Boy. Boy. Boy.
Three minutes!
Fire in hell, damn.
It's like trying to work in a paint shaker
when it's like this.
It's my least favorite set of the opening,
is the first set. I hate it.
- Why? - Net's dry,
you gotta try and remember how far away from everybody you are.
Yeah.
The guessing game here,
starting out, it's kind of a crap shoot.
Long as the dog doesn't start puking, we're fine.
He gets seasick.
One minute! It's okay.
I know there's a lot going on right now. You are fine.
Really wanna catch right away.
Go time.
And go start setting.
Now, it's no minutes! And now, we're fishing.
Just like that.
Gotta watch your feet when you're doing this,
so you don't step through the leads
and set yourself overboard.
Port protection, it's always been a fishing town.
There's a lot of us that do it still.
You got three months to make your whole year's income.
Do it while you can.
No, get down. Get down.
This year, our starting price for salmon
is higher than it has been in quite a few years.
Right now, sockeye is roughly two dollars a pound.
This year, being in the new house,
we got a lot more projects, so I'm hoping for
a good head start on being able to afford that.
Steering and setting?
- Well, I offered help. - You said no.
No, I know.
What I do want you to do though is kind of pay attention
to how I'm steering, what my lineup is,
- yeah. - And get used to the idea
- of you doing it. - Okay.
'Cause you used to set with the power roller.
Yeah.
Morgan's been working at the store
here in port protection for the last year.
This is her first summer back fishing,
and it is awesome to have her back on the boat,
but she's just now getting back in the swing of things.
I've never had a year off!
Never! I want one so bad!
- Fishing is very brutal. - It's hard on the body.
I'm gonna start taking a little bit more responsibilities
by driving the boat and running the hydraulics
and making sure that I'm learning things
for the next fishing season.
Bada bing bada boom.
We live in a place that's not for the meek at heart.
Nature can be brutal out here.
It's not just the timepiece
that rules your daily activities.
It's the weather, it's the tides,
it's dancing to the tune of natural law.
- Hey, squibby! - Hi, good morning, Terri.
Wow.
Really good night or a really bad morning?
Well... Busted.
I'm trying to figure out
some erosion that I got going on.
- I'm losing real estate. - Right, yup.
Out here, we have serious downpours,
and you add a bunch of wind and tide action on top of that,
it can move some earth.
And sometimes, it moves earth you don't want moved.
What's going on?
- Hey, curly. - Curly!
How goes it?
I got some problems going on here.
There was the hemlock that fell down
in the back there. I think I could get, like,
a whole winter's worth of firewood out of this.
She's got a monster hemlock
that stuck itself up about 12 feet above the creek bed,
so it's... it's not in the most opportune place,
but it's just a matter of getting it cut down
to the point where it actually does sit on the ground.
I mean, I got faith in curly,
but even the best man behind a saw blade there
can get pinched in this kind of situation.
What needs to be done is
these limbs be taken off here.
Then curly can figure out where the best place
to lob off a chunk is and start working at it.
- Alrighty. - Fire up the saws.
Woo-hoo!
It's very dangerous to go back there and start working on that
'cause it's just a mess,
but it's so much firewood that it's worth it.
Okey-dokey. Here goes!
I'm just gonna whack it a little bit.
I don't always ask people for help around here,
but I'm by myself, and,
fortunately, I live in a community
where people don't mind giving you a hand.
Heads up.
Down on this side, that thing is...
- It's a long ways down. - 12, 15 feet down.
Jeez.
- I'm gonna have to stand up... - Right there.
Here and reach over and cut it.
This is actually a danger tree.
Not just anybody can get them down on the ground.
This one's kinda sticking up in the air
probably 10, 12 feet.
We're just gonna have to buck it down the hill there,
and it's not gonna be very safe.
That smells terrible.
I mean, like, bad!
Okay, I don't know if I should tackle the hard thing
or the easy thing first.
Let's see what I can do with these Crescent wrenches here.
Ooh.
Well, it moved. That's a good sign.
What I'm building today is gonna be kind of
a floating-covered wagon. A little hunting camp
that I can tow around with my skiff.
It's gonna have kind of a round roof,
some crude tarps over it.
We'll hopefully get a little heater installed in there,
and it'll be a nice little place to hang out.
