[thunder]
Hurricane Ida ravaged Southern Louisiana,
packing winds of 150 miles per hour...
leaving a path of destruction in her wake.
Gator season came to a halt
while hunters braced for the worst.
Now, seven days later...
Hunters are struggling to recover...
Hurricane Ida was a beast.
Trees down everywhere. Roofs tore up at home.
and make up for lost time...
We hunting just for the big ones,
and the fight is rough.
Yeah, come on! Oh!
As they come together to save their season.
I need all the help I can
because I'm so behind on my tags.
All right, guys. Good luck, my baby!
[blues guitar plays]
One week after Hurricane Ida,
seven million people are still without power,
and hunters are trying to pick up the pieces.
In Galliano,
Daniel and Dorien Edgar
are driving over to Miss Yvette,
their gator buyer and longtime friend,
to see how she's holding up.
The further we go, the worse it gets.
I just hope people had at least insurance.
They're not gonna have no power for a while.
Hurricanes have an unusual amount of force.
A tornado is gonna last 10 minutes,
and a hurricane will last 10 hours
in the same place.
The damage is unbearable.
Whoa. My God.
[dog barks] We just finished
- cleaning the porch. - How are you doing?
-I don't know if you've met
my grandson Dorien, Miss Yvette.
- I met you before. - Yes, you have.
What you just lost next door at the plant...
is ungodly.
Yeah.
My goodness. It just broke all your stuff.
Oh, yeah.
And we had just upgraded everything for the season.
We threw away thousands of dollars of gators.
The ugliest thing you will ever see
is what a hurricane can do to a family
and their possessions and their neighbors.
Well, what we're gonna do with our production,
we're just gonna slow down
and try to keep that going
until you get some kind of a break.
- Miss Yvette. - Thank you.
Okay, baby.
In the alligator industry, we're all like one big family.
And to see this hurricane do this to them,
it's terrible.
We'll do the best we can.
85 miles northeast, in Violet,
reeling from the damage of Hurricane Ida,
Ronnie and Ashley are way behind on filling their tags.
I'm blessed this year with 200 tags,
but, man, I've been thrown a lot of obstacles,
and, you know, I'm trying to do as best as I can to catch up.
But it's hard, it's really hard.
Mr. Troy and them's on their way.
They should be here any minute.
So I reached out to a good friend of mine, Mr. Troy Landry.
I gave a phone call to Mr. Troy.
I told him I'm behind schedule right now
as far as filling tags.
I asked him could he give me a hand,
and he didn't even hesitate.
He said, "I'll be there. Tell me a day."
What y'all say, my baby?
- Chicken, too. - What's up?
I'm glad y'all made it down in this neck of the woods.
Hey, ma'am. Good morning.
Thank you for coming, my baby.
You know, we always try to help other people
when they need help.
And there's been a few times where we needed help,
where other people has come and helped us.
Well, Ronnie and Ashley is closer to the coast than we are
and they got hammered.
And we didn't have that much damage over here.
We were very lucky.
So we actually caught up on our tags now,
so I feel in my heart we should go over there
and help them for a couple of days.
And that's a good way to live your life, you know.
You help your neighbors or help other people when you can.
I'm telling you, I appreciate more than anything,
you and Jacob coming up to help.
We're here to help.
Well, yeah. If y'all want,
I can show y'all these maps
- Yeah, let's look at 'em. - And check them out.
Dude, that's a lot of tags.
Oh, yeah, we got a good bit of tags.
I like them pink tags this year.
I mean, y'all got a lot left.
Yeah. So what we got here, Mr. Troy and Jacob, is, um...
- This is all your property? - All my properties.
- That's the main thing. - All this.
I literally put out 150 lines in the one area,
but got them spread out
over about a seven-, eight-mile span.
And we gonna break it into three sections.
Everybody, I have between 50 and 60 lines to run.
I told Mr. Troy and Jacob I need all the help I can
because I'm so behind on my tags.
Guard that with your life.
Okay, that looks simple enough.
- That's it. - All right.
- Sounds good to me. - Yup.
