[dramatic music playing]
[johnathan] we're just going about ready to come around the corner here
and get on the delivery list.
[josh] we got a spot?
Yeah, we're gonna go at the last spot of the day, dude.
It's first come, first serve, that's how it works
but my time is perfect, my friend.
Yes.
[birds squawking]
[casey] so right now we're heading into the cannery
and it's first come, first serve and I know
there's one slot left for the day
but the time bandit has got me beat
by about an hour and a half.
If I can get him to turn and go up in the cold bay
before I come around thin point,
I can quirk him and beat him in there,
get his spot for the offload,
just got to do a little trickery here.
Man, he's gonna be pissed.
First come first serve, baby.
[suspenseful music playing]
[birds squawking]
[casey] so I'm gonna try to figure out a way here
to call ahead to johnny
and tell him the plant called
and they need to go up in the cold bay
to get the fuel pumping,
the plant's been trying to get ahold of 'em.
[narrator] last stop for captain casey mcmanus
before bringing his fall season to a close,
a final offload at peter pan cannery,
the only thing in his way,
the time bandit.
[phone ringing]
hello, time bandit.
Time bandit.
Johnathan hillstrand in there?
[johnathan speaking]
[casey speaking]
yeah.
Crab tucker.
[johnathan speaking]
you're just like breaking up.
Okay. All right.
[bleep]
so peter pan, peter pan is trying to call us.
So there's a setup,
now we'll call him back on the tag phone.
We'll get him.
[casey speaking]
[bleep] yeah, yeah, go ahead, casey.
What's up?
[casey speaking]
they said they were trying to get ahold of you,
they got crab cooker problem.
[casey speaking]
...To swing up into cold bay
if you haven't passed there yet
[casey speaking]
[bleep] you got to be kidding me?
[bleep]
[johnathan speaking]
...Tell them I can be there in four hours, okay?
[johnathan speaking]
[bleep]
the flask broke down.
What?
He's turning. He's turn...
Dude, he's biting it, hook, line, and sinker.
Look at this.
[johnathan speaking]
it's first come, first serve, right?
[johnathan] yeah.
[josh speaking]
-[bleep] me. -[josh speaking]
he's right there.
I wanna be [bleep] anchored up.
Oh, man, that's cornelia marie blue, dude.
Dude's [bleep] trying to get in before us.
[johnathan speaking]
he figured it out.
Aha!
[johnathan speaking]
silva!
Mcmanus!
You [bleep] I got you.
Somebody's getting closer.
[johnathan] [bleep]
he's right there.
It's on now, he's gonna turn that thing around.
Look.
Son of a bitch.
Come on, baby.
Come on, cornelia.
I'm gonna get you.
I don't know. You've been eating too many twinkies, man.
There's a little bit of a starboard list
going on over there,
but how's that ass on our bell hook,
looks pretty good?
[casey] yeah, it looks okay.
Here, you wanna see mine?
I'll show it to you in a second.
Dude, you got a fast boat dude, man,
but we're gonna make this.
[casey speaking]
they're gonna give us a total line finish.
[laughing]
I can almost see the cannery, right here, look.
I almost see 'em.
We're gonna pull this off.
[louis speaking]
[casey] damn it.
-[laughs] -dude. Yeah.
Mcmanus!
[bleep]
[johnathan] nice try.
That was pretty good, mcmanus.
That was pretty good, I got to admit.
All right. Good job there, guys.
Good season.
Way to finish strong, man. That was fun.
Well, we're getting in here.
Try to get offloaded and hopefully we have what we need in a day.
Fingers crossed everything go smooth.
Offloads can turn into a real pain
in the ass sometimes.
[narrator] twenty-seven days into the fall season...
[harley] here, they're the harder ones to catch.
Ugh.
[harley] houdini of the crab world,
time is the only question mark.
How long is it gonna take?
[wild bill] I'm assuming that there's a lot of guys
fishing in the week numbers like we are.
[man] yeah. Get 'em both, yeah.
Where in the hell are they?
Where is the damn crab?
[narrator] with the final 264,000 pounds of bairdi
still eluding the fleet.