So, if I can actually wake up out in the woods and hunt
right there that morning,
then I can have a more successful day I feel like.
Whoa! Think that bolt's out.
That was easy.
This is gonna be nice. We'll be able to throw all the gear,
dogs will be able to have a place to sleep,
take our wet clothes off from hunting,
hang it up to dry, warm up, make a little bit of grub,
and keep hunting instead of coming home
and getting tired and lazy and stuck to your couch.
This feels like a spider haven.
It stinks so... it's just like a bunch...!
Nasty, nasty, nasty!
This is definitely gonna be kinda just
a throw-it-together project.
Tarp it over and just make a real crude structure.
Nice! Just like that.
Just lay that forward. Alright.
Noice.
It moved!
Gonna rig up this little boat here to rip off the beach,
so I can kind of, be more localized
to my power, my tools.
We'll see. It's a heavy boat.
This community was founded on commercial fishing.
There are definitely native cultures here
that base their entire lives around the ocean.
And it's just the power this place has.
Yeah.
Okay.
I might have to get all the way up there...
And have fun.
You might end up at the very tippy top of your mast up there.
I'm gonna go as high up as I can,
try to check out those Poles.
Okay.
Since I was a little, little boy,
I knew that I was gonna be a fisherman when I grew up.
So, I purchased this boat, and it's had a lot of life,
but I need to attempt to breathe some new life into her.
I made a huge investment with this boat
and all the equipment.
I pretty much sank everything I had into this boat.
I put a lot of effort into this and I need it to pay me back.
Yeah, those are.
Very much seized in place.
Just not quite the way I want it.
This is the first time I will be captaining
an actual commercial vessel,
and I could make some real money.
Want me to show you what's going on here?
I'd have to jump up out here,
get a hold of this line,
wiggle it back and forth, and lock a bolt in place.
And it's not something
that I can comfortably do by myself.
And there's nothing to stop the pole
other than the line and the rigging from completely dropping
right into the ocean,
and it's just not something that can happen.
Yeah, well we'll fix all that, hopefully.
Yeah, so... The main job we're gonna be doing
is there's a set of Poles
that actually keep your main rigging rigid
when you're fishing.
There's an existing set on the boat right now,
but they're really hard to operate,
and we're gonna take them off,
and we're gonna replace them with a set of grasshopper legs.
Basically, we're gonna telescope out
and fold back up.
I got a shackle up here that's seized real tight.
I wonder if a pipe would fit
on the end of that son of a bitch.
I'm gonna try to find a cheater.
Man, I wish I had a little bit more oomph today.
I feel flimsy.
Okay.
My boat was built in 1949.
It's made out of wood, and it's rugged.
It's not gonna win any beauty pageants,
but it's a good boat. I'm gonna do everything I can
to make sure this boat operates correctly.
The last thing I wanna do is fail at this endeavor.
Whoa!
Okay!
Longer ladder, more power.
That's how far I'm going up the mast.
By god, you got it. The cheater did the job?
Yeah!
If these grasshoppers fit together,
that basically saves me thousands and thousands
and thousands of dollars plus materials
to get these things welded up,
so I'm really hoping this works.
We're gonna pick the pole up.
And match it up with the collar
and hook that grasshopper in place.
Okay. One, two, three.
- Okay, I'm gonna call that good for it. - Alright.
- Alright, hold right there. - Okay, let me tie it off.
There we go!
I think that looks pretty good.
Yeah, that was pretty slick.
It's kind of interesting
everything's kinda come full circle now.
The child is now occupying the space
that the father used to occupy.
- Let's see here. - It's kind of a kick in the pants
to be able to hang out with him.
Real proud of the fact that he can think on his feet.
He'll do something, and I'll go,
"where'd you learn how to do that?"
It's something I would do, so... Alright, dad!
Guess I'll get those Poles back up.
I'm gonna see if you can do it by yourself.
Whoa, whoa!
Once the net's in the water,
we just kinda patrol, run up and down, look for fish,
see if there's anything in there.
And I see nothing yet, so...
Just a couple more inches.
You're so close!
Okay. I didn't think we'd actually make that much progress
with this little come-along, but worked pretty well.
On to the next step of this project.
I wanna get this off of here,
so there's no chance of anything rolling on me.
It's looking pretty clear back here now.
It's probably gonna have to be cut a couple of times.
