:22Gee, you did well. Flogged us.
29:24Yeah, I was happy with it too. Like, a good fish.
29:27Yeah, you're behaving yourself again. It was because of you playing up again.
29:31I tried playing up this morning, but it didn't work.
29:34All right, what did you do?
29:35I put a banana on his pot line, but...
29:37You know he f***ing don't like bananas, mate.
29:40I know he doesn't like bananas, but he...
29:41He ran over one of my pots, so it was sort of, like, preemptive.
29:45Playback.
29:46How'd he run over your pot?
29:47Oh, he reckons I shot too close to him, but I was shooting around his gear, and I didn't run
29:51over one of his, so...
29:52I reckon he's just getting old.
29:54You're going to play nice.
29:56I'm always nice.
29:57Oh, 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 you doing?
30:07Staying in the wheeler?
30:08No, we've got to get some pots in the water, mate.
30:09Oh, well, what do we need to do?
30:11Because we need to get moving.
30:13Because the next gear's only just there.
30:15And you're in the way. You've just wasted five minutes.
30:17What's happening here?
30:21Try over and turn the deck.
30:22Yeah.
30:2376.
30:24What are you doing?
30:28Oh, dear.
30:31I don't know if you saw it or not.
30:33He literally looked at it.
30:36Come on.
30:44What's that, mate?
30:46What?
30:46Is that you?
30:47What is that?
30:48Oh, my God.
30:49Drama.
30:50It's huge.
30:52It's a big one.
30:53Oh, I'm falling out of love.
30:55You're not going to cause any more drama, I'll say, Bryce.
30:58That's twice the trouble now.
30:59There's two llamas on deck.
31:01Come on, mate.
31:01Take this.
31:02Yeah, thank you.
31:02Put it in your wheelhouse.
31:03Cheers.
31:04It's been a bit wet.
31:05Why is it so wet?
31:07It's been sitting in the pot for like an hour.
31:09Has it?
31:09We've been trying to hide it from you the whole time.
31:12Yeah?
31:13It was an incognito mission.
31:15Getting it out, hiding up the back.
31:17Oh, smells horrible.
31:19There you go, little grandma llama.
31:20You can keep an eye on these two bloody hard workers.
31:23He's a .
31:25He thinks he's the king out of here.
31:26No one could outsmart him.
31:28We've only gone and 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 going to think of what's going to do to us.
31:44You enjoy your fishing more if you've got a bit of room to move.
31:48You don't have to be on top of each other.
31:50Plenty of bottom here.
31:52Squizzy's heading south in search of clear ground.
31:56And a new strategy.
31:58Lobsters above two kilos fetch $85 a kilo.
32:02Brindles under a kilo are selling for $60 a kilo.
32:08Squizzy decided to go after the larger reds.
32:11And there's a place nearby to hunt them.
32:14I'm really itching to go to Pedro.
32:19The rock.
32:21When they're going out there, they are a bigger run of fish.
32:24The red ones as well.
32:26It'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 at Pedro.
33:00But when the fishing's good out at Pedro, it's good.
33:04The biggest 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.
33:12As a fisherman, you make your own decisions.
33:15You don't follow the leader.
33:19The name of the boat says it all.
33:21I've got to be bold.
33:24Was there anything in that one, Johnny?
33:26No.
33:28No, they won't get better than me.
33:31Today we're going for some deep water craze.
33:35The brindles.
33:35Come on.
33:38It was looking so promising for the Buran.
33:40Yeah.
33:42None after me.
33:43It's not a good start.
33:45We can't get in every shot.
33:47It'll be 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.
34:00It's six at this stage.
34:02So yeah, definitely got a healthy cause.
34:06Oh, I'm just going to cry.
34:07Today on Aussie Lofton NC5, Jack and Johnny,
34:10you're catching .
34:11Oh.
34:13Need another good night, so I'd like what we had this morning
34:15to sort of try and pick up a few numbers.
34:17Jack's heading back inshore.
34:1922 lobsters for his day shot.
34:22It's a fail.
34:29Five nice, big, juicy logs in that pot.
34:31We'll take that.
34:33The chieftain is faring better.
34:35Bang.
34:36And Bryce 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.
34:49Oh.
34:50Look at the light.
34:51That is pretty cool.
34:52While it's shining down over there on Southport, that 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 the rest of the
35:10fleet.
35:10Keeping an eye on Bryce.
35:12He's everywhere.
35:14He's over there.
35:14He's over here.
35:15Painting my arse.
35:18Just thinking about where to shoot these pots tonight.
35:20So we might go inshore at the prize for a bit of a look.
35:23And then we're going to see, you know, the red crays, which are worth a little bit more money.
35:27So it's definitely worth having a look.
35:32Squizzy'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 only 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 cast 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.
36:03We've pulled 24, 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.
36:18Hello.
36:19Hi, mate.
36:19What's happening?
36:21I was going on each to go to Pedro.
36:25Ah.
36:26Yeah, I was thinking back going to Pedro Branca in a couple of days time.
