Jake Anderson Rejoins Sig Hansen On The Northwestern For A NEW Season! | Deadliest Catch
Jake Anderson Rejoins Sig Hansen On The Northwestern For A NEW Season! | Deadliest Catch
What do you mean they won’t let you on the boat?
I don’t know what’s going on.
All right, I’ll be there in a minute.
Mac, a couple weeks ago, I got a call from my partner saying that the Saga is possibly running out of money.
King crabs open and that was going to get us out of the hole easily.
But I had no idea things were this bad.
After 17 years, welcome to hell.
Is that him?
Working his way up from greenhorn on the Northwestern.
I got offered a job to run the Saga.
I think if I turn this opportunity down, I’ll be kicking myself forever.
Welcome to becoming co-owner and captain of the multi-million dollar 107-foot Saga.
Look at that.
What a beautiful thing.
I have all my personal money, my kids’ college funds all wrapped up in there.
Now there’s a chain on the door.
Jake Anderson finds everything he’s worked for in jeopardy.
There’s a repossession though.
What do you mean the door’s changed possession?
Hey, Matt, can I see that paper?
Hey, Lenny, give me a call if you get this.
There’s a repossession notice on the boat, and I don’t understand why, so can you give me a call as soon as possible?
Hi guys.
Hey Luka.
I don’t even have you.
I’m at the boat and the doors are chained shut.
Really?
Can you get a hold of Lenny to try to see what the hell’s going on?
Supposed to go fishing in three days and he’s not answering his phone.
Yeah, of course I will.
I love you.
We’ll see what the hell is going on.
I feel like I’m totally in the dark.
I think it’s going to be a good season.
There he is.
I wasn’t sure if you were going to make it.
Me neither.
Is sanctified by the grace of the Holy Spirit through the sprinkling of the Holy Spirit.
Got it.
You ready?
I was starting to wonder.
Lord have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
Lord have mercy.
Amen.
If you’re ready, I’m ready.
Okay, you can toss them.
Yeah, Roger.
Still looks the same.
Everything was built in the 1970s by the Amish.
I don’t like to change with a small quota, so you want to get in and get out derby style.
Yeah, I know how that works.
Being blessed doesn’t hurt.
All aboard.
It’s coming aboard.
Let’s go.
All clear.
Are you ready?
I’m pretty nervous.
It’s like all that anticipation that’s leading up to this moment.
I just want to be a great captain like my father was.
Three-shot country, baby.
Let’s go.
You ready?
Yeah.
Go ahead and let that strip.
Go ahead, let her go.
Let’s get out of here.
Toss it.
Bat down the hatches.
Time to fish some king crab.
If we can’t find them, everything’s over.
So we have to fish this year like every string is the last string we’re ever going to set.
If we can catch more than everybody else, we can get more quota and keep fishing just like the derby days.
There’s $30 million of crab out there just waiting to be caught.
You got to get out there and be aggressive.
Aboard the Northwestern.
You going to bite the head off this herring or what?
Hang on, I’m going to get you a new guy.
You’re the new guy here.
It’s your turn.
I hate it.
No, I don’t want to.
No, nobody wants to.
I’ve never wanted to.
I always throw up.
You’re holding up my season here, pal.
Are you going to do it?
Come on.
Look, I’ll do it with you.
Is that fine?
Okay, fine.
Come on.
Let’s get this show on the road.
All right, you picture what?
Been about ten years.
You have to do head or guts.
You do head.
I’ll do skulls.
Skull.
Dude, I think I got fish in that one, bro.
Yeah, he’s…
I’ll be upstairs.
I told you this was going to happen.
I did one for the team.
Get him in the water.
Coming over.
This is the farthest south we’ll try out here in the deep gully, and then just keep moving north.
I just want the pots in the water.
King crab 2023.
We waited a long time.
So you got what, 60-mile spread?
Something like that.
Yeah, 50-plus.
That’s a lot of miles, man.
Here it goes.
First day.
We’ll start in the deep and work our way into the shallows.
Finally, we’re fishing red crab again.
Ready?
Do it, boy.
Let it rip.
Let the derby begin.