[sig] we got to hope and pray that everything we set here
is gonna come up with some numbers.
[narrator] failure to catch it all
will signal the population is in decline.
-I had two and one. -[man] one.
[narrator] prompting a potential government closure
for years to come.
[sig] you know, as far as catching our quota
and keeping this fishery alive.
If we fail the fishery fails
and we could lose everything.
[harley] wait a minute,
these guys has been...
I've seen that little target on my radar,
he's been staying there yesterday too.
Because this is... There is definitely
something cooking over here.
These big heavy hitters got to be into something
better, deeper out there.
[narrator] captain steve harley davidson
spies a band of catcher processors
moving in a harvesting pattern 20 miles north,
indicating a sign of life.
[phone ringing]
[harley] gone unanswered.
These guys aren't gonna freaking talk to me.
You wanna figure out what they're doing,
you better go cast a web around them and see.
I better get my ass up to the north.
You know the second I feel that little tingle,
I knew when they're crossing my web
that tells me which way they're going.
I got to keep in front of them.
These are fast moving little bugs.
[narrator] harley's plan,
set a web of pots in
and around the cluster of catcher processors
he believes to be on hot fishing.
When crosses his gear,
he'll check the area
and verify if the vessel's course
coincides with the bairdi horde below.
[harley] not a sure thing but it's worth the gamble.
It's a big area for one guy, you know,
a couple hundred pots, I'm not gonna be able to...
I'm gonna need some help.
[man] woo!
Woo-hoo!
[man speaking]
[wild bill] the first couple didn't have [bleep] in it.
We need to find a better place.
[man groaning]
[bleep]
[man speaking]
[wild bill speaking]
[man speaking]
[harley] you got me, bill?
Harley, harley, what you got going on?
What's happening?
[harley speaking]
[wild bill speaking]
what's going on? You got some good fishing?
I got... I got a couple guys that I've seen, heavy hitters.
They've been there for it all,
they were there yesterday
and then they're back here again today.
So they're not gonna be playing around or nothing.
[wild bill speaking]
[harley] I'm gonna... I'm gonna set a big web
around them bill and see if I can see
which way they're moving.
[harley speaking]
I don't know.
[wild bill speaking]
I think I'm just gonna run
with what I'm looking at here and hope it works out.
I'll let you know in advance, thanks for the call.
[producer speaking]
[bleep] no.
He don't wanna come over here, you know.
It's hard to get the mentality that we're helping each other.
We got to catch this so we can show the fish and game
that this quota is viable
and we need to work together and catch it.
[wild bill] oh, no. I mean, obviously
we're not where it's gonna work on these numbers
but as far as trusting harley,
I'm a pretty good-sized guy,
I trust him a little further than I can throw him.
And preferably, it would be a set of stairs.
[harley] hey, sig, what's going on, dude?
Harley, how's it going?
Do you see anything I don't?
[harley] you know for the first there was nothing.
There was...
I don't know.
I see these guys off on the radar
and they keep working towards the north there.
I'm just gonna go throw a freaking big web around them
and see which way these guys crossing,
what we can do about it.
It's a great big area.
I can really use your help, sig.
So what do you think, do you wanna play
with harley and see what happens?
He wouldn't be my first choice.
[harley] I could certainly use your help,
it's a big area.
You really wanna work with harley?
[sig] hey, man.
Two heads are better than one.
Look, right now, we've covered so much ground
and it is just little tiny spots here and there.
There's not a lot to go by, so...
We got to get some information going here.
[thuds]
I'll tell you what, harley, I'm in.
It's pretty skinny.
Don't you think so?
Right on, dude.
I think we'll be all right. So...
Yeah, I'll cover the south and east area
and then you cover that north and west.
We'll squeeze them in and see.
[sig] roger, roger. That sounds good.
[harley] right on, sig. I'll keep in touch, man.
But yeah, let's get on 'em.
[sig] appreciate it. I'm out. I will talk to you later.
Right on, thanks.
[mandy speaking]
I think it's worth a try
and, uh, I just got to go by that,
you know, it makes sense to me.
We got to try something else.
[harley] sig is my boy now, now we got a good shot.