I hope everybody goes home
with four limbs and 10 fingers.
Look at that.
Is it actually articulating correctly?
- Everything looks good. - Are you sure?
Grasshopper is sticking out beyond the pole.
I haven't even
I can't even see that. No, that's wrong.
It needs to come down shorter,
which is unfortunate.
We're just gonna go over to the keeper pile here
and make a quick little run for supplies.
This is the dock where I store everything that I know
that I'll use in the future.
Stuff that's just too good to throw away,
and then a lot of stuff that I should just throw away
because... anyway, yeah. You should... you'll see.
It's a lot of stuff.
My plan now is to go gather supplies
to start building the whole roof structure over this thing.
Being around these parts,
it's definitely kind of essential skill to have.
Hoo!
Look at a pile of junk basically
and assemble something usable out of it.
La, la, la, la. This is a death float
'cause every time I walk on it, I feel like I'm gonna die.
Dang it.
Okay. This seems manageable.
I'm gonna build basically the cover over here,
kind of looking like a rib cage,
out of some old water pipe that I've scrounged around,
and hopefully this'll be a nice little home away from home
and be a dry little area that we can come back to.
Just sleeping in and eating in and hunting.
- This is looking pretty good. - Yeah.
Not that I did a single thing to help it.
You're the good luck.
You sure it's not the dog?
- It might be the dog. - Yeah?
There's a saying that if you want to own a boat,
just start taking money out of your wallet and burn it.
Clear!
Boat fuel right now is pretty expensive,
and we wanna make sure that we're out there catching
as much fish as we can, so that we're able
to not only break even, but be able to afford
other things as well.
See how dirty we can get.
Hoping maybe there's something down there that we can't see.
Something coming.
- Down deep. - Yay, jellyfish.
- That's a nice one. - God, that's huge!
Ooh!
No.
This is just...!
Ooh! God, I hate jellyfish.
I hate jellyfish, I hate jellyfish, I hate jellyfish.
Think I got something on my lip.
- I wiped my arm on my t-shirt... - No.
Ew.
My face is getting hotter.
Jellyfish are awful.
They sting, and they burn, and they get everywhere.
Anytime water hits you coming off the net,
just assume it has jellyfish in it, and it's gonna hurt.
I wasn't...
Ready for this, this early in the season.
Bottom of the chin.
It gets in your eyes, goes up your nose.
God forbid you forget to wash your hands and go pee.
It sucks.
You know, if we made money by catching jellyfish,
we'd be rich by now.
Well, this was a poorly-executed set.
- Ooh! - Dude, this is bad.
This is bad! We made a terrible error!
This is a giant hemlock.
This is the heaviest wood that grows here.
You got a three, four-foot round
that's only 18 inches long
that's still 350 pounds.
You don't want that landing on your foot.
Jeez!
Woo-hoo!
Gonna be a lot of hemlock, Terri.
I know!
I'm in a bad spot.
I'm a pretty adventurous soul,
but I'm glad curly's taking the reins on this one, man,
'cause it's a bit of a nail biter.
I got a very limited spot to stand on.
I mean, it's like I hope things don't get to shaking.
Whoa!
Let's see. I might need a wedge.
A wedge! Okay. We need a wedge.
Whole lot of popping going on here.
- She pinch you? - This might.
Watch out, kid.
One steel wedgie.
Hopefully, this thing's not so blunt
- that I can't get it in. - Right.
Just watch that thing there,
- that it don't roll down on you. - Yeah.
- Crap. - I'm certain that's where it went.
Okay. I see it. It's over here.
- Thank you. - Alright, hold on.
It's gonna take me a minute to crawl out of this bastard.
Thank you.
Thing's loose.
Well, it's precarious to say the least.
It kinda freaks me out.
There's so much weight, and sometimes,
the trees roll one way or the other.
Want me to hold it while you tap?
Let's see what I can do here.
- No, junior, come on, get back. - Go on, come on.
Hey!
- Whoa! Look at that! - Damn wedge went back down the same way.
Crapsicles.
That wood looks absolutely wonderful.
I was wondering
if it was gonna be rotten in the center...
- Yeah. - Bone-dry.
- Yay! - Bone-dry hemlock.
My hat's off to curly. He's got some clanking
underneath him there because this is some dangerous stuff.
- See what I can do here. - Alright, curly.
