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Aussie Lobster Men - Season 5 - Episode 06
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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.
08:46Rhythm of energy.
08:48Question is, how long can it last?
08:51Rhythm of energy.
08:52Rhythm of energy.
08:54Rhythm of energy.
09:06Rhythm in energy.
09:13Rhythm of energy.
09:14here. I haven't had to do much. I almost feel lazy. I feel like I'm robbing miles. I'm going
09:20to try to keep me cool this trip out of your corridor. Unless you broke fish over the side.
09:25Try to keep cool? Famous last words. But can Timmy really do that? Stay calm as a new duo
09:34under pressure. Tim and Tati have done great trips together and they've had a bit of history. I mean,
09:41I think Tati sort of struggles to listen to Tim at times. And Tim gets really frustrated
09:46quite easy. Me and Timmy have had our ups and downs, that's for sure. I know you're living
09:54in close quarters together constantly. You're going to have a crack at each other. Me and
09:59Timmy both don't like to back down. So yeah, we get into a little bit of it.
10:12Look at some of these big ones. Pedro Branca and Squizzy is fishing 100 metres down, hunting
10:20for monster-sized brindles. The reason I'm fishing deep here at the moment at Pedro is a stunning
10:26place we're seeing fish. We're only getting good pots in the deep water, so that's what
10:30we're going to concentrate on for our night shot 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. Is 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
11:01error. I didn't allow enough for the tide, and they drifted back to the top, and I want
11:08them down on the bottom of the ledge. So 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
11:17doing. If I drop a pot here, and I don't allow for that tide, and I'm trying to hit something
11:23here, that pot will end up down here.
11:27Yep!
11:31I'm going to shoot these pots straight back in the same area, because I know, but I think
11:38there's some fish here. I just, uh, stuffed up.
11:45Shrita McGavin's going to have another go.
11:47Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
11:51Geeze, he was a wanker on you.
12:01Where are all the f***ing crows?
12:03Not f***ing here, Johnny.
12:05The Buran boys are down on their luck, and burning cash.
12:09If this doesn't work out coming up here, we've just wasted six or seven hundred bucks
12:13in 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, really drags you out of here.
12:24Yeah, this is so disheartening.
12:27You f***ed for nothing.
12:31Poor Jackie boys put all the fuel in, all the food, and all his knowledge, and it must
12:41just 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.
12:55We'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.
13:13I don't know where the f*** it is.
13:15There should be a pot right in front of us.
13:16If 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 up and not put the boys on.
13:24Could be a tangle in the line.
13:26Could be a few things.
13:28I 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
13:44not having that one pot on board.
13:51Look 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 night 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 chains.
14:16It's a big price, mate.
14:22Monster lobsters, like these two-kilo tractors, are the new target.
14:26They'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.
14:55We 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,
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.
15:22It'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.
15:30It'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?
15:39It'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?
16:04Jock'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.
16:22I'm all right if I'm focusing on one thing at a time.
16:25If I'm trying to do two things at once, that's where I fall apart.
16:28So, just got to stay focused.
16:35Yeah, bro, I'll grab that in a second.
16:37Yeah.
16:37Cook him on.
16:39Team Pira is finally running at full operational efficiency.
16:43Two deckies and two shots a day.
16:45Yeah, you know, Cody is pretty fresh.
16:47He's done a little bit of squidding.
16:51He's up to four or five grey trips now.
16:53Tim and Cody have set aside their past grievances.
16:57Yeah, sometimes I'm going to be 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 the side of the leg,
17:14jam it in between the basket.
17:15I guess it's just all learning.
17:20Those floats again, Cody.
17:23One more fish.
17:24One more fish.
17:26Miles' 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.
17:46If they don't, he'll relocate to Pedra Branca
17:50to hunt for the higher-priced tractors.
17:53And I reckon I'll have a pretty good idea whether we're going to stay
17:56by the end of today or we're going to go down to Pedra Branca.
17:59Pedra 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 Pedra Branca
18:15and I'm sort of trying to look for excuses to 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 is when you've got the full moon
18:46and 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, so it's one of the more extreme
19:15winter solstice swims I've done, but 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.
19:33Okay, we'll face this way then.
19:36All right, no, chat, let's go!
19:38Go, chat!
19:46Jock was lit up like a reflector.
19:48He was that white.
19:49I think Jock needs to get out of that office more frequently.
19:51Go, Jocky!
19:58Oh, yeah!
20:02Woo!
20:04Good.
20:05That was good.
20:06Well done, Jock.
20:08Hello!
20:09Hello!
20:11I don't have any people that will do that willingly, but...
20:14I'm coming through, are you ready or not?
20:17That was, uh...
20:19That 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.
20:29No, mate.
20:29Just put some clothes on, please.
