First BAHAMA trip on the New Boat!!! {Catch Clean Cook} Blackened Bahamian Snapper

Oh, good morning, happy people. I'm Robert Arrington. This is Deer Meat for Dinner, and you're looking at one happy man. See this right here? This is our new boat. This is our new Insetta 35. And this morning, we are literally jumping on this boat and driving all the way over to the Bahamas. That's something that I have grown up doing, but I've never been able to take my wife and my kids and cross. Well, I've taken my wife, but I haven't taken my kids. But now that we have this boat, I guarantee you, we're taking the kids. Let's ride. What are we eating for breakfast, honey? Peanut butter and jelly. Although I wish it was coffee. Aria, tell them we don't drink coffee for breakfast. We eat peanut butter and jellies. Yeah. Peanut butter and jelly, baby. Whoa, what are you doing, getting in your bathing suit? Is that your strawberry? Watermelon! Whenever I was a captain, every time I would travel somewhere, anytime we would leave, I would always say a prayer on the, like, whenever I started my trip. So, Lord, thank you so much for this day and thank you for this opportunity. Thank you for blessing with this, blessing us with this amazing boat and our families and our friends. Please give us the opportunity just to go over and have a safe, fun trip and enjoy our weekend. Please be with us and guide us and keep us safe. In your name, I pray. Amen. All right, you guys, let's ride. I would not have believed these two 300 pushing like this. We're going 43 miles an hour. We're getting 1.25 miles per gallon. It's amazing that this boat's this efficient while being this heavy. We got 57 miles to go and in the meantime. There's tortoises! Tortoise, look right there, two are right there! And there! Was that cool? I don't know. Yeah? Tally-ho, folks! We got land dead in sight. Everything's going good thus far. Man, there's nothing like this beautiful, Bahama blue, crystal clear water. It's gonna be a great day. So stoked! Building this boat has been a dream come true. And one of the main reasons I wanted this boat was to be able to bring my family safely to the Bahamas to enjoy days like we're about to have. How y'all doing? She was snoozing, y'all. Hey, I wanna ask you a question. How many of you are married and your wife needs coffee in the morning? It's not like she wants it, she needs it. This is a double question. Huh? Women can say that about the guys, too. No, come on, guys don't need coffee. Oh, wait, wait, wait! Chloe, what was that? I said he does. Guilty. Are you excited to be here? Yeah! What do you wanna see first? Pool! The pool! Pool! We got a whole ocean here and they wanna see the pool? Who wants to open the door? Me! How about? Oh, I want the treasure box! How beautiful is this? You got a treasure box? How do you open it? Wow! Look at this, girls. Look what we're looking at. Beach! Oh my gosh, this is fun. Look at that. Oh, we got a volleyball court. Looks like a bar and grill over there. A pool. Oh my gosh. The beach. You're gonna fish, we're gonna sit here. I have a pool! How beautiful. Oh, look at all the fish! Oh, it feels good. Can you please get my shoe off? Your shoe off? Yeah. Enough playing around for me. We're gonna unload the boat and we're gonna hit the open seas. This is life. He promised me he was proposing this weekend, so I figured I'd get y'all y'all's own room. That's not funny! Is that not a funny joke? That's not a funny joke. Right over here. Bougainvillea. It's one of my mom's favorite plants. She loves them. Two at once. Welcome to your private room. You've got two little girls to keep you company. Wow. Oh, coffee maker. I mean, I don't need it, but it's there if I do. Look how awesome this is. Look at that. Oh, and you get a beach too! It feels so good in here. Beach! Look at a turtle. So what do we do first? We're gonna go to the pool! In the pool? Yeah! You've got a big old pool right out there. Yeah! In the pool! Yolanda always says, tastes like vacation. This is an absolute perfect scenario right now. The girls are happy. I'm happy. Croc, are you happy? I'm very happy. What about you, Chloe? Very happy. Perfect situation, folks. We're in the Bahamas and we're about to go smash some fish. I can't give you an update on what kind of