Joey Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Gosh is it only me or does everyone else get anxiety watching Wicked Tuna? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Posted November 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 My Fave is Hard Merchandise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattybculp Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 I remember saying to the wife that my favourite boat is also hard merchandise. Sometimes you don't know if his boat will make it back to dock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mills Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 I've watched the show. I'd like to know the "reality" behind the filming of these shows like Wicked Tuna, Mountain Men etc. A guy I was fishing with a couple of weeks ago was the camera boat for one of Henry W's shows a couple of years ago. The fishing was tough so the camera boat was fishing too. When the camera boat hooked up they drove over to Henry's boat and handed him the rod then they started filmed him reeling in the fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outllaw Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 yep we want reality. so there it is.. watching a fishing show ,the only reality is the commercials lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb4me Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 I actually enjoy wicked Tuna. I have this season on the PVR and im 2 weeks behind.Its true I do get anxiety watching sometimes.. My wife cant stand catch a contractor for that reason..Im a contractor (that takes pride in my work) and some of these hillbilly hacks they find crack me up, the wife on the other hand cant sit thru the show..It winds her right up...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillM Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 I wish it wasn't so scripted.. That being said, if it wasn't it would probably be REALLY boring. Some of the dialog is so bad, you just gotta laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Posted November 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Ya, but I love how Hard Merch always has a smoke in his mouth and seems to be the only "real" fisherman out there. All the rest seem scripted. He does it to make a living, the rest, I'm not so sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leaf4 Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 (edited) I watch it, hard merch always seems like he's behind or playing the underdog card, that's just the shadow that is cast on him for some reason, I actually like Tyler and Paul together, they seem to work well together and Tyler is pretty impressive and his ambition is second to no one IMO Edited November 3, 2014 by Lucas F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerritt Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Wicked tuna? What network ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinker Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Natgeo....great show. S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishnsled Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 I've watched the show. I'd like to know the "reality" behind the filming of these shows like Wicked Tuna, Mountain Men etc. A guy I was fishing with a couple of weeks ago was the camera boat for one of Henry W's shows a couple of years ago. The fishing was tough so the camera boat was fishing too. When the camera boat hooked up they drove over to Henry's boat and handed him the rod then they started filmed him reeling in the fish. Henry is still up to his old tricks eh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 (edited) This is my team and if it were not for Paul,I wouldnt be watching it. This guy is stupid crazy. Reminds me of Jerry Lewis. Edited November 3, 2014 by Brian B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey buoy Posted November 3, 2014 Report Share Posted November 3, 2014 Like every reality show take it for what it is,not how it got there .I like Ice Road Truckers,also made for tv,but you don't think to hard into it and it's somewhat entertaining.Like Wicked Tuna for the same reasons.Mountain Men?, another good one !! . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb4me Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 This is my team and if it were not for Paul,I wouldnt be watching it. This guy is stupid crazy. Reminds me of Jerry Lewis. I really get a kick out of his laugh..His new partner this year on the other hand.Pinhead trust fund punk...Sigh he drives me nuts..lol . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmer Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 The guys that sit up on the bow extension and spear the tuna in open water are crazy. That's one way to cut out the cost of rod, reel, line and bait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 The guys that sit up on the bow extension and spear the tuna in open water are crazy. That's one way to cut out the cost of rod, reel, line and bait! And air plane fuel is cheap? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxgoaler Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Hard Merchandice always seems to be the underdog , and Paul seems to be a true Bostonian, comical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Posted November 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Ya, I like the Paul/Tyler combo this year. At least nobody shoved Tyler on the dock recently, that was nasty!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Ironmaker Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 That's what I call entertainment, watching guys go to work, fun wow. Ice Road Truckers is my educated and rather cerebral wife's favorite guilty pleasure. I have tried to watch it and have to leave the room it's so badly scripted. Then I find I have to come back to see what happened for the same cliff hanger before each and every commercial, did the 52 foot rig go through the ice and drown the trucker in a cold watery icy grave? They never go through the ice and no one ever dies on reality TV but we wait for something that never happens on TV. Trucking on those roads is a dangerous profession at 27 cents a kilometer to boot. Wicked Tuna is my guilty pleasure, I started watching it this summer and I haven't missed a North vs. South. Nice fat in the vein, good marble, great core you should get maybe,,,,,,, wait,,,,,,,,wait,,,,,,, $18.00 a pound. It's the same show each and every episode and I love it, the Dr's don't know why. The sad thing is these guys are risking their lives, that's not scripted and that's real, and that Tuna is going for $1000.00 a pound or more in Tokyo, that's not fair. Someone is making huge money and it's not the fisherman. Another good one is the fishing guys in Newfoundland, it's Cold Water Cowboys, they are speaking English in Canada and we need English subtitles to know what they are saying. that's funny. Ontario and NFLB, two distinct cultures separated by a common language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherman7 Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 The guy who captains the "Dot Com" boat is also a pilot for Jet Blue. He says as he saying goodbye to the passengers he always gets "Where have I seen you before" look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Fun show....just wish they would watch their editing and maybe take it more seriously. (i guess they don't have to however). in the middle of a single fight of a single fish I saw the reel change four times and the weather conditions change three times. stuff like that bugs me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Meat eater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillM Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Fun show....just wish they would watch their editing and maybe take it more seriously. (i guess they don't have to however). in the middle of a single fight of a single fish I saw the reel change four times and the weather conditions change three times. stuff like that bugs me. Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 there is an east coast fishing board where hard merchandise posts on. apparently there is quite a bit of use of cinder blocks tied to rods and chucked overboard so they can get all the right angles of a rod doubling over.... typical realty tv show. but still better than much of what is on tv these days. been watching "Rome" lately....now that is a good show!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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