A captain calls his eleven-year-old son to come onboard for luck which seems to work as they make a catch so big they struggle getting back to the dock.

The season starts off with problems for several ships and their crews as one tests caught on a sandbar and another loses a huge catch to mechanical failures.

The competitive 2012 Alaskan Salmon season has begun and the captains of the Night's Edge, thge Paragon and the North Crow quickly head to Cook Inlet.