Gimme y'all hands, guys. Real quick.
Lord, please look over everybody today, little safe day.
Teamwork makes the dream work, my baby.
Amen.
All right, let's get it done.
All right, Pee-wee, let's go through our list.
We got bait, we got the gun, we got bullets.
- You got your treble hook. - We're good.
All right, guys. Good luck, my baby!
With no time to spare,
Ronnie guides Troy and Pickle to their first set of lines.
That's the first line right there?
Right there. That's where y'all start.
It goes in there and makes a big horseshoe.
- That little bayou right here. - Yes, sir.
And they kind of spread out, catty-cornered.
All right, buddy, good luck. Y'all good? You got bullets?
- Yes, sir. Thank you. - Got tags?
Good luck, guys. Thank y'all again.
All right, y'all.
Pee-wee, I'm color blind,
so you're gonna have to help me look.
All right, first line's right here on the left.
All right. Still hanging, huh?
Yeah, still hanging.
Oh, look at that weather over there.
Storm after storm after storm.
We can't catch a break this year.
You know, we in South Louisiana, right along the Gulf,
and the weather can change in 30 minutes.
It can go from a beautiful sunny day
to 20, 30 minutes later
have a thunderstorm build up right over you.
We starting to get bad weather here where we at.
- All right. - Tell me what to do.
I don't know yet. Hold on.
Might have to take my pole. Oh, look over there.
- We got something? - Yeah.
Ooh, we got one, we got one.
Ooh, a nice alligator.
We do, we got one.
We gotta find the line.
I don't wanna get too close
and cut it with my propeller.
Yeah, I can't find nothin'.
I'm gonna throw the hook right here.
Well, that's one way to do it. [laughs]
- You got something? - It feels like a good one.
Yeah.
- You got it? - I got it.
Ooh, don't let it go. Why you let it go?
- I had to! - No, you didn't have to.
Yes, I did.
Do not let that line go again.
Did you see the size of this thing?
No, I didn't see the size of it.
- Well, you fight him. - Doesn't matter what the size.
Bring it up. We're gonna shoot it.
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Watch it, watch it. Got him?
Come on, Pee-wee. Show him who's the boss.
Whoo, it's a big one.
Oh, it's a big one!
Shoot, shoot!
Shoot him.
[gunshot]
It's a big one, it's a big one.
The first one of the day. Yes, indeed! Yeow!
[Troy and Pickle grunting]
Ohh!
Catching this 11-footer is a good start,
but Mother Nature may have other plans.
[distant thunder] Oh, that's a big one, huh?
This alligator's a nice gator,
but we're trying to work as fast as we can
'cause the wind--you can see the wind starting to pick up
and the clouds are rolling in.
We starting to get some rain bands coming in.
It's getting closer to us now because you can see
the weather's deteriorating very fast.
[thunder]
You hear that thunder?
Yeah, we gotta hurry.
- God, look at that weather! - Nasty, nasty.
140 miles west, at St. Mary's...
Bring this over here.
The Edgar family continues their clean-up
after Hurricane Ida.
So what we doing today, Dad?
Well, the buyers all got wiped out by hurricanes.
They have no electricity.
You know, without electricity, they can't do anything.
But how we gonna get through all these tags?
We're gonna have to skin 'em ourselves.
Whatever we kill, we're gonna have to come home and skin.
Like we used to do long time ago.
Like we used to do a long time ago.
You and Zak are gonna go pick out a couple of big ones,
and just try to kill a few.
Yeah. Whatever you kill that day, you gotta process yourself.
You're gonna have to process it.
That's gonna make us some long days.
Oh, my God.
We're fortunate that we didn't get busted up like some folks.
But, unfortunately, we have tags to fill.
I've never skinned an alligator.
It's work.
Processing their own gators won't be easy,
so they're headed to Grassy Lake,
a honey hole they hope is full of money-making gators
that'll be worth the effort.
Whoa! God, that scared the crap out of me.
Pop, there's a big alligator straight ahead.
There he is, bubbling right there.
Yeah, right there. He's going to the right.
I see him.
