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00:06We're here in the East Gulf Country, mate, some of the most remote and spectacular country
00:12you're gonna see in the top end of Australia.
00:15A rounder speaks for itself, and we're here because we want to catch some awesome fish.
00:19It may not be as easy as what you think to get here.
00:22Definitely not, mate.
00:24Stick around, grab your chippies and your chicken burger, sit down and strap in because we are
00:29going on a wild ride up here in the remote country of East Arnhem.
00:49Go, Lexi, go!
01:03Big water I can see through there, mate.
01:05Looks pretty nice.
01:07The more remote we get, the better it gets.
01:12And there's gonna be river systems like this, mate, that we're gonna go and explore.
01:16Some of the stuff that we have never, ever been to.
01:19So where are you heading for, mate?
01:21What do you think?
01:23We're gonna try and get to this river system that I've always wanted to explore.
01:29And mate, I reckon it's gonna be next level.
01:33Town's good, mate.
01:35That's the type of stuff we're after.
01:37We'll see how we go.
01:39I think there's some salt pans ahead of us.
01:40There's tight bush tracks and creek crossings and all the above that we're used to in this
01:48remote country.
01:49Well, it's a bit soft.
01:53Yeah, it's turned into a real track now.
01:56That was the main road.
01:57Now we're on the track.
02:00I can see how much sand there is.
02:02If there is, I might have to drop a little bit out of our tyres this evening.
02:05Looks like we're straight into the swamp, mate.
02:08So you better get your swamping boots on.
02:11I don't own swamping boots.
02:14You're lucky I own shoes, Simon.
02:16I know.
02:17Oh, there's mud.
02:18Oh!
02:20You actually got my car from there.
02:22On my windscreen.
02:23How did you do that?
02:25All I can hear is Jason just stomping it.
02:29He showed me in mud from there.
02:34I told you, you better get your swamping boots on.
02:37All right, here we go.
02:39There's like two sections here.
02:40Windows are staying up.
02:42Not room enough for me to come through if I wait a bit.
02:44I'm going low for that one.
02:47Yeah, it was a little bit slippery there to start with.
02:49I thought I was going down.
02:51Well and truly, that's why I hit the gas.
02:53Tip toe.
02:54All right, coming in.
02:55Don't get too much mud on the trailer, mate.
03:03We're good.
03:04What are you doing?
03:05Play in the park for me, mate.
03:07Yeah, no worries this trailer.
03:09I thought it was going to be way worse than this.
03:11It looks a little bit interesting in front here.
03:14There was some sort of bush looking track to the side but it looked way too tight for us.
03:20Yeah, I'm just going to go low range and just sort of crawl through it.
03:23It'll be easier for me anyway.
03:26Oh, might stick to the wheels up here.
03:30Looks like it's a good angle there, Jase.
03:35Bloody hell.
03:36What's going on up there?
03:38Oh, just a bit of a jump up.
03:42Walk it up there, mate.
03:45No, it was going all right until I couldn't sort of climb across a section.
03:50Now I'm going to have to drive over the section.
03:53I'm just reversing up now, see if I can straddle it.
03:57What's that thing behind where my trailer is to stop me from going backwards?
04:01What's that doing?
04:02No, you're good.
04:03Just stay in the rough.
04:06Come on.
04:08Climb up.
04:09That's it.
04:12Now we're getting somewhere.
04:14Now it's a matter of staying up on you without slipping off.
04:19The trailer just needs to pop up out of that hole.
04:25There she goes.
04:27Do I go left or right?
04:31If I slide into that hole, I'm going to smash the door into the side of the gully.
04:36We're going to get a chainsaw, mate.
04:37Which way does that tree want to fall, Mitch?
04:40Back towards you?
04:42Of course it does.
04:50He's hollow, too.
04:52I'm surprised that tree's still up and alive.
04:55Look how hollow that is.
04:56Big didgeridoo, wouldn't it?
04:59Do it.
05:00Play it, Mitch.
05:00Play it.
05:02You boys are good to go over there.
05:04You're playing silly buggers.
05:08Don't mind us.
05:09We're just making a didgeridoo.
05:10Copy that.
05:13Wait a minute.
05:14Listen to this.
05:18Oh, that sounds like a didgeridoo.
05:21Come on.
05:22Stay up on that ledge.
05:23Come on.
05:24Get up there.
05:25That's it.
05:26Keep driving it.
05:27That trailer just needs to pop over the back now.
05:33Yeah, the trailer's like a big anchor.
05:36Do you reckon you'll drive from there or do you want to run your winch out to one of these
05:38trees?
05:38No, I think that's the winch because this is now want to do this.
05:42Yeah, the more you spin, you're going to...
05:43Yes, yes.
05:44Because I'm like, you're like, momentum.
05:46And I'm like, I'm trying to make momentum.
05:51This will give you a pull in the right direction anyway.
05:54Until you get sort of past there a bit.
05:57Come on, winch.
05:58Do your thing.
06:00Just going to pop the trailer over that edge.
06:03Oh, it's loading up.
06:05It's nearly there.
06:06It's just pushing in the hole.
06:09You're all good.