20:31Skin's burning.
20:32It's very 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, and it'll still be smaller than one of yours,
20:43I reckon.
20:44Nah, that man.
20:46You can tell he's bored and bred in Tazi, that's for sure.
20:48Like, you know when you're naked, and then you feel, like, so naked?
20:51You feel so naked coming up the ladder, like...
20:54There really is naked and naked, and he really was the second option.
20:58I felt like a little, like, out of the womb, baby, like...
21:03He's just...
21:03Everyone's looking at him.
21:04Everyone's having a laugh.
21:06Like, you know what I mean?
21:06Like, sometimes you feel extra naked.
21:09It's not your normal naked squizzle.
21:11Ah!
21:19Everyone celebrates the solstice differently.
21:22A naked squizzy just won't happen.
21:25Got a nice way from there.
21:27It's business as usual for 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, so I don't know what I'm going to do, to be honest.
21:51Big gamble to come down here, isn't it?
21:54Yeah.
21:55It takes big balls to leave fish.
21:57I know, and I've done it before,
21:59and bloody, you know, run back to me car between me legs.
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, when 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.
22:26To be honest, I'm starting to talk too much shit to them.
22:28I 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?
22:42I'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.
22:58This 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.
23:13He'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 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
23:34and 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.
23:45I 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.
23:53Should 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 sliding to nothing, wouldn't it?
24:07That's like it's tangled.
24:11Oh, you're on it, bro.
24:13You've actually got it.
24:14Yeah.
24:18Oh, yeah.
24:20So that's how they used to do it back in the day, yeah?
24:21Oh, yeah.
24:23Oh, that's cool.
24:35Lockie is temporarily out of action.
24:38Jock's now running the deck.
24:40Fingers crossed,
24:41we're halfway through now.
24:44See what happens
24:46Lockie needs to rest up
24:48And the wheelhouse seems as good a place as any
24:50To do that
24:51Even 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, press zero
25:14He'll be shooting four pots in
25:16That's a good enough chance for him to catch
25:18Maybe five or ten fish
25:21Yeah, 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
25:34Hand of the reins over to Lockie
25:36It's easiest way, me in there
25:38No point, just let him do it
25:40Get a feel for it
25:42And we'll find out what he gets out of the next four pots
25:45No pressure
25:56Yeah, lobster
25:57It works, Skippy
26:05Well, Skippy's not messing around
26:07He's onto it
26:08When you shoot a pot turning to port
26:11Don't be turned any more than like 10 degrees
26:15Yeah, I'll turn back up
26:16Oh, you'll put it in the prop
26:18It's too cold to swim today
26:27What's up, Matt?
26:28Fucking 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
26:36Especially the floats
26:37Like, 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
26:45Like, that rope started really going out
26:47It's incredibly dangerous
26:49I'm going back in the wheeler
26:50That's where I'm safe
26:51I'm not safe around him, I don't think
26:53That looks wicked
26:54Good work, John
26:56Apart from killing Brasford
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
27:21Turns good
27:22We took a bit of a gamble
27:23By chucking him in on the Reds too
27:24He'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
27:38Whereas 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
27:44Day 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
27:59No way it doesn't have lobsters
28:023, 2, 1
28:06Blank
28:10Come off some real juicy looking bottom
28:12And
28:15Blank
28:18Juicy looking
28:21I guess at that point Johnny
28:23Sometimes you don't laugh
28:24You cry I think
28:25Yeah I know
28:26You've got to
28:27Earlier on in the year
28:28We were having some really good numbers
28:29Down through here
28:30Where we've shot them
28:31But there's no fish coming up
28:33In 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 f***ing bastard
29:03There are no rainbows
29:05On board the Pira
29:09Timmy's mood
29:10Has shifted
29:11From jovial
29:12To critical
29:13Bro look at them
29:14Look at how you've got them stacked man
29:17Oh that's f***ing
29:19Nah I don't
29:19It's just the bottom one
29:21He's a perfectionist
29:22And demands the same
29:24From everyone else
29:25Nah do your
29:27Pot man
29:28I'll
29:28Timmy and Cody's honeymoon period
29:30Is officially over
29:32Is this the start
29:34Of a marriage made in hell
29:36We ran out of baits
29:37Oh this
29:39What are you doing?
29:40Is there more stash somewhere?
29:41Well that's all
29:42What are they?
29:43I'm f***ing
29:44F***ing hell
29:45Tim looks a bit grumpy
29:47And pissed off
29:48And look I don't know
29:49Whether it's because
29:50We've all picked up Cody
29:51Or what's going on
29:52You know
29:53He's got to try
29:54And keep a positive attitude
29:55Because as soon as someone
29:57Gets a shitty attitude
29:58On the boat
29:58Like it brings everyone else down
30:01Miles' marriage advice
30:02Is good
30:03But will Timmy listen?
