The Southerner's Handbook by Editors of Garden & Gun

Author:Editors of Garden & Gun
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

GRAB A FROG

A FROG LEG CAN have as much meat as a drumstick off your average chicken, and cooked right, whether deep-fried or sautéed, it’s just as good eating too. Which is why people all over the South have been gigging the critters (that is, spearing them out of the water with a trident or something similar) since God knows when.

If you’ve ever hunted bullfrogs yourself, chances are it was using the gig method. And while to many of us that’s pretty much the apotheosis of Southern country cool, compared with hand grabbing, it’s sissy work. Deep in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, frog hunters crouch like jaguars on the bow of a crawfish boat while a buddy works a spotlight and a motor tiller to get close, close, and closer. Caught in the bright beam, the bullfrogs remain bug-eyed and motionless, as if watching the grim reaper coming for their squalid souls. Once close enough, said frog hunters grab the frogs one-handed, arm in the swamp to the shoulder, with the other hand gripping the boat gunwale as if they might be dragged across the River Styx.

Watch them at work and you’ll learn that the only way to approach frog grabbing is with all-in commitment. It’s not a jab. It’s a full-on roundhouse, pinching ol’ Galump with thumb and fingers as you drive the slippery amphibian into the mud and muck. Once extracted, the frogs go into a wet burlap sack, so you can hit the hay when you’re done and worry about cleaning them later.

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