06:10Charlie's good.
06:11Come on, get up.
06:12Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up.
06:14Come on.
06:16Now you're going to have to reposition that winch almost at right angles to me because I'm just going to
06:20run into this tree.
06:21Keep going.
06:22Keep going.
06:24There you go.
06:25Oh.
06:26Drive again.
06:26There you go.
06:32That's better.
06:35Ah, I just needed a different angle.
06:37Now I've got to get the trailer up without it sliding.
06:44Oh, come on.
06:45Nice.
06:48Nice.
06:50That's it.
06:51Keep going.
06:55Going down on that left now.
06:57That's better.
07:00Now the trailer.
07:01Trailer's got to come through.
07:03Oh, that's well done.
07:06Just line me up, please, mate.
07:09Yeah, right.
07:10Down a little more.
07:12Hand out.
07:13Oh, sorry, left hand out.
07:14Yeah.
07:16Make up your mind.
07:21I think we would have been better off going bush.
07:24All right, mate.
07:26Way you go.
07:26Looks like you've chosen to go my way.
07:30I think yours is the safest way.
07:32There is another line to straddle the whole sheet and match, but I think then that runs risky just for
07:37you.
07:37It might have been really bad, so I'm just going to go with your option.
07:41You're watching go flat out.
07:44Oh, watch the trees.
07:47Oh, I just made it.
07:51He's trying to get up.
07:52Well, get out of the way.
07:53That's where the trailer's going.
07:57Oh, the trailer hooked up.
07:59He's in.
08:01He's got that.
08:01The trailer hooked up.
08:02You're in.
08:04Yeah, your trailer hooked up on the edge.
08:06Mine went over that edge, and that was the end of me.
08:10He's only just hung on.
08:11But you made it, mate.
08:13Good job.
08:14Thanks mate.
08:14I'm pretty happy with that, Ron.
08:16This is like home.
08:18It's like a home at Glasshouse, mate.
08:20What do you mean, Mitch?
08:21You don't drive D-Max's at Glasshouse.
08:24No, but I used some yellow car, the one I rolled there.
08:29That's great.
08:30That's awesome.
08:31You've instilled so much more confidence in me, Mitch.
08:34Go for it.
08:38He just wants to straddle the rut, doesn't he?
08:40Yeah.
08:42Oh.
08:44There you go.
08:44Side step.
08:45Well, I've seen Jason's face then.
08:48Oh.
08:50That's not so good.
08:53Yeah, you've nailed it.
08:55Looks like we should bust out onto a salt pan any second now.
08:59I can see something ahead of me that looks like a salt pan.
09:03Oh, that's a proper salt pan.
09:05He's busted out onto the salt pan.
09:08Oh, look at that.
09:09How specky is that?
09:12They go for miles.
09:15Wow.
09:17That's massive.
09:20We're definitely not going to drive across it there to our left.
09:23That would be all bad.
09:24Unless that's a...
09:25Is that a mirage?
09:28Here, mate.
09:29I'll go right there.
09:30Test it for you.
09:31Yeah, don't do that.
09:33Yeah, don't do that, Mitch.
09:36Okay.
09:36So ahead of me is a little obstacle-y thing.
09:40Looks like a little creek we've got to cross.
09:45Oh, the salt pan grease.
09:49Salt pan heaven.
09:51Oh, we've dealt with this stuff before.
09:54Mmm.
09:55Interesting.
09:56Alright.
09:58Although...
09:59It's hard enough on this side.
10:00Yeah.
10:01Mate, I thought you were talking about a little bit of mud.
10:05Over here's the mud.
10:08I think it might be alright, you know.
10:11They look pretty dodgy.
10:13Oh, yeah.
10:13It looked dodgy from the car.
10:15It looked so dodgy from back there.
10:17Yeah, it's hard as a rock.
10:18And the real tracks, mate.
10:20But don't go there, huh?
10:21Here we go.
10:28Ah, she's all good.
10:30There's a rock on the bottom there.
10:33Alrighty.
10:35There's tracks everywhere out here.
10:37And I can see water to my right, which looks probably more fresh water.
10:41And then I can see water to my left, which looks salt water.
10:44It's like...
10:47Well, I can see a bit of tracks going straight ahead there.
10:51Where?
10:52It's back here.
10:53If you come and have a look, there's a set of tracks spear out into the middle of it.
10:57Um, well, according to the track, it goes straight across here.
11:02Yeah.
11:02Maybe we'd get the drone and go and have a fly around on the other side so we can find
11:06an exit.
11:11Well, here's the wheel tracks.
11:13I'm not loving the track, mate.
11:14It's all hard here under the wheel tracks.
11:16Yeah.
11:17A bit soft back there.
11:18It looks very soft up here.
11:20And the wheel tracks just...
11:21Stop.
11:22Stop.
11:22I can't see anything ahead of me, but what's that there?
11:25Yeah.
11:25See how that...
11:26See how it's like a line through?
11:27Yeah.
11:29Let's have a look over there.
11:31I still think, when we split that little Y there, I still think there's a track to the
11:36right.
11:38Where's it gonna go, though?
11:39Look at it down there.
