If you get desperate, Prudhomme (sp) has a recipe. What my pawpaw told me to use b/c he wouldnt tell me how. Learned by watching him instead and it was totally diff process.
I'm sure there is one in one of the cookbooks I have from my grandmother, I know there is. If not I know enough people back home that will cough one up for me if I ask. I don't trust stuff like food network or any of that stuff you find online. Use that stuff and you end up with tomato in your gumbo
You rashly assume that I used a whole fish. I filleted them and cut the filets into bite sized pieces
Now I always dump a can of “hot” ro tel with my onions, bell peppers, etc when I sauté. Not ibut a gumbo though.