- Woo! - Wow.
Ooh got it. Hell yeah.
Make it look easy, man. You make it look easy.
Pull.
Yup.
Ooh, missed.
- Dude. - Damn it.
The last duck hunt, you know, didn't go very well.
We were not successful, I mean we do fish for a living.
Duck hunting is definitely one of those things that
I do not know.
It's always better whenever it starts to settle down
if you aim just underneath of it and, just a smidgen.
Right on. Pull.
See?
Yeah, you got it twice!
- Woo, yeah. - It's about time, man.
You're on fire.
This is fun man, heck yeah.
I am off to a pretty good start for the winter in
that my freezer is pretty full.
Oliver and Breanna, they're kind of new to duck hunting so,
I figured I'd take them out.
You got to have so much meet to make her through the winter.
- All right, pull. - Down, down, down.
There you go. Good job.
- Got it. - Pull.
Ooh.
You're on fire.
I'm feeling like I can go out there and possibly,
possibly hit one, you know, I mean if not maybe curly will
hit it and I can say that I did, that'd be great.
I think we're gonna want to catch the stern first,
with the way the wind is.
You want to try and just brush it right in there or are you gonna...
- Yeah, I think so. - Okay.
It's like beaching a whale, you gotta do it just so or
you can mess a whole bunch of stuff up.
Watch that grill back there.
Yeah.
I have not put my boat on a grid in roughly a year and a half,
I was just too busy this summer to make it happen.
There's a couple issues I want to address and hopefully
I'll be able to get those taken care of.
This boat is my home.
If it, has problems so do I.
We're gonna want to go one more and call it.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna do this one right here.
Okay, it looks good.
- Okie dokie. - Thank you boys.
We have to get this work done quick before the tide comes in,
there's a whole lot of things that I have no idea what could
be happening down there, it's been a long time since
it's been out of the water.
This is where you have to have Patience.
We just got the easy part done,
we got the boat in the correct position.
Three hours from now we'll actually be down on the,
on the beach getting dirty.
A big part of this process is just letting the tide drop
and inspecting and finding out what's going on.
Like she sat down perfectly.
I need to get this done in one tide cycle and
it's been giving me anxiety.
No.
There is some growth for sure.
Not good.
It's not easy by no means living out here.
In the winter we don't have much sun.
Basically everybody's doing their firewood and
making little repairs around the house.
Once you have all your needs taken care of you really don't
have any more stress in your life,
and it's a beautiful way to live.
I love this place.
Pretty rotten.
That's some nasty stuff.
Oo-wee.
Mommy's lucky she didn't fall through there roxy.
I got some things I need to do around here 'cause
my deck's really bad.
Yeah, this is bad.
Those boards are gonna break and I really need to
replace them before they break and I break something.
This is gonna take a lot more time than I thought.
Winter's right around the corner.
I mean we got some, frozen mornings coming up here
and I want to get this done.
My cross beams look crappy down there.
Cross beams are shot.
And the decking's shot.
Yeah, these supports they're,
that thing's just like...
Completely rotten.
Every project I do out here you're just opening up a can of worms.
The whole idea of this is to remove the rotten wood.
Put new wood on and the main thing is,
is to close these gaps up,
because I've seen her paw go in there once.
It is like that's it; These gaps need to be closed up.
Because she could break her foot.
There's people that come out here to live and then when
every job you do turns into something like this,
they just give up but fix it and fix it right and then
you don't have to do it again.
Yes.
It's in good enough shape so I can measure it
to make some new ones.
We got a lot of work to do, just like everything else
you do around here I opened up a can of worms.
A lot of people end up coming out here,
they see the majesty of the place and they decide to set up
roots without understanding exactly how hard it is
to sink roots in this territory.
When the snow starts flying and the hail comes down,
you're gonna need a helping hand from some of
the sourdoughs who have seen it all around here.
How long are you?
It's a stretch, but it might work.
Yeah.
That one's, a little heavier.