11:40I don't know.
11:40Yeah, that's a big swap down there.
11:43Maybe it's deceiving.
11:44Maybe it drops into the bush here and then tracks right around and comes back.
11:47Well, we've gotta check it.
11:48Let's walk into the wet here and have a look.
11:51Oh.
11:52You're not driving through that, are you?
11:54You're not driving through that.
11:56You're not even gonna get this far.
11:58You're gonna run up and you'll start spinning and this is where you'll stop.
12:01Mitch, if you've got to run up and got like a buck twenty going, he might have up.
12:06Buck twenty.
12:07Buck twenty.
12:08Still hit the water here.
12:09That's literally a freshwater stream running out through there.
12:12Yep.
12:15It's like this swamp is still draining.
12:18That was nice when we popped out onto that saltwater.
12:20It was awesome.
12:21Not so awesome there, isn't it?
12:23No.
12:27What do you reckon, buddy?
12:29We're just gonna set up camp over there on that humpy.
12:31See how it humps up.
12:32Yep.
12:33Let's just set up camp there and...
12:35Ponder over it tonight.
12:36Well, mate, it's like five o'clock in the afternoon already.
12:40Set up camp, have a think about it, start a fire, have a cold drink.
12:44Think about it.
12:45Worry about it in the morning.
12:46Yeah.
12:46Good, mate.
12:47At the moment I've got no option.
12:48Yeah.
12:49Let's not drive into that tonight.
12:51You get to work setting up camp.
12:55But old mate decides to go it alone and test the flats.
12:59Mitch goes, I'm gonna go for a look.
13:02He looked alright.
13:03He looked to see how bogged he could get.
13:05He was bogged.
13:06You can see it on the drone.
13:08We better go over and have a look.
13:10Why did he drive over there?
13:11Oh, we're not sure.
13:13It's usually the fact that he gets excited about the salt pan.
13:16Mitchell, what are you doing over there?
13:20I thought I'd check it out down here.
13:22I got about halfway and it started to get real soft.
13:26Yeah, we can see on the drone.
13:28You're not moving, are you?
13:29You're stuck.
13:30You're bogged, aren't you?
13:32I'm not stuck.
13:32I just went to the grass because I thought it would be harder.
13:35But I am gonna let air out my tyres.
13:38Yeah, he's bogged.
13:40We better go and see him.
13:42Can you give him something from me?
13:44A good slap side the head.
13:48We've just been walking around here for the last hour going,
13:51oh, there's no way we're gonna get across there.
13:53We've got a drone up looking here.
13:54There's no way.
13:56What does he do?
13:57He goes for a drive and just drives straight into it.
14:00So I was testing a theory.
14:02The salt flats, they're pretty boggy.
14:06Remember earlier you were trying to get out of doing the dishes?
14:10Now you've just got the dishes for the entire duration.
14:15I'm not stuck yet.
14:16Look, he's stressing so much.
14:18Look, he's sweating.
14:20He should be too.
14:22That stuff's way harder than this though.
14:25Really?
14:27Yeah, it's dry.
14:28Yeah.
14:29Yeah.
14:30Oh, he's not as bogged as it looked.
14:32No.
14:33I thought you said he was bogged.
14:34Oh, on the drone it looked like he was right down in the arse.
14:37No, he's still good.
14:38Yeah, I told you.
14:39It's all hard ground.
14:40Yeah.
14:40It's all solid in.
14:41We just walked all the way over here for what?
14:44There dropped down.
14:46Time to put the foot down and send it.
14:53Yeah, that's sweet.
14:57Who's coming?
14:58Who's coming?
14:59Who's coming?
14:59They're stressing over nothing.
15:01You should see your reefing.
15:05Well, boys.
15:07I don't know about you, but that is a bloody nice view.
15:10It's pretty good.
15:11We've made it this far.
15:13I wish we were looking at it from that tree line over there across the other side.
15:17That would be nice.
15:18But we're not, so.
15:19There's got to be a way across this side.
15:21I'm going to crack a soft drink.
15:24Cheers to we got this far.
15:26Cheers boys, we got this far.
15:27Tomorrow is another day.
15:29We'll explore a bit more tomorrow.
15:31Where in the middle of nowhere can you get a view like that?
15:34Right here.
15:36Exactly.
15:36I was going to say, that's the first time I've ever seen anything like this.
15:39Pretty cool huh?
15:40Incredible.
15:42We've camped on a few salt pans in our time haven't we Simon?
15:44We have indeed.
15:45How good is that?
15:46This is a pretty nice one.
15:48I don't mind it.
15:56So this morning we've decided we're going to take the side by side off and go and see
16:01if we can't find this potential land bridge out there.
16:07The fog has just rolled in hardcore.
16:10This morning it was a lot clearer.
16:11And then an hour later as the sun sort of came up mate this fog has just come in and
16:17enveloped
16:18us.
16:19You can't see.
16:20You can't see more than 500 metres out there.
16:23We've got no idea where we're going.
16:25We're just going that way.
16:27Trying not to get us bogged.
16:28Good idea that.
16:30It's like we're on the moon.
16:31We're in our moon boat.
