We anal-ize it with scrutiny because it's our own back yard.
The show is for television entertainment 95 % of the people watching are never going tuna fishing. Just like I'll never be on an Alaskan crab boat, or lobstering on georges.
I'm sure if any of the footage of the fishbucket comes out there will be some eyebrows raised as well :shock:
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Get off my numbers at the whiting grounds...ha.

They edited out the apology at the dock when ralph apologized to my friend for being a #^&#^&#^&#^&.

I will have to say, Bill on Bounty Hunter should try to get up a little earlier if he needs to catch tuna to pay the bills.... JK
The boys that were on Dave's numbers were not "Googans" either....

Seems the nature of these shows to always make it a boxing match. The lobster wars were pathetic,guess trying to make catching lobster interesting for a tv show you need confrontation.

"raise some eyebrows"
RiffTrash ?
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ya i noticed the bounty hunter is always showing on the fishing grounds at noon or atleast last.....im a firm beliver early bird gets the worm......

thats fantastic! I'll be Googan II :rotf2:

I think I will rename my boat "Googan.com" :rotf2:

anyone catch sundays episode? it wasd nice to see more fish and less b/s...also nice to see some small throw backs(show made it look like there was only giants around), it was a bit annoying that dave on tuna.com kept wineing about not getting the biggest tuna. The rest of the fleet knew it bothered him and kept grinding him lol.
also liked when hard merchandise hooked up while on a cod charter....

i'll have to watch it tonight...konked out too early sunday

Like the editing: one shot mirror surface, next shot 2-4 ft'ers! :smash:

Capts are saying season coming to end/last trip (imply Oct/Nov) and we are only going into episode #5?:confused:

ya i was wondering what time of the year it was when they were achored in close off glouster....def seems like the time line jumps around a bit??

Anyone else notice how the narrator says Gloucester? I have heard it pronounced a few ways, but not the way he says it.

Mike Rowe is the narrator. He does a ton of shows for discovery, nat geo, etc. He is usually pretty good, but the "Glowster" thing has me dumbfounded. I've sat there and replayed the intro a few times and I can't figure out where he gets his pronunciation from.

Yeah where the hell does he get "Glowster" it's not like he's never been there either, then filmed a Deadliest Catch after show thing there a few years back and he was physically there.

Either way, the yelling about Googans is kinda funny IMO. I don't know anything about tuna fishing, but I'm guessing its just like everything else in that there are some very well known spots that everybody frequents, to call them your own just cause you are trying to make money is kind of #^&#^&#^&#^&ish.

He called it "Glowster" then too. Googan. :hihi:

Fish were being taken in close as early as August. The abundance of macks brought them inshore.

they caught alot of tuna on last nights episode...good stuff! seems like its always the same 3 boats catching....the rest are just talking on the radio, lol

wicked Tuna
 

Anyone consider that Nat. Geo. has an agenda and that is to stop fishing for BFT. All the crap between the capt's doesn't make me like them, except Marciano who seems like a regular guy. When NG starts trying to get a ban people aren't going to care at all because those affected"the capt's" aren't someone they like. Tuna.com doesn't seem to know that I claimed all the numbers 60 yrs ago!

National Geo is thinking of a 20 week series next year. This is hear say.

Is Kit Vallee (aka "Pirate") from the Odyssey really Adam Sandler?

Could be.... He is going to be here in Marblehead shooting a movie, from May through August. Casting calls this weekend, for those who are interested.

Marblehead's Piper Field set for Hollywood takeover Local News SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

ADAM would make a fine worlock

hillarious! good thing priate works on the ocean...he is one ugly sob! lol( dont take it personally pirate!)
i think the odyssey is the only boat that hasnt caught a tuna yet if i recall correctly

Pure rumor

A close friend said he grew up with Paul stated to me that he was talking with Paul the other day and he "Paulie" said he hit a huge pay day from the show and next year he will have his own boat on the show..
Now my friend sometimes is full of BS and I will not say the $$ amount but it's huge

What a bunch of idiots. The entire show is an embarrassment to all fishermen. It confirms that most commercial fishermen act like a bunch of fools and are not very smart. If this is the class of people fishing out there...they should shut the industry completely down on that basis alone.

