Category Archives: Fox Sports Net – This Week

FSN – Summer Striper Fishing on Lake Murray

Lake Murray – Southern Striper Fishing.

Lake Murray is located in the heart of South Carolina, and everyone knows it’s one of the finest deep, freshwater fishing lakes in the Southeast, that offers both cold and warm water fisheries. This week, Brad Taylor & Huey Chapps of Taylor Outdoors, LLC will join Bob to do a little summertime striper fishing. These guides have over 50 years of combined fishing experience on Lake Murray and know all about hooking up on large freshwater stripers that hold up in the deep clear waters of Lake Murray. If you love striper fishing, tune in this week on the Pursuit channel for another great fishing adventure!

Pursuit – Summer Striper Fishing on Lake Murray

Lake Murray – Southern Striper Fishing.

FSN – Red Fishing with Cincinnati Bengal, TJ Johnson

This week on FSN, Bob is fishing with TJ Johnson, former South Carolina Gamecock and NFL Center for the Cincinnati Bengal’s before he heads off to training camp. Bob will discuss TJ’s love for the outdoors and his success as a South Carolina Gamecock Lineman under the HBC, Steve Spurrier. If you love football and the outdoors, be sure to tune in on FSN this week, because you won’t want to miss a single second of this week’s show!

New York Brownies

Bob heads to Buffalo, NY to join his good friend Frank Campbell for some small mouth bass fishing on the Niagara River. Upstate New York and the Niagara Falls area has some of the best fishing in the country. Today, Bob will be throwing out spinner baits and showing you some new equipment from Abu Garcia. The Sportsman’s Table is back in the kitchen this week with Michelle Weaver from the Charleston Grill!

Bob’s Outdoor Gear Giveaway!

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Win Pennington Seed!

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Before and After the Show — Changing The Game Plan

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On many trips I specifically have a species of fish in mind and with close coordination with the guides that host our program, there is always a certain level of doubt as to the conditions in which fish will respond. On a recent trip to the Atlantic coast the game plan included fishing for Red Fish and only if they were not “on”, then switching to another species and in a hurry. Well, as seems to be the case in over 90% of the scheduled fishing trips I have to be prepared to change the “play” at the line of scrimmage. This day would not be any different as every trip is not a guaranteed fish catching experience.

The Red Fish were not responding and the only fish we were catching was Sea Trout. Most guides prefer to use “live” bait and our guide for the day, Capt. Robert Olsen, www.KnotAtWorkFishing.com , was prepared with live shrimp, but the red fish did not take the bait. After a quick decision and looking at the conditions, tides, wind, temperature Robert recommended that we try a favorite spot of his inside the coastal waterway in Charleston, SC.

Sea trout is a great species of fish to catch and some can be up to 22-24 inches and put up a great fight. They are very soft mouthed and anglers have to been very careful to not pull or “set” the hook, which for most of us is a very hard habit to break. All you bass fishermen know what I am talking about, and Robert being the good coach that he is, warned me about setting the hook in reaction to the bite on a “popping cork” rig on our spinning tackle.

I always try to use a variation of techniques and baits on our program and had brought along some Berkley Gulp Shrimp baits and wanted to demonstrate just how effective they could be on various species of fish. Red Fish seem to always be on the Gulp baits, but with us switching to sea trout I wanted to see if the trout would respond. Well, respond they did, and in a big way…… you will just have to wait and see the results when you watch the show.

On our program each week Chevrolet features our weekly Chevy Outdoor Destination as I try to find some of the best fishing and hunting outfitters in the business. You can see that the Low Country of South Carolina has a lot to offer the hunter and on the featured destination at Deux Cheneaux Plantation near Green Pond, South Carolina it will tell the rest of the story. Log onto their website at www.docheno.com to view their beautiful plantation and lodge.

A big thanks goes out to all of our Fans on our website www.BobRedfern.com, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Keep watching and following along each week we have some great new shows coming soon.

All the best, Bob

Before and After The Show #1

Folks this will be the first of many new articles on our new website www.bobredfern.com. I will provide all of my loyal fans with some insight as to how we film and produce our program. “Before and After the Show” will discuss what you do not see on the program and a behind the scenes look.