16:33We could film it and save you into the moon.
16:35It looks like the surface of the moon doesn't it?
16:37It could fill the entire world.
16:38Yep.
16:39I think we need to go, you need to go sort of around.
16:41Yeah you've got to scare the edge to the cars.
16:44Mate I tried that yesterday.
16:46It didn't work for me.
16:50There's a bunch of water line there.
16:51We need to go all the way over and then go and cut across.
16:56The fog's not helping us work out where we're going.
17:00That's hard as a rock where it cracks right?
17:04Oh look, change of bloody, change of dirt.
17:08It's gone from white to brown.
17:13That's strange how it does that.
17:15I would have thought this would be a little bit softer.
17:17How's it feeling underfoot?
17:19This is like concrete in the moment.
17:22I think in front of us here it's going to be soft.
17:24If that's wet there, you can kind of see the shimmer.
17:30I reckon things are about to change.
17:33Yeah.
17:34Is that softer?
17:36I don't think we've got to be going in this forward direction.
17:39See the dry line?
17:41Yeah.
17:42This is a wet line.
17:43You can see it actually, it's a little bit drier right through there.
17:46Put it down here and then cut through where it's dry.
17:50Yeah.
17:51That's hard.
17:51That's hard.
17:52That's hard.
17:52That's hard.
17:52That's a breakthrough in the pit of death.
17:56Alright, we cut to the left here and go around this.
17:59You can see that's wet right through.
18:01Yeah.
18:01All the way through there.
18:03We're like a mosquito trying to get through a fly net.
18:07Nah.
18:08Nah.
18:08Nah.
18:09It's a bit like that.
18:13I think that's as close as we're going to get.
18:16Just there.
18:17That's it.
18:19It could be 10 metres away and it won't make any more difference because of the tides come
18:25in.
18:26Salt pan's wet.
18:29And out here it's not so much salt pan as mud pan.
18:32Yeah.
18:34Hard as a rock here.
18:37Soft as.
18:42Yeah, as soon as you change that.
18:44Oh, look at the difference.
18:48Feels lovely between the toes.
18:51You know what we're going to have to do?
18:52We have to go back down that track and I saw there was a road that sort of was a
18:58Y section
18:59took off.
18:59A while back.
19:00I reckon we've got to go back down there and head to the north.
19:04Cause there is this section that has like separate sections of salt pan.
19:10Yeah.
19:10Well if we can get anywhere to the coast to launch a boat, well then you know we can go
19:13by ocean.
19:14Cause the headlands over here.
19:16Let's go back, check this on the trailer and um.
19:21Put our little tails between our legs and.
19:22Turn around and try another spot.
19:25Yeah, we've got a bit of work to do.
19:26Let's do it.
19:29This is my Hobbit impersonation.
19:36Backed up, ready to go.
19:38Alright.
19:39Plan B.
19:41Why does that have to be Plan B?
19:43I like Plan A.
19:45What, going through the mud?
19:47No, going to the beach just over there.
19:49Yeah.
19:50So we go back down this track and we'll find that little shoot off track that I saw on
19:56the way in.
19:58Nice and wet patch.
19:59Get through it.
20:06Oh, that's a bit wet.
20:09Whoa.
20:10Cool.
20:11You just drove into that didn't ya?
20:13That suck again.
20:16That was like a big uh, a big uh, buffalo swamp hole.
20:26Oh, gee.
20:30He's had no mud on the windscreen.
20:32Not mud everywhere.
20:35That was good a little pop man.
20:36Just popped straight across the top.
20:38That was good.
20:40This track seems to be sorting itself out a little bit.
20:43It might be a winner this one.
20:46Hey um, this one uh, this track seems to be getting us a lot closer.
20:54Get us right through mate.
20:56Power of positive thinking.
20:58Well, it actually doesn't have um, there's actually no salt can in front of it.
21:03So, as long as it maintains, you know, as long as it goes the way it's going at the
21:08moment, all we've got is probably a little bit of sand to deal with.
21:12That's right.
21:13We'll let our tyres down and deal with that.
21:14We're gonna get bogged at the chassis in that.
21:17Well, there's some sand ahead of me right now.
21:21We're gonna hit the gas.
21:26Bloody bumpy, I don't know that much.
21:28Bloody hell.
21:31Well, this is where we get stuck right here.
21:33Come on, come on.
21:38That's it.
21:39That's good.
21:41Nah, I'm done.
21:42Um, I'm gonna have to drop the air out of tyres otherwise we're going nowhere.
21:47Time to let some air out.
21:49Ah!
21:50Fancy little deflated gadgets.
21:55Drop some air out of the tyres so that we're gonna have to do it anyway when we get to
22:03the beach.
22:04So that'll get us through this soft section.
22:07This, cross fingers, gets us to somewhere to launch off.
22:13Alright, let's see how we go.
22:14Tyre pressures are down.
22:16Should just walk out.
22:19Oh!
22:21There she goes.
22:24The old tyre pressures, mate, they make a big difference.
22:28Remember, we just come from hard track.
22:31Hard rock track.
22:32Boom!
22:33Straight into the sand.
