But good news is it’s blowing southernly,
so the island will protect us.
It’ll shelter us from those winds,
so we might be all right.
We’ll figure it out.

Let’s just get through the gear.
Born 800 mil Northwest of the Bearing Seas,
Proloff Islands on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula,
a low pressure system sweeps Southeast,
projected to hit the Golden Be, Diey, and Black Cod grounds first.

This Katka storm is coming through hard and heavy,
but thing that there’s still some fishing here we do.
We have to make a delivery.
If we can find something, a strip,
and you can get in some 30–40s or better, it’ll add up real fast.

Captain Sig Hansen, alongside co-captain and daughter Mandy,
returns to 120 p set in a 64-fathom trench on the Northern Bey grounds.
All right, come on [Music].
Now it’s just warming up [Music].
We want to see twice that.
Come on, baby, come on.
Oh yeah, that’s getting a little better.
That’s picking up.

FL, there’s a little pile in here somewhere,
it’s kind of spotty.
Yeah, SP everywhere.
It’s forty.
Whoa, look at that wheel.
You see that?
Yeah, what was it? Orca D, he’s huge.
Hey, giant Orca just right by the rack.
Look, there he is.
That is beautiful.
I’ve never seen one that close, a killer.
That’s a good size whale, man [Applause].
That’s the closest I’ve ever seen right there.
Right there, there he is [Music].
Oh yeah, look at him go.
You call that good luck?
That’s definitely good luck.
He’s watching all the Black Cod come up in the pot.
You know, he’s like, oh, look at there he is.

I’m going to take it as good luck.
I mean, that just made my childhood dream come true.
I know, set these right back.
Yeah, yeah, we got to stick around here.
There’s a sign of life.
Don’t run from that yet.
Set it back, set it back, going over.
Let him soak and see what happens.
Oh, he’s still there, and they know to stay on the starboard side.
They’re really smart.

Aboard the Northwestern, we’re back on the gear,
and this is where saw crab in numbers,
but very spotty.
But you never know.
Sometimes a little luck goes a long way,
and hopefully we’ll have a decent pick with the delivery in 4 days.

Captain Sig prepares to haul strings set on a sign of life that he bet was no well fluke up.
Yeah, are those big or small?
They’re all big.
Yeah [Music].
Buddy 5er, that’s a good pot.
It’s a good pot.
52, he’s right now, he’s going to be our best buddy.
We can, we can make something out of this.
Tremendous, it’s good, bro.
Yeah [Music].
Set it back, set it back.
You just got to take a chance and roll the dice.
That’s all there is to it.

Uh-oh, he’s right there, man.
Set it when he’s out of the way.
The whale won’t let me set my pot.
All right, now he’s just pissing me off.
He’s thinking about it, he’s thinking about it.
He’s not there, said it, he’s gone.
All right, well, we finally got that pot set.
I’m in gear, man.
What is that?
I don’t know, got it in the wheel.
It’s in the wheel.
Got a line, I think it’s in the rudder.
How do you like your wheel, friends?

Now Mandy, they’re still really cool,
just reverse and hope we can break it.
I’m glad we installed those line-on cutters.
All right, reverse gone.
I think it’s gone.
Head G down a pot already.
Well, I think we avoided a crisis here,
but we do have to make a delivery,
so these pots better hit [Applause].

Man, how many? 58, 58 feels great.
Roger, I’ll take that all day long.
Like Orc, good luck.
Are you happy now?
Have faith, little Buckaroo.
Fishing isn’t just a strategy.
Fishing is time, effort, a little bit of luck.