Capt. Chris Donato finds himself in the midst of yet another busy
charter season fishing out of his home port in Kona, Hawaii.
charter season fishing out of his home port in Kona, Hawaii.
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00:52 But perfect. Oh that teaser bite was rad.
00:59 Alright, had him up on the teaser.
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01:09 No, he's good, he's alright. Whatever he wants to do.
01:13 He can handle. He's done it before.
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01:36 Does anyone want the one?
01:38 Wow.
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01:52 Now we got him. Big bite.
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02:19 See that was where I was going.
02:24 I got him.
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04:05 Yeah buddy.
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04:14 Just let him go Nick.
04:18 Right there.
04:20 Good. Alright.
04:23 Thank you.
04:24 Good job.
04:25 Good job.
04:26 Oh my god, having three crew in the carpenter reel is like a dream.
04:30 [Laughter]
04:31 Holy shit, I could get the stingray.
04:33 Alright guys, so update. Yeah, so like I was saying, we're out here.
04:37 I'm going to check a spot down here.
04:41 Came down first pass.
04:44 Fish slammed my short teaser, bridge teaser.
04:48 I started pulling it away.
04:50 Got him. He was pretty fired up.
04:52 He came up and had a sniff at the other teaser.
04:54 I got that out. We had the lure right there.
04:56 She ate the lure. Going away. Perfect scenario.
04:59 On little one, which is what we want.
05:02 Peter, he's having some health issues at the moment.
05:08 So he, but he wanted to catch one.
05:12 He wanted a real big one for him. So that was perfect.
05:15 And I tried to get as aggressive as I could to get right over to that thing.
05:18 Put a lot of drag on it.
05:20 She was wild.
05:24 But yeah, pretty cool.
05:26 Got him. Back out here fishing now.
05:29 And see what happens next.
05:34 I see him.
05:38 Come on.
05:41 Look here. Look here. Ready?
05:46 Outside in. Come on out.
05:50 Oh shit. Coming out of him.
05:56 Grab your stinger. Grab your stinger.
06:06 That's you.
06:12 Turn him in the back.
06:28 That was a nice one.
06:31 Come on.
06:35 That's loud.
06:39 That's loud.
06:42 That's loud.
06:52 That's loud.
07:07 That's loud.
07:36 That's loud.
07:40 That's a good one.
07:44 That's a good one.
08:13 I'm going to go in the water. At least we'll save the tackle.
08:16 It was around here last year. It was a flimsy backer.
08:21 It's a Mexican clam.
08:27 Bristol makes me un-clever to do it right.
08:31 Under load.
08:33 I'm not going to lie. I can get used to having three people in clear lines.
08:56 I like the experience of my life when I'm sharing it with all of you.
09:02 In Atlantic City.
09:05 That's a good one.
09:28 That's a good one.
09:35 Well, that's that. We're heading in.
09:38 Had those two. Caught the one. We pulled hook on that other one.
09:43 The GoPro went dead for whatever reason.
09:47 I'll finish my thing here.
09:50 Anyhow, we're heading in.
09:52 I got a fair idea where we might want to put some efforts in as long as the current doesn't switch.
09:59 Good little zone down there I like.
10:01 Hopefully, there's some money swimming around down there for us.
10:07 Anyways, we're into the tournament run starting tomorrow.
10:13 Wish us luck.
10:15 Hopefully we find one.
10:17 Alright then.
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10:41 What's up guys?
10:43 Good morning.
10:45 This has been a little while.
10:47 I apologize we haven't had anything out here.
10:50 Putting up on the channel here anytime soon.
10:53 Just finished up our grind for the summer.
10:58 Not for the summer, for like the tournament season.
11:00 So I wasn't putting together any content.
11:03 Fishing was real tough.
11:07 We didn't do any good.
11:10 Wasn't our year.
11:13 There were some nice ones around but definitely very few and far between.
11:21 Definitely tough fishing.
11:23 We're back now to regular charter fishing.
11:27 We'll be grinding it pretty hard here.
11:30 We pretty much have been.
11:32 Not many, really no days off there.
11:35 We were pretty much tournament, stacked after tournament.
11:39 Just going for it.
11:42 We now will get back into our regular season here.
11:48 We'll be grinding pretty hard probably until about the 9th of August maybe.
