Rick Phillips
Not your typical pawnshop, Phillips Swamp Seafood buys and sells anything the bayou serves up, including alligators, turtles, bullfrogs, crawfish and everything in between. Phillips and a colorful cast of neighboring "swampers" make their living fishing, hunting and haggling in this tiny, self-sustaining community deep in the heart of the bayou.
Swamp Pawn will premiere Jan. 26 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, immediately following the season premiere of My Big Redneck Vacation.
Swamp Pawn features an array of quirky locals who rely on their ability to sell whatever will catch a price. This close-knit community lives off the land, learns to be resourceful when times are lean and depends on each other to get by.
Phillips is the closest thing to a mayor that Bayou Pigeon has, and his business is the town's lifeblood. He's a tough customer, but with his casual country charm and sense of humor, he'll also bend over backwards to help a friend or stranger.
Along with Phillips, Swamp Pawn features the mismatched father-and-son team of Coy and Shorty Gomez, two fishermen who spend much of their time arguing, looking for work or hocking anything they can to make a living. They'd make perfect business partners if they weren't so different. Coy is a quiet, reserved and thoughtful backwoods gentleman, while his son Shorty is brash and scattershot.
When there's trouble in the swamp, the locals call in legendary Chachie Boy -- the best gator hunter in Bayou Pigeon. The cast also includes dueling husband-and-wife fishing duos Clayton and Joney Daley and Quentin and Jamie Morales, who good-naturedly compete for bragging rights as the best fishers in the bayou.