We got the big moment of glory.
Okay.
This is what we've been waiting for.
The big cut. The curly cut.
I think I'm gonna do this kind of winch
this thing up out of the water a little bit, so that way,
I can kind of have a nice little stable platform to work on.
Got a lot of tension on it.
Sweet! My plan here to build the roof is pretty simple.
Clear this stuff off.
Whoa!
I'm just gonna put two cap rails down the sides
and drill holes in them every two feet,
and then stretch a piece of water line
from one side to the other,
and then just stretch one more down the center there
and kinda give myself a nice little structure
I can strap a tarp around.
Start drilling some holes.
Let's see how this works!
My plan is that I'm gonna have these different sizes beams.
This is where we're gonna be sleeping.
We don't need it really tall up here,
and as we go back, we're gonna have it get taller
for kind of the living area.
Sweet.
That kinda works!
Definitely needs a screw.
Well, it grabbed it.
Alright.
Bam! The second piece to our covered wagon. Nice.
It's a little bit wicky and wonky, but it's working.
I think that's right on the money!
I think that's it right there! I can walk under it!
This kind of crude cabin,
they definitely don't have to be exact. That's a fact.
I'm hoping to do a little bit more hunting
away from town or the road,
and that's gonna make that a lot more possible.
Bam! Bada bing bada boom.
Alright, on to the next part. Put a bunk in.
We gotta get kind of a heat source in here,
and we also gotta put a roof on at some point.
This is bad.
It's not good.
We got a fish! Yay.
Yay. That's a dog.
Little dog. Hey, another fish!
- Ooh. - This is terrible.
Okay, well.
There's a few fish here kind of dribbling in,
but I think we'll go try something else.
Go check my old trusty spot.
God, why is there so much jellyfish?
'Cause god hates us.
Okay. I'm gonna clean the jellyfish.
Yup, do that.
It's the worst feeling when you're out there.
All this experience and things that you should know,
and you put the net in the wrong spot.
You feel kind of like a failure.
Try to find a spot
that lines up with where I wanna be.
Where the rip's gonna be, and there's no other boats.
Can definitely live with this. Okay!
Good?
Right now, hopefully
we see a lot of sockeye 'cause that is our money fish,
and that's what's supposed to be running
en mass this time of year.
There's definitely an urgency here.
If we don't catch anything, we're in trouble.
Always room for improvement.
Hopefully, some more fish push back here.
So, I need.
I need it to be, like, there.
The season opener, it's already begun,
and if I don't have this boat tuned to where I like it,
I'm not gonna be nearly as effective as I wanna be
out there catching fish.
You wanna UN-cleat it,
and we'll just let it down from right here and see?
See what happens.
Give her a little push.
I'm getting to know this boat pretty good,
and our personalities seem to mesh pretty well.
She's got some goofy stuff going on,
I got some goofy stuff going on,
and I think we're gonna have a good working relationship.
So, that's...
Alright, let's just leave it right there for a second.
- I think that's not bad. - I like that.
- Should we get the other side on? - Yeah.
Want me to help you move that barrel, dad?
I can do it.
There we go.
Okay, this thing here's doing something.
It's actually doing its job.
Alright, I'm losing a line here.
Here you go.
We're on.
Yeah. See, that's not even long enough.
- What? - Yeah.
So, this line is so short
that when the pole is extended all the way down
with whatever slack this belly has,
it went all the way up into the block,
- which is not what you want. - No.
Holy crap, that's your main one!
I took everything that I had in my bank,
and I threw it at this boat,
so I'd really like it to be as operational as possible.
This is equally exhilarating
and somewhat frightening at the same time.
But, you gotta go all the way up there? Yeah, I gotta go
I gotta disconnect from the hard point.
Whoa, whoa.
No!
Well, I got this handy-dandy ruler right here
'cause it's about the same height as me,
so I can kind of judge where I'm gonna start making this bed at.
So, I might have to put the bunk a little bit more forward,
and if I were to do it there,
that would give us an extra foot.
Two inches.
What a kawinkydink.
I just happen to have some two-inch width boards.
This camp here is basically gonna be
just a real "roughing it" pad.
You're just gonna be laying on a real crude bed,
you're gonna have a real crude camp stove,
you're gonna have a real crude heater in there.
Bam. Nice.
