COLTER: It's a beautiful, gorgeous, sunny, cold day,
but I'm hungry.
And so, right now, I'm going to go fishing.
What is that?
What the hell?
I have not eaten red meat this entire time.
This is an absolute freaking blessing.
Typically, I would not eat an animal
with not knowing how it died, but this thing is hardly rigid.
It has not been dead long.
It's not good.
And there, is dinner, folks.
Breast, legs are in there, the neck, heart,
liver, everything look good.
I don't see any worms in the meat, just in the guts,
but I'm gonna boil the hell out of it.
Hopefully, it's not a disease.
I'm not doing well.
I need protein and I'm just trying to get
to when we can use gillnets.
That's my next big move.
I think it's fairly safe.
I don't think it was diseased.
I think it was wormy.
Fish have worms.
Mushrooms have worms.
That might be the only reason I get day 45.
Willing to risk it.
It is delicious.
Oh, my god.
Your flesh will now become my flesh.
OK, the first float is on.
I like it.
The boat and the gillnet are the combo.
Man, that's my winning team, I hope.
If I can set my gillnet all over the cove, I can set it deep.
I can set it shallow.
In the wintertime, those fish move into deep water.
I can get to them.
God, if that can give me a steady food source,
I'm going to go the distance.
All right, you guys, 2:30 AM, gill netting day.
Some windy wind and it's been blowing hard as hell,
and I just have a bad gut feeling
that the boat needs attention.
So I'm walking down the hill, and I'll take you with me.
I'm afraid the boat's smashed up.
I need to know it's OK.
Do I want to be doing this?
Hell, no.
There might be bears around.
Hey, bear.
That was a dumb idea.
Hey, bear.
Coming through.
Hey, bear, I'll be quick.
Oh, the boat's in bad shape.
We're going to call that good for now.
I feels so much better.
I am so glad I came down.
Windy, geez, Windy night, not what I wanted to do, but I--
So gonna head back up.
[inaudible] gillnet season.
Really, really glad I came down last night.
I realized I need to get the boat fixed.
It's not quite as stable as I'd like.
So I want it to be as safe as possible.
That boat is not going back in the water
until [inaudible] are solid.
I put a lot of time, and energy, and thought into this boat,
and, man, I'm hoping it starts paying off.
I love living in Alaska in the middle of the wilderness,
but being so remote, you miss out on the service society
in the service industry.
Like, you can go down and buy bread.
You can go buy gasoline.
I can't do any of that stuff.
Good to go.
Let's do the other one and then [inaudible]..
You need something, you don't have a store.
You get unhealthy, and, sick and whatever,
you don't have a doctor.
So you have to deal with a lot of things on your own.
OK, that could be a little firmer.
Who knows what the future holds, but the way
I see it now, if the gillnet that works well, I can stay.
And if it doesn't, it might not be able to.
It feels solid now.
Now, let's get this net going, huh?
Let's get out there and go set it.
We're going to fish five feet off the bottom.
Is that too aggressive?
The trees, the stumps, logs, floating stuff.
I just feel like that's where the fish are.
I need some winds, I need some successes,
I need some celebrations.
I'll do the best I can.
I'm not going anywhere.
I will adapt and overcome.
This will be just a huge event for them, a huge event for me.
Once in a lifetime.
I just wanted to come out and see this place, man.
Check out my camp and check out my boat.
[inaudible] could cook you a meal,
but [inaudible] if I had food.
Holy [bleep].
Oh, yes.
Oh, God, yes.
Yes.
Oh, my god, That's so good.
Key word tonight, savor.
I invested in that boat, I invested in that gillnet,
and today, it paid off.
Yes.
Two.
Filled that pot with one.
My body needs those fish, my soul
needs those fish, my morale.
My body is depleted, tired, exhausted.
I've lost so much weight.
I get dizzy spells.
So these fish.
they're not going to take me to the end but, god, what a start.
I'm gonna get to cooking, and just getting warm,
and celebrate.