fish yet, but it's gonna be pretty good. Oh my God, my heart is happy, baby! Is your motor okay? I saw you had your cowling off. I wanted to make sure you was okay. I don't cut off my... Hey, I just didn't want, I didn't want to go running past you with it like that. I want to make sure. I'm pushing in it, man. All right, cool. We're running along here out in the ocean and the man's out here with a motor with no cowling on it, just trying to get by. I want to figure out how to get him a motor to put on his boat. There you go. Thanks, man. Yeah, see? Listen! The absolute go-to rig. We got an old Salty. It's a spinning rod made by Favorite. Use the head of a squid. It's got a little wiggly wiggle to it. We're sitting in 75 feet of water. We're going to drop this down to the bottom. Oh, there he is. Got him. That's a fish. Oh, sweet baby. Knocked the heck out of it too. I don't know what it is. Sort of coming up out here. What the heck just happened, y'all? First bait down and I go full googan on it. Here we go, y'all. The old charter boat special. Whole sardine on a triple hook rig. Folks, that's killed more fish than red tide. There it is. There's a fish. That's actually a bottom fish. Folks, I'm having a hard time here. What do you think you have? I have no idea. Do you think it's a fish or a piece of coral? Don't tell me it's a rock fish. What you got? I see color. Oh, yellowtail. Get him up here. Oh, I got a nice fish. Hey, I'll take that. That looks like dinner right there, y'all. Yellowtail city. Oh my goodness. Got a little bit of that favorite music going on here. Got the old salty in action. I need to start keeping a map showing all the places I've fished with this rod. What do we got? What do we have? Oh, it's an old strawberry grouper. Strawberry grouper. Look at that fish right there. So we just caught a strawberry grouper and a yellowtail, which means it's time to anchor. This is a brand new boat. I don't have any numbers. So we're just out here trying to catch dinner right now. See this thing? It's called an easy anchor puller. We picked this out when we were building the boat and I believe it's one of the best things I've ever bought. It just makes putting the anchor out and pulling it back in super easy. Crocker's got one. He had me all in a rock there for a second, but he came out. It might not be as big as I originally thought, but it is a fish. Oh, that's the problem with having a long leader. Can I trade you? Yeah, I got you. It looks like a mutton. That is definitely a mutton. Oh my goodness. Giant. What is that? Oh, that's a dog snapper. That's a beautiful fish. That's like a huge schoolmaster, bro. Wow. That is a pretty fish. Wow. Okay, so anytime you see one of these, you know you're on live rock. These only live on good live coral. That's awesome. There's fish. Ooh, nice yellowtail. Look at that. Heck yeah. When you think of the Bahamas and the Florida Keys, you think yellowtail snapper. Anytime you catch a yellowtail like this, put them right down in an ice slurry. All that is is ice and salt water. It immediately drops their temperature, makes them nice and firm, way better to eat. Dude, this is like so cool. It's been nonstop. Awesome thing after awesome thing. Let's catch a couple of fish, then we're gonna head back to... Uh-oh, you on? Bottom fish? Oh, see what I'm saying? That's what I was talking about. What was that? Lobanita, or? I don't know what it was, but it's gonna be good bait, whatever it is. What is that? It's a mackerel. It's a huge cero mackerel. Are you kidding me? What the heck is up with Crocker always catching the best fish? I saw the fish, and you still catch the biggest fish. Look at the size of that cero. Is he hooked good? Yeah, I think so. He is hooked good. Dang. That's definitely my biggest. Dang. Is it a cero or a salmon? That's a cero. See how he's got long lines? That's a cero mackerel. Wow. There was three more with him. One of the... Oh, you got him? I think you... I think the barracuda got you. Oh, man. You got one? There was like three really colorful... Holy cow, you got a nice fish. Oh, that's your good lure. You lost it. Oh, no. The one is a huge yellowtail. That's a huge yellowtail. That's a giant yellowtail, bro. Did you get him? I got him. Okay, sign me up. I'm gonna figure