Troy's place is really on the ragged fringe and
it's terribly hard to get to and he really needs to work on the things
he has to have on site before winter actually hits.
Gonna see if I can't piece together some kind of a woodshed.
You don't have your wood pile stocked up and ready to go it's
a life-or-death situation.
Got a couple trees here I can probably use these for,
the main uprights.
This is gonna be a two-person job attempted by one person.
Troy's just picking up the,
job of postmaster here and that's something we need.
The days are awful short right now and he's, caught between the,
rock and the weather, so to speak.
If he's doing something we need it's always nice to be able
to reciprocate and make sure that he has what he needs.
A lot of my, bush engineering has come to me
over the last couple decades of just trying to get it done
anyway I possibly can.
Maybe that'll work.
Yeah, you're gonna be fun aren't you?
Yeah, I thought as much.
You just don't take a tumble and take me with you.
All right, might need to reposition my ladder for this
particular bit of craziness.
Trying to get this lashed around the tree.
Damn it.
How the hell do we fix that?
Junior, stay back.
Junior.
When someone brings you to one of their spots that's
a real cool thing, it's sort of a passing of the torch,
you know, it's, kind of a sign of friendship in a way.
I see ducks over on the other side over there.
Yeah.
I definitely know how to go out there and aim at something and
pull the trigger, but you know, figuring out how exactly
to go about it strategy-wise, places to go,
that's kind of where I'm gonna rely on curly being able to pass
on his knowledge to me.
Tides are huge.
We got some birds over here.
There's a whole bunch way over there.
See 'em?
Yeah, dude. There's a pile of them.
There's a ton of birds around there.
I think we just walk down here and see if we can find
a spot just to set up there and hunker down.
Cool.
This ain't too bad in here?
Yeah, this might be a good little spot.
Look at that, right there.
Look at 'em, look at 'em they're coming our way.
Boy, boy.
High tide is, that's kind of when you want to hunt.
The tides are big and it pushes them way up into these ponds and
stuff when the tide's super high.
Places that they normally can't get into.
There's birds all over this place.
We should kind of spread out a little bit.
- Okay. - Get ready.
You got one in the chamber?
Down, down, down.
Don't shoot me dick Cheney.
There's some real close, keep going, keep moving.
Junior, stay back.
I see some right there.
Pretty close one.
Stay.
Junior!
Good boy.
- Did you get one? - I don't think so.
I thought I saw one fall.
Come on junior.
Well, they were quite a ways out of range.
We threw one at them anyway.
I was gonna throw one too,
but my damn gun was on safety.
We spooked them all up, we need to get into our spot
and get settled in so, before these birds set back down.
Now, there is a, a point over here.
We gotta walk around the end of this slough here.
Couple of mallards coming in right now.
More birds coming in.
- Yeah. - See?
So just find a dry spot and hunker down.
There are some ducks right there.
All right, junior.
Raincoat out I guess, to sit on.
Let my happy ass down on the ground.
Just stay right there.
This guy he's too far.
Too far.
Too far, too far.
Well, she's...
Some things aren't looking too great.
Yeah, that needs replace, that's,
I can just barely see the rudder post from here,
it looks pretty much gone.
The, the entire steel strap setup on
this boat is pretty Mickey mouse.
There's a piece on this boat called the stub shaft that is
completely disintegrated.
I smell cat.
Maybe the cat pooped under here.
It's probably tidbits.
Tidbits is old.
Well, that was easy.
I think I found what I was smelling.
Yuck.
Cat on a stick.
Those cats they do the darndest things.
Well, here we got the mail plane.
It'll be, all manner of correspondence and
parcel for Troy to unload.
One of our main modes of resupply out here,
I might even have some stuff on that particular run.
Tis the plane!
They are doing the circle to let us know they are here,
and it should be coming around and,
then the work begins.
Seeing the plane is not always a sure thing you are getting your mail;
it still needs to, actually make it to the water.
And it might not be liking what it's seeing out there.
Some of the white water picking up out there a little bit.
So curly, there's just something I'm dying to know.