I can't watch it, it annoys the $hit out of me. I hope I never see any of them on the water.

I agree for the most part, but remember they are being "coached" too. They want to become actors like the crab fishermen did. So if being obnoxious works, then pump it up. Its NOT reality TV. There is no such thing. LIke those stupid survivor shows. Gimme a break, they ain't suffering. Its all a show. The tuna show is the same. Its all a bunch of crap and made only for rating and $$$$$. Has nothing to do with fisheries crab or tuna.

But probably >95% of the people watching BELIEVE that sh*t on the show.

yep
 

People are so gullible its ridiculous
and there in lies the problem....

i agree with you Sandman....

all the Back stabbing competition anchoring crap
swearing like no tomorrow...

there's absolutely NO Class

The show is pretty much a joke, but then again, saying that it 'confirms that most commercial fishermen... are not very smart' is shortsighted as well. You've got a reality TV show that's seeking ratings. One shouldn't judge an entire populace based on the actions of a few.

Case in point-

Jean Catching Striped Bass. - YouTube

I don't look at this and say most recreational fisherman are idiots who keep short fish. I say those specific individuals are idiots :)

But seriously, they could have done a better job at this. Curious what the captains think about the show. I wonder how much of the "drama" was just created in the cutting room.

Mr. Sandman....do not judge all fishermen because of a few. Apparently the business that U R in does not use the F word..... in todays world it is one of the most common used words...some fishermen R educated...some probably more then U R....Dave of tuna.com is educated....a very good commercial fishing friend of mine is a graduate of Harvard and there R others....I know of a few lobstermen that have graduated from BU and Boston college. I wonder what some people think of EMT's

Recently at Monte's steak house I had to have the waitdress calm down the table next to ours...four people in dress suits and ties were using the word quite freguently...My brother in law was almost thrown out of my house because he used the F word... very well educated at that.

This is 100% directed and edited by the producers. These guys are not idiots, they don't talk like this in real life. I'm across the dock from Ralph Pratt. Do you ever hear him on the radio sounding like an idiot?

Seas 20-25 feet?
The boat that won't start, yet you can see land in the background.

The reality is that they tried to make a reality show on staring at a balloon for 13 hrs a day. That's reality. It's miserable, it's boring. They haven't shown George's except for the first episode. I saw George's this summer where there was so many boats hooked up at one time, people were practically crashing into each other with fish on the line.

For that first 5 minutes that fish takes off, it's heroin. Trying to replicate that in a 1 hr show is useless, especially inshore tuna fishing, which is essentially lottery fishing.

They also never filmed the part where one of the captains on the show comes up to my buddy on the dock and apologizes for causing a scene. "it was for the show".

My $.03

Typhoon is right on the money
 

In the last episocde they tried to pass off the Capt of the Tuna Hunter Gary as a "Charter from HI". Show is a complete fabrication with tuna fishing as the back drop.

Come June 1st I may be doging people fishing for tuna in Gloucester Harbor...there R some people that think someof them fish were caught in the harbor...normally some boats worry about the striper fleet...now will need to worry about getting by the tuna fleet... there will be plenty of tuna gear bought this year. :)

... And more importantly, sold for cheap this winter :rotf2:

funny...
i'll be one of them buying tuna gear! lol. i've been thinking about it for a few years and decided to take the plunge....wicked tuna just helps push me over the edge.
agreed tho alot of the show is a bit out there and i'm sure there will be alot more tuna gear for sale next year after all this lol

Saco Bay Tackle has sold 20 130 set ups this last week.

It's going to be a mess.

http://www.reactionface.info/sites/d...0480585093.jpg

ya more boats out there than you can imagine, thank god I slipped in RI this year.

Make sure you keep your regular job.... the old saying is:"If you want to go broke go tuna fishing." :)

I fished on the Tuna Hunter last year with Gary. I was trying to figure out what the hell the client comment was about. Gary seemed to know more about what was going on than the crew on the boat did.
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