 I've got a few trees come down there. I'm out in New Yorkshire and it's raining, it's gale force winds and I'm stuck behind this turniped. Yeah, get out of the road. Stuck behind this plough jockey. There he goes, see you later. I've got my wetsuit in the bag and I'm going to go free diving for crayfish. Anyway, I'm going to turn you off so that I can pump my tunes out and get psyched up for some some adventuring. My bag's well heavy so I've got all my weights because I know the river's going to be quite shallow so you need a lot of weight to counter the buoyancy of the wetsuit so the bag is this heavy mate. Let's go. It looks brown. I don't know if my camera's going to survive this. It's not waterproof. Am I going to survive it? Look at it, it's a bit brown, isn't it? It's a bit bobby brown. Look at this bad boy out and then should I put this over you lot? That might work. Or will it just catch the wind a bit too much? Look at that, look at that. Can you still see there? That thing over your head. Working or not? I don't know. Best I've got mate. In these conditions it's best I've got. I'm a qualified free diver and I'm a strong swimmer so I don't get you dried off and I've got me a 10 meter swimming badge from school so it's not too bad for me but don't do it like if you if you see this and you think oh I'll have a go at that. Please err on the side of caution. Be safe. Safety first. Look at this man. Look at this setup. I've got you on. Hey. Trying to keep you protected from rain mate so you probably can't hear me. Anyway. Yeah the river looks like it's going so quick. It's such an undercurrent that I'm probably not going to be able to stay stationary or at least you know it's going to just push me down and I won't be able to find anything. And if I'm not going to get out what's that's not going to make a very good video is it but if you don't go you don't know as I say so I'm just going to get in anyway. Stop waffling on about it and get in. I'm doing it. I'm getting in. I don't care now. Look even brought me a little knife because you know that's all I've got if I'm going to dispatch them or always dive with a knife on you if you're going to be in like ideally because if you get caught in anything it's good to just have a knife to cut it off here. The torch because it's looks pretty dark in there. A plate for me optimistic catch. I've got a net as well my lobster net which saves me getting out. I'll just put them in there again. A bit optimistic mate but that's life. Gloves yes and then me wetsuit, socks, duds, panties. Just a little bit of conditioner into the suit mix it with a bit of water and then it just it slides on a lot easier so you just you nip off the bottoms fill this full of water and conditioner and you can use this and then rub it on you on your on yourself. If I slip and fall in fade to black in it and then I'll use that same water in here as well or I'll pour it all over my foot. Either Iver may either work, pour it all over your foot. Okay all right then. What I'm looking about now is real real as it comes. Any dog walker's gonna think I've lost me. Lost me marbles like I've slipped off the cracker. This is me nice. Now it's mainly just like a thin pointed one. It's got a bit of a serrated edge there in case you get caught in any ropes or anything but what it's mainly for or what I have it for is just to kill the fish you know brain them if you get them but I wear it because it's just safety first in it especially when you're on your you get caught in some ropes or weeds it's there it's on my it's on my ankle so I can just reach down and grab it. If you don't see you anymore and again and someone finds this can you upload it to where there's outdoors YouTube channel because I'd just like to say goodbye to everyone and thanks very much for the support over the years it's a it's really meant a lot to me. Right let's switch to GoPro. I'm just going to check the check the current check the visibility and have a few dives down see if I can see any side of any crayfish and if I do see some I'll come back and get my net and torch right here we go let's get in. That current is strong. I've managed to just jump off in between two rocks here to get my breath but every time I dive I'm fighting the current so much that I'm losing my breath hold. Got to love it there. This isn't working. This isn't working so I'm going to try swim down there and get into the side into an eddy see if the water slacks off a little bit. That's all I've seen I've been going for about 20 minutes to see one so I've got my net let's see if I can get a couple. It's quite deep here so I'm going to dive down and see if there's anything in the deeper water. Double whammy! These are the American signal crayfish as you can tell by the bright orange underneath the claws they're a lot bigger than our native crayfish. Starting to get dark now look. Result. Absolute result. It was far too quick in the middle. I'm cold mate. It was far too quick in the middle and then when I got too deep it was too dark so I just stayed in the edges in the little eddies and stuff where it wasn't so quick and once I got my eye in I managed to get a decent amount there. I'm freezing. There you go. I got a few and then I just sacked the filming off and just focused on just foraging and managed to get a decent amount like. You need a few because there's not a great deal of meat on them so it's not a bad it's not a bad load but you can't see on this camera but it is