30:05Oh f***ing mate
30:06When you do this Cody
30:07Why am I going to
30:08Put something to me feet?
30:11I've still got more to go
30:12F***ing
30:12They should all be
30:13Over that side of the boat
30:21I think Tim's getting
30:22Quite frustrated with Cody
30:23He reckons Cody's
30:25Not listening to him
30:26But I think
30:27You know
30:28Tim's just
30:28Got to sort of
30:29Chill out a little bit
30:30And you know
30:31Try and explain things
30:32A bit better to Cody
30:33It's not the way
30:34To teach someone
30:35Now Cody
30:36I'm not being a c*** man
30:37But you've got to
30:38F***ing stack them pots better
30:40Just watch this
30:44I'm about to put more
30:45Up against it
30:46How are you going to
30:47Put more up against it?
30:48That's no more pots, man
30:49It's not a question of if
30:51But when
30:52Will Miles step in?
30:54Ah
30:55You know
30:55I'm going to have to
30:56Try and manage that now
30:56So now I've got to
30:57Hold another bloody thing
30:58I've got to do
30:58You know
31:02That's how f***ing
31:02Accidents happen
31:05When people don't listen
31:06Three times
31:07He's asked
31:08To tell him
31:09Stack them in
31:10So they don't wobble
31:10Grab one pot
31:11Look what happens
31:12And they're tidy
31:18The Chieftain
31:19And Lockie's back out on deck
31:21His pain has eased
31:23Bryce has reinstated
31:25Light 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
31:31Take my time
31:32Measure crays
31:33Bait pots
31:34That's all I'll do
31:34I can't fathom
31:36Just staying down there
31:37And not doing anything
31:38Because this is what
31:39I love to do
31:40This is what I live for
31:41And plus
31:42I 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
31:49Lockie to be the brain
31:50And Jock to be the muscle
31:51That's it
31:52Nice and simple
31:52Ready Jockies
31:54No
31:54Not the worst thing can happen
31:56Hit Bryce in the head
31:57With a set of plates
31:57It's already happened
32:00Oh 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
32:07It's 52 pots
32:08He's got to grapple it 52 times
32:10Jesus 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?
32:21It's Jocky
32:21It's the rocker
32:22Throw it
32:23Beautiful
32:24Pull, pull, pull, 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
32:35This thing with the grapple is
32:37It 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
32:46He got this, bud
32:48I'm stressing
32:49You really are wasting a lot of the day
32:53Oh, maybe
32:55Not
32:55Oh, no
32:58Oh, the shame
33:00We just lost like 30 minutes because of that
33:0330 minutes
33:05Help
33:06Help
33:06Someone help
33:08I think you probably should just stick to your day job
33:10Yeah, okay
33:15Oh, yeah
33:16Oh, yeah
33:17Oh, there's Daddy
33:18Oh, yeah
33:20I caught Daddy
33:23We've just got to catch Grandpa
33:25Squizzy's Petrobranker gamble of reshooting his pots into the exact same locations as his previous shot is paying dividends
33:33When they come on out here, they just go bang
33:37Oh, yeah
33:38Like 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
33:49And today
33:49I shot them all
33:51To hit the bottom of the ledge
33:54And guess what?
33:55Bingo, baby
33:58All 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
34:14Your experience is paid off
34:17That's a nice pot
34:18It's like a drug
34:19Outside on the outside, a big one
34:22On the big one still
34:24Yeah, right now
34:27Dongies, mate
34:29Suck on that
34:30This 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?
34:53Yeah, 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
35:07You know, the way this Craycross is
35:09And the way it's sort of looking
35:11I think it's definitely worth going down to Pedrobrank for a look
35:14Yeah, so, yeah, 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 230
35:21And we'll just get going
35:22It's crazy
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
35:31Over and over and over and over
35:34I'm getting shitty again
35:35So what's next 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
35:41Doing them pots and I got f***ing hurt
35:42Happens again
35:43I'm getting hurt
35:44Yeah
35:45Seems Timmy's potty mouth has context
35:48It's all about OH&S
35:50And 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
36:07And 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
36:23What 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
36:30Look, if someone throws a punch
36:33Or 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
36:40I don't know what the f*** in there
36:42Somehow 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
36:51Yeah
36:52Yeah, but these set of floats with this rope
36:55I don't know what's happened, man
36:56But just ripped all them ropes out of that float thing
37:00If this issue gets worse
37:03Between Tim and Katie
37:05And I'm going to go drop one of them off
37:07That's probably a 12-hour turnaround, really
37:11F***ing hell
37:12Close to $1,000 worth of diesel
37:15Miss fishing time
37:16Just hang on a second
37:18Concentrate on this one
37:19Let's fix
37:20Oh my God
37:23F***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
37:35To get to these ones anyway
37:36Just telling you, just wait
37:37Grabbing the top one
37:38Until I get the next pot up
37:39And run the float line out
37:42F***ing hit me with one of them pots
37:43And see what happens
37:44I'm f***ing telling
37:44I'm not trying to hit you
37:45F***ing hit me with your f***ing more, mate
37:47All right
37:48Timmy's at his wits' end
37:50He's had enough
37:53Should've jumped off when we was in Doma
37:57Are you excited to see how your pots went?
