SOLO CATCH AND COOK MISSION. Welcome to AUSTRALIA

Just here, have a look at this. There they are. Go, go, go! Ha ha ha ha! Well, they're way too quick for me to catch them. That was a big, big, about five or six kangaroos just floating around here. Look at this country. This is what I like to call God's country. What's going on, doggies? Welcome back to another video, and welcome to Australia! We have finally made it home. I'm back in my hometown, Australia, and it is probably one of the best feelings in the world. So, I just went running through the bush there, chasing a couple of kangaroos. It is bloody amazing to be home. So today, what we're doing, what we've got on the cards today is a catch and cook. So, I've been travelling down this track for actually quite a while now, trying to find the coast. It's way up that way. So, we've got the new rig. I'll run you guys through this car in a little while, but we're home, baby, and it feels bloody good. We've got beanies on, we've got jackets on, trackie pants, and work boots. I promised myself that I would never put these work boots on ever again, and as soon as I got outside, it was that cold, I had to chuck them on. It is that cold right now. We are currently sitting at, I don't know if you guys can see this. Where is it? Can you see that? Four degrees, man. So right now, it is four degrees, freezing cold, little bit different from those bloody Indonesian mornings, but I am so pumped right now. Alright, we're going to keep punching up this track, find the ocean, go catch the fish on the noodle rod, do a catch and cook. I can't even contain my excitement right now. I've been waiting for this for a long time. Let's do this, man. So sick. There are kangaroos bloody everywhere, mate. Good morning! How you going, big dog? Well, there she is. The big blue. Look at her. Absolutely frothing. Alright, we're going to put the noodle rod to work. We're going to go chase a very vicious fish today. This is it. So this is a place I used to come to like, I don't know, six or seven years ago when I was like, way back in the day, and we used to get heaps of like, tailor, herring, all that kind of stuff here, so that is what we're going for today. We're just going to put the noodle rod to the absolute test. So there's a tiny little patch of reef which is sitting at the back there. You can see the waves breaking on here. In here is a nice beautiful little bit of a gutter and it used to be a pretty good fishing spot. We got a couple of nice mulloway off the back here before. All I want to do today is catch a fish and cook it up. The first, actually this is going to be the very first catch and cook in Australia, so let's get moving. I'm going to set up the noodle rod and let's get out there. If we get a tailor on the noodle rod, I am going to be absolutely froth towning. Because that's like, um, that's just absolutely going to be dope. This is too good, man. It actually looks really really really bloody good out there. I am so excited to get out there. Alright, we've got two rods. We've got the noodle rod, we've got a little bit of a bigger rod but I think I'm just going to start off with the noodle rod. It's um it's looking pretty good. There's a little bit of weed in the water but Oi, look at this. I can't even get out there quick enough. How do you open this thing? Brand spanking new noodle rod. Look at this. She's brand new. Alright, hold up hold up. We're getting way too bloody excited right now. What we're going to do first is we're going to do a super quick barista session because look, you just can't start the day without a bloody coffee, can you? So this thing hasn't been started in four or five years and it just started first crack. Alright let's go. We need to get some fish on the board. This thing hasn't been cleaned in about four or five years. Here we go, fill her up. Righto, fire this bad boy up again. The billy is going to go straight on there. Little bit of ---- floating around in there but it should be alright. Righto, that's that done. Cup. Boom. Coffee. This is literally about three years old but it's going to have to do. Alright, that'll do for now. Let's get this noodle rod set up. We're getting out there. That's good. Get your hands all nice and toasty. Alright, so the fish that we're going to target today is something called a tailor and they're just like a super vicious, very very sharp teeth fish. If you're from WA or Australia you know what a tailor is but a lot of people that watch these videos aren't from Australia so probably because the noodle rod is such a light set up we'll just use a little baby popper. Something like that. Usually these are pretty dynamite in this area where they were a few years ago anyway so we'll bang this little popper out and if the noodle rod is too much it's not enough smoke for these fish we'll get the bigger rod out but we've got to see if there's fish here first anyway. It is looking pretty bloody good though. We'll give it a run. Holy moly. That'll get the heart going. Oh that's lovely. Dump in a bit of this water and we are going fishing. Good pour, good pour, great pour. Look at it all going down there. Yeah. Look at that. We're out of here. Neck this coffee. What I've done, I've just quickly changed that to a little 10 gram. This is a really old lure we used to use in Indonesia because I remember now there's a hole out the back there where we used to get a lot of fish so I need to be able to cast out way out past that breaker and that little popper won't make it out far so I'm going to change the lure up quickly. There's another hole here where you can see the waves aren't breaking so one there, one there. Let's get it. Smash this coffee. I'm going to get into it. Welcome to Australia. I've missed this like you wouldn't believe. Oh look at them all. There's about 50 there. 