What's that?
Where did you get your nickname from?
How many people have asked me?
A guy that I worked for he liked whiskey as much as I did and anyways,
he told me I needed a haircut and I go I agree,
and he goes well I'll fix you right up and
I was drunk enough I said sure go ahead.
He was trying to cut this one curly piece of hair that
was coming around, the scissor wouldn't even grab hold of it
and it, he, that's when he buck up my ear.
And anyways he, I wouldn't let him cut anymore,
that one piece was sticking out like that the next day.
He started calling me curly after that.
- Right on. - That's hilarious.
Yeah, that's a great story.
True story.
I just, just heard from the pilot and,
after several circles they were not able to land here.
It is a little too rough out there,
a little too windy out in the,
in the strait out there.
So, no one needs to risk their life for it,
so we'll get it tomorrow hopefully.
I just want to go look and see what we got going on here.
That's just a tiny little shaft.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
This little corroded piece of steel right here,
supports the bottom of this,
rudder in case something slams into it.
I'm just gonna make sure that this old shaft is replaced with
something a little sturdier.
Something that won't corrode away.
When you live where we live and live on a boat and you travel,
especially in the winter months,
all your stuff has to be tight as a tick's turd.
This is Matt's home and it's his mobile home and if he wants to be mobile,
he has to get this thing fixed.
And I'm gonna replicate that out of some silicone bronze.
While it's still light, I don't have to do it by head lamp.
- That would be cool. - With any luck.
Famous last words.
Essentially what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna replace a
old piece of electrolosized steel with
a piece of some good silicone bronze.
I'm gonna cut a slot in it, bolt it on and make a new,
bushing for it to ride in.
We have to get this work done quick,
the entire shoreline here is gonna be under about
12 feet of water in just a matter of hours.
We don't have any time to waste.
I should have put a fresh blade in here.
I, I might have another blade.
It's just doing, it's doing its job?
It's just slow.
Just like a piece of wood it's just a little more difficult.
It's gonna be a little harder than I thought.
This blade is not as sharp as, as I was hoping,
I've cut aluminum with it.
Not, not gonna do it you think, maybe?
Well it's gonna be a rough road to hoe.
Where the heck's the ladder gonna work out there?
Not only are things slick,
things are uneven, but we do what we must.
That's just a matter of trying to pay close attention
for the most part we're on our own.
Level damn ground.
And if I'm all by my lonesome and
something goes awry nobody's gonna be within earshot,
especially when you're working by yourself,
as we know, one mistake and that's it.
Game over.
Come on.
You pinned bastard.
Come on.
Well hell.
No matter how safe you are out here things can come apart
in a hurry but... Stay.
Nobody got hurt, keep on pushing forward.
Well, we got one up.
Now let's see if we can go for the big number two.
All right, so I've got it angled down a little bit here,
isn't much of a pitch so I don't know how well it's gonna do with
snow load honestly but,
guess he'll just have to weather the storm and see.
Living in symbiosis out here is key,
you know, we've got access to a lot of small trees and line,
you really gotta have the whole mindset of seeing what
nature gives you and making the best used of it.
Otherwise, you're, you're fighting an uphill battle.
Pretty well secured.
This is where it's gonna get tricky,
I don't know how much farther I'm actually gonna be able to
manage it doing it one handed.
Well two handed instead of four.
So, my next, big hurdle is going to be,
getting it upright, I'm thinking probably right here.
I got a nice little hole here and I might be able to use this
as a back stop so that I can pull tension against it this way.
Yeah, I think that's gonna work out good.
Now I'm gonna bring the,
other cross members down nice and low here,
I might even have to go a little bit lower just so that,
there's enough of a slope that will shed water.
And this is why it's a two-man adventure.
Stay, stay, stay, damn it.
This thing is my idea of working smarter, not harder.
When I get up and see a sheet of ice on
the dog's bowl of water out here...
Winter is just around the corner.
I want to get this done, 'cause I'm out of time now.