11:55 8th or 9th.
11:57 Then I got a little trip down to Mexico.
12:01 A little surfing, maybe a little bit of fishing.
12:04 But mostly just going to be going down there to surf.
12:06 I do a couple of those every summer so I had that blocked off.
12:10 So I'll go down there, come back, slam all through the rest of the month.
12:15 And then get into our fall time, which I love fishing in the fall.
12:21 If you've never been here then, come down here and fish with us.
12:25 It's pretty cool.
12:27 I feel like the fishing's been good the last few years in that time of the year.
12:32 And there's nobody on the water because it's kind of like the summer's done.
12:36 So kids are going back to school.
12:38 People have vacations or whatever.
12:40 They're getting back to whatever.
12:41 So there's not a lot of people usually around.
12:43 So kind of cool if you can pull it off.
12:45 It's a great time to be here.
12:46 But anyways, I wanted to apologize that I haven't got any content out there.
12:51 It's just kind of how it's been.
12:53 But we're going to rev right back up into it.
12:56 We're going to head out there today and get right back into it.
13:00 And start putting together these videos and getting them out there as regular as possible.
13:07 I want to ask you guys something though.
13:10 Put in the comments or message me content that you guys want to see.
13:14 Whether it be explaining a technique.
13:17 Whether it be a certain angle or a certain thing or whatever it is.
13:23 I've said it from the beginning.
13:25 Look, I'm not making a bunch of money or anything off these videos at all.
13:28 These videos are for everybody out there.
13:30 I started doing this because I felt that there wasn't enough good blue marlin fishing content out there that was just authentic.
13:40 And I was tired of watching the fishing videos out there.
13:45 The authentic, you know, it just wasn't there.
13:50 So I wanted to see content that was authentic out there.
13:53 Now, since then, there's been a few other people that are putting out some pretty cool stuff.
13:57 And that's good to see.
13:59 Anyhow, like I said, these videos are for you guys.
14:02 So the whole point was to do authentic stuff.
14:05 To get some cool things going.
14:08 So yeah, let me know if there's something you want to see.
14:12 And let's get back into this.
14:15 And rev it up.
14:17 Alright, let's go blue marlin fishing.
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19:03 Alright, well we're going to head in here.
19:06 We've got a hurricane hitting here tonight.
19:08 Actually I think at the point it hits us it'll probably be a tropical storm.
19:12 It's due to make landfall here tonight.
19:14 So we snuck out here today to get a little quick one in here.
19:17 Caught that blue marlin this morning.
19:20 It's starting to get a little bumpy out here now.
19:23 You can see the weather changing.
19:25 You can definitely see some stuff going on.
19:27 But we just had that one bite.
19:29 Made it around, current switched midday.
19:32 There's going to be some weird stuff going on out here.
19:35 But yeah, we're going to call it a day here.
19:37 Head in a little earlier and get all tied up.
19:41 Get set up and let the storm pass through.
19:44 And then be back out here the next day.
19:48 See what the heck that does to the ocean.
19:50 I don't know, usually after one of those storms our current is a little bit messed up.
19:53 It can be weird.
19:54 But we'll see.
19:56 Usually these storms don't even affect us.
19:58 But it kind of gets stuck up in the mountain.
20:00 But this one looks like it's actually going to come around the south of us.
20:03 Luckily I think, like I said, it's probably only going to be a tropical storm when it gets hit.
20:08 The news channels here are hyping it to be like a hurricane and all this stuff.
20:11 But we'll see.
20:14 They do it all the time.
20:17 But yeah.
20:19 Anyways, we're going to get up, get the boat ready, tie it in, sit out the storm.
20:24 And we will see you out there in the wake of the storm.
20:28 And see if we can find some fish right after and get right back into it.
20:33 Keep our seat belts on.
20:36 Good to get out here and catch one today.
20:39 And the boys from the old number 7 fishing with us today.
20:43 Pretty good tournament boat over there on the east coast.
20:47 They fish all over the place.
20:49 They kick butt. They do good.
20:51 Great fishermen.
20:53 Fun having them on the boat.
20:55 But yeah. We're headed.
20:57 We'll see you guys in a couple days.
21:01 Alright.
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21:38 Alright. Back out here heading out.
21:41 Current's been all mixed up since that storm passed through.