I just need some help. It's a big freaking area.
Time to cast my web,
let's go spread these pots around.
[man] this year, crab captains are reporting
the notoriously elusive bairdi crab
is even harder to find.
[woman] several boats in the bristol bay crab fleet
have already ended their season in frustration.
The situation is dire enough that fish and game
maybe considering an emergency closure
effective immediately.
[casey] johnny?
Hey, is josh with you?
Hey. Hey, case, what's up, man?
[casey] hey, did you guys hear this rumor
about fish and game might shut her down?
[bleep] are you kidding me?
[casey] I mean the bairdi fishing
is going so slow right now that fish and game
is talking about doing an emergency closure, crabs.
-That's bad, dude. -[casey] okay. Yeah.
No, it's just a rumor right now.
I mean, I haven't seen any print on it or nothing
but I'm not gonna leave till the guys
in the water here make it in.
[johnathan] you got time to stick around
in case if the fleet needs us?
Yeah, we'll just... Yeah.
Stick around, standby mode.
Okay. Man, we'll...
We're gonna be a standby mode.
We have to stick around.
All right. We'll keep you in the loop
if I hear anything else.
[johnathan] if I got to stay, you know, help the fleet,
we will go back out there.
Josh and I will go back out.
We don't want to but we will.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harley speaking]
I'm setting a web right around
through their gear and I'm gonna figure out
what they got going on.
[man] lower.
[harley] you're not real happy to see me here, I'm sure.
As soon as they cross one of my streams
and they feel that little tingle,
we'll screw you and then check one of those pots.
Harley is gonna do kind of a spider web of a set,
so hopefully there's some crab here.
I got sig up the north and the west
and I'll cover the south and east area.
We'll have this web spun in no time, man.
[harley speaking]
[man] yeah buddy.
Let's go! Woo-hoo!
[sig] so harley's got gear in this area, you know,
so I mean we definitely got some ground covered,
so we should try to put some in the middle in here
and see what's going on, right?
You got to cover all the grounds.
[man] go! Go! Go!
All in.
Who knows if the crab is there?
It's not the way you wanna do things
but desperate times calls for desperate measures.
We'll see if he's telling the truth or not.
[harley] okay.
We got the web set.
Now we just got to wait.
[narrator] one hundred fifty miles west on the summer bay.
[wild bill] oh, it's probably going about
30, 35, it's workable.
It's still gnarly.
I never seen them having emergency closure ever
in my 40 years but I know they have the ability to do it.
So I'm really hoping we either get our quota
or damn close to it.
Harley, he had a spot that was a ways away from us.
But we're not gonna make a big move.
So I'm gonna spread this out deeper.
We're gonna go from 53 to 57, see what we get.
All right, guys. Be careful.
Make sure we get the bags,
everything clear in the way to the side.
Bombs away.
[wild bill] kind of looking for one of those big ones.
That can mess with our day pretty bad.
[suspenseful music playing]
[man] hurdle away!
[wild bill] whoa.
[landon] damn! Whoa.
[wild bill] hang on. Hang on.
[man] get down!
[wild bill speaking]
[man speaking]
big one there, buddy.
[wild bill] that was a freight train there.
It'll bust your ass.
I mean, we're trying to get stuff,
like, three-tenths of a mile apart,
less than a quarter mile apart, parallel.
Try to stay on the little mass that we see
and I really wanna finish this.
I'm trying to do that with this weather. It's a little ridiculous.
We've been out here so many times without reward.
[narrator] one hundred seventy-three miles
northeast from dutch harbor.
[harley speaking]
so, keeping an eye on this radar
and see which way these guys are moving.
[narrator] captains harley and sig lie and wait,
ready to wrap their prey at a moment's notice.
[sig] oh, we'll see what happens, mandy.
Maybe this area that steve's got
might turn up some crab.
If we can get lucky, we can get out of here.
[steven] right now we're on hold.
Bossman's watching for us.
As soon as he sees one of these big boats
crossing our string, we're gonna go pounce.
Get on 'em.
Huh.
Oh, yeah. There he is.
Now he's getting close by.
That's my black widow string.