37:59Yeah
37:59Are we going to hit 100?
38:01Uh, maybe
38:01That's a size one
38:02The Chieftain is pulling the last four pots
38:05Of its day shot
38:06They're your pots coming up last, mate
38:08Yeah, hopefully we get some lots out of them
38:11Don't move
38:12Don't lift
38:14Don't miss
38:15Go
38:17Good work, Johnny
38:19Come on, Lucky
38:20I'm excited
38:21Fingers crossed
38:23Oh, she feels heavy
38:27Come on, Lucky
38:29Get the fruits of your labour
38:31I'll say, lovey
38:36Oh, 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
38:49So 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
38:56First one
38:57We had a zero
38:59Hey, got one
39:00Well done, Lockster
39:02First lobster for the Lockster
39:04Got two out of that one, Jock
39:05Woo
39:06Two's definitely better than none
39:07He's getting there
39:09Get it, Doc
39:09There's a 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
39:19Last pot
39:20My last pot, Jocky
39:24See, Carla
39:25This could change it all
39:27Yeah, hello, Lockster
39:28It's a lobster
39:30Can't catch a lobster
39:33This is the fourth pot
39:34The last three
39:35Of course, five sized ones out
39:36Which, 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
39:42What's this one?
39:44Five
39:44Yeah
39:45He's going to talk so much shit later
39:47He'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 carry on
39:53Let me shoot the gear
39:54Let me shoot all the gear
39:54Ten out of four pots, mate
39:56He's so proud
39:58You know what?
39:59Without my last four pots
40:00We wouldn't have hit 100, I don't think
40:03Team Cheapton has landed
40:06197 lobsters for the day
40:07But will it be enough
40:09To keep them
40:10At the top of the tally board?
40:12Jack's shocker of the day
40:13Means he's in fourth place
40:15On 509 lobsters
40:17Miles remains in third place
40:19On 1,107 lobsters
40:22Bryce is in second place
40:24With 1,124
40:27And Squeezy's big Petrobranca move
40:30Has paid off big time
40:32The lobster legend is on top
40:35With 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
40:48Heaps over one kilo
40:50It was a good day
40:56Squeezy's final task for the day
40:58Is to measure his last haul
41:00Into the holding tank
41:01At the end of the day
41:02On the bowl contender
41:03The only person allowed to measure
41:05Into the holding tank
41:06The final tank
41:07Is me
41:10It's my livelihood on the line
41:12It's my reputation
41:14The buck stops with me
41:23Oh!
41:25F***ing one just fell in there
41:26On the sides
41:27Oh, f***s sake
41:29Horn broke
41:30That's f***ing bad
41:32Like, I'm paranoid about that s***
41:34I dropped an undersized one
41:36In the holding tank
41:37My fault
41:39I knew it was undersized
41:41I went to throw it over the side
41:43And it slipped out of me hand
41:44As I went to throw it
41:45And I went in the tank
41:48The fines for undersized fish
41:49In your tank are massive
41:50Thousands and thousands of dollars
41:52And it could end your career
41:54Your fishing days are over
41:55The torch for you, mate
41:57Marine flesh checks
41:58Can happen at any time
41:59You could be sleeping in your bunk
42:00The next minute
42:01They'll wake you up
42:03And the super bad news about that
42:04Is there's nearly 400 crays
42:07In where it is
42:08So I'm looking for one cray
42:10In 400
42:11I don't know how long
42:12This is going to take
42:15And we're doing it
42:17There is no
42:18Ifs, buts
42:19F***ing maybes
42:21We're doing it
42:22Right now
42:24Pumping the tank out
42:27And
42:30I'm going looking
42:31Till I find it
42:32If I have to chuck 300 crays
42:35Out here on deck
42:35I'll do it
42:39Please
42:39Be easy to find
42:42We have to find it
42:43Otherwise
42:44My reputation
42:45Will be shot to s***
42:49What a f***ing disaster
42:55This is one of the biggest stuff-ups
42:57Of my career
42:58I need to get it fixed
43:00ASAP
43:06Go, Ducky
43:14Oh, yeah
43:28I feel alive
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