I thought I was gonna be able to carry those boards up,
but they're pretty heavy.
This is what I have it here for, to do my heavy lifting.
I don't know if this is going to work, rocky,
but we're gonna try it.
What the hell?
Getting a little precarious here.
Whoa.
Don't go that way.
Crap.
Ooh.
Whoa.
I think I can let it down safely.
Okay.
That was much easier than packing 'em up.
I see ducks over on the other side, over there.
Hey guys, coming over.
Breanna, right there, right there.
Curly, what's that guy?
- He's too far. - Okay, gotcha.
You're definitely not concealed enough here though.
No, I can see that.
They want to come here and then they see us,
and they veer off.
Exactly.
Need to build a blind out here.
Yeah, really not a bad idea.
Well, I think we should wrap this up and,
we'll move over to that other point.
There we go.
Sweet.
There's a lot of factors that with duck hunting
especially the tides, knowing where to set up a blind.
It's all about the strategy of stalking something and so,
we're learning all of that with curly.
The blind, it gives you the upper hand.
Eagles and a rainbow.
Hey, right there, right there, right there.
Ducks.
Good eye, man. Good eye.
You want to get 'em, Breanna?
Get ready.
Try to get them both.
Junior, tsch, tsch, tsch.
Get 'em.
Junior, junior, junior.
Shoot 'em, bre.
- Shoot Breanna shoot. - Shoot 'em Breanna.
- Breanna shoot. - Breanna shoot 'em.
Breanna shoot. Breanna shoot!
Tried. I was really close.
I got the beat on it.
That was cool.
With duck hunting, it's a lot about timing and
when you take that shot.
And so, that's something I have to work on,
and curly's been teaching me some pointers on that.
Move on to the next spot, I guess.
We're losing light.
Thank you, Carl.
I'm going to remove the rest of this material from this
slot here to support the bottom of the rudder.
Little bit of a rough edge there.
I like it.
Let me go see if it slips onto the rudder.
Okay.
Is your grinder gonna work good to clean it up?
Yeah, yeah, I can do that.
I'm gonna actually, I'm gonna do that right now.
Yeah, clean it up really good.
I'm gonna work on the back side of this a little bit.
- Okay. - The top of it is good.
But on the leading edge it's a little bit tight.
If we don't get this work done lickety split
we're gonna be, basically standing here underwater.
We're kinda getting close, but,
when that tide starts to be marching back in,
we better be done with this job 'cause it's gonna be flat out dark and,
I just got two little holes to finish off here and this
thing will I think be ready to install so,
this brass is soft, and it likes to grab the drill bit so
I'm having a hard time finishing my holes off.
No!
Dang!
Weak drill press, soft shite.
Yeah, this battery's malfunctioning.
Yeah.
It doesn't want to charge anymore.
Yeah, well I'm having a problem with this sticky drill bit here.
- Okay. - Keeps stopping on me.
Impeding my progress.
You mother of Pearl.
Hanging up, causing me nothing but grief.
- It's too hungry? - A little too hungry.
There we go.
- Got through it. - Very close now.
I'm drilling these holes a full size over in case
my line up isn't perfect here.
It doesn't have to be machine perfectly true put it that way.
Matt's a busy guy.
I don't get as many chances as I should to rub elbows with him
and hang out.
I don't mind helping him one bit.
It's gonna be a little tight Matt.
It's okay, it's not that tight.
Tap on that a little bit.
Hey that thing fits like a glove, man.
- Yeah, good job. - Just be gentle.
Seeing how my dad's running this operation,
it just makes me confident that he's a mad man and
he's definitely the person that we need for this job.
Go ahead.
Perfect.
Okay, yeah, that's good.
There you go.
This is it, we're pretty much done, all we gotta do is just.
Why don't you go up there and spin it around one way and
then go over the other way and I'll just look at it.
We're done.
Which is like Halle-fracken-julah.
So, this was a job definitely for my dad,
he can make things happen with limited resources.