Jack is back.
King crab is back.
Let’s go fishing in Captain’s Bay.
We’re going to get these pots on.
See, these other boats are all getting ready.
Let’s slap them on as fast as we can.
Roger.
I’ve been striving for this moment my entire life.
Be ready for it.
Me and Harley were on the Barbara J last season, but I want to go king crabbing.
So we upgraded and got the Pacific Mariner.
He cashed in his 401k.
I took my family’s money and we made it happen.
Going $2.3 million into debt, 29-year-old Captain Jack Bunnell and veteran derby skipper Steve Harley-Davidson maneuver their new ride to the starting gate.
The 126-foot Pacific Mariner.
We got this big badass boat, and the more crab we catch, the more quota we get.
But if we don’t catch it, we don’t make any money.
If I don’t produce, I’m out of the chair.
Now capable of handling 60 more pots than the Barbara J and steaming 3.3 knots faster, the young skipper sets his sights on the gear dock before launch in 24 hours.
Yeah.
You got me here a second?
Yeah.
Hey, I’m gonna tie up to the dock here and grab my pots.
All right, we’ll see who gets in there first.
They’re making their turn to get to the dock.
They’re trying to tie up starboard side.
We’re going for it, so we just go straight in.
The pots take the longest, so nobody wants to be half a day late, even six hours late.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on, baby.
Turn.
Got to beat him.
Let’s go.
We got it.
Son of a—
Well, I don’t see the problem.
I mean, the dock was empty.
As far as I know, it’s first come, first serve.
At least it is now.
Well, you kind of me there, Sig.
You’re not first, you’re last.
We got to get these pots on.
Clark, get our buoy setups on these pots once they’re on.
Okay.
Roger.
Double orange, white cork.
You know the drill.
Yep.
Man, it’s all right.
We’ll get over this one.
This is not how we need to start the season.
Yeah.
Northwestern.
Pacific Mariner.
You got me?
Yeah, Northwestern, Pacific Mariner, you got me on 16 there, huh?
They ain’t answering the call there aboard the Pacific Mariner.
So he just loaded his gear and then he comes to see where he’s at.
After losing a race against Sig to the pot dock, we’ve been waiting here like six hours.
I get seven now, dude.
Seven hours.
Yeah.
Captains Jack and Harley champ at the bit to load their gear before the launch of king crab season in just sixteen hours.
Hey, what you doing?
I’m on the way to do a little shopping.
You went to town.
It shouldn’t be too much longer.
Give me an hour, would you?
Another hour, huh?
He cut me off, took the dock.
I just wanted to do this while we’re at this dock and be done.
All right.
No worries.
Take your time, man.
I’ll see you when I see you.
All right, boys.
Crash bags out port side.
Roger.
We’re going to take pots off the Northwestern, load them onto us, and go fishing.
You just get the stern line.
I’ll toss this over.
Pirates at night.
Go get them.
Damn it.
Hold it.
Hold it.
Hold it.
Now go.
That’s it.
Let’s get him on.
We better hurry.
We got crab to catch.
Let’s go.
Roger.
In the back.
Right here.
Whenever one’s closest, I want it to go.
You said what?
Tight over here.
I want another guy up there so it goes quicker.
Just get him on the boat.
We got to hustle.
We’re just going to slam these pots on anyway they come.
We’ll worry about stacking them later.
It’s derby season.
We’re going by derby rules.
I got another idea.
What you doing?
He’s over on his boat.
Wow.
You got some.
Dude.
What the hell?
Look what I got.
What the hell, Jack?
I got six candy bars.
You’re going back to your juvenile delinquent stuff now, dude.
Who’s this other guy?
Is that our pots though?
That is Sig’s here.
Sig’s on the dock.
We got to untie right now.
They’re coming.
Come on.
Load it up.
Yeah.
Did they take the whole tier?
You’re good.
We’re out of here.
Damn it.
Go.
Thanks for the pots.
God, man.
We still need to load the rest of our gear, but we got a string from Sig.
That’s good enough.
Oh, he’s already got the lines off.
Take my spot.
That’s what you get.