22:36So, sometimes you just don't want to drop the tyre pressures out straight away.
22:41What's going on back there?
22:44Simon's all stuck in.
22:47Some guy in a 300 series with a big boat stopped in the middle of the sand.
22:51It got us all messed up.
22:54What do you mean by that?
22:55The big boat just drove away.
22:59We're good now, we're off.
23:00He's moving or am I gonna come down with like a recovery vehicle?
23:04What's the go?
23:05Ah, he's going now.
23:07You just need to let tyre pressure down a little bit more.
23:10Ah, so he just dropped like two PSI out of him.
23:14Thought he'd make a coffee instead.
23:19Simon, you there, mate?
23:21Gotcha, bud.
23:23Yeah, she's getting a little bit dense in here now.
23:29Yeah, the track's tightened up, mate.
23:30Don't look like too many jokers have been travelling it for a bit.
23:35It'll be because I reckon we're getting real close.
23:38We must be on the backside of the dunes at the beach.
23:42Excited to see the coast for the first time, I don't know that much.
23:45Yeah, I'm out on the thick stuff now.
23:47Looks like I might be on to the beach real quick.
23:51Soggy in here?
23:52I'll be glad to hit the coast here after that salt pan.
23:57I thought we were going nowhere fast.
23:59We did, we went nowhere fast.
24:03Where are you going?
24:06Back into the jungle.
24:08But why?
24:09There was a beach back there.
24:12I love how Jason just disappears in a little scrub.
24:16Yeah, I don't think he's happy with getting there too easy.
24:18He wants to get bogged first.
24:20Is it looking pretty boggy in there?
24:22Yes.
24:25It's a freshwater creek, boys.
24:28Get a load of this.
24:31How good is this?
24:33What's up there, mate?
24:35Freshwater stream.
24:36A little babbling brook.
24:37Look at that.
24:37It's nice and clean.
24:38Literally, the ocean is just there.
24:40Oh, it's deep there, mate.
24:42And this freshwater is just cruising out.
24:44There's even like a little waterfall.
24:48What's it taste like?
24:49Freshwater.
24:51There you go.
24:54Well, just over there, you can probably cut, bang.
24:57I reckon we'd be able to look for some sort of beach launch inside, eh?
25:01At the moment, I don't think there's a lot of wind either.
25:03There's no wind practically.
25:05It's good.
25:06If I can get through this section here, I'm just going to cut through here and up there,
25:10we're good to go.
25:11Swing that corner.
25:16Hopefully my boat gets around past that tree.
25:19Yep.
25:23A bit of a swing ride to get through those paperbarks there, I reckon.
25:27That was the last little obstacle by the looks of it.
25:35Past that one.
25:37You'd make it through there, no dramas, wouldn't you?
25:39Yeah.
25:40Yeah, got through, mate.
25:41Got through.
25:45This track's got to go to the beach at some point, hasn't it?
25:49Yeah, this road, this track's heading to it now.
25:54Somewhere along here, I reckon, boys, we can find a little spot, eh?
25:57A little safe spot, mate, where we can undo all the covering of that boat
26:01and look down the beach at a launch spot or something.
26:04I can see the ocean from here.
26:07Looks bloody nice.
26:08Looks pretty good.
26:10Looking very blue.
26:13Here we go.
26:14It's a good little spot here.
26:16Nice road.
26:18Just pull in there, mate.
26:19I'll wait for you guys to set up
26:21because I've got to get the boat down to the water at some stage.
26:26Let's go and have a look.
26:28Look at that.
26:31The gulf, mate.
26:32The gulf of Carpentaria.
26:36Look at that, mate.
26:37There's a little gap out between the roof there.
26:39See that?
26:39There's too.
26:41Oh, how good's this?
26:44Deep edge and everything.
26:45Oh, how good is that?
26:47You won't even have to put the drawbar extension out for that one.
26:50No way.
26:51A little big stingray sitting right there.
26:53I feel a heart of him.
26:54It is too.
26:55Oh, as hard as a rock.
26:56Hard as a rock.
26:57A little big leopard ray.
26:58There he is.
26:59There he goes.
26:59Well.
27:00So yeah, we'll just get the boat in, and then I'll take the boat and trailer back up to our
27:04camp.
27:05We'll chuck it under anchor, and then we'll boost, mate, out there.
27:08Yeah, mate.
27:09Sounds good.
27:09We'll get some fresh fish tonight, eh?
27:11Oh, yeah, we will.
27:12Blue water fishing.
27:13Let's do it.
27:14Let's get this boat in the water.
27:18Let's get this boat in the water.
27:21They're getting bogged on the beach.
27:26Yeah, straighten yourself up.
27:28There's a rock on your side you probably want to miss.
27:31Is that a good spot if I go straight back there?
27:33Is that a little drop off and stuff?
27:35Yeah.
27:37Perfect.
27:38Straight there.
27:39Perfect.
27:41There we go.
27:45All right.
27:46We'll go for a bit of a stabby.
27:55Oh, stabby-stabby.
27:59Hang on.
28:02What's there?
28:04Perfect.
28:04Expo.
28:10We missed that rock.
