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?
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 late season Alaska waterfowling a try, in pursuit of the ducks less hunted - the dark fleshed divers that rank near the bottom of most hunters' bucket lists. Of course, he's got to eat them too!
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 up with a character whose full time job is to rid the island of troublesome iguanas. Lizard, it's what's for dinner.
South Texas is known for trophy bucks, sweltering heat and rugged terrain. Scott Leysath got an invitation from a guy who claims that he's got 'a mess of critters that most people wouldn't think of eating,' but he does. Put on your snake boots and join Chef Scott and friends on their search for a mixed bag of four-legged critters known more for their ability to survive in this rough country than they are as table fare. Targeted animals include skunk pigs, nocturnal nuisances, tough old hares and an ugly critter that can give you leprosy.
Featured on 'River Monsters' and weighing up to 400 pounds, the alligator gar is vicious, armor-plated and most often thought of as a 'trash fish'. Chef Leysath heads to Nowhere, Texas to meet up with a couple of water-worn gar anglers who go the distance to put him on this potentially inedible fighting fish. Of course, if he can catch them, he's going to want to eat them. As long as he's in the neighborhood Leysath tries to see if he can turn gar bait into dinner at the local bar. Better get you a cold one.
Scott sets out to discover a different side of California in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Deltas, serving up Coot duck and some Pidgeon delights.
In the south eastern US Scott tries the regular neighborhood pests, Crow and Raccoon.
Have you ever thought eating something that looks like a drowned rat is a good idea? Find out with Scott as he tries Muskrat and more.
Scott Leysath is in the Missouri Ozarks with some friendly people who trap, fish and cook things you've probably never eaten before.
Scott hunts down snow geese, asian carp and paddlefish to see how they cook up!
Scott is in Oklahoma tracking down a reptile most people try to avoid and also does his part in managing wild hogs.
Scott visits San Francisco, California to fish for and cook up some monkey faced eels.
Scott is in the kitchen taking some of the more usual creatures featured on the show to see how he can cook em up.
Chef Leysath travels to Florida in search of invasive, venomous lionfish off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale and hunts giant stingrays at night. Both are taste tested with surprising results.
Chef Leysath heads to Alabama for swamp bunnies and raccoons, but it’s as much about the dogs as it is the game they’re after. After the hunts, Leysath finds out if they’re fit to eat.
Scott Leysath heads west to The Big Island of Hawaii in search of feral cows and well-fed wild boar. He enlists the help of a popular chef to cook them.
Chef Scott explores both coasts. First up, invasive, toothy air-breathing snakeheads in Florida. Then, Northern California for rattlesnakes. Both are cooked and put to the taste test.
Scott Leysath hunts marsh hens in the salt marshes of South Carolina before meeting up with Laura Herriott on Sandy island who is challenged with cooking a mixed bag of critters supplied by the chef.
Chef Leysath and friends use bows to shoot flying Asian carp in Illinois. They also head to Indiana where it’s legal to shoot frogs with 22s and pellet rifles. Neither of them taste like chicken, but are they good to eat?
Leysath targets American Shad near Sacramento, California. Known for being bony and mostly inedible, Chef Scott enlists the help of a fellow chef to show him how to cook them.
The chef goes behind the scenes at the World Champion Squirrel Cookoff in Arkansas and The Poadkill Festival in West Virginia.