Get him, pop.
Hold on.
I think he's right here.
He's right next to that stump.
There he is, there he is!
[Zak grunting]
Whoa. Whoa, yeah.
You're gonna have to back up farther unless...
You can get him like that?
- Get the rifle, pop. - Oh, yeah.
Hold on, whoa!
Where's he at? Oh!
- Good job. - Got him.
Way to go, pop.
With a solid 10-footer in the boat,
Grassy Lake is already proving to be profitable.
We'll have our work cut out for us with that one, Zak.
Yes, sir. That's a big skinner right there.
We got a project and our work cut out for us,
- huh, pop? - Yes, sir.
- [sharp exhale] - The work's just starting.
Meanwhile, Daniel and Dorien
are hunting exclusively by rifle and treble hook,
allowing them to target the largest beasts.
See them bubbles?
That's probably him against the bank over there.
To target big alligators, you just go by past experience.
I see bubbles coming up everywhere.
Where you've got them before, where you've seen them,
what they need, what the conditions are.
Put all of that together,
come up with a plan, and go there.
This canal has produced big bulls for Daniel in the past,
and he's hoping it'll come through again today.
That one over there's a 10.
He's trying to roll.
You want me to throw on him?
Yeah, try throwing on him.
Steady, steady.
I'm gonna set it on him.
Oh, that's him.
Set it, set it, set your hook!
- Pull hard. - It's set!
Oh, hurry, pa.
It came off. I think it was in his tail.
[sharp exhale] We ain't got enough string
for how deep that water is.
Sucker's wearing me out.
Let me get some.
Just you can't give him no slack, pa.
Oh, oh.
I need you to be ready.
He's coming up.
Get the gun, pa. Hurry, hurry, hurry.
Shoot him, pa.
[gunshot]
Good job, pa.
This 10-foot fighter was a worthy opponent
because for Daniel, the hunt itself is part of the reward.
The hunt is where the excitement is.
When you're hunting for anything,
you know, it's the hunt that you enjoy.
We're trying to outsmart each other.
And on a line, he's already captured.
If I had to rate alligator hunting to running lines,
I would give running lines a 2 and hunting a 9 or a 10.
All right, decent start.
140 miles east, in Violet,
Ronnie and Ashley race to make up lost time from Hurricane Ida
before another storm takes its toll.
[thunder]
I'm so glad that Troy and them come down to help us.
Yeah, that's going to be real helpful.
Big help. Today could turn my whole season around,
and I'm stoked about that.
Three boats is always gonna be better than one boat.
Compared to just me and Ashley, it's a win-win no matter what.
It is. It sure is.
Something's pulling that line on that grass right there.
- You see it? - Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, girly. Boy, this line is hot.
- Look at him pulling that cane. - Oh, that's a monster.
That's got to be a monster the way he's pulling that pole.
He's pulling the pole all the way down.
Oh, my God.
You got the line?
Yeah, I got it.
Che, get the gun, get the gun.
Coming at you. Golly!
This is a monster, che. It's a 10-footer.
Whoo, Lord.
This is a big son of a gun here, papa.
Golly!
What a gator, baby. Whoo.
Big boy, come on, big boy.
Gol, watch him, che.
That's an aggressive gator here, papa.
- Oh! - Golly, watch him, che.
Stop, man.
Oh! He's wearing me out, baby.
[gunshot]
Atta girl. Folded him, baby!
- Yes! - Boom!
What a way to start it off.
One, two, three.
There we-- Whoo, I told you he was big.
Oh, yeah. Look at the size
of that jackhammer there, boy, huh?
We catching them like this all day
with the help with Troy and Jacob,
we'll be caught back up on our tags before long.
I hope they're doing as good as we are.
Me, too, baby. Me, too.
This gator measures 10 feet,
but there's no time to celebrate.
[thunder]
Dang, that sky's getting darker and darker.
'Cause she's mean and scary, but beautiful.
When I look to my left and when I look to my right,
it's nothing but black skies, you know.
It looks like it's getting here fast, and I'm really concerned.
[thunder]
Weather just won't give us a break.
