Solo Camping Catch And Cook Because My Girlfriend Left The Country

My girlfriend, Vicky, she had to leave the country. We don't really know how long for exactly when she'll be back. A lot of stuff going on. I'll explain more as the video goes on. But for now, Strad and I, we've picked a beautiful remote beach. We're going to cook up what we've caught. But yeah, Vicky's gone. You're probably wondering why. Why would Vicky just get up and bail? Well, it wasn't her choice, really. Well, I got one word for you guys. Visa. I hate visas. So a few years back now, Vicky was traveling through Australia. She moved to my tiny little town and sort of the story goes on and on and on. I have made videos on it in the past. Our first video together. Actually, I do touch on all this exactly how we met. So go watch it after this. And just like that, Vicky's been a huge part of the channel ever since. Oh, it's actually amazing. We're going to dive. Simple, we're going to dive. You want to come on the island, Strada? Go on. Oh, you got it. You got it. You got it. Oh, we got fire, baby. The white sand, blue waters. It's so nice. Look at all the coconut trees. They're huge. Well done, Vicky. And now she's gone. Oh, man. Get out of here. Anyway, these guys have known her for a long time now. If you aren't subscribed, subscribe right now, because you wouldn't have missed any of this. I will give you the full story of what we hope is going to happen in the future when I'm eating, because I'm getting starving. Got to go for a quick little send on the jet ski with Strada. Going up. Good girl. Let's go. Big hit. Big hit. Oh, this is the first big fish. I can't believe it. Just absolutely smashed it. This is the big fish, too. Absolutely just. Oh, no, I dropped it. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that is how you drop a heap of big tuna. I'm going to steam back to camp and get this show going. Woo. A couple of small sticks. Come on. Don't be shy. Up you come. Oh, yeah. We got fire, baby. Oh, I was actually away filming one hell of a heli send when I got a phone call for Vicky. So we shot back home. I spent the last week with Vicky, most of it's off camera, but it got one last send in with the crew to go get a feed. It's actually what we're cooking up tonight. I'll roll those clips on right now. Good bloody morning, everyone. Got the crew with us. We're heading out to the remote islands. It's going to be an insane day. Oh, where are they? Oh, they're under the boat. I can bloody. Look at that. Oh, Sam. See ya. He's off. We suited up, we dropped in. It's time for a couple of deep drops. We've actually never dove this spot. We sanded out a bit of ground. It comes up from 30 slowly to about 25, 23 on top of these rock ledges that just house so many fish. This is the first drop of the day. So we're just trying to warm up the lungs. Semi's taking a dive to scout it. Normally, one of us go down, have a look around, see what's there. Come back up and tell the rest of the boys sort of what's down there, what's on offer. That's why spearfishing is so good. Selective, sustainable. We're basically picking what we want from a supermarket down there. Semi looks up, a few batfish. Big Spanish mackerel comes in, droppy down the bottom. He's lined up the Spanish mackerel. Boom. Lights out. Good being that you've put the fish out of its misery and it's not going to spook anything else because it's gone straight up. On a side and it's actually a big flasher now. It's attracting all the other fish in. This is potentially the bad side of it. That fish has now become a dead weight. Spanish mackerel normally take off like a rocket and sometimes even tow you towards the surface. While Semi's trying to return from his first drop, his lungs haven't had time to stretch. He hasn't got a good breath hold. So he's on his way back up. And you sort of see him looking at me. I've got my eyes on him at all time. And I dive down and see he's struggling a bit. I take the weight of the fish, which just relieves a bit of stress, a bit of tension, so Semi can get up, get that breath. A quick cheeky little thumbs up and Semi is on to a good fish. Start for Semi with the stealth shot. Put him to sleep. There's some good jommies down there. He's down for a little bit. Nice little Spanish mackerel. I was looking at a few other fish, but this guy looks good. Yeah, looks pretty good. He's spiny, mate. Spiny, yeah. Yeah, he just pretty much rolled over. And that was it, he didn't get up much of a bite at all, yeah. As I sort of started sinking down slowly towards the bottom, I spotted those job fish. There's a little bit of a hunting technique that I'm going to explain to you guys as I go. But I'm dropping down, seeing a few different species. Big old potato cod. See him there lurking. That thing was bigger than me, I swear. You want to be below jobbies or swimming directly at them. You want to make yourself look small. Another technique is just blending in with the reef. So as I level out on the bottom, I look over my shoulder to make sure, yep, I'm blending in with the reef. And as soon as I do that, the jobbies appear. So I put a bit of herd on him just to keep him away from that reef. Feel the kicks in the line. It's actually really exhilarating until you realize that you're 20 meters deep. You're running out of breath and you need to get to the top. Away we go, up, up, up, up. And then like a well-oiled machine, down comes Semi to make sure everything was OK. Beautiful job fish. One of my favorite species to hunt. I was right down deep, probably about 23 to 25. And that ledge was loaded. Big, big potato cod down there. Bait fish, glass fish. And I've seen these jobbies and that's