Huge Crab Haul! Jake Gambles Pots in Freezing Waters! | Deadliest Catch

There’s crab clean, okay, I’m getting a count on it. I love that you have to count it, you’re gonna have to count any pots. Wheels 9-1 9-1, 16 hours crab here, Sean.

Bro, this is awesome, baby, seen so far. I’m hungry now, are you? Okay, oh my God, the weather. I don’t give him, we’re on crowd, whoa. Hey, Sean, go for Sean, 350 in this one. Should I just set a string here? Maybe. I’m looking at my ice program, I mean, this thing is throwing some conflicting views here whether or not this thing is going to be ice covered, but I haven’t seen a single bitter piece of ice either.

Dump them. It’s hard to take chances but nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? Maybe I’m gonna be the push that he needs to put those things in the water.

Don’t dump it, hold on. I gotta think about this. When I see numbers like that out here so bare around the entire Bering Sea, I gotta take the risk. Otherwise, I ain’t gonna go home and I ain’t gonna be able to pay bills. I think I’m gonna shut. Yeah dude, let them rip man. Take that, dump it, Roger. So it’s kind of a set with the shallow side of the putter yielding their best fishing by par. Captain Jake drives all his gear back into the ledge. There’s all kinds of room here, you can sit wherever you want. A turn and run towards it starts right where you see it, directly east, and we’re gonna go for it. We should be okay, I’m saying that also to convince myself.

Honestly, I am petrified. Each pot that goes over is twenty two hundred dollars worth of steel. One minor mishap can cost us a whole season. At the same time, I’m a greedy fisherman. There’s crab here and I hauled a bunch of planks. I’m pushing the boundaries. I think there’s a flow off my starboard bow. I’m starting to see flows now. I don’t know if I can outpace it, but this is gear moving type. We’re gonna turn and start stacking. I gotta tell these guys to hurry though, I’m gonna get out of here for sure. Joe seeing some ice. Beasts waves get the gear on. I should have never dumped them.

The race is on to get these on man, yeah this is rely on having to stack all this gear all at once to leave the ice pack. Your margin for error goes down to zero. There is none. You either pick them up or you lose them. Muscle up, Mason Mac. This isn’t a take-your-time kind of moment. Through for the crane, who’s taking a thrash in this weather, the stanchions on the floor crane broke. I don’t have time to weld them, which means that we have to chain down the pick and boom. So cold mechanics fail, stressed by waves and freezing temperatures. The welds on the forward crane snap that thing over, leaving Jake no choice but to ratchet the support beams in place until they can make a more permanent fix at dock. Bad things happen when you’re near the ice. Oh, this is miserable.

What the hell, literally? Yeah, I drove your off, Nick’s got a leak somewhere. I can guarantee you this one is ice related. You gotta get out of here and we can’t stack because we have a broken launcher hose. That’s a nice flow right there, see it on the horizon. We don’t have any need time to spare, but he’s down there making a hose. Guys, we got a nice flow ahead of us here, so Roger. Yeah, Raj, you okay? Does it hurt? All right.

Nick cut his hand, oh my God, but we need to get these pots out of the water before we run over. Oh my God, give me some details.

That’s what happens, man. Grab a Band-Aid, black tape, and paper towel. Safety first. Good, yeah, here it comes, man. How you doing down there, Nick? Good, yeah, okay, looks like he’s got it fixed. Bad scared mover, that steps over a foot thick. It is not good. All right, guys, let’s talk to it. Roger, okay, crane’s good. Trying to push it as much as I can but hurry up, you gotta get out of here. What are you doing? What’s up? But I’ve got very little time, awesome. It should have known better, I got greedy. Me and Brenna A are going backwards. Dude, how was it going last night? I’m drained, mentally exhausted. You’re not able to fish? Yeah, I haven’t heard anything good. There’s another big blow coming. It’s relentless. What are you gonna do? I’m moving for real this time to the west and away from the ice. I think I’m gonna go deep. I’ll check in with you as we go along. Okie dokie, we’ll be here. There’s a lot of crab here but I’m just done with the juju. I don’t think me and Sean are willing to go play with the ice anymore. I think we had our fun.