But I didn't spend any money on it.
As long as it gives me a place to stay
that'll keep me dry and warm,
this is home sweet home. I'm digging it.
Sweet!
How are these gonna lay?
Ho...
Pretty perfect.
Aw, sweet. I'm digging it, man!
Alright, sweet. There's a bunk. Nice.
Get up here, pillow right there.
Yeah. I can sleep like this for days.
Days and days and days.
A little heater back there.
Now, all I gotta do is get this all tacked down
and get this roof on.
I definitely can see I gotta clean some stuff up.
I got wires hanging,
old tape, and stuff.
"Yar! There's a riggin' be loose!"
Ardy-ar! Ardy-ardy-ar-ar!
I got a soft spot for pirates. I was raised by pirates.
Where's it at?
Right here. I can really throw it. My arm's caught.
Okay, let her go.
Look at that.
Hole in one.
It's not perfect, but it's not bad either.
It could be worse.
Ardy-ardy-ar-ar!
This is gonna be the end. That's gonna be the working end. Yeah.
It's just coming off that spool funny, that's all.
Okay, well... The cables that I'm replacing
are really important. They're like the guide wires
on a telephone pole or something like that.
It's what keeps the mast from collapsing
from one side to the other.
Okay!
That is done.
Whoa!
Alright, you ready to stand this back up?
- Yes, I am. - Take a look, see how it's...
- Yes, you are. - Yes, we is.
One, two, three.
One, two, three!
And as soon as we get to the good spot there,
we'll tie her off.
Alright, right there.
That's not bad.
Yeah. That's it.
That's exactly what I want right there.
- That was a good day, man. - Absolutely.
Thinking now we have to go give it a torture test.
Hey, let's,
- let's take it for a spin. - Throw the scabies out,
survival suits, the whole nine yards.
I'll have to pay you back in fish.
There you go.
If you could steer while I'm setting, that'd be awesome.
Okay.
And look back at the net
and kinda see how your line's doing, too.
Yeah, this is my first time,
- so I'm not quite... - I know.
- Understanding. - It's easy to over-correct
when you're setting 'cause you're going so slow.
The adjustments take a minute.
I keep doing it slowly, but it's not really...
No, you just wanna keep it straight,
and then just a touch each direction.
You don't wanna turn the wheel more than about
two inches, tops.
Definitely turned that more than two inches.
I've never had a job like this before.
Yeah, we need to come back starboard again.
Okay!
We're just wandering here too much.
Way more starboard.
Right there! That's perfect.
Nice.
That's good westerly blowing in,
true westerly. The wind pushes fish, too,
not just the tide,
so right now, perfect fishing weather.
When I lived in town,
I worked 4 jobs at a time every single day, and it was brutal.
Fishing is brutal, and it's hard work,
but the whole of summer straight is my office.
We get to wake up in the morning to the sunrise,
go to bed with the sunset, and it's beautiful.
No matter how much trauma and abuse
you take from fishing, it's just worth it.
Ooh, you're probably having nightmares already.
Yeah. You know,
it's not unusual for me to have some kind of fishing boat dream.
I used to have nightmares of being covered
with long line gear,
buried in a pile of hooks and rope.
I had fishing nightmares.
When I fished Bristol bay,
I'd have this recurring nightmare.
I'd go to bed, and as soon as I fell asleep,
I'd start picking this fish,
and I could not get it out of the net.
Boat was hung up and trying to flop over
or something was going on.
I actually slept-walk.
I walked all the way down my stairs in my house.
And I'd lay there all night,
trying to get this fish out of the net,
and I just couldn't do it.
I woke up looking out the window of my house.
When I finally woke up, I went, "holy crap!
Thank god I'm on dry land."
I'd wake up in the morning,
and my hands would just be seized into claws.
All sweaty like, "god! I gotta go pick fish again!"
I'd just be tangled up in my sleeping bag,
in between sets.
PTSD.
Yeah, I had fishing nightmares.
Not really anymore though.
- It's gonna get interesting. - Yeah.
Whoa... It's a pretty hairy little situation.
The hemlock's actually sitting on a stump on the top,
and it's got a tree that it's resting on on the side,
and then it's hanging over 30 feet of creek.
Curly, he's sitting up on a little tiny knoll,
running a chainsaw the length of his arm,
trying not to get the bar pinched.