We'll go check that puppy out.
All right, guys. Saddle up.
I think we got us a bite.
[steven] all right. Let's go.
Let's get this crab.
[harley] we're gonna go haul that and see
what the heck's in this spider web, man.
They got...
I gotta grab them crab.
[narrator] one hundred twenty-one miles west.
[wild bill] they're contemplating
closing this thing down and have an emergency closure.
You know all these feelings and sensations of doom.
All it takes is five miles of crab.
I'll be happy to see reasonable numbers
through these pots today.
[narrator] stalking a school of western bairdi
into deeper waters.
Captain wild bill goes alone
to grind out his remaining nine thousand pounds.
I wanna finish this quota and be done with it.
[man] here it goes! There it is!
[man speaking]
this doesn't look good.
It's my job to find them.
And right now, we're not on them.
[man speaking]
[wild bill] quite honestly, if it stays like...
Fishing like this,
it's gonna be tough to make a nickel on this one.
[david] five, real five.
It's gonna be a long day at this point.
[man speaking]
take it out.
Hey, what the [bleep].
-[man1] out, out. -[man2] out of the coiler.
Ay-ay-ay.
[man] turn it off. Turn it off.
Turn it off.
[engine revving]
[man] look out...
[man speaking]
[landon speaking]
man.
That could've been really bad.
[bleep]
the pot's coming up
and we had no control
on the block valve.
It shouldn't be this hard.
Uh, whatever it is, this has been a frustrating
son of a gun.
[suspenseful music playing]
[waves crashing]
[harley] okay. Here we go.
Spin around and grab this first pot,
get this thing going.
We just set this one five hours ago.
So if you're getting one or two an hour,
you're doing well.
[man] all right.
You guys ready for some bairdi?
[laughing]
let's do this.
Check what the pot does for us.
[engine revving]
come on, crab.
Come on, man.
[man] congrats.
[harley] oh, yeah.
Now, we're starting to get into some meat.
Look at that one.
[man speaking]
that's a damn good spot check right there.
They're nice crab too.
[phone ringing]
[beeps]
yeah, southern wind.
[sig] steve, it's sig, nw, you got me?
[harley] yeah.
I got live one down here
on the southern side of the waters, sig,
it... Everything is starting to percolate, man.
Let's tighten it up.
Let's get in here and pack some pots
around this stuff, man.
It's definitely looks like the place to be.
[sig] I love hearing it, man.
That's really good info, steve.
I appreciate that.
Wanna come your way, if that's cool.
I would definitely get down here.
Okay. I'll keep you posted.
No worries.
Right on, sig, go keep in touch, man.
Thanks.
[sig] everybody's trying their hardest,
the best they can right now.
But we gotta hurry it up.
Time is limited.
Hey, are you on this one?
[narrator] well-assured of the fleet-wide quota...
[sig] you got me, john?
Hey, how are you doing, buddy?
[narrator] ...Sig calls in reinforcements
to harley's web.
You guys got me?
[sig] hey, man.
This area that steve's got,
this could be, uh, our spot.
We got to try to milk it.
Yeah. I know what you mean.
[sig] and if...
I mean, if you still got the guys there,
right now we'll take all the help we can get.
More pots covered, more ground,
equals more crab.
What do you think of that?
We don't have a choice.
[johnathan] yeah, man. We're up.
I guess the fleet needs us. We'll do it.
Yeah, roger.
[sig] beautiful thing. Love it.
All right, bud.
[johnathan] yeah, brother. I'm out.
I'll do whatever it takes, you know.
Yeah, we have to.
You know, in order to keep this fishery going.
All right, guys. Throw.
-[man1] ready? Go. -[man2] ready.
-[man1] go. -[man2] you got this, brother.
You got this, brother.
Hey. Throw it and get on quick.
[man] do it.
We're good to go.
Going back out.
Hopefully, I can get out there pretty quick.
We're on the road now.
We're gonna need help catching that crab.
[suspenseful music playing]
[narrator] 302 miles northwest,
on the summer bay.
What's happening, kenny?
It seems like there might be some key
through something inside that might not be...
[wild bill speaking]
yeah. That's what nick's working on right now.