all I wanted. But I had to get low and low and low. And they finally gave me a long shot. And that's all she wrote. That brings us straight back to where we are right now. Good news, I got a beautiful jobbie for dinner tonight. Bad news, Vicky's left the country. But we're going to get stuck straight into this because I am absolutely bloody starving. Oop, sand. I have filleted a jobbie for you guys before. You can watch that video right there after this one. So I'm just going to only quickly, quickly touch on this. But same thing as most fish, outline it straight through there. Straight like that. Push it through to the back of the tail, down like that. Strider will get the tail as always. Once you've done the outline, you can outline the whole fish if you guys want. I tend to just do this method mostly. The next cut's quite a deep cut. Full length of the blade if you can. Pushing down on the skeleton or the frame of the fish. Going all the way down to your touch, that center spine bone there. Along there, all the way down to the tail. When you get to that center spine bone, go up and push down along the fish. Separating it. Boom, boom, boom. Over that, a couple of rib bones there. You don't really need any of that. So you can go, go boom, chop through the pin bones there, over the gut. You don't want to pop through the gut. Under the fin, cut over those rib bones, over the gut there and then along the back of the fish and and there you go. A beautiful job fish fillet. I'm going to chop this guy into cubes, get him on the kebab, get it ready and get stuck into this, guys. I am so bloody excited about this. Whoo! All right, fillet the fish. Got the setup ready. This is bloody the hardest part of the night. How about burning your bloody fingers? Welcome to Brodie and Strider's kitchen. Come on Strider, want some fish? Come on. I've already got stuck straight into it. Chopped up most of the stuff, got everything ready. I'm making fish skewers, kebabs, whatever you want to bloody call them. But basically all it is, is fish on a bed of rocket here. A bit of green ----. Got some red ----. Ava, a bit of cheese over here and some secret plum sauce. All this stuff here, Vicky actually bought it for me before she left. All these wooden bowls and all this cool stuff. So I'm so stoked to use it, especially this thing. Give me the stick, Strider. Oh no, she's hot, hot. Let me move that out of the way. All right, that should cool her down a bit. Not only is jobfish one of the best fish in the ocean to hunt, it's also so delicious. It's got like a firm meat, but it's still soft and it like melts in your mouth if you cook it properly. Righto, there are me kebabs ready. Strider, want some fish? Bit of red ----. Righto, kebab one, it's really hot. Kebab two, kebab three, five. Last but not least, kebab number six. Look at that. While the fish is cooking away there, it won't take very long, like five minutes on each side. I'm going to make my little salad here. I just realized I did not bring any knives or forks like normal, so I'm going to be eating with my fingers. Put the cheese on now, and I'm just going to put the fish kebabs on the top here and like get stuck in. Got my red and green ---- salad there, ready to roll. Fish over here, I'm going to turn my, oh yeah, baby. And as soon as I do this, I'm going to chuck the plum sauce on top. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. The moment you've all been waiting for, the secret plum sauce. Oh, look at it. Oh, I can smell it already. I'll fill you guys in a bit more about what's going on while we're finally waiting for these beautiful, delicious little morsels to cook. I still don't really understand the whole visa thing, but it is a complicated, long, stressful process, really. So obviously we want Vicky to be in Australia. I'm just wrong. Sorry, I got ADHD for those who don't know. Obviously, we want Vicky to stay in Australia forever. I don't really know. It's all messy. But in a nutshell, she cannot come back in right now. We are going for a visa that will let her. We don't know how long that's going to take. There is one more option. I'm going to wait until I eat and I'll tell you guys at the end of the video. I want your opinion on what I should do. These are definitely done. Scoop them up with my new little scooper. Come on, baby. Oh, it's hot, it's hot, it's hot. The fire back going so we can enjoy our romantic dinner strata. It's me and you. Let's finish my beautiful piece of food art that I'm just going to totally destroy with my fingers in like one second. That's pretty good. Look at that. Let's taste strata. Oh, I cook that fish so good. That one's for you, strata. That fish is beautiful. The last option, I can leave Australia. I could literally pack up my things and just go and meet Vicky anywhere in the world, a tropical island, Hawaii, Tahiti. I don't know anywhere in the world. I'm just not sure about it. I've never really left the nest before. I've never really left strata before, but I should go after it, right? I need you guys to let me know in the comments what I should do. Get this to 100k likes and I'll just leave. I won't even think about it. I'll just go and I'll bring you guys with us and we'll send it until Vicky gets let back into Australia, which I don't even know when that is at the moment. Thank you guys so much for watching strata. I have a hell of a lot of food that we're not even going to get close to, but we'll bring this home with us tomorrow. I'm going to roll out the swag, which I'm going to do right now. Actually, let's get the swag strata. That's a wrap, baby. Subscribe right now. Woo. Did you miss Vicky? Huh? Did you miss Vicky? Yeah, me too.