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00:01This week on the Fish Guys.
00:04Bustin' right here next to the boat.
00:06Right under the birds.
00:06It's a bad day to be a pilchard out here.
00:08Fish on, Earl!
00:09What a boy.
00:10Fish on, Earl!
00:13Yeah, it's gonna be a good day.
00:14You on, Earl?
00:15I just saw a big bust behind the boat.
00:17Oh, they're coming out the water, Earl!
00:18Oh!
00:20Oh, look right here.
00:21Right here, right here, right here.
00:23Shower right to us.
00:24There he is, there he is.
00:25Fish on!
00:26Let's go.
00:27That is a beautiful fish, man.
00:29What a fish.
00:45Right here, right here, right here.
00:46Off the bow!
00:47Off the bow!
00:47Oh, fish on!
00:49Oh, Chris is on!
00:50Imagine that!
00:51Let's go!
00:51Double up!
00:52Double up!
00:53Oh, look at him!
00:53Look, look, look, look!
00:54That's him!
00:54Oh, he's eating right now.
00:55Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!
00:57I love it when a plan comes together.
01:02Like everywhere else in the country, the Florida Keys aren't always sunshine and calm waters.
01:09This tropical paradise gets its fair share of rough weather.
01:13But the Contender 26 Bay is built for the challenge.
01:18Shallow draft where it matters, like fishing the backcountry and catching bait, yet seaworthy enough to venture outside the reef,
01:27even in sporty conditions.
01:29So with the lingering effects of overnight storms, the guys head offshore from Big Pine Key with high hopes for
01:37the day.
01:38It's gonna get super nice today, so the weather's gonna change as the day goes, but we got a little
01:42bit of cloud cover.
01:43We're gonna try and catch a blackfin tuna here.
01:45It's been some nicer tunas over top of the wreck.
01:47We're gonna chum a bunch of pilchards, put hooks in a couple.
01:49We're actually marking them a little bit here already in our first drift, so put those out there, see if
01:54we can catch them.
01:55My buddy Joe Malazzo has been texting me all morning.
01:57Okay.
01:58He's gonna be ready about lunchtime.
01:59I was thinking maybe we could slide back in, grab him, and maybe chase some sailfish this afternoon.
02:04I'm game for that.
02:05That sounds like a good plan to me.
02:06We're gonna catch the tunas first.
02:08It's good, because I'm feeling athletic today, Earl.
02:10You look athletic.
02:11Feeling athletic.
02:12Let's do this, baby.
02:13Yeah.
02:13Yeah, on three.
02:15One, two, team.
02:16Team.
02:19Hey guys, good luck.
02:21Pa-pow!
02:23You want some of these?
02:24I bet you do.
02:25Go ahead, man.
02:27Go ahead.
02:29Just go ahead and grab one, dude.
02:31Just go ahead and grab one.
02:33Blocked them.
02:35You want this big Sandy?
02:36Do they like Sandy Keys, or does it matter?
02:38I'm not sure.
02:39I prefer razors just for the durability factor.
02:43The razors, you'd say, would be more athletic?
02:45I think the razors are typically a little more hardy compared to the Sandy Keys, but Sandy Keys got a
02:51lot of scales, and they're more apt to swim down.
02:53Almost like their own little built-in chum box, huh?
02:56Chum bag.
02:57Yeah, as soon as those things hit the water, they got scales, you know, you can see them all over.
03:00Any time you catch them, they're all over the boat.
03:02He's not overly, like, calm right now, my Piltrick, you know?
03:05He's got a little pep in his step.
03:07Yeah, I mean, you just let him go in the Thunderdome.
03:09You know what I mean?
03:10Yeah, I think he'd probably prefer that little spa that he was in in the back of the old Contender
03:15Bay Boat.
03:15He's not too happy out there in the wild, wild west.
03:18He's on quite a journey today.
03:21Dodging pelicans, and then we got him in the net.
03:23Now he's out here in the great blue.
03:25Oh, just busted under the birds.
03:27They're blowing up our freebies here.
03:29We like that.
03:29Oh, big time, huh?
03:30Yeah, that's the one we want there.
03:31More freebies?
03:32More freebies?
03:33Yeah, more freebies ain't gonna hurt.
03:36That's not gonna be a yellowtail.
03:38See the tuna's jumping now.
03:41That's them.
03:42Let's see if we can chum them over here.
03:44Is that enough?
03:44You want more?
03:45That's probably enough for now.
03:47Some of these fish, you know, they like the sporty conditions.
03:50It'd be nice if you could go out and fish where it was glass calm every day, but...
03:55Oh, oh, oh, bite, bite, bite.
03:57Get him, Lane.