Across the swamp,
Troy and Pickle are doing their part to help Ronnie and Ashley
as they run lines in unfamiliar territory.
Right there, right there.
He gonna get dead.
From what I learned so far,
these alligators go straight to the grass.
Whoo! Watch him!
Ooh, ooh!
Ooh, big one.
Bring him up. Bring him up, Pee-wee.
Whoo! It's a big one, it's a big one.
He's trying to get me.
Whoo! It's a fighter!
He's trying to get me.
- Tell me when. - Okay, dude.
[gunshot]
- Whoo! - Good job, dude.
It's a good one, it's good one.
Aw, you a hell of a shot.
What? You saw that, with my eyes closed?
This filled tag will be a boost to Ronnie and Ashley,
but the rain is coming in fast.
Look at the weather, dude. Look at the weather.
You're gonna have a lot of lightning in there, you know.
You hear the thunder? - Yeah.
Meanwhile, in Grassy Lake,
with their buyers shut down by the storm,
Joey and Zak are targeting giants
they can process themselves.
That's another giant one straight ahead?
- That's a good one. - That's a charger!
That's a monster. Let's kill him before he goes underneath.
We hunting just for the big ones.
We hunting with the rod and reel and the treble hook
and the sniping.
The game plan's working.
We just targeting big alligators and hunting like this.
It's a lot more fun than just running lines.
Yup?
- That's him? - Yeah, that's him.
Say no more.
Okay, right here, right here.
Whoa.
Oh, I broke off. I broke off.
I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened.
I broke off.
Bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling.
I broke off.
I hit him, he just broke off.
- That's a big alligator. - Bastard.
Yeah, we following his bubbles.
We ain't gonna play with him. If I can get a shot on him,
we gonna shoot him.
That's a giant.
He's right here, he's right here.
It's just deep.
Oh, that's the gator. Get him!
Get him, get him, get him, get him!
Come on.
Hold that bad boy, hold that bad boy.
I got him. I got him. Get the gun ready.
- Oh, my God. - He's hooked. He's wrapped.
- Still got him? - Yeah.
- He come off! - No!
He come off.
No, no, no!
No, he's right there. He's right there.
It's gonna be hard to hook him right there.
He's in them stumps.
Damn it!
No, he's a giant, dude. He's so smart.
First time I hit him, look what he done.
- And look how he bent this one. - Damn it.
That was a big, big boy.
Although this brute escaped, the hunt goes on.
Just like people,
some alligators are smarter than others.
This alligator's smart. He's lived a long time.
Damn it.
It is what it is.
That's the whole thing of fighting big alligators.
I don't like losing them like that either.
This alligator got away from us this time,
but we're gonna keep trying.
That was a smart one, huh, Zak? Yo.
The smartest one ever.
Two miles south,
Jacob and Don are trying to help Ronnie fill tags,
but they're off to a slow start.
Feels like a pretty good 'un.
What you got on that one there, Big D?
There's a gator. Don't know how big he is, though.
Whoa!
- Whoa! God! - Water's good and clean...
Shoot him!
That'll do it. That'll do it.
Although smaller than he'd hoped,
today's hunt is all about numbers.
Catching that first alligator in the marsh,
it wasn't what I was expecting.
You know, it was a small alligator.
But at the same time, we filling a tag for Ronnie and Ashley,
and that's what we here for:
knock out a bunch of tags in a day or two and get out.
And I'm just happy to see an alligator on the line.
Just wanna get it done
before that nasty-looking crap back there is coming.
[thunder]
Three miles south,
Troy and Pickle have more lines to run,
but their safety is becoming a concern.
[thunder]
But it's too far to go back.
Oh-oh, there he is. The gator's way over here.
Ooh, it's a big one, huh?
Look like a big one?
Oh!
Whoo!
Oh, it's a big one, it's a big one!
I knew it. I told you that.
Ooh! Ooh-ah! Ooh, ooh, ooh!
Whoo! He's gonna sink the boat!
[gunshot]
Ooh, put another one in him. Put another one.
Whoo!
Shoot him!