Doing an outdoor TV Show takes a lot of coordination and a great deal of luck…..as you know we try to film programs in real time, or as we say in the TV business, the “shoot to air” timelines are very short, like 3 to 6 weeks. By doing our programs in that type of sequence provides in season hunting and fishing programs and not filming shows and then airing them 1 to 2 years later……. I do 26 programs each year and we broadcast 52 weeks, which means year round….. Fishing is not just for the warm months anymore….. we fish year round, whether it is freshwater or saltwater, I am there regardless of the cold or heat.

As for hunting, with the opening day of Dove season around Labor Day weekend every year, that to most folks is considered the opening of hunting around the country. Dove hunting and football go hand in hand and to many serves as the right of passage. Although in some parts of the country deer hunting begins in mid August, the fall hunting season begins around labor day…. One tidbit of info, there are more shot gun shells expended on opening day of Dove hunting that during any other time of the year….

That really makes my friends as Winchester Ammunition happy, so with that I will have my new Browning Citori 625 over/under, 28 gauge shot gun in hand on the opening day of dove hunting, Sept 5^th. This seasons dove hunt takes us back to a location that we visited last year in Mulllins, SC and Wally Elliott of Elliott Labradors to see if he can work up the magic again for drawing in doves.

Our Chevy destination for the dove hunting program finds us in Loganville, Georgia visiting one of the largest Pennington Seed distributors in the Southeastern United States, Boss Brothers Country Store. The store is a family owned business that started out in an old chicken house building in the 1980’s by one of the brothers, Michael Boss, and with the addition of a new old timey country store which run by Michael’s brother, Ken.

Now you all are probably wondering what does that have to do with dove hunting and the outdoors, well it is really simple…. Pennington Seed Inc. in Madison, Georgia, ran an exclusive promotion for all of its dealers nation wide and the dealer/distributor that sold the most Pennington Seed Wildlife Forage product for 2009 won the honors of being on our program as well as picking their best customer to receive a “free” Wildlife Food Plot Makeover, with Pennington providing all of the products and expertise for free. The lucky winner of the food plot makeover was
Charlie Henderson of Covington, Georgia….

In the coming months I will be following the food plot makeover and we will showcase the progress on our TV show…. This should be a segment to watch and keep up with… and maybe one of our viewers across the country can be selected for the same food plot makeover.

The upcoming months will be exciting and I hope that you all will continue to follow along on both the TV and on our website. I am also pleased to announce that we will feature some great outdoor writers on our website, who will be providing some great insights on tips and techniques as well as life long stories from their hunting and fishing trips.

I also get questions all of the time about guides and outfitters that I recommend…. We are creating a special web page for all of our “go to” guides and outfitters for what I call “The Best of the Best” list. If guides and outfitters make our listing then they will be posted on the site for all of our fans to utilize….. Making the list will be a graded out deal which will be done by our producers and fans…..

More to follow on how we grade our guides and outfitters and how they will be added to the list……. You will also be able to go to the Chevy Access the Outdoors which will also feature our recommended guides and outfitters across the country… so keep watching.

Just one final thought goes out to all of our great sponsors, whom without, I would not be able to bring our show into your home each week… We have established specific sponsor web pages and I encourage each of you to take a look at their products and when you are in the market, make your next purchase from them…..

Thanks again for all of your years of support and see you soon…..

Bob

Welcome to BobRedfern.com!

We’ve gone through a complete overhaul and now reside at BobRedfern.com (formerly broutdoormagazine.com) Things are constantly changing, updating and hopefully giving you easier access to all of the great things you see on the show. The new site will give you a chance to get inside the show, follow Bob on Twitter – @bobredfern – to see where he’s filming, and become a fan of the show on Facebook! It’s also easier that ever to comment on each show, recipe and ask Bob questions. Let us know what you think of the new site and ideas for how we can improve things around here.

Watch Bob Redfern on Versus beginning March 29th!

Beginning Monday, March 29th you can catch Bob Redfern’s Outdoor Magazine on Versus right before the legendary Bill Dance. We’re extremely excited about joining Versus and being able to continue sharing our passion for the outdoors with Versus viewers.