03:59Fish on, Earl!
04:00What a boy.
04:01Fish on, Earl!
04:04Yeah, it's gonna be a good day.
04:09Did you just feed him to a shark, Lane?
04:11No, I don't think.
04:12But I think I'm gonna start getting on him a little bit so that we don't have that problem.
04:17Here in the Florida Keys, we seem to have that problem.
04:20Yeah, we got plenty sharks.
04:21It's gonna be a good one.
04:25Whatever it is.
04:26I mean, I'm not feeling violent head shakes like I would from a shark big enough to eat what I
04:31think was a decent fish.
04:33Could be what we're looking for.
04:35It's coming in the right direction for this one.
04:37That's right, you got his head turning.
04:39Moment in time, anyway.
04:41Show us your face.
04:42We want to see your face.
04:44Got to be getting somewhat close.
04:46You know when you got color, bud.
04:48I got a knot right here, Earl.
04:51We better not stop reeling.
04:52Got any color down there?
04:54I got a little color down there.
04:55I think that's exactly what we're looking for, Lane.
04:58How pretty is that reflection, huh?
05:01That little bit of sun we got this morning.
05:03It is nice when a plant comes together, Lane.
05:07Nice job, Earl!
05:08Look at that thing, buddy!
05:09Here we are!
05:10Whoo!
05:11Whoo!
05:12Good work, Lane.
05:14Son, that's a darn nice blackfin right there, buddy.
05:17I think that's what we came out for.
05:19And we hit a home run, my boy!
05:20Yes, sir.
05:21Just sit down if you want.
05:22Yes!
05:23And enjoy it.
05:26A little sporty out here today, but that's a beauty, Earl.
05:29That is a fine specimen.
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06:13We got them busing over here.
06:15Do we?
06:15Yep.
06:16Should we throw another handful or no?
06:17It's not going to hurt the calls.
06:19No sense taking them home.
06:20Nope.
06:21Nope.
06:21But the day we pushed past the color change, 200 feet, whole different game.
06:27Pilchards fly, freebies in the way.
06:30Berkeley Lions send them what they crave.
06:33Busting right here next to the boat.
06:35Right under the birds.
06:36Whoo!
06:36Yeah, nice one.
06:37Jumping.
06:38Nice tuners there, boy.
06:40They're going crazy.
06:41It's a bad day to be a Pilchard out here.
06:44Oh, they're blowing it up over there.
06:47That was a bust.
06:48I just got there.
06:48Look at this frickin' swirl.
06:49You on, Earl?
06:50I just saw a big bust behind the building.
06:52Oh, they're on!
06:52They're coming out below, Earl!
06:53Come on!
07:03Earl is on!
07:04Whatever it is, I ain't happy, Lane!
07:08Good night.
07:10Seems like it's going to be a minute at this rate.
07:12Get them turned around a little bit.
07:14Come on, buddy.
07:16Come to me.
07:18Come to me tuna.
07:20Feels like there's a little weight to this one.
07:23These bigger tunas on these lighter rods are fun, man.
07:27You getting close, man?
07:29Scoping out a little bit.
07:30He's definitely getting tired.
07:31Keeps fall quiet.
07:33Stars come through.
07:37Another story written in blue.
07:42So raise a glass of Jefferson's bourbon or sparkling juice.
07:48Cause the bitch guys with GTB content are always Purdue.
07:55I got color.
07:57Got color?
07:57It's dark, Lane.
07:59Dark like a tuna.
08:02Oh, yeah.
08:02Nice blackfin.
08:04Real nice blackfin.
08:05That was a chunky one, Lane.
08:07Woo!
08:12Take your time.
08:12I'm going to bring him back around.
08:13He's just going to do a circle.
08:14Nice and easy.
08:15I'll bring him right to you.
08:15Just reach over his back.
08:18Just like that, buddy.
08:20Nice, Earl.
08:21Perfect.
08:21Earl.
08:23Always lift with your back, not your legs.
08:25Yep.
08:26Woo!
08:27Hey, let's go.
08:29Yeah.
08:29I got one, too.
08:31That's a good fish, Earl.
08:33Real nice fish.
08:35Beautiful fish, huh?
08:36This thing's dinner, Bubba.
08:37Earl, I am so excited right now about eating that thing.
08:40Oh, yeah.
08:41Yeah.
08:57The Florida Keys sit alongside the only living coral reef in the continental United States,
09:03including some of the most diverse sections anywhere along its 350-mile stretch.
09:09Plant a Million Corals is dedicated to restoring reefs here in the Keys and beyond.
09:17The guys drop by their Summerland Key facility for an update from co-founder Dee Dee Vaughan
09:23and a look at the growing operation behind the mission.