Whoo, it's a big one, it's a big one.
Okay, get your thing. [thunder]
- Oh! - Uh-uh.
- Ooh. - Think we can handle him?
Troy and Pickle manage to fill another tag,
but the storm is picking up.
- Okay. - Oh!
- Oh, you all right? - Yeah. [laughs]
You okay?
Lightning was hitting all around us, and it's scary.
You got a big aluminum pole 20 feet long.
You stick it in the air.
If that's not a lightning rod...
So we're trying to hurry up, pick up these lines,
and get off the water.
Oh!
120 miles west,
the skies are clear over Franklin,
where Daniel and Dorien
are exclusively targeting large bulls.
[bleep] damn.
There's one swimming in front of the boat.
There's another one way over there.
The one right here was about a seven-footer.
Pa, how big was that one right there?
He was about an eight-footer.
Now, you see, there's another one here.
I don't know how big he is.
They all look like they're about the same size.
- Where is the bull? - I'm looking for him.
Finding and figuring out what's the biggest alligator,
it's all about head size.
If his head is looking like a floating stump,
that's the one we want.
But if it looks like a patch of grass,
we're letting him pass.
That's our main focus
is just looking for the biggest head possible.
Look, the big one in the bayou behind us.
- Yeah, that's him. - See him?
You wanna take him?
Yeah. Yeah, but we gotta put a bullet in the barrel.
It's already in there.
All right, hold on.
Let me tighten up on him a little.
That's a pretty good one there, pa.
He's facing us. Let him get sideways.
Damn, he's coming right at you.
Soon as you can hit him right on the side of his eye.
They hard to kill coming on you.
- I can take him, pa. - Take him.
Right under his eye.
[gunshot] You got him.
Go. Yeah.
You gotta hook him with your hook. Hurry.
Hurry. He's not dead, he's not dead.
- Got him. - You got him?
Tighten up on him. Snag your hook.
Sink the hook!
Get ready.
Don't give him no slack. That's a big one.
Just hold him tight, tight, tight.
It's a big one.
With two huge ones today...
Now turn his belly, Now, okay, now hold on.
processing their own catch
is looking to be worth the effort.
Good job, pa. You got him.
Whew. That's a good one.
Okay.
Now I got something.
Catching a 12-foot alligator on the treble hook,
you know, it's like shooting a 30-point buck.
You know? [laughs]
I got this big rascal.
Whew.
Good job, pa.
Nice one.
That's a dinosaur right there.
120 miles west,
the sun is still shining over Grassy Lake,
and Joey and Zak are still reeling
from the escape artist that got away earlier.
Right in the center, too.
Right in the center of the friggin' bayou.
Mm. Yeah, that's the ones you dream about, Zak.
When they big like that and that kind of battle,
you don't forget those.
It's not over.
This alligator got away from us, but we gonna keep trying.
We gonna try to find one more big alligator
before we head back to St. Mary's.
We got one more to kill for the day.
If we can get this alligator killed, I'll be really excited
and feel like mission accomplished for the day.
I'm gonna go to the end of the property line,
and then I'm gonna come back right against the lilies.
Straight ahead, 12 o'clock, 400 yards.
There he is, right there.
That's a good cast.
- That's him? - Yup, that's him.
That's him, baby.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Back us up, back us up!
Mm-hmm. I got his tail. Damn it!
No! Still on, still on, still on.
Under the boat, under the boat, under the boat.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
Aah!
Whoa!
No! No!
Yeah, just like that, just like that.
Hard, hard, hard!
Where he's at, Pop? Where he's at?
Right there.
Mm. Still on.
Stay on. Stay on, stay on, please.
I don't think he's smart like that other one.
We can't lose this.
He's not coming up, huh?
No, he's not coming up.
Right there, right there.
Uh-huh. Right there.
Come on.
Water's deep.
Deep. Real deep.
Let's go, pop.
I believe in you.
It's gonna take a lot of man.
You stuck in him?
Can't hold it.
I got it, I got it, I got it.
Get the rifle.
Come on.
Oh, my God.
Come on. Come on.