So it's the aluminum cup
on the bottom of the block valve
that lets the fluid go either way
from forward and reverse and how fast.
[narrator] while fixing the block
takes care of one problem.
I don't have very high hopes for any... [bleep]
we're... Basically, we're starting all over.
[narrator] bill's fishing is still broke.
[wild bill] I might have
to see what old harley's got in store for me.
Hey, harley. You got me?
[harley] there you are.
What you've been doing, dude?
[wild bill] yeah. I don't know, man.
This hasn't really played out,
you know, it's spotty.
You still got, uh...
You still got any room over there?
Is it still going on?
[laughs] well, well, well,
look who wants to come play now.
[wild bill] you still got, uh...
You still got any room over there?
Is it still going on?
[laughs] well, well, well,
look who wants to come play now.
Yeah. Come on over, bill.
Come on in. We got room on the web here.
You got it.
[wild bill] all right, man.
Send me some numbers here
and we'll see how it works out.
Right on. We'll talk to you.
We'll keep in touch.
Thank you, brother.
[harley] normally, this would be something
I would never do,
but this is a different year.
This is the time where I need... I need help.
We need help as a fleet.
[wild bill] he's a good fisherman.
He usually stays on top of stuff,
so he might have it figured out.
Hopefully, it's productive.
[engine revving]
-[man1] yeah. -[man2] good.
We are in business, guys.
Whoo.
Back in action, jackson.
I'm pretty much a solo rider.
I know I can't afford not to have this season.
I think I'll take all these pots
and go drop it over
there to harley's,
see what he's got going on.
Who knows.
See if he can help me out, if I can help him out.
[narrator] one hundred twenty-seven miles east.
[man] we made it.
[triumphant music playing]
[man] I'm back out to the bareback grounds.
Okay.
[man] whoo.
[narrator] rallying to sig's call.
The bering sea cavalry arrives at harley's web...
[harley] all right, boys. Get ready to set.
-[alarm beeps] -[man] high over.
[narrator] ...To join the fight.
[man yells]
[josh] when all of us work together,
it'll save our fishery.
-[man1] ready, go. -[man2] yup.
[casey] it's the back scratch thing,
you know, saved my ass before,
turn around, return the favor.
We're doing that to protect our own fishery
and our own future.
[johnathan] well, I mean, this is what it takes
to make it happen.
We all know each other out here,
we're all family.
We might not all get along all the time
but if one of us is in trouble,
we all help out.
That's for damn sure.
[wild bill] very good.
This is what we got from old knuckle harley.
He's gonna try to help us out on this one. So...
[man] ready? Over.
So, I guess we'll see
if mr. Harley can redeem himself here.
If he's...
Old veteran, or he's on it for this one.
-So... -[man] all over.
[wild bill] heaven help him,
that we both [bleep]
I'll give it a go.
[suspenseful music playing]
[birds squawking]
[sig] all right, guys.
We're coming up in the harley area.
So, cross your fingers.
Roger.
[sig] there's only one way to find out, man.
Yeah. Let's get these pots pulled.
If he... If he's right, he's right.
[mandy] yeah. We'll see.
Which makes you wrong.
Oh, no.
[mandy] I don't know, dad. It's not looking too good.
I don't need an "I told you so" right now.
[mandy] but I kind of did.
I told you so.
[engine revving]
[suspense music playing]
[man] let's go. Let's go.
[bleep]
[sig] now, I think I'd better call steve.
That's what I think.
Harley, how is it going?
[harley] hey, I'm right down the south of you there,
you see me?
I don't know, pal,
so far, not a lot to brag about.
Really?
[sig] it's zero.
[harley] so, sig, come on, man,
give me some of that norwegian charm.
What are you seeing over there?
[suspense music playing]
[sig] um...
We're not running in anything yet.
[harley] okay.
Yeah, I...
You know, honestly, I'd tell you what I saw here,
I mean, you know, how fishing is,
but especially these bairdi.
Right now, all I can tell you
is it looks like you're kind of on the outside
where... We spot check that one, sig.
And bill,
just telling you what I'm seeing, you know,
I'm straight up, dude.