getting dark now and it's starting to rain again so better be quick. Yes mate that's me awake it that's not the normal that's the awake it but it's it's warning W column from awake it. All my brain's gone all cold brain-ed so I can't really think straight. I'm happy with that mate. Well happy with it. Fingers are a bit cold, face is a bit cold but well I'm a bit cold. Let's go find some decent woodland and get these bad boys cooked up. I'll do one of these ones. I'll see you there. Right woodland it's absolutely bog myrtle everywhere. I've got to chuck my wellies on but look even just the ground you can see it's just absolutely dripping wet. I've found a I've taken taking refuge under this pine tree and there's a few pine trees in this area it's creating a natural sort of the canopy is keeping me dry. The crayfish are in here they've just been prepped I've done this on multiple videos. It is quite simple you just put the knife I won't do it now but well I will but I won't show you. Once you've humanely dispatched them you see the the tail here you can grab the middle bit of the tail and just twist it to one side it'll click to the side you'll hear it click again and then you can pull it. I don't see that there and that's the track that's all it's here. All the insides just attached to that little bit of tail and that's him fully prepped and ready for the pot. Bring it to a boil and let's four or five minutes don't take long at all and then they're good to go. You can obviously pimp up the water a little bit you know some Cajun spices some lemon wedges orange wedges I think traditionally they use orange wedges and chorizo and things like this but I'm just I'm just in wood sir we're just going bareback that's all I want it eat them off see how many I got it's quite a good haul isn't it you just twist the back end off there's not there's nothing much in Ed you can suck out the brains and stuff it's quite a good to lovely flavor actually you just get these little nuggets nuggets of meat oh yeah that was hard for as well worked hard for this food mmm that is nice I'll get a claw on the go yeah the claws pretty much exactly the same same as a lobster in the way that you crack it and eat it and just you know where the meat is oh yeah man and that the claws are a lot more earthy but more like a almost nutty I find absolutely delicious mate delicious oh I'm gonna get tucked into these you don't want to watch me what do you want to watch I'll tell you what I'll show you and I'll show you one of my little landscaping projects from last week because I know some of you like to see see my work every now and again so yeah it was them so my mates building their built this it's like a granny flat I guess like a big extension at the back of the garden and we're gonna we've started but we're gonna finish it with burning timber Japanese style and cladding it with burnt timber but the whole garden was on a slope covered in brash and bits and pieces and concrete and all sorts of rubbish and so my job was to find the right level and do something with it to make it a usable space so I retained it using sleepers and I think it was a quite a nice little job so I'll let you have a quick look and there we go that's the finished patio I've just used big 900s gray Indian stone sort of brick bonded with the pattern we've run I've run you see that put pipes underneath so we can run wires through here and here conjure it all the way through for for lighting the deckings in used sleeper rails as a retainer and a step up let this loose because we're gonna run I'm gonna run a sunny flow out of here along here and up tapping to the main drain and so Shugi ban whatever they say so as you give an I think it is it's the Japanese burnt wood is started here and that's gonna clad all this building yeah some tricky levels to play with but nothing I can't handle there we go nice usable space another happy customer I smell like Shamu's ass I better get going before I totally lose me light I'll pack this up and then I'll get out of here thoroughly enjoyable for me don't know if you've enjoyed it or not if you have click the thumbs up button because apparently that helps so and all it is is that in it you don't have to do a lot just that and subscribe and hit the the bell notification below because I'm cranking out a few vids at the moment you don't want to miss them dear you don't miss quality content like this and just on a just to finish off I didn't talk much about crayfish because I feel like I've done a few videos on crayfish and I don't keep repeating myself but just for any new subscribers there don't just go randomly picking crayfish out of the rivers because there are two different sources the signal crayfish which is the American invasive species and then there's our native white-clawed crayfish which you don't want to be in them and also you sign up on the you can't go online and get a license and you've got to put in your data and say where you go in because you might you might get a load of crayfish out of one bit of river not really thinking go home you might wash them they might have eggs the eggs go into the into the ecosystem again they're so vivacious and they're so brutal they're taking over our waterways and they are a real pest so please just be mindful of it and when you're dealing with them and they are a delicious little pest but they are an invasive species so we need to be just be mindful of it anyway right look after yourselves take care namaste