Come on. Oh, my God.
Come up.
Come on, pull him up. Pull him up.
- Get ready. - Right there.
Shoot, pop, shoot!
- That's what I'm talking about! - That's all right!
That'll slow him down.
Look where he was hooked. In the toe!
Oh, my God.
I'll tell you what, though.
I did like slowing him down with the bigger rifle.
Look right here.
That was a lot of work. We got him.
You know, I'm sure glad that Zak brought this big rifle.
Because we treble hooking and catching big alligators,
and the fight is rough.
This alligator's mean, and he's hooked in the body.
And when we get him up to try to get a shot,
we just need one shot, one kill.
We need the fight to be over quick.
- Slide that over. - Got him.
We got him. Oh, my God.
And that's how you catch a 12-foot alligator.
Give me some skin.
Although they only caught two,
they'll be worth the time it takes
to harvest the meat and hide.
That's what I'm talking about.
- Oh! - It's a good one.
That's gonna be a lot to skin, though.
- It's a good one. - Let's get to it.
Zak stepped up with his rod and reel game this year,
and I'm impressed with the skills that he's learning,
and he's becoming an alligator hunter.
- Let's bring it home. - Not bad, pop, not bad.
Let's bring it to the house.
Well done, son.
Whoo!
In Violet,
Troy refuses to surrender to Mother Nature
as they run the last of Ronnie's lines.
We got one line left.
Ronnie told me exactly where he put the last line.
If I can find it, we're gonna run that thing, Pee-wee and I,
and get the hell outta here.
With nothing left on the lines,
Troy and Pickle make a hasty retreat.
- You ready? - Absolutely.
Let's get the hell outta here.
Pee-wee and I, we gonna haul tail.
We finished running the lines, we going in,
getting out of this weather
before, you know, she's gonna have anxiety
and have nightmares about this [bleep].
- Aah! - [bird screeches]
The things I do for my buddies.
[thunder] Holy smokes.
A mother-fricker.
A mother-fricker is right.
120 miles away from the storm, in Franklin,
Daniel and Dorien have two big bulls on board,
but they're not stopping yet.
Just check this lake real quick.
Get on the deck, get ready for some action.
Our goal is to get one more big gator.
We have a nice pile,
but, you know, a big alligator would seal the deal
and put a cherry on the cake.
That looked like a big one.
Get your big gun. Hurry, hurry, hurry.
He's gonna go down on you. He's gonna go down on you.
The boat's moving.
Take your time. The boat's moving a lot.
[gunshot]
You got him. Get your hook.
Still moving.
He's still moving. Hold on.
That's him, pa.
That's him.
I think you got him.
I think you're gonna have him.
Put it in him, pa.
- Got him. - Sink your hook in him.
- Get ready. - You okay, pa?
Oh, got his tail.
Keep that hook tight.
I'm gonna grab the other hook, hook his head.
I got his head, pa.
- You got his head? - Grab the gun.
[gunshot]
Okay, let's go. [grunts]
Hunting in open water paid off,
and the Edgars return home with three beasts over 10 foot.
Our processor is still not available.
We're only gonna be able to take a few of these big alligators
because we're gonna have to go home and skin them.
Overall, our plan worked out pretty good.
Pa, we did good today. We did excellent.
Good job, pa. Good job.
Back at St. Mary's,
the Edgars are coming off the bayou with a big haul,
but the day is far from over.
Skinning is real tedious,
and the worst part is you're already tired from a day's work.
Look at the amount of meat on this alligator.
Look at the size of that thing, pa.
It's a giant.
We're doing this to help our buyer, Miss Yvette,
because the only income that she's got
is all of these alligators that we're skinning.
We're icing them up, putting 'em in the cooler for her.
I'm gonna help you get through this one.
We got a freezer full, about 30 more to skin.
Pay attention, huh?
Get ready, pa.
I'm looking forward to, you know,
us skinning our own alligators.
I've never done it before. I'm excited to learn.
Straight as I can go, pa.
Come straight to me right here, buddy.
Get you a knife, pa.
Closer to the skin more.