21:45 So it's been kind of tough.
21:49 What we missed two the other day. That was about it.
21:53 I went on and had another real bad bite.
21:55 But you know, it's been a couple.
21:58 It's been really slow amongst the fleet here.
22:01 Like I said, the currents are all mixed up.
22:03 So it's been really kind of tough to find where you want to find them.
22:06 Because of the sonars, we're kind of finding some fish just randomly.
22:10 Kind of out there in the deep.
22:12 We're just like randomly. Not really like working structure.
22:14 They're just kind of driving around marking to find them.
22:17 There were a couple nice ones caught.
22:20 So there are some good ones around.
22:22 But you just kind of got to be in the, you know,
22:25 you just got to kind of be there when you're there.
22:27 It just makes it tough when the currents funky.
22:29 If you don't have a sonar because it's,
22:31 they're not really like where they're supposed to be on structure.
22:35 So you just kind of got to do a little more traveling
22:38 than just straight hunting and fishing.
22:40 But it should start settling itself now.
22:42 That storm's long gone now.
22:46 And things should start to settle back in.
22:48 We should hopefully get a little consistent weather pattern.
22:52 And gosh damn, these guys in this snorkel boat
22:59 just literally pulled a U-turn across the harbor entrance
23:04 chasing a shark with a bunch of tortoise on it.
23:06 This stuff drives me absolutely crazy.
23:09 No regard to what we're trying to do here.
23:13 Unreal.
23:15 But anyways, let's go out and catch one here.
23:23 So a little update here.
23:33 I found a little bit of current in my searching.
23:37 It's starting to pick up a little bit up here.
23:41 I think we went past the split there
23:43 and now we're starting to kind of see some current up this way.
23:47 I think, you know, things are slowly starting to settle back into a normal flow
23:52 and hopefully it's very consistent.
23:54 But anyways, the first bit of current I've seen in a while.
23:59 So I'm going to stick it out in this area.
24:02 Kind of work the structure that favors that.
24:05 Kind of pound it for the rest of the day here.
24:07 See if we can find one up in here.
24:10 No one around, so if there is one here, we should get first hits.
24:20 I haven't seen too many people today.
24:23 But yeah, anyways, that's the story.
24:30 That's where we're at.
24:31 I did and hopefully find one.
24:34 Stand by here.
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25:04 Bro, I got a double.
25:06 I got a double on that right side.
25:19 You understand that, right?
25:21 That was a nice bite.
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25:45 So you put the other one in on him?
25:47 Yeah.
25:48 That other one ate my teaser and then switched over to that.
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26:09 Stay tight.
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26:21 Very nice, sir.
26:22 Very nice.
26:23 You're going off?
26:25 Yeah, you're doing good.
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26:49 Someone grab my hat, please.
26:51 Oh, your hat, his hat.
26:53 I got it.
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27:33 Might be a good idea.
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27:46 Yeah, I got the black and the bamboo.
27:48 Definitely would go bamboo.
27:50 I mean.
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27:59 I think he just head shook on you.
28:01 I felt it give way a bit.
28:03 Turned his head and gave a good tail kick at the same time.
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28:12 Which gap do you want, the black or the bamboo?
28:14 I'll grab the bamboo.
28:15 It's a lot of drag.
28:16 You want to keep it right here?
28:17 Yeah, that's fine.
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28:34 It took a bit off me.
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28:46 Doing very good, sir.
28:47 You're doing very good.
28:48 Glad you have it.
28:51 Bet you're glad you have it on 130 and not a.
28:53 Yeah, 30 pounds.
28:56 It would be a bit challenging.
28:58 I mean, this is impressive, but that would be beyond impressive.
29:01 Yeah.
29:07 You coming down?
29:14 No, no, I didn't mean right now.
29:16 I just mean I got to move that gap if not.
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30:15 Oh, nice shot, Chris.
30:17 Nice sickles on that one.
30:19 Good job, boys.
30:20 Good job.
30:21 I've never seen one eat a lure like that before in my life.
30:24 Look at that one, boys.
30:25 Nice shot, Chris.
30:28 Yeah, so we found that bit of current, started working that area,
30:36 started working that little hump there, and sure enough, we got piled on by that one.
30:40 Funny enough, it was nice.
30:43 The one ate the bullet, the large feather sword.