28:11I'm glad we got him to move over a bit, eh?
28:14We're going to see if we can find some fish out there.
28:16I've got no idea what's out there, but we're going to see if we can find some fish out there.
28:28We're shooting up the coastline, literally shooting up the coastline and saw this big rocky outcrop,
28:33which is that over there, and go, well, that looks interesting.
28:37It's like a big headland into a little creek system which we're ducking into now.
28:42Fish on.
28:43Look at you go.
28:48Little queenie, this one.
28:50It's a bit bigger.
28:52There's no queenie.
28:54Look at that.
28:55Straight away.
28:56Oh.
28:56Splashed it.
29:01Oh, no.
29:03Spat it.
29:05Oh, no.
29:06No, no, no, no, no.
29:08Don't do that.
29:10He snaffled it right there, you evil, evil fish.
29:16Barracuda.
29:18He's like a Stanley knife on steroids.
29:22A fish with a Stanley knife for a face.
29:25Awesome streamlined predator.
29:27Like the next level predator.
29:35He?
29:35Yeah.
29:36Got him this time.
29:37Little queen fish, I'd say.
29:40Oh, he's not acting like a queenie.
29:42Oh, that was a big queen fish.
29:44He's fine.
29:44No, he's not acting like a queenie.
29:45He's a cod.
29:49Nice cod.
29:52This little shelf here is just full of fish.
29:55There we go, buddy.
29:56I'll just flick you off.
30:00There you go.
30:01A lastery cod.
30:03Yep.
30:04Gotcha.
30:09Not sure what this guy is, huh?
30:11He's a fish.
30:13Coral trout.
30:13Really?
30:15Look at that.
30:16Little baby coral trout.
30:19You're a little bit small, buddy.
30:21Ha!
30:23But how cool is that?
30:25Entrance to a little river mouth, bit of rock there, and you catch coral trout.
30:29I'm sure there's a big one down there.
30:31There you go.
30:33Go for a swim.
30:35Off he goes.
30:37Little corally trout.
30:39Fish on!
30:40And it's a good one too.
30:42Oh, you smoked it.
30:43Oh, big queenie.
30:47He just ate that.
30:49Here we go.
30:50He's gonna jump.
30:51Oh, there he goes.
30:52Oh, I just dropped off his lunch too.
30:56These things can grow.
30:57I caught one time up in the Kimberley.
31:00The thing was 1.3 meters long, and it weighed well in excess of 20 kilos.
31:06It was like a grandpa queenie.
31:08I couldn't believe it.
31:09Took me half an hour to revive him to get him to swim away.
31:11He made this queenie look like bait.
31:14Now I gotcha.
31:15There he goes.
31:18That's a good queenie.
31:19That's a great queenie.
31:20Mate, that one looks like he'd go good on the coals.
31:22He'd go so good on the coals, that one.
31:25There we go, Mr. Queenie.
31:28Come on.
31:29Come on.
31:29Get out of there.
31:31You got him off?
31:32Is he out?
31:33He's out.
31:33Yeah, he's out.
31:34He's got him clear.
31:35Mr. Codley.
31:36Awesome.
31:36Look at him.
31:38He's a pretty one, mate.
31:40Look at that.
31:41Look at the colors on him.
31:42Look at the colors on that sucker.
31:44He's a little fella.
31:45All right, we'll chuck him back in.
31:49Oh, my little kid.
31:50There he is.
31:52I think it's exactly the same fish that Mitch got.
31:55There you go, buddy.
31:58I'm going to swim off.
32:01So we haven't moved yet.
32:02There he is.
32:03Got him the second time.
32:04See?
32:04Look at that.
32:04We're just catching fish here the whole time.
32:07Simon's on again.
32:08Queenie this time.
32:09Mitch is on.
32:11Mate, magical.
32:12They give you a hard time, don't they?
32:14Oh, don't they?
32:15What?
32:16He doesn't know whether he's going to end up on your plate, see?
32:19No.
32:20He doesn't trust you.
32:21I don't blame you.
32:22I wouldn't trust me either.
32:23Yeah.
32:24There you are.
32:25There you are.
32:25You're likely to change your mind halfway through.
32:29Settle down.
32:31We've just done a run about, oh, I reckon 25 odd kilometres.
32:39And we've got a bit of rock formation here behind, beside us.
32:43Big gap between two big islands.
32:46Hoping to pick up some good reef fish here.
32:49I hope it's not a shark.
32:51I hope it's not a shark.
32:51If it's not a shark, it's a good fish.
32:55He's under the boat.
32:56He's being a pain.
32:58Feeling sharky.
32:59Feeling very sharky.
33:04Cheeky little black tip, mate.
33:06Going to absolute town.
33:08Look at him.
33:11Oh, there's his mate following him.
33:12Look.
33:14You ain't going to get any fish here.
33:17That's where Simon gets bitten by a shark.
33:20There we go.
33:23Yeah.
33:23Pretty cool little gritter.
33:24Give me a kiss, mate.
33:24Yeah, no.
33:25Help, mate.
33:27That was a shark?
33:29Yep.
33:29For sure.
33:31I can't even catch myself a shark.
