Catfish Sauce Piquante

After a morning of jug-lining for catfish, the crew harvests more than enough meat for a hearty meal of sauce piquante. Sauce piquante translates to “spicy sauce” but this dish is so much more than that. This Cajun stew is widely cooked with a variety of proteins including gator, venison, and rabbit. Hard-boiled eggs and fresh catfish in this rendition makes for some perfect camp cuisine. Click here to see the most recent episode where Junior...

Smoked Catfish

Catfish are one of the only fish that I encounter that I wish were harder to catch. In the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, blue catfish account for up to 75% of the fish biomass. Blue catfish are not native to the Bay, but they have established themselves in such abundance that they’re hard to avoid. If you drop a hook in the water with any type of bait on it, there's a good chance a blue cat is going to find it. Even when trolling, jigging...

Catfish Creole

Growing up in southeastern Oklahoma, I caught and ate my share of freshwater fish. Fresh, wild fish was so common at my home, it wasn’t until I moved to New Orleans in college that I realized some people actually buy catfish. Up to that point, I assumed everyone just caught their own channels, blues, and flatheads like us. It was in New Orleans that I worked the kitchen of Brigsten’s Restaurant—an award-winning eatery known for their contemporary...