50, 50 of them. Yes, there we go. That's a herring again. Man, there's so many out there. Look at him. Jumping in the waves. This is what it's all about. I'm getting a fish every single cast. So these little suckers here I don't know, I'll get these hooks out because that's deadly. So that there is a herring and that is actually a massive herring. That's quite a big herring right there. See the two black dots on its tails? The yellow eye. All of the beautiful yellow dots down inside there. That there is a beautiful herring. I'm going to keep this one just in case we don't get Taylor but look, to be honest there are hundreds. I'm getting a fish every cast. So what I might do is get a couple more of these beautiful fish. We can cook one of these up later but what I want to do is get a Taylor so I might have to put on a bigger lure and we'll see if we can get a Taylor but I'll put this guy out of his misery. We'll see if we can get a couple more. This is hella fun on the Nuderon. Alright, second cast. Here we go. There we go. This is actually ridiculous. That lure just hit the water. I had three winds and we've got another one on. There are hundreds of them out there. Look at the rod. Oh, there he goes. That is incredible. Watch this. Ready? You don't even have to cast far. Wind it in as fast as you can. Oh, they're after it. Look at them all. Look at them all. Oh my god. There's like hundreds there. Come on. There we go. That's a fish every cast. Alright, I'm going to keep this one for breakfast and we're going to chuck on a different fishing setup. This is where you lose them every time. Go, get him up. Lovely. Check this out. It is so much fun. There is another beautiful little herring. They're actually pretty good sized fish there so that probably isn't a big fish. In reality the fish that get caught but these are a beautiful little bread and butter fish. Killer. I'm going to chuck him in the Esky. I might get one more just in case we don't get any Taylor today but that is a killer fish. We'll get one more and then I'm going to step up the gear to a big... I can't even speak English. I'm fizzing that hard. I'll step it up to a little bit of a bigger lure so these guys don't attack the lure but frustration right now boy. Watch this. Ready? I'm just going to bang it out on the edge of that foam there. Just let it go under the surface and start winding. 5, 4, 3 that's a fish. Every single cast. Are you kidding? Definitely not in Indonesia anymore that's for sure. This is incredible. Another little specimen. That's a good fish. That one's a little bit bigger. That's breakfast for sure. Beautiful. So sick. That is the best fun you can have with your pants on. Look at this. I've still got coffee and it's still hot. That's how crazy the fish are out there. There's millions of them so what I'm going to do because there's just hundreds of them every single cast I'm getting a herring so we've got 3 herring right now for breakfast which is perfect. It's the perfect amount of food for breakfast but I come here to get a tailor so I haven't caught a tailor in years obviously because we've been stuck in Indonesia so we're going to chuck on a little bit bigger of a lure maybe a popper or a big stick bait chuck it way, way out there because that's where you want to be. You want to be casting into these foamy areas and the Nura rod is just coming short even though I've put a metal lure on so change our lures up get out there and hopefully we can pick up a tailor before that sun comes up too high. Mate I tell you what if something doesn't want to eat that they have serious issues so that is a Tempest 110 floating stick bait absolute dynamite for tailor sick lure. I've got that on the Sirtate 3000 the Daiwa reel. Same rod and reel we're using in Indo so hopefully fingers crossed what we can do we can pull a tailor off the reef here. It is getting a little bit on in the day it's now 9.49 in the morning so I'm a little bit late but um we have got a beautiful feed we've got three big dog herring in the esky down there see if we can pick up a tailor because that's what I come for but if not it is all good man look at this this is what I live for I've missed this it's so sick oh yeah look at that thing go that's what I'm talking about that is in the danger zone man come on big tailor oh oh my god that's first cast in the danger