Oh, I'm gonna trust your gut, harley.
I mean, if you think there's crabs going in
in any direction here, we'll...
Yeah, just keep tugging on that string.
You'll find them.
All right. Good luck.
Let me know if it's better or worse,
we'll save some time here.
We got to get caught up
so we can save face for this one.
[harley] damn.
I hope this hits for everyone
more than I've ever hoped.
Well, there's the harley string.
We'll see if he gave any love or not.
[johnathan] come back here
and hopefully,
um, we could seal a deal.
[casey] cross your fingers, and cross your toes,
and...
Whatever else you can cross,
your arms, your legs.
We're gonna get to... [bleep]
we have a chance.
Yes. We have a chance.
Yeah.
[johnathan] god always gives us what we need.
[harley] okay.
Let's see what lies in the center of this web.
We got to get this caught right here.
-[bird squeals] -[sig] oh, man,
talk about all in.
All in.
[suspenseful music playing]
[narrator] this week on salty takes.
[man speaking]
it's time for johnathan
to say hello to my little friend.
[narrator] still sour
from losing the race to the cannery,
casey channels his inner hillstrand
for payback.
[johnathan] yeah, baby.
-[casey laughs] -[man] do it. Do it.
[johnathan speaking]
[laughter]
[johnathan] oh, [bleep]
-[explosion] -[man] boom.
-[explosion] -oh. Oh, holy...
[explosions]
[man laughing]
[johnathan speaking]
-[johnathan speaking] -[laughter]
[laughter]
-that was right [bleep] -yeah.
Okay. Whatever you just lit off,
I want that for my birthday or christmas,
that's... Whatever you just did,
I want a bunch of those.
Yeah, that was impressive.
[laughs]
[narrator] no, john,
the last thing anyone is getting you
for christmas is explosives.
Haven't you learned your lesson?
[harley] okay. Let's see what lies
in the center of this web.
We got to get this caught right here.
[narrator] with the dutch harbor fleet's
entire pot load packed tight
into a 32-square-mile swath of ground,
captains make their last stand.
[sig] oh, man.
Talk about all in.
All in.
[suspense music playing]
[man] mick.
It's up.
[man] whoa.
[man] oh, yeah.
Yeah.
-Whoo. -There's that crab.
Really?
[man] yeah.
All right. We got crab, bud.
[laughing]
[man] yeah.
-[man speaking] -roger.
That's what we came here for.
Yeah.
[dramatic music playing]
[man] oh, yeah, welcome aboard, boys,
-welcome aboard. -[man] whoo.
That's a good one. Woo-hoo.
All right. Hey.
[man yelling]
that was nice. Thank you, god.
God is good to us.
-[josh] god is good. -You know what?
-[josh] god is great. -God loves us.
[indistinct chatter]
[casey] hell, yeah.
It's a good pot.
-[man1] oh, yeah, dude. -[man2] yeah.
Harley's web had it going on after all.
That looks pretty good right there.
[man speaking]
oh, yeah. [laughs]
[man speaking]
-no way. -[man] yeah.
-[man1] hey, we got crabs. -[man2] whoo.
Pew, pew, pew.
[man] whoo. Pew, pew, pew.
[both] pew, pew.
-[man1] yeah. -[man2] whoo.
That's exactly what we needed, we just need it keep this going.
-[man1] yeah. -[man2] whoo.
Maybe he's being straightforward after all.
[man] whoo.
All right. We're gonna be done here real quick.
[man] whoo.
[johnathan] we're working together,
we're gonna finish this thing up.
Everybody has been helping everybody this season,
that's insane, that's awesome.
That never happens to this industry.
-[man1] yeah. -[man2] yeah.
-[man1] yeah. Looking good. -[man2] yeah.
Well, I'd tell you what, kid,
I told you so.
[mandy laughs]
[phone rings]
southern wind.
[sig] hey, dude,
I got some happy boys on deck, so...
-Thank you. -[harley] right on.
Told you that would work.
I don't care what anybody says about you,
in my book, you're all right.
[laughs]
[harley] right on.
All right. Talk to with your later.
Here we go.