30:46 We had that on, and as I was doing a turn, one piled on my teaser,
30:51 and I was looking, I saw a black back, but I'm thinking, you know,
30:55 I thought maybe a small marlin or something, but at that point,
30:58 we're already hooked to this one, and Nick's helping him in the chair,
31:01 so we couldn't pitch.
31:02 The fish disappeared, and sure enough, it piles on the right long,
31:11 which is like a large tube lure.
31:14 Big, big explosion, never jumps, so.
31:17 Long story short, it's a tuna.
31:22 We're right through the end of the day, and we caught it in front of the harbor,
31:24 so we're going to run in.
31:25 These guys want to weigh it, and if the fuel rock closes, I think it'll be pretty early.
31:30 We're going to get in front of the close, and hopefully get a weight on it for them.
31:35 Looks like a 115-pounder or something like that.
31:38 We'll have some meat.
31:41 We're not going to sell this one, but we'll eat it.
31:44 But, hey, we started looking at action here, so tomorrow I'm going to--
31:49 unless something changes tonight, tomorrow that's our action plan going to be fishing here.
31:53 If we see big blues in here, I would take all that baits that are going to come to life here.
31:57 The current's good.
31:58 Final.
31:59 So let's see what tomorrow brings.
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32:49 Awesome, thank you, Chris.
32:50 Yeah, good job.
32:51 You want one on your own?
32:52 Yeah, sure.
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33:06 What's up, guys?
33:07 All right.
33:09 Back out here again.
33:10 Yeah.
33:13 So the other trip, we found some current, right?
33:19 Right after we found current, had a bunch of tunas.
33:21 It's a wolf pack come through the spread.
33:24 And then we caught that one.
33:25 And we said, look, let's just go in and weigh this thing.
33:27 It's the end of the day.
33:28 We're right front on our way, trawling too.
33:30 We missed a marlin, actually, right after.
33:33 We had a bite on the long.
33:34 But yeah, I mean, it just goes to show
33:38 how current is king in Kona without current.
33:42 Fish aren't here.
33:43 Or if they are here, they're really hard to find.
33:45 A lot of times, they're just out wide,
33:47 or they're just kind of wandering.
33:48 They're not stacked in one spot.
33:49 So it makes it very difficult when the current's not here.
33:51 This has been, for me, I've never seen it since I've been here
33:54 where the current's been this bad.
33:56 So inconsistent and fluesy and different
33:58 and just weird fish and weird stuff going on.
34:01 But it started to kind of look good in that area.
34:04 So excited the next day we headed out,
34:06 come around the corner, everything changed again.
34:09 Yesterday was just kind of a trying day.
34:12 Current started off all over the place,
34:14 then it went south, then it went north,
34:16 then you'd go down to BB,
34:17 and the buoy would be where it should be on a south current.
34:21 It was just like all mixed up.
34:24 But we're out here today.
34:26 Looks--it's still a little early for me to fully tell
34:30 what this current's doing.
34:32 But coming around the corner,
34:33 it looks like we're back to maybe a north,
34:36 which is good.
34:37 But we'll see how we go as we kind of come around the area here
34:41 and what we find and where we put our efforts in today
34:45 and where we fish.
34:47 But we are pretty far into the summer grind now.
34:52 We're on a run of like 10-hour days.
34:54 So when you book a trip with me,
34:56 you can either book an 8- or a 10-hour.
34:58 And we literally have, like--
35:00 I feel like we have maybe 20 10-hour days in a row.
35:03 I have the second blocked off to do like an oil change or whatever.
35:11 But, you know, the thing is, like, when you're that grinding that hard
35:13 and then you have--you schedule a day off.
35:16 It's not really a day off.
35:17 You can do it over.
35:18 And then you have like a long list of errands to run.
35:21 You got kids, da-da-da-da-da-da.
35:23 You know it if you're in the industry and you're a charter company
35:25 or you're whatever company.
35:26 You know what that's all about.
35:28 You know, I found myself the other morning getting up.
35:32 It kind of--fishing's been really tough.
35:34 This is the hardest summer I've ever fished here.
35:36 It's been--you know, there's some big fish around,
35:38 but, like, it's just really hard to find them.
35:41 Without the sonars, it's been very difficult
35:43 because the fish are so scattered.