The stub shaft was fabricated perfectly,
he did a excellent job, it's gonna greatly improve
the stability of my rudder.
I'm really happy to see it in place.
It actually, it feels easier, feels smoother.
Yeah, there was a, quite a bit of resistance with that
thing butting into the steel down there.
- It's not perfectly true. - How'd it look?
Looked pretty good, it's not perfect but,
it'll definitely keep it in place if you get slam...
You're up there.
It'll definitely keep it in place if you get slammed.
Well, hey man.
That's, I mean that's better than what it was before so.
I am pleased with our, our progress.
It'll definitely keep him,
keep him rolling for, a while.
Feels good.
May, maybe a little fishing tomorrow or something?
Yeah, see how it, how it steers.
There goes some ducks across the water there.
Yeah, they're gonna be on this end here for sure.
Well, there seems to be some bird action,
should we just get this blind set up... Yeah.
And see what happens here in a few?
Post up.
There you go, hard.
And then we can just take our, take like room there and maybe
put something up like a brace right up here underneath that.
Gotcha.
All right, that's lashed pretty good.
All right.
- Did a little stress test. - Yeah, absolutely.
This thing spins on a frickin' dime.
It's almost like it goes...
Well excellent, man.
- Yeah. - Looks good.
Clean as a whistle.
Thank you for the help on that rudder post.
That's not something I could have handled on my own at all.
That's my forte.
Let's go find a place we might be able to catch a fish.
Yeah.
I don't think carpentry was my calling.
Come on, nail.
I'm going to go back to baking cookies, man.
Now I'm gonna try screws instead of nails over here.
Please work, please work, please work.
I did it rox!
Hell, I could live in something like this.
Yeah.
I have lived in something like this before.
It don't have to be fancy,
now if we see ducks we can literally duck under there.
Yeah.
Now if we could just see a duck, I think we'd be all set.
That's a feeling of success.
Yes, roxy!
Board down.
Yeah, that looks good.
You would go here.
That tightened that right up.
Just like downtown, look at that.
That looks good to me.
It ain't perfect, but my gaps are gone,
and the boards ain't loose.
It's all sturdy.
Mother nature is constantly trying to take back
what you've taken from her.
If I didn't take care of stuff around here,
it'd be a couple years and this whole place would be overgrown.
You know, the wood would be rotting,
it's just constant maintenance.
Now rox, all we gotta do is put a rail on there
and we're good.
Here, ducky, ducky, ducky, ducky, ducky.
No ducks.
There's a load of them right over there.
Is there? Just outta range.
Yeah, it's, or probably some teal.
You know, it's cool to hang out with curly,
he's got a whole different style of hunting and a whole different style
about going in a lot of different things than I do.
I'm very kind of, you know... Bah!
And he's kind of a more, you know...
And so, I think that's kind of a ying and Yang thing
that maybe we can actually use together and kind of,
you know, learn a thing or two from a thing or two,
from that guy.
Here comes some more geese, curly.
Is that a whole bunch of more geese coming in over there?
See the little crane flying over the water.
Yeah.
Here they come around the corner.
Take cover.
They're coming this way.
Circle back our way, come on.
Wait. Wait till they're here.
They are, they're right on the water.
Well, this is, about as far as I got so far.
Yeah. Heck of a start.
Thank you.
Definitely made some progress, hey?
For sure.
We got eight more Poles here,
I'd really like to get them in place while I got you here to
give me a hand, we'll use them for the,
rafters so to speak in between then we can worry about getting
them lashed into place.
Cool, sounds like a plan.
Top ends up there.
These Poles are gonna work out as rafters and that's gonna be
what's gonna hold up the tarp.
You know, that's just barely but it'll do.
The days are awful short right now,
I'm really glad that Troy's got a couple hours he can lend a
hand with 'cause, some of this I'm definitely gonna need
more than just my paws to get it done.
So much joy I don't know where to begin.
I guess I'll have to begin from the ladder over there.
Trying to find a spot for a ladder around here you know how that game goes.
Gotta build a flat ground.
