Buying the Bayou

Best friends Duck, Lathan, and Flip are avid gator hunters but are growing tired of traveling each weekend to their favorite place to enjoy bayou living. This year, they’re willing to do whatever it takes to buy a home if they can hunt gators right out their back door.

Bryan Fassbender and Stephanie Robichaux are self-described work-a-holics who just want to have a weekend houseboat escape on the Pearl River. They are willing to live off the grid to have the water be their back yard. For them, there’s nothing better than being able to move the house up and down The River to get a change of scenery.

David and Jackie love bayou life in Mississippi. With their two sons away at college, it makes sense to downsize on the water. They love to add their creative touch so they’re looking for a fixer upper with beautiful views of the wetlands that they can make their own.

Jack “Catfish” Clampit and his daughter, Amanda, love hand-grabbing catfish, but no longer want to haul their boat to Lake D’Arbonne, in northern Louisiana. Now that Amanda is encouraging her son to follow in her father’s footsteps, it looks like noodling may become a family affair. And there’s no better way to pass on the tradition than finding the perfect fishing camp to accommodate the growing Clampit clan…and their appetite for catfish.

Josh recently graduated from Louisiana Tech university and got his first job. Since he loves fishing and duck hunting, Josh, with his best friend's help, is looking for a first starter home that offers prime property for outdoor entertainment.

Matt and Laurie aren't your ordinary couple looking for a turnkey home. They love fixing places up. They look at three unusual homes on Louisiana oxbows. For this couple, anything goes as long as it is has room for their large number of boats.

Jeff and Amelia Harding cruise the Mississippi Gulf Coast in search of a new house. Amelia lost her home in Katrina, so theyre not looking for any old placetheyre scouring the coast for a house that can stand up to a hurricane.

CJ grew up on a shrimp boat in south Louisiana. Marty is from Los Angeles and spent a lot of time at the beach. They're looking for a weekend getaway on the water but can't agree whether it will be on the bayou or the beach.

They're big, loud, fast and can traverse anything. Airboats aren't just a novelty in Louisiana, they're essential—no one knows that better than the Fradella's. Join a full-throttle house-hunt, as this family searches for an airboat assessable home

Larry and Amber Douglas started a business that has become a million-dollar southern operation. With their new wealth, they're looking to upgrade their lifestyle, but still want a place with a down home bayou feel.

Jill and Marvin look for the perfect floating home on Belle River that will get them back to their bayou roots.

Mike and Kim are looking for a home away from home, a Cajun camp where they can throw down and have a good ol' time. And the best places you can only get to by boat. Join these two as they cross lakes and rivers to find a perfect bayou

Chris and Jessica are going back to their roots and looking for a bayou home near Houma, Louisiana. But with a rambunctious baby, finding the perfect waterfront home can be a challenge.

Chef Brent and his father Danny are looking for a camp where they can catch speckled trout, one of South Louisiana's delicacies, right in their backyard. They want a place where the fish can go from bayou to frying pan in no time flat.

Josh and Tiffany Chambless grew up living the bayou lifestyle and spending any spare moment exploring the swamps on their ATVs. Now, they have a one-year-old daughter, Chloe, and they’re looking for a place that’s good for the baby and for four-wheeling.

Floyd and Robin Foti are living the American Dream. They started out living in a trailer, selling crawfish out of a truck. But, with hard work, the business grew to become a massive food market. Now they’re looking for a million dollar home!

A couple who own a fishing boat look at a house that's difficult to reach on an island and tour a mainland property that wasn't built for average-size people.

Ross and Sarah discover a remote house on an island and a property on the mainland.

For Matthew and Lindsey, summers on Mississippi’s Lake Mary is a family tradition and now they’re looking for a camp of their own. Lake Mary houses can flood, so the couple is looking for a high rise home, lifted 20 feet off the ground!

Spear fisherman Clay and his girlfriend Jackie are looking for their first home together around Pensacola, Florida, an area where the bayou meets the beach, known as the Redneck Riviera.

Jamie and his fiancée Brandi are looking for a home to start their life together near the Cajun Tropics of Gulf Shores, Alabama. But there’s one problem - Jamie wants a house on the bayou, but Brandi prefers the beach. Which one will they choose?

Life in the bayou is all about family and passing down traditions. Blane is looking for a place where he can spend quality time with his teenage daughter, Kendall, doing what their family does best - hunting.

Trey and Jacob are two best friends who want to buy a backwoods getaway home for themselves and their families. They discover properties where the fields have been flooded to attract wild birds and a plantation overrun with raccoons!

Marty and Shelly grew up in the backwoods of the Mississippi bayou. But recently they’ve been stuck in the suburbs. So now they’re looking for a new home that will get them back into wilderness, where they can teach their children the bayou way of life.

Childhood sweethearts, Rowdy and Stevi, want to move into a starter home on the bayou. They love the excitement of nightlife and gambling so they’re looking for a house close to Biloxi’s casinos.

Newly engaged couple, Barrett and Haley, are looking for their first home on the bayou, but there’s one problem: he’s from the country and she’s from the city, so they’re sure to butt heads.

David and Blair love getting out on the waters of the Louisiana Bayou, so they want a weekend waterfront getaway home. But these houses come with their own hassles - like taking a boat to your car on the mainland when you need to shop for groceries.

Carter and his wife want a million dollar home on the waters of the Mississippi bayou.