35:45 They're not where they're supposed to be.
35:46 The inside, which is what I always fish, where I really like it,
35:49 it's been dreadful in there.
35:51 So it's just been--it's just been really a very tough summer.
35:54 You know, it's just fishing, right?
35:56 It goes a cycle, too.
35:58 Could be the El Nino. I don't know what it is, right?
36:00 But we're just having a bad year here in Kona.
36:02 You know, with that being said, a bad year, right?
36:04 We won the World Cup.
36:06 There's been, you know, big ones caught.
36:07 You know, there was a grander caught.
36:09 So it's still Kona, right?
36:13 But, yeah, anyways, I kind of found myself the other morning like,
36:16 "Man, I'm, like, so busy."
36:22 Just kind of getting worn out, like you kind of do sometimes
36:25 working in the summer, but kind of put things in--
36:27 kind of put things a little in perspective and think about it
36:30 and be grateful for the fact that I am this busy,
36:32 for the fact that new people are watching my videos
36:37 and I'm getting support, that I have support in this industry
36:40 and how far I've come.
36:41 And I guess it's hard sometimes, you know,
36:43 whatever your facet of business is, whether you're in, you know,
36:47 whatever your business is, right, sometimes it's hard to stop
36:50 and actually look where you've come from, right?
36:52 Because we're so focused on where we want to get
36:56 or how much money we want to put in the account
36:58 or we want to catch our grand or we want to do this
37:00 or we want to do that, right?
37:01 You're just, like, disappointed because it's not happening.
37:03 But, like, I've been trying lately to kind of, like, think about,
37:07 you know, just being grateful for where I'm at right this second, right?
37:11 You know, and then get excited about opportunities coming
37:14 and get, you know--we all have to have that dragon to slay, right?
37:18 So I get excited about what my dragon is, you know,
37:20 whatever that is, right, whatever your dragon is, right?
37:22 It might be success in your business.
37:24 It might be, you know, losing weight.
37:26 It might be running a marathon.
37:27 It might be--I mean, whatever.
37:29 Who knows what it is, right?
37:30 And it might be catching the best tarpon, you know, personal best
37:33 or getting the, you know, biggest barrel of your life
37:37 or doing this or doing that, whatever it is, right?
37:40 We need that dragon to slay to keep us motivated,
37:42 to keep us humbled, to keep us rolling, right?
37:44 So, you know, but I've been freaking thinking about it
37:48 and just, like, trying to allow myself to just be grateful
37:51 for where I'm at at the moment.
37:53 And I think--you know, I think we all should try and do that a little bit, you know?
38:00 And I think back, like, freaking even just, like, 7 years ago,
38:03 I mean, I was, like, going to hotels with, like, a billboard,
38:08 like a little freaking cutout with, like, pictures of Marlin on it
38:11 and, like, trying to sell charters to people that they didn't--
38:15 they didn't want to go fishing, right?
38:17 Like, they had no idea.
38:18 So I'm, like, trying to sell them on, like, a 4-hour trip
38:20 and just go out to just keep the wheels moving.
38:22 Because I'm an owner/operator, like, I got to get--you know,
38:25 I came here, I was so far in--when the boat got here,
38:28 like, I was so far in debt, and I was, like, I got to--right?
38:31 So I was, like, I'm not--and I'm, like, pretty--kind of shy,
38:35 so, like, it's hard for me, like, to go to these hotels
38:38 and talk to these people and do this and, like, just trying anything.
38:40 I would take cruise ship charters, half-days.
38:43 I would take group con trips, whatever it was.
38:45 I would just, like, try to get this thing out here,
38:47 go freaking snorkel tour, go out fish, go in the bay,
38:50 go snorkel, come back, fish back.
38:52 You know, I mean, I think about it, you know.
38:54 I mean, I think about one--I was, like, trying to convince
38:57 these, like, two butch lesbian girls to, like, come fish.
39:01 And it was, like--you know, I would go to these, like,
39:03 a lot of timeshares here, and they'll have, like, every once--
39:06 one day a week, they do, like, a timeshare meeting
39:08 where, like, if you're a tour operator, you can go
39:10 and kind of, like, peddle what your tour is.
39:13 And I remember one time I was just, like--I saw--
39:15 they were the only two in there.
