Sig Hansen IMPRESSED With Jake’s Bold Strategy Bringing HUGE Crab Haul! | Deadliest Catch

120 miles north of Dutch Harbor.
I’ve been able to punch a pretty sizable hole in my Darai, but everything’s happened really fast now.
>> And I still have a long ways to go >> on the Titan Explorer.
>> Mighty mighty mighty baby.
Up and down. Up and down.
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So, here’s the problem I have. Got crab over this huge plane here, but they’re spread out.
If I’m going to buy this boat, I’m going to have to pick up all the change that I can.
With 8 days until canory closure, Captain Jake Anderson assesses pot averages over 40 square miles, searching for a pattern in bear eye behavior and a strategy to catch his final 130,000 lbs of quota.
>> Got to think smart.
>> There’s a bottleneck I think these crab are moving towards. Looks like a good place where they’re hurting up.
Even though it’s a bottleneck, it’s still pretty wide.
We need more pots.
Hey guys, grab the welding equipment and a bunch of pot ties.
We’re going to put two pots together.
Back of the pot to be welded to the back of another pot.
And I’m going to try to plug the bottleneck up.
With no help from his former mentor, >> Jake opts to weld and set pairs of faded pots across the narrow channel, luring the spread out crab into a single hungry horde.
>> I’d send it over.
the lengths that I go to to catch crab.
This is a reach.
>> 740 mi >> here where Jake had a feeling there’d be some crab.
>> First pot’s coming up here. Let’s see how they do.
>> Here comes the first one.
I wouldn’t want to see anything over 50s would be good. You know, if you if you get that one little spot, that one little bump, uh that those numbers add up very quickly.
This needs to produce for us to get us across that finish line down to the wire.
>> First spots in the block.
It does work. I’ll be a hero.
>> If it fails, it’s a big risk.
>> This is kind of make or break it.
>> Okay, here she comes.
Here it comes. Come on.
Maybe Jake might have been on to something.
>> 92.
>> See how he’s doing.
You’re looking for >> Told you.
Told you.
>> It worked.
>> So, how goes it down there?
>> 80 average here all day.
>> 85 92 82. Well, that looks good.
>> The hard work. From what I’m seeing, it it’s better to the south. If you want to bump some gear south with me.
>> Well, that’s good. But there was more sign of life to the north.
>> So, I’m going to just uh stay in this direction, >> right? Yeah. Let’s stay in touch, though. I’ll let you know how it goes.
>> Okay. We’ll talk.
>> I’ll get back to it later.
I feel I feel like I’ve already been up for over a day and it’s starting to show, but getting kind of tired to be quite honest.
Can you send Clark up?
>> Yep.
>> Look, we’re coming up to that string that you wanted to put in the water here.
>> Yeah, that northern one.
>> Yeah. As far as picking it up, I think you’re the guy to do it.
>> In weather like this, though. I >> You’ve already hauled in this kind of stuff in the daylight, but I mean, it’s time to get your feet wet. I mean, I’ll be right here.
You should haul it.
>> All right.
Let’s get my >> Didn’t doubt it for a second.
>> It’s not bad.
>> Not bad at all.
>> If you go east, you’re going here. So, you’re going away from your next spot.
So, you kind of want to >> start getting that.
>> Yeah. Get on it.
>> There’s 94.
>> 94. I’m hoping that things will pick up.
>> There it is.
>> Okay.
Straighten it out.
You can do anything once that line is in the block. Once the line’s on the block, it’s yours.
They >> got it. So now it’s you.
>> Now it’s you.
All right. 23.
>> You feeling okay?
>> It’s all right.
>> Don’t overcorrect. Just get going, >> baby.
144.
Okay, they’ve all increased.
>> Yep.
>> Hey, Carl.
>> You can set it right back.
>> Back off. Back off on the throttle.
It’s hot.
I feel kind of dizzy. I get too much coffee or something, you know.
>> You doing okay?
It’s all right. It’s okay. I’m going to go lay down.
>> All right.
>> You got it.
>> Yeah.
>> Just be careful.
>> I will go slow.
>> Hey, Carl.
>> You can set it right back.
>> Hopefully, we’re going to get through the gear. Get out of here.