Oh, yeah, baby.
Whoa!
What?
Taking a nap in the boat?
Can't get much worse really and truly.
[music playing]
NARRATOR: It's the first day of alligator season
in Pierre Part, Louisiana.
King of the swamp, Troy Landry, has 500 tags to fill.
But despite the threat of a shortened season,
he's decided to take a big risk.
You've seen your map?
Yes, sir.
I got it in the truck.
TROY LANDRY: What I'm gonna do this year
is bring Jacob with me and Chase is
going to be really the captain.
NARRATOR: This season, Troy's promoted his youngest son Chase
to captain of his own boat.
Oh, yeah, baby.
NARRATOR: Giving him a chance to prove whether he's
capable of taking over the reins of the family business someday.
First day.
All right, man, I'm ready to hit the road.
Yes, indeed.
[inaudible] one.
You're pumped.
This is a critical year for us.
Everything's stacked against us.
We've got all-time lowest prices I've ever
seen in my life on alligators.
So if there was ever a bad year for me to take a gamble
on Chase, this is the year.
I'm pumped.
You know, it's extremely important to me
to prove to my dad that I can be a captain.
There is a lot of pressure on me right
now to do what I need to do to bring
home the bacon, if you will.
No.
CHASE: What the hell?
NARRATOR: Chase can't remember where
he set his lines, one of the chief responsibilities
of the captain.
Chase, it's his first year of being a captain,
so he never really paid attention to the lines.
We pulled up, we said we were gonna set a line,
and then we started telling stories about duck hunting.
100% positive.
There's a lot of stuff we've got to account for.
And I'm hoping it's just that it's he got a lot on his mind
being day one and it's not a routine thing
he's gonna get in.
CHASE: [sighs]
Oh, yeah.
We got one there.
Hold on.
HOLDEN: Feels kind of heavy.
CHASE: Whoa!
Whoa. Whoa.
Whoa.
What we got, Holden?
CHASE: Oh!
[gun shot]
CHASE: Finally, baby, finally.
NARRATOR: The first catch of the season is a seven footer
and will bring in almost $100.
CHASE: Beautiful gator.
Oh.
You have to tag them as soon as you kill them.
Because game wardens stops you, they can take everything.
All your tags, you boat, your license, you guns.
If I wouldn't have been watching and we would have got stopped--
HOLDEN: We wasn't catching much.
Chase decided he was just going to relax
and that's just kind of agitates me a little bit.
But, you know, I ain't gonna argue with him.
He's the captain.
Whatever it is, it is.
TROY LANDRY: What y'all doing?
Taking a nap in the boat?
And we still got tags to fill?
What the hell is going on here?
I've never took a nap in a boat in my life.
I mean, we out here to work.
The last thing you want to do to impress your dad
is be taking a nap in the boat whenever he pulls up on you.
TROY LANDRY: What the hell?
Whose program y'all on?
This ain't Troy Landry's program, that's for sure.
NARRATOR: As day one draws to a close,
in a season when filling tags quickly
is more crucial than ever, Troy's
anxious to see how many gators new captain
Chase has brought in.
What?
Why y'all didn't run them all?
It'll get better.
Can't get much worse, really and truly.
TROY LANDRY (VOICEOVER): I don't like everything I see unfolding
in front of me right now.
CHASE: Who knows, tomorrow might be the best day yet.
TROY LANDRY: I've got to think hard and long about this,
there might be a little change coming soon.