Yeah, I ain't got nothin' right here.
See how an alligator's skin goes into--
- The meat goes into the skin? - Mm-hmm.
That's why it's hard to skin an alligator.
Although the work is tiring,
Daniel knows it teaches a valuable lesson
about life on the swamp.
At the end of the day,
we're helping our buyer out, Miss Yvette.
We're giving her a little boost and trying to do our part
after they got devastated from Hurricane Ida.
Hopefully she's back up in a couple of days.
She can come over here and pick up all these vats of meat.
Here in South Louisiana,
there's more of a bond because of the swamp.
We're a lot closer,
so when someone needs help here,
there's not a lot of people that you can call.
We have to help each other.
And we've learned that through generations of fishing,
being in the swamp.
It's a good feeling to help someone.
We've just about got it done, pa.
But I'd love to have y'all come to my camp.
We gonna have a nice little cookout for y'all.
I'd just love to thank y'all.
Sounds good. Bag of happiness, babe.
- You better believe it. - Ooh!
Boy, it is a pretty sunset this evening.
You got a beautiful place here, Ronnie.
I love this place. This is awesome.
I'm gonna throw these crabs in the pot, my baby.
Yeah!
Whoo!
With all hands on deck,
Ronnie and Ashley filled 37 tags,
putting their season back on track.
I enjoyed it today because there was no sunlight.
But if there was in the heat
like y'all do all day with no trees,
we got tree cover over there.
I'm gonna tell you today was just a rough, long day.
And everybody giving me all their effort in a storming rain.
Oh, look at that.
I'm very grateful,
and I just wanna show the Landrys some appreciation.
- Ooh, they good! - Mm-hmm.
How they say that where you're from?
- Ça c'est bon. - C'est bon.
Lookie here. Don't say I never gave you nothin'.
No, eat your crab leg.
I don't want nothing' from you
except for you to clean the boat tomorrow.
[laughs]
I'm gonna tell you what, Mr. Troy.
Most of the captains I know--
Oh, they wouldn't put up with that.
Oh, no way.
When we got back from fishing, that was my job.
I better clean that boat.
But we gotta teach 'em
and we gotta carry 90% of the load.
90%? You got that percentage a little off.
Even though Ronnie and I,
we do the bulk of the work, we enjoy hunting with y'all.
That's why we keep bringing y'all back.
Y'all aren't giving us enough credit.
Hey, listen, if it wasn't for us,
y'all two couldn't do it without us.
I've got Ronnie and Troy both just being so sexist,
talking about just how superior they are.
I want to prove them wrong. I know better than that.
You wanna go tomorrow? Me and you?
- Seriously. - Me and you?
We'll let them two go.
I thought y'all had a pedicure or something
scheduled for tomorrow.
No. I'm gonna make my pedicure appointment,
but I'm still gonna kick your ass
in getting some alligators tomorrow, I'll tell you that.
I'm gonna look real good doing it.
Damn, you must've had a good teacher, huh?
- Son of a gun. - I did. I did.
All of a sudden, you're coming out swinging.
I feel like men's egos get in the way.
Women just get the job done.
So after all this smack talking,
we're gonna put as many alligators
in the boat as we can,
regardless of the strength that they say we don't have.
And we're just gonna kick ass.
So this is what we gonna do.
Whoever comes home with the most gators
takes the crown, my baby.
Okay, so what's the wager?
Whoever loses has to--
- Clean the boat. - [laughs]
Whoever loses gotta clean the boat.
I think even though we win, Ronnie,
I'm gonna have to clean the boat.
[all laugh]
- Right here, Pickle. - That was good.
With no one wanting to back down,
tomorrow's gator hunt is shaping up
to be a good old-fashioned battle of the sexes,
with the loser doing the other team's dirty work.
Y'all about to receive a whupping
y'all ain't never had before in your life.
Tomorrow's gonna be a test.
We're gonna see how much they done learned
in the last four years and the last two years.
And it actually'll be a reflection on y'all.
So really, y'all got a double challenge.
That's what I'm really scared of.
[all laugh]