Swamp People
 

Have any of you seen the new show "Swamp People" on the History Channel? I probably won't be the first one to start a thread about it. Maybe someone already has. Anyway, what do you think about it? I'll put in my two cents, I'm just curious to see your opinions first. Thanks in advance. Later.

i think its a pretty good show.Funny.They are just real cajun coonasses lol. I like watching it. I didnt realize that they were doing that to gators around here lol.

There was a thread started on 8/7/10. To answer your question, I like the show. We had a houseboat at Bayou Pidgeon for about 15 years. It takes time to earn their trust, but once they accept you ,they will do anything for you. We would 'suck up' to the locals by bringing them stuff from town. They in turn taught me how to crawfish, run hoop nets, frog and other skills. By the way ,they didn't frog from a boat. We would wade chest deep thru the lily pads. Quite an eye-opener for a 13 year old 'city slicker'. I saw and heard things in the swamp I'll never forget...

I saw the show Sunday night and found it entertaining. I love my Cajun people. I'm one of them. I just hope that the entire country doesn't think everyone in Louisiana wears overalls and either no shoes, or those white boots (Delcambre Nike's, Pierre Part Reeboks, etc.) and we're up to our necks in gators and swamp water. Oh who am I kidding. They already think that. There's no cities except New Orleans, and the whole state is a huge swamp. We all paddle our pirogues to get anywhere. Oh well...

I have no problem if they 'stereotype' us that way. I'm more afraid they will think we're like the people in the Superdome post Katrina that were on the news every 5 minutes. "We need sum hep, sumbody need to hep us":*****:

I think its hilarious how other people not from louisiana picture us living in da swamp takin our pirouges to work.

You don't pirouge to da office????

ill tell you what its a long pirogue to texas from carlyss, dont see how i have the entergy to do anything after work

Mah yah...I go fast fast like dat

just watched the episode...good show. I like Troy..."if something happens to me and they put my heart in someone from New York...hes gonna wanna come down here and fish for gators!! LOL!

We've got a rich cultural heritage down here...gotta love it

"dat's a tree shaka!"
Troy

Did u notice Junior and them were eating marsh hen for supper at their house that night? Hahaha

a guy I work with is from Bayou Sorrel and knows Junior and Willie. He said they are starting to film the next season starting Sept 1st. he says they some crazy fools

Junior Edwards seemed kind of rude to his son William. He was trying to snag the gator with the treble hook and Junior just kept griping and complaining because he missed. I mean he wasn't really yelling at him, but William didn't look too happy. Maybe it was nothing, just looked like that to me. On the other hand, the father and stepson guys out in the marsh (Myrtle Grove?) seemed to get along just fine and had fun with what they were doing, even though the stepson made a few mistakes and didn't have the handgun fully loaded and left the bait behind. They just seemed to sort of laugh it off. By the way, that was incredibly dangerous the way William caught that gator. No offense AT ALL to William, it just could have gone really bad in a hurry. I'm not being judgemental and I've never been gator hunting, but William could have lost his fingers, his hand, his whole arm, or been pulled overboard and drowned the way the rope was wrapped around his hand, with nearly 800 pounds of pure, teed-off monster on the other end, thrashing and rolling right next to the boat. And not wearing gloves either. The gator could have made a run for it and that small rope sliding through his hands could have cut to the bone. Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all bashing William. It worked out and they got the gator, but they do this for real. I don't think it was a "put-on" for the cameras. I'm not saying they shouldn't snag gators, but there's got to be a safer way, like keep the rope from wrapping around you and wear some gloves. I'd just hate to see him, or anyone else hunting gators like that, get hurt or killed. If it doesn't work out, let the gator go, and live to catch another one.

I eat Marsh Hen's. They's good.

We used to kill a bunch and smoke them with some mesquite........They are good...;)

We called it "The Cajun Cornish Hen"

When I was younger, we would try to walk up on them and shoot them.
It was hard to find them. But you could run up on them on a tractor real
easy. They were heck to shoot on foot. They would duck and run under
some grass and you would never see them again.
Same with Snipe. It was hard to get close to them on foot, but easy on
a tractor.

Your right about trying to get close to them on foot. We would shoot them out of the back of a truck while just easing down a few shell roads out in the marsh.

Old Amos Moses would be right at home on this show.

I know of amos. Good coonass cajun fella.

They could have used the song Amos Moses or The Ballad of Gator McKlusky as the promo music when they're showing previews for the show on the History Channel. Of course I like Born on the Bayou from Creedence also.

I got a big kick out of Troy when he wanted his helper to kill the gator, "Chute it, Chute it!!"

yeah he was complaining that "he was wastin all his shells" last night. i love this show i got it set to dvr everyweek

New episode was last night?

chute it clint,chute,chute. lol had that beef melt maaarranatin in the sun a couple of days.