39:17 Everyone else was, like, so elderly.
39:18 I was, like, they can't even get on my boat.
39:20 They were the only two, and, like, I didn't have any trips
39:22 that week, and I really needed to just, like,
39:24 get some money rolling.
39:25 I was just, like, trying my best to peddle marlin fishing
39:29 to these two, you know, these two butch chicks,
39:34 and they were, like--you know, I don't even think
39:38 they booked in the end, but I just--you know,
39:40 I think back to all that, and now where I'm at
39:42 at a point where I'm, like--I'm fully booked out
39:45 until next year, and, you know, I'm giving charters
39:49 to my friends.
39:50 I'm out here fishing, if I wanted to, every single day.
39:56 You know, I'm just marlin fishing now,
39:58 which is what I love to do.
39:59 I don't do half days.
40:00 I don't take cruise ship--I take good clients
40:03 that actually want to come out here and do this
40:05 and go marlin fish, so I know it's been so long-winded,
40:08 but I don't know who needs to hear this,
40:11 and maybe it's, like, a breath.
40:12 You know, maybe it is what someone else there
40:14 wants to hear, right?
40:17 And, you know, it's just, like, great.
40:20 Look back at where you're at, whatever it is.
40:22 You might be a plumber, right?
40:23 Think about when you were, like, an apprentice
40:25 or whatever you were doing, right,
40:26 and just try and be grateful for the current moment,
40:29 where you are right now, and, yeah,
40:32 when you go farther, you've got your dragon to slay,
40:35 but that's awesome, and that's--we need that,
40:39 but sometimes you also need to just be kind of, like, grateful.
40:43 Sometimes that'll bounce you out of a little bit of a funk.
40:45 We all get in a funk.
40:46 I've been in a funk.
40:47 The fish has been so bad, I've just been kind of struggling,
40:50 but that's my moment of zen for you guys.
40:55 I don't know if it--if one person finds value in that,
40:59 then that was worth me taking the time to say.
41:02 Anyways, hopefully we go catch fish here now.
41:06 All right.
41:08 [music]
41:19 [chatter]
41:21 [waves crashing]
41:31 Just keep reeling.
41:32 Good job, bud.
41:33 Keep going, Chris.
41:34 I've got gloves on.
41:35 I'm just putting the belt on.
41:36 You're good.
41:37 Keep going.
41:43 Yeah, he's almost there.
41:49 Good job.
41:50 Good retrieve, man.
41:51 Doing okay?
41:52 Oh, now it's running.
41:54 Still got some fight left in it.
41:57 No, it's not done yet.
41:59 It's coming at the boat.
42:02 Yeah, it's not done yet.
42:04 [music]
42:10 Look at him, look at him.
42:11 Oh, my God.
42:14 Get ready, he's going to get tight.
42:15 Get ready, he's going to get really tight really quick.
42:17 There you go.
42:18 Just like you know it's going to--yeah.
42:26 I'm here.
42:27 I'll get ready as I can be for that.
42:33 You sit.
42:35 Yeah, dude, I backed up.
42:37 I'm not even going to lie to you.
42:40 Yeah, you're good.
42:41 Keep going.
42:46 [music]
43:00 No, you're good.
43:01 Yeah, I'm still missing the hook.
43:03 Yeah, you're good where you are.
43:05 [music]
43:29 He's a fish.
43:31 Oh, he's in the eye.
43:32 That's what it is.
43:33 Whoa.
43:34 Nope.
43:38 No, I got it.
43:40 He's right here.
43:48 That's what it is, Chris.
44:13 Good job, dude.
44:15 How's that go?
44:16 Good job.
44:17 How was that?
44:18 Good marlin.
44:19 That's what we were looking for all day.
44:20 You got a 900?
44:22 Yeah, about 120.
44:23 Yeah, I thought I was at like--
44:26 All right, guys.
44:27 Well, that's all.
44:29 We're heading in.
44:31 We kind of ran out of time there, but stuff is looking good.
44:34 Looking good out here.
44:35 So fingers crossed.
44:36 Current stays the same.
44:38 And we don't have a big change overnight here.
44:41 And we'll be back to fishing.
44:44 And I cannot tell you how excited I am to get back to fishing.
44:49 But at it tomorrow, see if we can find a big one.
44:54 All right.
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