33:34You don't want to.
33:37Here he comes to the size of him.
33:40All right, Mitch.
33:40You want to cut that with a knife, please?
33:43Right on the corner of his mouth there.
33:46You all right?
33:46No, he don't like you.
33:48He doesn't like you, Mitch.
33:49He took one look at you and ran off.
33:51You see him there with a knife and went, oh, no, I'm gone.
33:53I'm out.
33:54I'm gone.
33:55Oh!
34:00What happened there?
34:01There's a fish just took my rod.
34:03If you catch this fish, Mitch, then we're good.
34:08How did the fish catch?
34:09Because we're all tangled and we just grabbed one of the lures.
34:11You take it easy on that fish.
34:14Oh, yeah.
34:15Is it a fish or a shark?
34:16No, it's a fish.
34:17You can't lose that fish because my rod's attached to it.
34:20That's a whole rod.
34:22What the hell just happened?
34:24I wasn't watching.
34:25We're all tangled together and a mackerel came and smoked the whole shoot match.
34:28Ripped it clean out of my hand, nearly broke my wrist as it went.
34:32Take your time and don't lose it because my rod's still going to be there.
34:35Yeah, there's my lure.
34:37So your rod's attached to that?
34:38My rod's still attached on one of these two.
34:42Easy, easy, easy.
34:44There's the rod.
34:45Grab the rod.
34:45There's the rod.
34:46There's the rod.
34:47There's the rod.
34:47Pull the rod up.
34:47Grab the rod.
34:48There it is.
34:49Oh, my God.
34:51I knew the rod would still be there.
34:53Give me a knife, Jason.
34:54Where's the knife?
34:54Give me a knife, knife, knife, knife.
34:57Get rid of that.
34:58Stunned it.
35:01Where's Jason's?
35:03You just cut it all off.
35:04I did so.
35:06Why?
35:08That's not my lure.
35:09No, that's my lure.
35:11Yeah, so you just cut all my line off.
35:13Oh, did I?
35:14Oh, whoops.
35:15There.
35:16Yeah, you got the lure back.
35:17I should not have handed him the knife.
35:19It's every dull moment around here, eh?
35:22This is how we fish.
35:24Who's we?
35:25We throw rods over the side.
35:28Oh, nine yards.
35:30That's twice this trip, mate, if Rod's gone flying because of you.
35:33Yeah, that's not my lure.
35:34That's Mitch's.
35:38That's a solid queenie.
35:40Have a guess whose lure that is.
35:41Whose?
35:42Is that yours?
35:43So, what you...
35:43But how's that still attached to you?
35:45That must be all tangled hooked there.
35:46That's my lure.
35:48No way.
35:49That's the one you cut.
35:50That's right.
35:51That's Jason's.
35:52So I had to cut it anyway.
35:53I don't know whose this is.
35:55That's my lure.
35:56No, no, no, that's mine.
35:57Oh, so that's Simon cut yours.
36:01Hey.
36:01And that's my lure.
36:02In my defence, we got the rods back, and we got all three lures back, and we got the
36:08fish.
36:09Eh?
36:11It's what an effort.
36:12Oh, what a cluster.
36:14I tell you what, I reckon that's bigger than Jason's one, mate, eh?
36:17You smoked it.
36:18So, just to fill you in, the fish was attached to my rod.
36:25So it was your fault that it was my fish.
36:28So basically it was your fault I nearly lost my rod then.
36:31Just to clarify what happened, the fish had my lure in it.
36:35Mitch pulled it in with Simon's help.
36:37Simon then lost his rod and got it back, then he picked up a knife.
36:41And amazingly, we still got the fish.
36:44Now we need help here, folks, to solve the argument.
36:47Who caught the fish?
36:49A.
36:50Jase.
36:51B.
36:52Mitch.
36:53C.
36:54Simon and the knife.
36:55Get on our socials and put your vote in.
36:58Because we can't figure it out.
37:09All right, so queen fish filleted up.
37:12Simon brought us a nice big bag of queen fish.
37:14Good job, mate.
37:15They look good fresh too, don't they?
37:16They do.
37:17So what we're going to do is Simon's favourite, which is?
37:20Fish mix.
37:21Deep fried fish mix.
37:23No?
37:23I don't know.
37:24You're doing the cooking.
37:25Beer battered fish.
37:26I didn't know.
37:27That's what you keep saying all the time.
37:29You're like, oh, my favourite, beer battered fish.
37:32Anyway, we're going to do Simon's favourite.
37:34Beer battered fish.
37:35But we've got a special we're going to try this time.
37:37It's zero.
37:39It's like having a beer but not having a beer.
37:41But anyway.
37:42Good for you.
37:43So you're going to make up the batter.
37:44I'll make up the batter.
37:45Put a little bit of flour in.
37:47Now that's corn flour, by the way.
37:49Don't be careful with it.
37:50Enough.
37:51That's enough for the minute.
37:51Put this packet in.
37:52Wait on.
37:54Spices.
37:54Herbs and spices.
37:55The whole lot.
37:56We're going the whole lot.
37:58Whole hog.
37:59Salt and pepper.
38:00Salt and pepper in there.