zone oh my god we've got a tailor that's gotta be a tailor that's good we've got a good fish on here that's first cast wow are you actually kidding me dude I'm not even joking first cast with that 110 mil lure and we're on this is a good fish mate this is no herring hey the old secret spot hey still holds fish after five years come on get up here oh you that was just hectic my reel just went psycho I've got a knot in the line we've got the fish we came for a doosh you've gotta be kidding me very very first cast with that lure and check this out that is the fish we've actually come for this morning so that is a tailor and it is I can't believe the first cast mate so that is a beautiful little tailor so these have to be 300mm long and you can keep 8 of these fish or if they're over 500mm long you can only keep 2 so these grow pretty big but look at that big set of teeth on there absolute dream boat fish first cast that is unbelievable so I'm going to keep him in the esky we've got a beautiful beautiful breakfast now we've got 3 herring 1 tailor that is enough for me I don't need any more fish for the day the rest is going to be catch release that's killer let's see if we can get one second cast absolutely beautiful fish welcome back to Australia every cast you get a fish that's incredible mate oh yeah that is what I'm talking about that is good oh that's a fish that's another fish man is it nah it's got to be weed sea weed oh no it's a fish man that's a tailor oh my goodness you're joking we've got another one on second cast after that fish that's yeah that's a tailor that's a beautiful one look same size big jumps big jumps onto the beach look at that come on big dog look at this that is another beautiful tailor look at this second cast after I got that first one I'm about to get a hook in me hand here but that is another beautiful tailor same size maybe a little bit smaller than the first one but he is absolutely there goes me fingers he's absolutely nailed this lure if I can stop him from dancing around and look at that hooks perfectly in the side of the mouth that is another specimen of a fish I've got enough fish to last me I've got enough fish for breakfast anyway so I'm going to let this little baby go I legitimately just said I'm just about to get a hook in my hand and look at that the hook just went straight into my hand and luckily I just got it out before the barb went into my skin I love this ---- this is the best 3 hooks in my hand the whole entire barb went in there 1,2,3 at separate times be careful when you're playing with slippery fish kids anyway let's get this guy back in the water let's see if we can get 3 for 3 this is incredible see ya look at him go yes he definitely did a number on my hand that's for sure alright let's go get another one this is too good to be true alright here we go cast number 5 this has got to get the fish ready watch this I told you cast number 5 we're going to get a fish and guess what we've got another tailor on right now he has absolutely smashed that lure look at that the hooks are completely gone 5 casts after the last one we got a fish this place is dynamite this place used to be amazing 5 years ago and it still is look at that epic actually I might keep this one for a little bit of a feeder home tonight or we'll do a cook up down the beach start a fire for dinner that's amazing look at that beautiful fish ha ha I tell you what we did bloody alright so I am done for the day I don't need any more fish we've got 3 beautiful herring 2 big tailor that's plenty of food for me that we are going to have one hell of a breakfast all I wanted to do was come down here and do a catch and cook video and we've got the food all we need to go do is cook it now the wind has actually picked up it's pretty strong it's like a strong south westerly wind right now so fishing's over it's done for the day this spot is an absolute little fire spot still holds fish I used to come here many many years ago so what I'm going to do probably what I'll do is just cook the herring if I can get this esky open oh man what's going on here righto I'm just going to cook up the 3 herring that we got so pretty much all I'm going to do instead of filleting this fish I'm just going to scale it and we'll cook it whole so we'll just rip these scales off this fella 3 herring and cook them whole it's going to be killer so if I'm going to cook a little fish like this whole usually what I'll do is rip the gills out you don't need the gills like that take the guts out and you're just left with a perfect little frame full of meat it's going to be good and it's so easy to clean fish this way like that's it it's done nothing inside the gills are gone that there just goes straight on the frying pan no scales that's perfect so I'll do this to the other 2 in here and then we're on look at this big tailor alright so those fish have been cleaned I've just had to spin the car around because that wind is actually starting to push a fair bit so fish are cleaned they're ready to go straight on the frying pan and I probably haven't introduced you