Category Archives: Fox Sports Net – This Week

FSN – Striper Fishing on Lake Hartwell

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This week Bob is joined by two South Carolina Outdoorsmen, Representative Brian White, and Representative Mike Pitts, from the SC House of Representatives. Brian and Mike will discuss their years of support for Hunting, Fishing and the Shooting Sports, as well as their leadership on the SC and National Congressional Sportsman’s Caucus. Bob will have the chance to discuss their love for the outdoors while reeling in some summer lake stripers on Lake Hartwell in the upstate of South Carolina. A show you will surely enjoy, so don’t miss it.

FSN – South Carolina Small Mouth Bass Fishing

broad riverThis week Bob is back in the heart South Carolina searching for small mouth bass. Don’t believe South Carolina has small mouth bass?  Well Mike McSwain will join Bob on the fast moving water of the Broad River, just north of Columbia and  change your mind about summer fishing for small mouth bass in South Carolina.  Don’t miss this action!!

FSN – Summer Striper Fishing on Lake Murray

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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

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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!

FSN – Red Fishing with Cincinnati Bengal, TJ Johnson

TJ JohnsonThis 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!

Canadian Pike Fishing on Reindeer Lake

Bob is fishing for trophy northern pike at Lawrence Bay Lodge on Reindeer Lake in beautiful Saskatchewan Canada. Reindeer Lake provides some great scenery plus some of the best pike, walleye and trout fishing in the world. Bob will not only be on the water, but takes to the skies in one of Lawrence Bay Lodges float planes, you don’t want to miss this adventure.

Reindeer Lake

About Reindeer Lake: Located on Reindeer Lake in Northern Saskatchewan, Lawrence Bay Lodge offers some of the best fresh water northern pike, walleye, arctic grayling and lake trout fishing in Saskatchewan, Canada. Reindeer Lake, with it’s thousands of islands, is home to HUGE Northern Pike. Catch your Walleye on Reindeer Lake as well or hop in a float plane and fly out to one of our many day lakes. With an average depth of 100 feet, Reindeer Lake is loaded with Trophy Lake Trout! The Arctic Grayling make a beautiful “trophy” and are known to put up a good fight for their size. Fantastic Saskatchewan Canada fishing!

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