38:01Rack that in.
38:02I'll give that a bit of a mix before I go putting any liquid in there.
38:06Now I'm just chopping up the fish.
38:08Do we need egg in this?
38:09It makes it real grippy.
38:11It makes it grip to the fish.
38:13Egg going in.
38:15Here we go.
38:17A little bit.
38:17Don't put too much in.
38:19And make sure you mix that egg up real good.
38:22So what the beer does, it makes it nice and frothy.
38:25And fluffy.
38:26And gives you that beer flavour.
38:28And because it's zero beer, which we use at home, zero means zero alcohol.
38:34We're doing beer better.
38:35We're not drinking the beer.
38:35We're making beer better.
38:36Yeah, exactly.
38:37There we go.
38:38Stick it in here.
38:39And then straight into the oil.
38:41Pass me those tongs.
38:43Mitch is going to do the tongs.
38:45Simon will get some paper towel, please, mate.
38:49Very messy old beer battered queen fish.
38:53Yeah, we wait.
38:54So if you haven't got any beer, you can use a bit of sparkling water.
39:00So sparkling mineral water or even sparkling with lime would be a go.
39:03There you go.
39:04Yeah, you can use both.
39:05It'd be fine.
39:06But anyway, cheers to a nice day out in the water.
39:09It's a cracker day.
39:10Cheers.
39:11Cheers, fellas.
39:11A few little incidents, but real good.
39:14Well, there we go.
39:15They're starting to get a bit golden.
39:16Oh, they're going well, mate.
39:17Don't you worry.
39:19All right, so if you want to know whether it's cooked yet, the trick with fish, especially
39:26when you're frying it, is the old fork test.
39:30Now, and basically the fork should just pop in like that.
39:34And that means it is cooked.
39:37So these bits, look at that, it just pops in.
39:40No worries.
39:44So I'm just going to switch that off because I think we're ready to go.
39:47Yeah, they're definitely ready.
39:49I've checked them with the fork.
39:51Oh, you'll be quite pleasantly surprised how good this queen fish will taste.
39:55Yeah?
39:56Fresh as, eh, son?
39:57Absolutely.
39:58Well, darling, what, a couple of hours ago we got that?
40:00Yeah.
40:00Not even.
40:01All right, there you go, guys.
40:03Look at that.
40:03How good does that look?
40:05You can actually see the little herbs and spices that are sitting in that mix, like a
40:11fish mix that we put in there with the beer batter.
40:14So I'm just going to put a bit of salt on top.
40:16All right, hook in, boys.
40:18Yeah, yeah.
40:19And see, tell us what you reckon.
40:20Cheers.
40:21Cheers.
40:23Springy's gob.
40:27Oh, yeah.
40:30That's a go.
40:31Next time, we put in a bit of sea time and hit a remote rock bar.
40:36This place has been a full experience, hasn't it?
40:38It's been a crack of muddy, eh?
40:40All going on.
40:41And we aren't the only ones fishing.
40:42Where I'm standing now is where he was laying.
40:45Oh, look at the daddy in there.
40:48Look at the size of you.
40:50Join us for the adventure.
40:55What's he doing here?
40:56Mate, I've got no idea.
40:58What's going on?
40:59I hear you guys are giving away my D-Max.
41:02Mate, you left the thing fucked in my shed.
41:04You can't give away, Maximus.
41:05It's been all day trying to get the scratches out of it.
41:07Yeah, good job.
41:08I don't know.
41:08It looks like yours.
41:09But it's actually not.
41:11It's a brand new D-Max.
41:12And I'm going to give it away.
41:13Mate, it's got a brand new canopy on the back, mate.
41:16We've got rooftop tent, awning.
41:17What's swinging off the back?
41:19Oh, check this out.
41:20428 Avenger.
41:2150 horsepower tiller on the back.
41:24Oi.
41:24$5,000 gift card.
41:26And you know what?
41:27While you're here, let's give that away as well.
41:29Why not?
41:30How do we win it?
41:31No, no, no.
41:31You guys can't.
41:32But you can enter.
41:34Head to all4adventure.com.
41:35Mate, use the keyword.
41:37Grab your free entry.
41:39Now, if you're an Unleashed subscriber, I'm going to double their chances to win.
41:42Alright?
41:43Get a Keys to Adventure package for great discounts.
41:46And even more chances to win.
41:52Well, there you go.
41:54It has been a bit of a mission getting in here.
41:56We've spent some time dragging the big boat through.
42:00And that's the hardest part sometimes, is dragging that big bit of gear through the bush.
42:04We ended up on a salt pan we couldn't cross.
42:06But we eventually were able to launch it right here on this little spot.
42:11The mission isn't over yet.
42:12We didn't get to the actual river that we want to get to eventually.
42:16You'll have to hang around for the next episode for that one, eh?
42:18We'll get there.
42:20Yeah.
42:20Certainly will.
42:21In the meantime, we're going to eat this delicious queenfish.
42:23How do you rate the queenfish, mate?
42:25It's great.
42:25I'm going for more, mate.
42:26There you go.
42:27Cheers, guys.
42:28Cheers.
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