these jokers out now. Give me some bait. We're on them, bro. A lot of times, whenever these fish get finicky, I try to hide the hook in the bait, pitch out a couple chunks, drop it in the water, and start feeding out slack. When this all goes back, the fish coming in, nubble, nubble, nubble, nubble, they eat everything that's there. Next thing you know, you got them on. Oh, dang gum it. Oh, dang, he ate it again. And he got it again. What do I have? Yellowtail. That one? Put him back. Got him. This is like taking candy from a baby. Oh, something just ate him right there. Something just ate him. Oh, something's eating him again. You got a fish? Yeah. Oh, crud. Upgraded. Oh, man. I don't know what I've got, though. It ate my yellowtail on the way up. What do you think it is, Aus? I don't know. I think- Oh, he just let it go, though. You got upgraded twice. It did get upgraded twice. Hold on. How in the heck? I got him back. It wasn't a toothy fish either. It was like a grouper or something. Should we let him go? Let's see if we can get a bite on him. He just got ate again, bro. That's not a shark. And it ain't a barracuda. Okay, you guys. With that, we've had an amazing time. Let's run back to the house, see the girls, and do something amazing on land. Because we've never seen one of these on this channel before, let's go ahead and show you guys what the schoolmaster looks like. That's probably the biggest schoolmaster I've ever seen. And this knife is like exceptionally dull. But we're gonna make it work. Look how white that meat is. Turn it around like this, then you'll pull the knife down the rib cage, just like that. Flip him over. Look at this. Yeah, you're gonna have like three or four feet. There's three. There's another one. What kind of shark is that, Robert? Those are lemons. Big lemons. Lemons are normally not that big. It's okay. The ocean. Well, that's the most simple, but the most obvious answer. Watch this. Hey, let's go to the restaurant, you guys. West End at Grand Bahama Island. Old Bahama Bay. We're living our best life. Love ya. You're the best. Oh, man, you're the best. It's hot in here. It is. It's hot, yeah. This is the snapper that we caught this afternoon. Well, Chef Patrick, this is the West Side Grill here in West End. This is literally where everybody comes. This is just on the south end of the docks. It's one of the coolest restaurants in all of the Bahamas. And Chef Patrick is like known for having the best blackened fish ever. What's this? That's crispy prosciutto. Yeah, it's crispy prosciutto. We're gonna do a little quality control. It's good. Lemons, we call it sour, but we know it's lime. Lemon thing is sour, man. We got a little house-made seasoning as well. So this is your house-made seasoning? House-made seasoning, yeah. House-made. That can go on anything. Any, anything. It's got a little heat, but it's sweet. Yeah, yeah. Whoa, boy. This is really good. Yeah. This is the house-made blackened, so we just sprinkle a little of this on it. Sprinkle. Just to get it, we'll just put a little trick in it. Let it fall. Oh, baby. Yeah, baby, that's what I'm talking about. This is all we do. We'll blacken that side. Presentation side, down. Really? Yeah, man, you're gonna love this. It's gonna be so, so moist, man. I've never seen that before. Watch how it comes on. You're in the kitchen, and the restaurant is packed. This is the executive chef taking his time to show us something really cool. I love this, man. I'm honored. This, and we put this, we're gonna make another pan, but this goes straight in the oven. We take, we make this like, they pass medium well, and melt in your mouth. Trust me. Okay, so imagine this. He seasoned it, rolled it in the black, but he put the black side down. I've never seen that before. Let's see how it goes. Yeah. We got, like I said, we got everything going in there. Burgers, we got pizza going, and this goes straight in the oven. About 10 minutes or less, medium well-ish, and we're good to go. You'll find a little heat, and when it comes out, gonna finish cook it. By the time it reaches you, perfect. I love this guy. This is the blackened. This is the regular. Bunch of nice veggies. Hey. So we're gonna sit here and enjoy dinner. We'll see you back at the room, because it's almost bedtime.