Yeah.
In case you were wondering how secure I feel on
the end of this thing, that would be not.
Nice soft, damp ground.
Everything is just slicker than goose snot.
Finally getting away from the post office,
this is so awesome, I'm so,
impressed with squibb once again,
he is able to make this work with the materials he was able
to find over there so pretty impressive that guy is,
has some talents for sure.
Get this one lifted into place and,
should be good.
Let's, try to just get it up here on the,
on the round.
Going up.
Wrong side.
Just kick it over so it's not riding on top of that.
There we go.
All right, that's good it'll stay.
Hopefully she'll suit the purpose for at least a season
then you can tinker around and get her figured from there.
Well Dave, I can't thank you enough, man,
this is awesome, I'm, I really don't want to leave right now,
I want to keep finishing up but there is a,
a plane on the way, man, I gotta, I have to meet them.
- Duty calls? - Yeah.
I think I like this one.
Yeah that'll work.
I could use the bottom half for the upright support and
it's pretty straight going up there for my handrail and
it's long enough to go down the staircase.
I think it's perfect.
Timber!
Why does this always have to happen?
Guys here we go.
This is... Now.
Out of range.
Wait, that was close.
Man, it was close.
- It was close, yeah. - That was progress.
That was progress.
Yeah, that was a, a heart thumper.
We really thought they're gonna come closer.
Two of the bre, right there, right there.
Too far, too far.
Hey, it's too far.
You gotta wait for it, dude.
Dude.
They're way, way out of range.
They looked closer.
I could've sworn I thought you said get 'em.
Oliver has no Patience, so duck hunting is definitely
something that we're gonna have to work on because that's,
that's all it is, is Patience, waiting for a duck to fly above.
I definitely seem to have a lot more Patience
when it comes to fishing than I do hunting,
it's just kind of getting frustrating not being able to
get our stuff together.
It's quite an art.
It takes a long time to learn, learn how to shoot.
Look at that tide coming in like a river.
Yeah, it is.
That's what I noticed.
Flowing faster than big creek.
Tide is coming in fast.
We're getting flooded out in here dude,
this tide's really rolling in here quick.
It's here man!
Yeah, it's coming in quick.
Good day for a boat ride, Carl?
Hell yeah. Beautiful.
Boat's running good, we're already on the water,
I'm really got my heart set on catching a king salmon so
if we could pull that off, I would be extremely happy.
Nice little rip right here looks kind of fishy.
It's that time of the year.
Yeah, no it looks good.
There we go, got something on.
Yeah.
We might have a fish on the line.
- A little bitty black bass. - Hey, a fish is a fish.
- What do we got? - A little black bass.
A wee little bomber there lad.
Well he might be big enough.
- Is he big enough? - Yeah, I think.
He's big enough to eat, no?
There's a, there's a meal or two in there.
Let's eat him.
Yeah.
We caught a little black bass.
Not the, target species or anything but, it'll do.
Well, I want to go out and catch more.
Fish on!
Ope, you got two, all right, double header.
Double header.
See if we can tangle them up?
Yeah.
Easy now.
That's, that's edible.
These rock fish, that's a nice one.
- Good enough for dinner. - You get one too, Carl?
Yep.
All right, got a double header.
See I just put us right back on the spot.
It's like, bingo, bango.
Sadly, enough I'm pretty busy quite a bit and I don't get
to hang out with my dad very much.
So, it's really nice to actually get out and just spend some time
when we're not struggling on a project.
It's all really good.
Look at that.
What's that?
Fish on!
Is it a real fish?
It feels like it, it feels like a fish.
Tighten up your drag a bit, dad.
- I am. - Not too tight.
- No it's a fish. - Okay.
- An actual fish. - Nice.
Hell yeah.
- Come on bubba. - Woo. Stay tight.
Tighten it up.
Sorry, I'm a charter fisherman.
That's okay.
- -A boys. - Fish on!
Crazy.
Really comes in fast in these flats.
Done got ran outta here.