09:27You know, we've been so lucky to be supported by great volunteers.
09:30I know a guy who's a choop-chop Earl bird.
09:33Choop-choop?
09:35Birds!
09:35Hey, what's up, buddy?
09:36What's up, man?
09:37Good.
09:38How you doing?
09:39How long you been here?
09:40Two, three days.
09:42Really?
09:42He's been a great help.
09:43Something like that, yeah.
09:44Gave him a siphon and a sponge, and he's just helping taking care of corals.
09:47Thanks to volunteer help and generous donations, Plant a Million Corals grew from 280 corals to more than 50,000
09:57in just three and a half years.
09:59The nursery now holds enough corals to produce its first million, but space has become the biggest limiting factor.
10:07Our goal is to have enough space to outgrow 500,000 corals.
10:12That way we can be producing a million every year or even really every six months.
10:17And these corals are going to go back to our Florida reef track?
10:19Absolutely.
10:20And it's so important that we maintain a healthy reef, not just for things like biodiversity so you can have
10:27good fishing, good diving,
10:28but it's really the only way we could live in the Florida Keys and on the coast.
10:33Without a healthy reef system, we don't have anything protecting us from hurricanes.
10:37Now, new research focuses on growing large adult corals in the nursery, where a fragment can reach full maturity in
10:45as little as 14 months,
10:47compared to the 25 to 75 years it can take in the wild.
10:53It's a game-changing process that offers real hope for reefs around the world.
10:58Our goal is to outplant these larger, more mature corals, because not only are they the size of corals,
11:03they look like the corals you're used to seeing, but they also now act like mature corals,
11:09and will take on that next stage of development with sexual reproduction to produce more corals out there on their
11:15own.
11:15And we're going to be making half a million to a million a year right here.
11:21Exactly.
11:22It all comes down to tank space, right?
11:24Right, and funding.
11:26So, if we can get the funding to build the tanks, we can have the staff, the volunteers, the interns
11:31to take care of them,
11:33and that's how we can really make this large impact.
11:35Dee Dee, thank you so much.
11:37Not just for what you're doing here, for the coral, for the United States, for the world, for everything y
11:42'all are doing.
11:42This is phenomenal.
11:43You and your dad, obviously, Dr. Vaughn.
11:45Thank y'all so much.
11:46Yes.
11:47Lane, do you know how the ocean communicates with coral?
11:50No, no idea.
11:51The waves.
11:52Can he stay with you?
11:53Yeah, we've got some more poop to clean.
11:55Great.
11:55Thank you so much, Dee Dee.
11:56I appreciate it.
11:57You've got some more poop to clean.
12:13You've got some poop to clean.
12:13There's a little too much poop to clean.
12:15You've got some poop here.
12:15There's a lot of poop to clean.
12:17Here's a lot of poop on the dirt, we're getting a little better.
12:17Now, with the weather, finally laying down, and Captain Joe Malazzo on board, they set their sights on the afternoon
12:25sailfish bite.
12:26Joe brings years of sailfish tournament experience including plenty of time
12:32chasing sails alongside Earl and his buddy Dustin McCabe. After stocking the
12:39live well with Ballyhoo, Joe and the guys head to the edge and begin the hunt for
12:44feeding sailfish. So we're in the area here where there's a lot of bait, a lot
12:49of Ballyhoo and the sails are out in deeper water they kind of mainly stay
12:53out there when they get hungry they'll come in this time of year up in the
12:57shallow water where there's a ton of Ballyhoo and as they're doing that the
13:00Ballyhoo are gonna try to get away. So when you see it happening you're gonna
13:04look and it's gonna be hundreds and hundreds of Ballyhoo trying to get away
13:07from the sail at the same time which is you know we call it showering because
13:11it's literally just splashing of water from a distance once you get up on the
13:16fish because we run right to it as fast as we can you want to get there before
13:19he eats one. If you get a good cast you want to try to lead him by a couple feet
13:22and put that bait right in front of him so that's the one that he eats. I want to
13:27set my drag real light typically when we're casting at him like this it's gonna
13:30be a little lighter than I want to fight the fish so when we hook the fish we're
13:34gonna add a little bit more drag as as we feel okay but when we hook them what's
13:39gonna happen with this circle hook is the circle hooks gonna go all the way in the
13:42fish's stomach we want the sailfish to swallow it completely and then it comes up
13:46and as it gets to the corner of their mouth it's gonna roll over and find home 85-90%
13:52of the time
13:52we're gonna hook them right in the side of their mouth where we want to which is
13:55better for the fish obviously it's not stuck in its stomach in its gills
13:59somewhere bad but it's better for us too we want to pull the fish from his face
14:02okay it helps us fight the fish but these fish are gonna stay on the surface and
14:06we're gonna more instead of the concept of bringing the fish to the boat we're