guys properly to this big rig yet so this is my brand new car absolutely frothing with it so it's a big dirty Toyota Land Cruiser troop carrier it is an absolute beast I'm currently trying to build it up into a car which we can completely live out of but for now it's pretty good just sitting on 35's 3 inch lift pretty much slowly just trying to do it up into a car where we can absolutely completely live out of so we need to do a lot of work on the inside but right now everywhere I've pointed this car it's gone front and back diff lock GXL model it's my dream car so I'm pretty frothed with it we've got a lot of work to do on the inside trying to turn this into an actual house but for now I'm pretty happy this is going to be our kitchen for this morning right here. I'll do a full run down video of the car in another video but right now we've got some beautiful herring to chuck straight on the frying pan so let's get stuck into that alright welcome to the field day kitchen here we go little bit of oil completely in this random jar so all of these things that I'm going to be cooking with today are like 4 to 5 years old so I've had like an old box of camping gear which is this stove this frying pan, this knife it's all been sitting in a storage unit for like a long time probably 4 years since I've used it so if I get sick see what happens. That coffee this morning went down like an absolute treat but um yeah we'll see how we go this salt is probably going to be alright we'll see how we go anyway what I'm going to do with these fish we're just cooking them whole exactly like that straight on the frying pan I'm just going to chuck 3 slices down it's side just so it cooks a little bit quicker you know just like that 3 slices on the fish we're going to rub salt into each of those fish chuck them, actually we'll fire this bad boy up now every time without a doubt she fires up righto let's do this little bit of ancient salt, I'm going to smash that on there give that a good rub, get the salt in those cuts you've made same on the other side, cooking these bad boys whole is always the best way because when you fillet them you lose a lot of meat they're not big fish so 1, 2 and the big boy that's quite big for a herring that one there look at that, 3 fish in the frying pan with views like this, how's that for a kitchen and just like that breakfast is served so we're going to go take a seat down here somewhere, I've got no chairs, I've got nothing in the car right now so full primitive style, not so primitive with a frying pan but you know what I mean let's just sit down here have a health feed, look at the views and we might even go for a forby mission, look at that, that's breakfast that is a breakfast of champions here we go the first fish I've caught in Australia in a bloody long time look at that, juicy white oh man look at this that is way, this is the best way to start a day I don't even know what I'm going to do for the rest of the day just go and explore, it's pretty windy right now wow, that was actually an incredibly bloody good session fishing, it was like nearly every cast we got a fish so sick I'm so excited for this Australia adventures this is just a little bit of a little bit of a warm up video before we get stuck in, we've got a lot of stuff to do still in um, we can't really hit the road just yet, we've got a lot of things to sort out, we've got to build this car up into a big rig so I want to make the back of the car like a full on house where we can live, we can edit videos in the back of the car there's still a lot of things to do but I'm going to be doing a little quick run around videos just keep my keep my fishing and adventure addiction at a low and um obviously keep making videos for you mad dogs but it's bloody good to be home that's it just like that breakfast is over, that was absolutely incredibly good I could just about go for round two you know all I've got to do is get the neuter rod out cast out there, there will still be hundreds and hundreds of herring out there nah, what I'm going to do I'm going to make a coffee and um those Taylor that we got like I said I'm going to use them for mulloway bait so next week, well actually in the next few days, if the weather stays good for me, fingers crossed it does we're going to be driving up the coast that way chasing one of my favourite fish of all time to catch so hopefully the weather stays good we're going to use these so that there we're going to use as fishing bait to catch even a bigger fish so it was good that we got two Taylor I should have caught a few more but oh well that's the way it goes that was an absolutely bloody beautiful breakfast I am going to love his and leave his I probably might even catch a few more herring but you guys don't want to see that because it's just literally cast boom, cast boom so I'll see you guys very soon in another video and I'm going to start ramping up this Australia footage thanks for watching, much love me, the big rig and probably Mac10 and we'll see you guys very soon ow! ooh! 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