36:30I really don't want him to get a jump on me.
36:33Yeah, well, you'll make me jealous if you go down there, that's for sure.
36:37I was thinking, well, should I just go right now?
36:39I mean, we were seeing some pretty decent numbers at the Friars and it's hard to run away from fish.
36:44You know, it's like out there, you go out there and get nothing.
36:48It's going to cost me big time.
36:50Yeah.
36:51Well, you go and I'll give you 50 bucks for a deal.
36:58I 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.
37:09Got four out of that pot, Bryce.
37:12You know what four rhymes with Lockie?
37:14What?
37:14More.
37:15I want more.
37:16Sadly, by looks of it, Squizzy got the best numbers.
37:19Now, it's incredibly frustrating knowing that only a few kilometres away, a 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, some shops are good, some shops are bad.
37:36The second half of the day shop 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 want it to go.
37:49It's either Squizzy or Miles.
37:52You know what, say but what, Miles?
37:55F*** off, Bryce.
37:59Just 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, but I thought he would have answered by
38:10now.
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.
38:26But I feel like I've got to sit down with him and have couples therapy.
38:29He's made a bit of a sook.
38:31We'll find some lobsters.
38:32We'll find some Bryce.
38:33It'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?
38:44The passive aggressiveness is just through the roof.
38:48He looks so f***ed upset.
38:50I am just f***ing.
38:52It is shit, Bryce.
38:53But what the f*** do you want to do?
38:55I'm giving you a bit of tough love right now, mate.
38:57Turn that crowd upside down.
39:00Stop being such a drama llama.
39:03All we can do, Bryce, is keep on trying, alright?
39:06Get him up.
39:07Turn him back in.
39:11Oh, no.
39:13I missed him.
39:14I missed.
39:15I've disappointed Bryce.
39:20There was a big fat lobster on the side of the pot.
39:23And him Vardingo.
39:25I missed him.
39:26Yeah.
39:28Yeah.
39:30Absolutely buggered.
39:32Came from feeding bed.
39:34It's day three at sea for the young guns.
39:37All good?
39:38Yeah.
39:39Decky Timmy's been up since 3am,
39:41double baiting all 50 of the purest pods.
39:46I hope they've 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,
39:54but it just shows how much I like beer money, eh?
39:58I've backed Timmy to do this, um, and he's been doing an amazing job.
40:01Like, he's been working so hard.
40:03But, um, I really hope, you know, it's going to pay off.
40:06Whoa!
40:07Slick out!
40:09B***!
40:15B***!
40:16B***!
40:17B***!
40:20B***!
40:21B***!
40:22B***!
40:22I'll slide it out a bit off the top.
40:24B***!
40:25B***!
40:27Still got to do me bait, yeah?
40:28Still got heaps to do.
40:3744.
40:38The day shot tallies are in.
40:42124 off the shot.
40:44Gross, I've been disciplining.
40:46Hey, Miles, can I have that little light on, please, dude?
40:53I've got 159 for the day shot.
40:56Yep.
40:58That's more fish than this one here.
41:00The overnight leader, the Pira,
41:03bagged 132 lobsters for its day shot.
41:07Miles' tally stands at 397.
41:10Bryce has 362 lobsters.
41:14And Jack has 257.
41:18The big surprise is the bold contender.
41:22Squizzy has 418 lobsters
41:24and is the new tally board leader.
41:28Pad your 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
41:43because if I go out there and don't catch anything,
41:47it's going to cost them too.
41:49I'm going to sleep on it.
41:51You sleep on it, man.
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,
42:06get amongst and figure out what's going on where.
42:09I know we want more.
42:11Well, they've still got over 100.
42:12Yeah, that's not good enough.
42:14150 a shot.
42:15Oh, my God.
42:16OK, I want that too
42:17because I know that's over there.
42:19OK, well, forget what we get.
42:20We don't get up.
42:21Yes, boss?
42:23Well, what do you want me to f*** say?
42:24Nothing.
42:25You made a salt.
42:25You need to clean up.
42:29Yep.
42:30Whoo!
42:31Lobster hunting is all about risk versus reward.
42:35I'm straight, boys.
42:37Jack's also gambling on more inshore monsters.
42:41We sort of come back to where we were this morning.
42:43Over in the fish, it's sort of pretty similar.
42:45But for our day shot,
42:46we 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.
43:01Oh, f*** me.
43:02That 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
43:16to make sure there's nothing that's happened there.
43:17That's the one part where we hit a rock
43:19and we are going to sink.
43:21We hit pretty hard, so...
43:23Did it do any damage?
43:25Not really too sure yet.
43:27It's double-checking.
43:28It might be bad.
43:29If you can't stop the water coming in,
43:31that boat's gone and under the water in minutes.
43:34It might be bad.
43:36Your life's gone and under the water.
43:39It might be bad.
43:39It's the not-for-secondry process.
43:56It might be bad.
43:56It might be bad.
43:57It might be bad.
43:58It might be bad.
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