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? Of course, as long as he's there, why not do some hog hunting too? kwhunting

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 to share the harvest. Would someone please pass the sea cucumber?

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. Others call it "poor man's lobster." So, what is it? Leysath also gives spear fishing for pike a try.

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. Big horns look great on the wall, but you can't eat them. Meet the meat hunters who stack 'em like cordwood and leave no edible body parts behind. Meat's meat, right? Chef Leysath also gives la

It seems like Florida has become America's dumping ground for invasive species. Stories of giant pythons "eating their way through the Everglades" is too much for Scott Leysath to resist. He heads south to find out if the rumors are true and to see if you can eat a big constrictor that ranks at the top of Florida's food chain. Then, it's up the gulf coast to Gasparilla Island where Leysath meets u