How to clean out the freezer and come up with a new _ _ _kicking gumbo!

Blue crabs are everywhere right now.  You'll catch them in drop nets, crabtraps, or on a handline with a chunk of raw chicken tied on the business end.  And since it's late summer. . .they're fat and full!  Yummmm!

The ultimate Crown Prince of "Comfort Food," nothing beats an aromatic, fall-apart-tender, "melt in your mouth" pot roast.  This one is done with onions, mushrooms, carrots, wine and some of the best seasonings found anywhere!  I know that because they're my seasonings! 

      If you do a lot of fishing off the Louisiana coast, you really need to know whether you're in state or federal waters, especially if you're fishing for redfish or snapper because the regulations and restrictions differ for those species based on where you're fishing.  Check this out!
     

Like boat racing?  The downhome kind with outboard motors?  In the beautiful Atchafalaya Basin?  Check this out!

Babies hatching out of their shells. . .big gators basking in the sun. . .kids oohing and aahing over the very thought of being so close to a live alligator.  And being able to play with him safely.

Ask any of the thousands who showed up at the Chalmette Civic Center for the Chubby Checker concert Saturday and you'll hear raves!

We were all expecting intense rain, lightning and thunderstorms, and gusty winds upwards of 50 miles per hour.  But none of that materialized.  Instead of another Tropical Storm we got a Tropical Shoo-Shoo!

Wonder what's gonna become of our seafood down the road after everyone starts forgetting about BP's "Big Spill?"

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WWL-TV, Rouses' Supermarkets, and I have begun a campaign and program to raise funding to help fishermen and their families through financial "rough waters"  that the BP oil spill has caused them to experience.