Knock on wood, hopefully it doesn't knock back.
It's going.
Holy cow.
Awesome!
- And you're still standing! - Good job, curl.
Yeah, you're still standing!
I'll go retrieve the saw.
Wow.
Bet that got the old ticker pumping.
This thing is huge, and curly's still standing!
He didn't even flinch! He didn't move! He's like Zeus!
- Nicely done. - There it is.
- She's on the ground. - This is beautiful!
What do you figure, this is about two cords of firewood?
Just over two cord, I'm pretty sure.
This thing will split pretty nice, too.
It's wonderful.
I've known Terri for about 25 years,
and it makes me happy that I was able to help her out.
Well, my job's done.
Yippy yahooey!
Alrighty.
We got some tarps here.
We're gonna try to cover this structure.
So far so good.
Starting to come together!
Starting to come together.
Strap it down tight and hope for the best.
Feel like this is pretty sweet little pad.
It's not very pretty, but it's definitely pretty functional.
Me and Breanna, we both enjoy
camping and recreationally, and so having this thing,
this floating rv basically,
it'll be kind of nice to add
to our little adventures that we do.
Alright! I think this about wraps it up.
Time for a little bit of interior decorating, I think.
In we go.
A little bit of bedding in here.
Ba-boom! Slap that down like that.
Spread these blankets out.
Definitely big enough for two people and a dog or two.
I think it's gonna be a nice little pad, yeah.
Little spot you can kind of store your gear up under here.
Little bags of clothes and everything.
It'll be nice and camo-ed and nice and covered, too.
I think it's kinda set up and ready to rock.
I think it's ready to go, take it for a test tow.
Been a long time coming. I've had this idea for a minute,
and I'm excited to have finally done it.
Hopefully this works.
Let's drop these Poles and see how everything works!
Ay, ay, mate!
Got it?
Holy mother of Pearl!
It's pretty sweet.
Looks good.
Everything looks good so far. I'm gonna snap them down,
and hopefully, this will snap right in place. Nice.
Easy-peasy.
This is basically Matt's extended preflight check.
You don't wanna start the beginning of the season
by making it to the fishing grounds
and having something break right off the bat.
Yeah, it really feels good.
I feel a lot more comfortable
about being able to drop these Poles
and bring them back up, having these new grasshoppers.
I'm pretty sure this boat can fish right now
if I wanted it to.
You wanna go drop the anchor somewhere
- and try out those survival suits? - Yeah.
Survival suits are your best chance
of staying alive in 50-degree water.
They are required on every commercial fishing vessel,
and they do fail eventually, so you gotta go through them
and make sure you don't have any leaks
so you don't freeze to death when you're out there
in February, bobbing around like a dead man.
You're supposed to do this in under 90 seconds.
My back isn't that mobile to be able to just
leap into one of these bastards.
Start with both arms?
- Think you won the race, Matt. - Yes!
I am like mister slow.
Okay, now I have a question.
Did I screw up with my hood?
Yep!
It's important that you go through those suits every year,
and I like to stress test them. I like to jump in the water
to make sure they don't have any leaks.
That's an interesting concept.
About the only time I go in the water in southeast
is in a survival suit.
Thanks for dressing.
I feel, invincible.
It's like having your jaw wired shut.
You ready to go in?
- There you go. - Ear is still bent backwards.
Let's see if these puppies work.
Okay.
Okay, here we go!
There's a fish.
Got one! There's another one. Alright.
Something... there's three.
Starting to see a few more fish all of a sudden,
so this might be it.
Might be what we've been waiting for.
Hey!
Stay inside. We gotta pick.
I see a fish!
They're coming.
First fish is a damn humpy.
- Better than a chumpy. - Is it, though?
Sockeye, coho, dogs, kings, obviously.
Those are the biggest things we wanna catch, and then
humpies are kind just you don't make a lot of money off of them,
but they go in your net, so you gotta keep them.
Let you get some practice in.
Yeah? It's been a while since I've done this.
You're doing just fine.
Good job.
We got a few coming.
Ye.
And a sockeye!
- Nice. - It's a good start.
It'd be nice if there was a lot of sockeye.
There's a nice one.
Nice! That's good to see.
Damn, that's big!
That's a 10-pounder.
It's like a $12 fish.