Great Show. All my buds at work were impressed when I told them that it's for real. My paw paw did it for alivin on Belle River and in the spillway. Saw some good fishin spots, too.

i guess it was on my dvr last night.....they play it all week though

I love this show!!!!!

Just watched the first episode a few minutes ago on the computer.

If you have not seen the first episode and can't catch it on TV like me.....you can go to the history channel wed site and watch it.

http://www.history.com/shows/swamp-people

They got some other videos on there as well....titled "exclusive videos".

Watching it now.......Italy Guy!! Hahabaha!!!

yessir, and everybody in texas wears a cowboy hat and has a southfork ranch (ala dallas tv show)!

i admire those people and the way they live...simple, effective and lacking the hassle of the dog-eat-dog business world we live in.:)

Hey man, it's Delcambre Reeboks...get it right :*****:

X2 on Italy Guy!!!! LOL

When the 1st episode came on, my wife asked me why I was even watching that. Now she wants to watch it again next week.

$40,000 for a gator skin vest!! WHAT!

Get it right, it's Hack berry reeboks

Ross don't make me come Chute it! :work: :*****:

Gotta love Troy... "Mudda Freaker" LOL!!

Ha! You got me there dude! I stand corrected! Did y'all see the show Sunday night? That guy (L'enfant's stepson - can't remember his name) has some real nerve to go in that marsh grass after a clearly ticked off gator. Armed or not, that's dangerous. Because I figure that unless you have a .50 cal Barrett sniper rifle or a grenade launcher, you will not stop a big, pissed-off gator that's charging at you, intending to kill you. I wouldn't go in after a cottonmouth, much less a big gator that's hissing at me.

Did y'all notice how "Italy Guy" covered his ears when they shot the gator? My guess is that he had no idea how loud it would be. I think he had a good time and may not be able to do things like that in Italy. Obviously not gator hunting, but I mean hunting or fishing in general.

I just had to do it.


And,

definitely funny, but having done gator trapping I hate seeing some of that stuff staged or exaggerated. still cant stop watchin it for some reason

What's exaggerated? I'e never been gator hunting, so I don't know. Just curious.

Ok, I'm sure it's not just me. I'm a pretty big fan of the show, and regularly check out the various clips they have of it on YouTube. I read the comments, and post some myself. Most of the comments are positive, and the show has lots of fans from all over. However some people just can't keep their stupidity to themselves, and they start bashing. It's one thing if they dislike the show, I mean they bash us Cajuns as a whole. Of course they call us all rednecks, because they don't have a clue who Cajuns are. One site I came across even called us hillbillies! The nearest hill I know of is Avery Island. Not much else around here. Anyway, to be clear, I don't have a problem with rednecks. I have redneck relatives and buddies. That's not the "insult" part. They throw out the same old, tired stereotypes about us boinkin' our cousins (or sisters), no education, knuckle draggers, inbreeders, etc. I've responded and set some straight. Told one just where he could shove his condescending, elitist attitude. I know it's silly, but I just can't help but get pissed off when people insult Cajuns. That's my people! Not just You Tube either. Just google "Swamp People Discussion Forums" and you get lots of sites, and most are either positive comments on the threads, or amused by the accents. Others insult the cast, and some insult US in general, Cajuns, Rednecks, all the same. I know it's petty, and I'll never meet these morons in person. I'm not a cry baby, but man, it just makes me want to slap them when they start insulting our culture. There! Got it off my chest! Any of you run across the same thing? Feel the same way?

There was a page on fb about stop the alligator killing. This guy got smashed on it and ended up closing the page.Btw he was from california snd has no clue about our culture.

I could go on and on about this...but people's perception of any culture is based on their own experience with whatever they have been exposed to in life...majority of folks from the gulf south understand...east coast...west coast large cities are a whole different ball game.

I can't wait to tell my wife I'm Cajun. ;)

As a transplant, all I can say is that the rest that hate on this place don't know what they are missing!

The food, the people, the sights, the fishin...I could go on and on! I've told a good number of folks here that it's been a long 4 weeks! That's how long I was supposed to stay...Nearly 7 years ago!

Let em hate! That's more for me! Lol

If ya stay here for 3 more years we will call ya a transplanted yankee.
If ya die on louisiana soil and are planted here. we'll call ya a transplanted cajun

Well then transplanted Yankee is gonna have to work for what I hope is a very long time!! I'm not lookin forward to getting your promotion/title change any time soon, Eman!!!! Lmao!!!

Ok, what's "fb"? Probably something obvious that I can't think about right now, because I'm just some "dumb ol' knuckle-draggin' Cajun" LOL!

face book

Thank you Speck Chaser. I didn't even think Face Book. I'm officially like 150 years old, I guess!