Done got ran out.
Yeah let's get out of here.
Yeah dude, man.
Higher ground, higher ground.
- What do you guys think? - I don't know, man.
Where we were just sitting, it's already ankle deep.
I know that curly likes to hunt on a high tide but I didn't know
that this is kind of the high tide he was talking about.
I'm thinking that we're gonna get stuck out here with
a bigger high tide than we were expecting.
I don't know if we can get over there even.
That slough is running up through there.
It is getting full.
We stopped for a couple minutes to look around and
see where we're gonna go next and you got water coming around your ankles.
This is a really big tide, you know,
some of the biggest of the year.
Yeah, man, it sucks.
We better get out of here while we can because
we might get trapped out here.
Well, I'm bummed out kind of,
I was hoping to be able to hang out and get a bird and
learn a little bit more from you.
- Well, me too. - We gotta go though.
This kind of put the kibosh to it.
Even though we didn't get any birds, you know, I think it wasn't,
a waste of time because we got Breanna and Oliver out there
to see what it's all about.
I'm teaching the new generation,
passing my knowledge on.
If you don't teach 'em they ain't gonna know and
that's kind of what keeps this village going.
Danger, go on, get out of there.
Come out of there.
Damn it!
Woo!
Woo, glad it was a little tree.
That'll be my handrail going down.
Timber!
Get all these little twigs off so you don't hit your hand
and catch your clothes on it.
Every staircase needs a rail, period.
But I need one especially.
'Cause I'm hauling stuff up here that is super heavy,
it's super slick.
Just to make my life a little easier.
And always safer.
Ho, ho, look at that.
Let's get out the heavy artillery roxy.
Simple but effective.
And there's so much cool wood and driftwood around here to
make stuff and it even looks good.
I'm ready for winter, mother nature!
Bring it!
You ain't knockin' me on my can!
Wearing a lot of hats out here you definitely
gotta figure out ways to do stuff by yourself.
You really do have to be a creative thinker often times
just to get the problem solved.
And yourself kept intact while you're trying to get there.
Not bad for some very rustic rudimentary construction.
Yep, I think he's gonna be pretty pleased with this.
A little stacky, stacky and, bingo, dry firewood.
There we go.
Fish on! Maybe?
Hell yeah!
- Yep, yep, yep, yep. - Woo, yeah.
- The blue and the silver. - That's the one.
He's, he's flashing out, out there on the surface.
God, keep that pole tip up, holy.
- Is that a keeper? - I think so.
You got a tape measure laying around?
Awesome, yee-haw.
- Come on, Matt. - Don't be shy.
He spit the hook.
- You got the tape? - Sitting right here.
- Look at that. - Nice and soft.
He's 28 man.
Yeah, no he's past 28, he's all the way to the end.
He's like 30.
Hell yeah.
All right. That's a keeper.
We got what we came here for.
Finally!
Beautiful.
That's a successful day.
That's nice that's the very first king salmon
I've ever caught on this boat and, you know,
all that grid work paid off, I'm really happy.
Dandy.
Ready for cooking.
I learned a lot from curly,
it was a lot of fun hanging out with the old timer.
And also, you know, we got a little closer and
became a little bit tighter friends.
We all try our best out here but it's ultimately man versus nature
and sometimes nature will just shove you right back to
the woods and make you get out of there.
It's a lot of extra work out here and a lot of it's manual labor
but I chose this lifestyle for a reason 'cause
I've always loved it and I'd like to live the rest of my years this way.
We're all pretty independently minded out here,
but nobody makes it out here alone.
If, Troy keeps his eyes and ears open and decides
to hang out for the long term hopefully he'll be able to pass
some knowledge on for the next chinchaco that decides to try to
drop anchor here on the island.
I'd say that's about done if you guys are hungry.
I'd say I'm hungry.
All right.
Today has been a fantastic day,
it's really easy to get completely overwhelmed with
tasks out here but sometimes you just gotta stop,
drop a fishing hook in the water and take your dad on a cruise.