14:11gonna bring this boat to the fish okay I kind of meet him in the middle
14:13so we're gonna pull nuts and we're gonna go to him and that way hopefully we'll catch
14:18the sailfish faster we're not gonna exhaust the fish completely and it's better for everybody
14:23we get him on the leader he jumps he's excited when we let him go he swims away healthy so
14:28that's the plan
14:34I got a I got a man-o-war on the water up here Joe up there yeah we're gonna
14:39ease up
14:39here a little bit get closer to this warbird it's looking
15:01oh look right here right here ready shot right to us right yeah right into the glare low and hard
15:08into the wind there you go perfect oh there they come see him right there yep oh sorry no we're
15:13good good I'm low oh wind it up get ready he's gonna be right here in the middle of that
15:18it might
15:18be two fish there there he is there he is I don't know if I'm on Earl he won I
15:24think I'm on I think I'm
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16:08fish on let's go there we go fish on Earl boy keeping one out there in case got some buddies
16:16yeah
16:18yeah I mean I like the party too late yeah nothing wrong with that hey you know what's cool doing
16:24a
16:24sailfish on the bay boat what's that two sailfish on a bay boat I like it I like it it's
16:30the first one
16:31I've ever caught off a bay boat I'll tell you that is it absolutely oh here he goes here he
16:38goes you don't
16:39seem real happy there Lane there he is now he's getting excited I can hear that real late
16:46he's getting after it let me know if I'm going too fast for you no we're good you're gaining pretty
16:53good yeah we're good there's the leader I'll see another one there is the leader once we get that
16:59leader into the rod tip it's considered a catch because these are catch and release fish all right
17:03boom there's our catch caught fish and then I'll baby him here on the leader probably a little easier
17:08working out of a bay boat huh a little more room close to the fish yeah is that a little
17:13unnerving
17:14no no I love these critters these are my friends Lane that is a beautiful fish man what a fish
17:22that's not a small sailfish Lane no I was about to say just kind of put his face in the
17:27water here
17:28let him breathe he's definitely active reviving him the peck fins look good right yeah he's always a good
17:32color he's nibbling on my finger here he's ready whenever uh whenever we are anything you want to say to
17:38him
17:39thank you sir yeah all right just like that there he goes whoo let's go good stuff man good job
17:49buddy
17:50good job good job man awesome Joe Malazo man those wet handshakes yeah put me on it brother you did
17:56put me on it perfect man we're one for one and that's almost a hundred percent hey y'all need
18:00a
18:00tournament guy you just call me you just call me yeah I'll make it back for sure yeah you just
18:05let me know I'm
18:09there a great day fishing ends in the kitchen and that's where professional chef Kat Pfeiffer joins the
18:17guys to share some of her favorite seafood creations today's recipe is an irresistible spicy tuna sushi
18:25roll have you ever made sushi before Earl not successfully that's it's one of those things like you got to
18:32be a
18:32professional get into this the first time right it's an art for sure and we're gonna hope help you
18:37uh make it today perfectly okay well what I'm gonna do is grab a nori roll and while I'm doing
18:42that and
18:42a sheet of nori you're gonna take the tuna and dump it into here and then mix our scallion and
18:47our sesame and
18:48our soy sauce also you're calling that nori that's a seaweed seaweed wrapper seaweed wrap and it's super
18:55important to get your hands wet for this so then that way the sticky rice doesn't stick to you whenever
19:02you start smashing it all down let's start putting your filling in so we have a little avocado you have
19:10cucumber your tuna and green onion mixture there we have some sesame seeds we're spicing it up right
19:17now with the wasabi and then the sriracha mayo so you're gonna take it and you're gonna with your fingers
19:22fold start to fold it over on here like that going keep going keep going and pinch and pinch back
19:29there
19:30you go and then you want to put a little glue which is our water there and then you're gonna
19:34just gently roll it over finish it off uh-huh there we go oh and we're falling out the sides
19:40yeah we might
19:42have overstuffed it just a little bit but the middle is still gonna be beautiful I feel really good about
19:48this cat I really know oh yeah cheers cheers tastes like a restaurant that's better than a restaurant
19:59earl cat I love it absolutely love it I've never done this at home before really you guys did great
20:05and that wasabi inside there is awesome lots of flavors everything from the tuna to the sauce the
20:11sesame seeds just kind of bring it home excellent and if you guys want to check out the full recipe
20:17or
20:18get the contact details for chef cat and uh cat scratch kitchen go to the website the fishguys tv.com
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