SMOKED GIANT MACKEREL Catch And Cook (Rescued Fish & Mating Turtles) Meet And Greet - Ep 125

Oh, there's heaps of them Strider. Yikes! Gotcha! Oh! Oh, sturdy, sturdy. Me and Strider were just cruising along and we seen this fish flapping around on top of the surface. And I tried for like 20 minutes to try and just help it down and it would not go down. It kept coming back up. And all it took was for me to hop in the water and swim it down that 5 metres. Oh my god, that's all he needed was help to get to the bottom. And he's equalised his pressure himself. And he is going to be fine. Live to see another day, man. I love that. It was so cool. I've never done that before. Oh! Yes! G'day guys, welcome back to another episode. Brodie's got two squids, Brodie's got two squids. I'm pretty happy with myself. I've just come out here to get a little bit of lunch and straight away, boom, two squids. That's all I need, baby. And I'm so, so excited. That's not what this episode's about at all. This is just a bonus. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to clean these squids real quickly and cook them up for lunch. After this, I'll just head straight home. But the other day, the last trip in the boat, me and the boys went out wide and we went spearing and Brodie got a big mack, like a monster mack, I'm talking. I think it was over 20 kilos. Perfect dog. Oh, sick, bro. That's heavy. How's this thing? Big mack. I was on the bottom looking for reef fish and when I looked up to start heading back up, this guy come darting in straight at me, come so close and I seen the girth on him and how big his wings were there and put a shot on him. But I actually got him through the gill plate there. Spear went all the way through and I was afraid the spear was going to fall out at the end when I was fighting it. So, jab, second shot in. Put it asleep, easier fight, no sharks around. Yeah, that's a big fish. Not the only bad thing, but I pumped it. So, what I want to do today is once I've done this, I want to go to the shop and buy a fish smoker and I want to smoke myself some mack. I've never done it before, but a few of the boys around the place have done it and told me it's... So, I'll just quickly get... I'll just quickly sort out these squid, get them on ice and start heading back to the ramp, head back into town, cook a bit of squid up for lunch and then I'll go down to the shop, grab that smoker, come back and we'll just... We'll wing it. We'll go from there. Whoa! Oh, slap him! Get off! Something about being the ultimate third wheel by two turtles, get it on. Don't mind me. Oh, that guy's actually missing a whole back fin because it's been bit by a shark. It's only got three fins. I'm not joking. This guy's swimming at us now. I'm not sure if you can see, I don't want to go too close. He might come over. Can you guys see? Outside, back corner, there's a whole bit of his shell missing. What a quick little strike mission that was for lunch. So good. I'm straight back into the kitchen. I'm going to cook up myself some squid. I just got some mackie out of the freezer. That's from the defrost. I'm going to just chop them up in the rings, throw in some egg, I'll get some breadcrumbs going on, straight in the pan. We got fire, baby! Lemon! Secret sauce. I put too much in my mouth. That is absolutely beautiful. That's my kind of lunch, you know what I'm saying, Strider? You want a bit? Here, come on. Up. Oh, good crab, Strider. Good crab. I'm just going to smash a few of these and we'll shoot down the shop and get ourselves a smoker. All right, ladies and gentlemen, me and Strider, we're heading back down the beach. We're meeting up with Jacko, Kat and Isla. I just bought myself a smoker. And I'm very, very excited about this. I've got my mackie, I just chopped that up at home. And man, it's still absolutely beautiful out there. Just quietly. Is it very nice? Look in the water. In the water? Oh. Throw it. Jacko has just left. He has to go pick up a secret surprise that you guys will find out about in the next couple of episodes. But I can't tell you just yet. You just wait. You just wait, guys. Anyway, I'm going to quickly try and set this up. Some... Winter is definitely over. Like, it is hot. The flies are out. Let's see how it's making. Oh. Boop. Portable smoker. Special instructions. We recommend that you wash the smoker thoroughly with warm, soapy water before use. Suggestion for the use of new purchase. Clean and prepare the fish, leaving the scales and skin intact. I didn't do that either. Place fish on clean surface and sprinkle salt and brown sugar onto the flesh and rub in... in gently. Please leave for a period to allow the salt and sugar to penetrate. I didn't bring any of that either. All right, so I'm just going to skip straight to... You know what? So what you want to do first step, guys, in Brodie's MasterChef smoking of the mackies, you want to tip this sawdust... I probably put heaps in. No, no, you want a layer of sawdust on the bottom. Spread it out evenly. Man, it's going to be smoking up in here. I think I put too much in there. What's pretty much a no-brainer, as far as I can see, is this here is going to have methylated spirits in it. It's going to create heat. I'm going to put this on top of the heat. This surface here is going to heat up, which is going to make this sawdust start smoking. When that starts smoking, I'm obviously going to put the fish on this tray here. The tray is going to go on top, and then on top of that, when I start seeing smoke, I'll put the lid on, give it 15 minutes. Here's me mackie that I meant to put some salt and pepper on, and I didn't. I never feel... When it comes to methylated spirits or any fuel, you never want to do it all the way to the top. No way. It'll just burn. Oh, I got that on my hand. I should not do that with a lighter. I'll be right back. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. We got fire, baby. Yes! Look at that. It's like invisible fire. It's invisible fire. I'm so excited about this. It's a new way to cook fish, and man, I've tried a bit of D-man's the other day. Absolutely beautiful. So fingers crossed. My first attempt is all raw. I put nothing on it. It's just going to be that smoky flavor and that good chewy texture. Oh, I was so hungry. So I'll just hopefully wait a little bit, and it should start smoking soon, I'm guessing, and then I'll put the lid on when it starts really smoking. Already a little bit of smoke, guys. Already a little bit of smoke. Here we go. Be right back. Lid on the smoker. Didn't put it on properly. There we go. I'll see you in 15, 20 minutes. Righto, guys. Moment of truth. Hello. Here we go. So they're the ones that the wood chip blew all over, but these ones here, they look bloody beautiful, man. Do you just... Should I just bloody go for it? Oh, wow. That's actually unbelievable. There's nothing on it. Just standard smoked mackie. Look at that. Let's try that. Come here. Here you go, sweetie. Whoa, that went down the hatch, didn't it? Off you go, go on, off you go. Next stop, I'm flying to Perth tomorrow. Perth to Sydney. Sydney to Cairns, I think. And I'll see you guys in a couple of days. Chaos in the room before the meet and greet. We're meant to be there five minutes ago, but we're just getting ready. Fashionably late, as always. Are we ready? Yeah. This is nice. Oh, I'm so nervous I don't know why. Hello. Hi. Bro! What do you think, Broda? It's pretty cool. Never done this before. Nah. It's not like home on the beach. There's a lot more people here. Brody. This is awesome. It's so humbling. I did not think there was going to be this many people here. And all these beautiful people come down, they're hanging out. Reeling the new boat over there. We are fire, baby. That was bloody mind-melting. You're hurting? Yeah, but it was amazing. Everyone that come down. Look, it's recording. You turn it around. Hello, Isla. Take it around and tell who everyone is. Me first. Who am I? Brody. Yeah, okay. Next. Who am I? Mattiana. Yeah. Who's this? Ducky. Yeah. You have to face the camera over there. Aimee. Yes. Who's this? Uncle Sam. Who's this? Uncle T-man. And who's over there? Who's this over here? Who's this hiding? Star Wars. Yeah, you have to face the camera and then... Who's that? Daddy. And who's Lucky Love? Who's that? Mum? Yeah, you. Ready? We turn it. And this is Isla. Say hi. You did all that by yourself? Oh, she's got it. First four steps.