I'm the smallest boat in the fleet,
and this storm is highly dangerous.
[PHONE RINGING]
Hey, Lenny.
Only got 80 pots.
We are all safe at this moment, just
staying in this two and a half mile by three mile little box.
I think we'll be OK.
OK.
All right. See you, Lenny.
Thank you.
LENNY (ON PHONE): OK, bye.
JAKE: Though my power may seem absolute, I still have Lenny,
and I have a lot of crab to catch.
I have just as much as the big boats.
All right.
Y'all be safe, guys, OK?
MAN: Roger that.
Help me watch out for the waves if you can see them.
Don't be afraid to run.
Go.
MAN: Go down.
Watch it. Let's go.
Let's go.
Here it goes.
First pot, baby!
I came up 500 miles from Dutch Harbor,
got here in the middle of a storm.
Less people fish up here because it is nasty.
Heavy freezing spray and ice.
NARRATOR: Normally the playground of larger ships,
Captain Jake Anderson pilots one of the fleet's smallest vessels
into the storm, braving the far North
for a chance to catch his final 115,000 pounds.
Going over!
JAKE: It's really dangerous, and it's so much colder.
So much more can happen.
The waves are bigger, but I think
there's going to be crab here.
MAN: Woo!
JAKE: Here comes a big one.
MAN: [BLEEP].
JAKE: [BLEEP].
Don't [BLEEP] lean.
[BLEEP]
MAN: OK.
Woo-hoo!
I need to just be safe.
MAN: Going over!
JAKE: And hopefully catch something out here.
All right, guys.
It's got eight hours soak on it.
This is where things can get really, really
dangerous really, really quick.
This is why big boats fish up here.
This string is the farthest Northwest string that I have.
I'm hoping it's maybe 200, 300.
Praying to God it works.
Here we go.
Come on, baby.
Holy [BLEEP]!
[BLEEP]
Oh!
Oh, my God!
Woo!
JAKE (ON SPEAKER): I've never seen that in my life!
That's eight hours!
Woo.
Oh, my God!
NARRATOR: While big numbers on a long soak
spells success, big numbers on a short soak, well,
that's just plain old gangbusters.
435 for eight hours, unheard of.
I have never seen fishing like that in my life, ever, ever.
Whoa.
We literally just put these in the water.
I've never seen it.
They're all clean.
They're all going in.
507.
It's crazy!
Oh, my God.
This could be the hottest fishing that I've
ever seen as a Captain.
The best fishing I ever will see in my entire life.
Oh, my God.
Roger that.
Yeah!
That's why we came north, right there.
Hot man.
It's hot.
It's been years since I've seen them this big.
JAKE: That is five miles of solid crab.
I don't know.
This is crazy, dude.
[PHONE RINGING]
Hey, Lenny.
LENNY (ON PHONE): Hey, you got me?
JAKE: So I got some good news.
Well, I moved up North.
I spot checked just now on eight hours.
[BLEEP].
JAKE: I am worried, but, I mean, we're prepared for it.
Two, three days of this, the boat's full.
Yeah, you're right.
Hey, I better get off the phone.
Bye, bye.
After looking at the weather and everything,
my partner, Lenny, wants me to shut it down.
The problem is, is everybody's going to come
up here and mop this up.
I've never wanted to cry so bad in my life.
You know, this is just the beginning of the storm here.
I'm running to St. Paul.
We've got to set the anchor in this weather.
Like everything else in the Bering Sea, nothing's fair,
and nothing ever goes to plan.