[bleep] yeah. Helped them out.
You know, when a well-conceived plan works,
that's a... That's a good moment.
[dramatic music playing]
[jeff] I'm happy to head home.
But I'm not gonna lie,
I'm gonna miss these guys.
It's not easy to leave.
It's not.
It's really not.
[josh] all right, johnny.
-All right. -[johnathan] good job.
Thanks, buddy.
Somehow, we got to fish together
-and wheelhouse together. -Yup.
That was [bleep]
-that quota I promised you... -Mmm-hmm.
...That's some op quota coming you guys' way?
All right, brother, thank you.
-Okay, man. -[bleep] dude.
Really?
Now, you can blend in with us.
Usually, it takes about a year
to get one of those out of me.
I don't give those out very easily.
I appreciate it. Thanks, man.
-[casey] hey, thanks, brother. -Thank you.
Thank you for clearing my bed.
-I'm sorry to have you go. -Yeah, man. Likewise.
-The same. -I'm gonna miss you.
-Before you leave... -[josh] oh, my god.
[johnathan] ...Because you got the new nickname,
the smooth cat.
-Smooth cat. -Smooth cat always...
[johnathan] we drew this shirt off
-for you. -[josh] oh, my god.
[johnathan] smooth cats always triumph.
Casey is the cat, the bad cat.
Bad tabby's casey.
[josh] [laughs] oh, my god.
[johnathan] there you go.
-There. -Everybody signed it too?
[johnathan] you got to put it on tonight,
smooth cat harris.
Never a dull moment on this boat.
-[johnathan] no. I love you. -[josh] wow.
[bleep] I love you, guys.
And thank you for giving me this season, man. You guys are awesome.
-Thank you. -Now, get out of here,
we can't miss you if you don't leave.
-[laughter] -right.
-[bleep] -[man] right.
[josh] I love you, guys.
[johnathan] how can we miss you if you don't leave.
[mandy] all right. Done, numbers are in.
[sig] I'm afraid to ask.
We got 40,140 pounds on the dot.
[sig] so we broke it?
We broke it.
That's good.
-We broke it. -That's good.
Good.
You got me, john.
[johnathan] hey, how are you doing, buddy?
[sig] we did it.
Accomplished.
[johnathan] yeah, man, I'm glad I came back.
You know, it's not very often
when you get asked by a guy with a blond mullet
to come save the fishery.
Dude, seeing you back on the grounds was amazing.
It was like good old days or something.
-[man1] okay. -[man2] last pot.
-[man1] yay. Yeah. -[man2] we're in.
[man] yeah. The last one, guys.
This is a reward right now. It's done.
We're all onboard, we're leaving.
[man] father, we wanna thank you for this day,
thank you for this season,
we wanna thank you for carrying us
through and safe.
[harley] happy that I was able to help the fleet
and get this thing caught here, you know,
so we can preserve this fishery.
Well, let's wrap them all up.
[josh] what's going on, big dawg?
[casey] what's happening, bud?
-Welcome back. -[bleep]
-how are you? -Good.
Oh, it's so good to be back in this boat.
[sig] when winter comes,
they are talking about a 20, 30%
bump in the quota.
I don't know what your plans are,
but I'd like to have some, uh...
Some company on the grounds.
That'd be you.
You know what, maybe I just might do that.
I might come back out this winter.
[man] most of all, I just wanna thank you
for the leadership displayed by each of these men,
each looking after one another on the bering sea.
-Amen. -[all] amen.
Yeah.
Thank you, guys.
[boat engine running]
[narrator] still ahead
on this season of deadliest catch.
We got some gnarly-ass weather going on.
[man] hold on.
Largest storm we've had since 2014.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa. -[man] watch out.
[harley] we're a long ways from town,
we're a long ways from help
when we're fishing at this level.
[man] watch out. Watch out.
We got problems.
-[man1] oh. -[man2] it's too wide.
[groans]
the fleet has got to work together.
Do you think I don't know what I'm doing?
[bleep] dude.
Dude, we're out of business.
[men talking indistinctly]
[phone ringing]
what?
This is real.
[woman speaking]
[dramatic music playing]