Thanks for the pots.
I know you have a long night ahead of you loading more.
Well, that’s a first.
I hired you here as a favor.
Do you?
You’re treading water.
You were sinking at the dock.
What is that?
Somebody.
Oh, there’s a fire up there.
Kill the lights.
The sodium.
Just kill the sodium.
It’s my front lights.
I just need some snippers.
Snippers and tape.
Was it the deck light?
I think it’s the sodium.
It was the sodiums.
All of them going all the way up.
No, that’s it.
All of them.
That whole section of cable was fried.
So we’ve got no lights.
High-pressure sodium lights can illuminate half a mile of the ocean surface.
Without them, locating buoy bags in the dark goes from challenging to damn near impossible.
It’s hard knowing that we won’t have our upper sodiums.
Those things have been up there since 1977.
You know, what do you expect?
Having Jake back is kind of nice though.
He’s really mechanically inclined.
Hopefully we can make this an easy fix.
We need those lights to haul at night.
Hey, nothing but an AT fix on the Northwestern.
I’ve got no sodium, so we’re trying to figure out a way to get some extra light forward.
I’ve got two external small lights on this side of the house and I got an LED on the port side.
You have enough wire with this one.
Take it, turn it.
At least it’ll get us through the night.
This day hasn’t exactly gone the way we were hoping.
Hours after losing their sodium lights, Captain Jake and crew jury-rig less powerful LED beacons in order to pierce the dark and haul their remaining thirty-eight thousand pounds of red king crab before delivery.
Getting close.
Getting close.
You got a battery up here?
We need one more drilled hole.
We’re like right there.
You keep breaking bits.
Battery and a drill bit.
I’ll go get it.
How’s it look, Jake?
Are we getting close?
Anderson, it’s even out there.
I do have crab that can be harvested over there on the Titan.
Well, that is interesting.
I would have to make some calls about transferring it.
Then you’ll be inducting in three days.
We’ve got light for now.
It’s gonna have to do.
There he is.
Thanks for joining us.
We got to figure out what we’re going to do with this fishing.
I think we should keep going right where we’re at.
Try to muddle through with what light we have.
I think it’s getting better up to the north.
It’s still a risk because just because the signs are there, you don’t know.
We have the delivery day coming up.
We need to fish fast.
We need to fish hard.
If we do it right, maybe we get in a day early.
And if we miss, it’s game over.
Okay.
What if the LEDs break?
What if something else breaks and then we have to go in?
I think there’s crab here.
We need to get as much out of each pot as we can.
If you want to take the risk, I go for it.
By the end of the day, you better have a bigger average than what you get right here.
I feel it in my gut.
All right.
Make it happen.
You’re driving.
Get ready to set.
Roger.
And hopefully we landed on something.
I fully believe in this move one hundred percent.
I think a season like this that’s a derby, a move like this has to be done.
Honestly, I have three days to get back to the dock if I want this captain’s job.
And I want that captain’s job.
I want what I lost.
I don’t know how I’m going to tell Sig, especially if it’s not even a sure thing.
So why tell them?
All I have to do is give Titan Explorer my crab and my fate will be sealed.
You guys ready?
Got another mile or so to go on the Northwestern.
This is that northern string we’re coming up on.
This is where Jake made his move farther up the hill.
He took a gamble.
I think it’s going to be good.
You got to look at it like this.
I take risks.
You take naps.
Go ahead.
No, we’ve got the numbers straight.
We had them straight before we left town.
We’re not moving any quota.
Really, Mr. Anderson?
Okay, let me get this straightened out here.
You know who that was?
Who?
It was our co-op manager.
I mean, are you literally trying to move your crab off the boat now this late in the game?
I was merely asking questions.
Nothing’s happened yet, Sig.
There’s a job offer for the Titan Explorer to run the boat as a captain.
Yeah, you leverage the quota that you have here to get a job there.
Bottom line, that’s what you did.
I should be able to ask questions about quota.
It’s mine.
Of course it’s your money.
That’s why you’re here.
So we can catch your quota and be done.
One mile, guys.
Roger.
The waves coming over the bow.
Not ideal.
