Rico Bosco goes commercial fishing on Bosco Industries

Bosco Industries works like this: Rico takes someone else's job for a day and finds out the hard way how much harder it is than it looks. This time it's fishing, and the episode clips start before the boat even leaves.

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Bosco’s boat day got off to a rocky start but the bass were biting. @junklessfoods

The official line is that the day got off to a rocky start but the bass were biting. The clip shows the setup, the boat and the bait, so you'll have to watch the full episode to see exactly what went wrong early. The episode is also a Junkless sponsorship, which suits a show where the job is the whole joke. Earlier episodes put Rico on construction, golf-course work and pest control, and a fishing boat fits that list of blue-collar jobs.

The bit fans have shared most has nothing to do with fishing. On the water, Rico tried his own version of the Greasy Pole, the famous event at St. Peter's Fiesta in Gloucester, Massachusetts. There, contestants try to walk a 40-foot wooden pole sticking out over the harbor to grab a red flag at the end. The real pole is covered in grease, and the winner gets carried through the streets of Gloucester. Rico's pole was dry.

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Rico attempting the Greasy Pole Challenge (minus the grease)

It ends the way just about every Greasy Pole run ends: in the water, followed by a wet climb back onto the stern. And he did it without the grease. Real Fiesta contestants deal with a pole covered in bacon fat, Crisco and fish guts, and they still come out bloodied. Rico got the easy version and still went in, which is why this is the clip people are sharing.

The full Commercial Fishing episode is up now on Rico's YouTube channel. Watch it for the rocky start the clips hold back, and for whether the bass showed up the way the official account says they did.