Dead Meat

Invasive South American rodents have been eating up any vegetation in their paths and destroying the Louisiana wetlands for decades. Chef Leysath recruits some help to find out If they're as plentiful as described and most importantly, can you eat them?

Scott hops aboard Death Barge IV with a colorful group of local divers in search of creepy looking cold water creatures. He also wets a line with a good friend, gets a little crabby and invites the neighbors over for a Sitka-style feeding frenzy.

Take the kids out of school, we're heading upriver for a squirrel opener in Florida's "Redneck Riviera." See how the other half celebrates shooting and cooking tree rats.

Join Scott at the 33rd annual Eelpout Festival in Walker, Minnesota. It's Mardi Gras on a frozen lake as thousands pay tribute to the ugliest, slimiest fish in the Midwest. Some say "no thanks" to an offer of fried eelpout fillet.

When most people think about hunting in Alaska, it's trophy big game that comes to mind. Not so for Scott Leysath. His quest is to find out how the locals fill their freezers in the cold weather off-season.

Scott Leysath heads to the Florida Everglades to learn if the rumors of invasive species are true. Leysath heads up gulf coast to Gasparilla Island to see how troublesome iguanas are handled.