Between the sockeye and the dogs,
just think about every fish is roughly a $10 bill right now.
That one's $10!
There's $20.
And then a humpy is like, "I got you a dollar!
I got you a dollar!"
So far, so good.
Sockeye.
It's just dollar signs coming over the roller.
$10 bills, one after another.
- Almost. - He's a big one! Woo!
Making it rain.
This is day one back for me after a year so.
Kinda like riding a bike though.
- Is it, though? - I don't like riding bikes.
Ho! Landed on my toe.
- Nice pile of sockeye. - That's more than 20 fish.
- Alright. - Not bad.
Something's coming up.
It was a king!
It's huge, babe!
That's a $100 bill.
- That sucks. - Yeah, it does.
- That sucks. - Yep.
- Well. - Yeah, it's...
Yeah, that kinda pisses me off.
I did not see that.
It was a big one.
Yeah, don't tell me that.
I'm telling you.
I'm sharing in the grief of losing it.
So, the term Gill net refers
to the method that we catch the fish, right?
Fish have Gill plates, and you pick your gear size
to kinda target the species you wanna catch. Right now,
our net's geared more towards sockeye, and the meshes
are just big enough that they can poke their head through,
and catches them.
King salmon is the most valuable species
that we can catch, and it was just too big,
and it fell out of the net.
It bums me out.
Keep my eyes open now.
Jellyfish.
- Ew, god! - Yeah.
What's he got to show off?
King salmon.
Nice one!
My dad's also a fisherman, and one thing about my dad
is if he has a good set, he definitely rubs it in.
That's it right there, I swear.
You better catch a king salmon!
I know there's one more.
Ooh!
I got it underneath my eye.
Burns.
God, I hate that!
- I like this rippy water. - It looks good to me.
Hell yeah! Alright.
There's one hanging.
That's a fish, alright. Yeah!
Nice! There's our king salmon! Yeah!
We got a king finally! You said it.
- Hoo! - Nice fat little one.
- Look at that. - Hell yeah!
- Bam. - Nice.
That's funny.
He showed off his first king of the week, and we got one, too.
Okay, that's that.
Pretty good set.
What, 40 money fish?
Hell yeah. Let's get them to the tender
- and go home. - Good job.
Well, I think I'm buoyant.
- Doesn't that feel good? - Just lay back, man.
Doesn't that feel good on your legs?
Like a real tight tiny hose.
I cannot see 'cause my eyes are smashed shut.
There we go.
Spending this time with my dad,
working on the boat has been great.
My dad's having a blast.
He's been probably looking forward
to doing something like this for a while. And now,
he gets to Bob around whenever he wants.
Yeah, no, I got leaks all over.
- Do you? - Yeah, I got one coming in my hand.
Got one right in my crotch.
I'm gonna look like I pissed my pants
when I get out of the water.
So, that suit's not gonna make the cut.
This is a waterbed, man.
Wake me up in about a half an hour.
This is the easiest part.
That is all the fish.
Yeah.
Feels like money. It's very heavy.
- I'm guessing 600. - Yeah.
Feels like a big sack of gold.
Your treasure?
My dad gave me the best piece of advice
that I've ever heard in relation to fishing,
and he said, "son, once you've been a fisherman",
"you're not good for anything else." I mean...
It's true. That's very true.
No, another downhill.
I gotta ride it.
Woo-hoo!
Wow, squibby.
- Thank you. - Yeah. Of course.
Port p is a pretty unique place. We got everything
that anybody else would pay big bucks for.
We have freedom here,
and we help each other out a lot
because we love each.
We don't have no money, but we're rich.
Cross my fingers!
Got it! Hell yeah!
Port protection probably wouldn't exist
if it wasn't for people who had that pioneer attitude,
going out there and just being gung-ho
because if we don't, then this place
might slowly melt back into the woods.
Think I am ready to fish.
This is the first time I will be fishing this boat.
I'm wanna learn
how it works, and I'm gonna fish as hard as I can.
I don't know the history behind the name, but I love it.
Gothic. It's a good, strong name.
Not too pretty. Tough. I like it.
I don't know if it was originally named gothic.
I have a feeling it was not.
It was probably like miss Lucy or something like that,
but this ain't no miss Lucy.
Boat's all ready to go, and I know there's money
swimming around out there in the ocean.
I'm gonna go find it.
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