Major League Fishing’s REDCREST 2021 Special to Air Sunday on CBS, Discovery Channel Airing Pre-Empted Due to Shark Week
| TULSA, Okla. (July 15, 2021) – Major League Fishing’s REDCREST 2021 Special Presented by Old Wisconsin Sausage –the Bass Pro Tour Championship filmed earlier this year on Lake Eufaula in Eufaula, Alabama – will premiere nationwide Sunday, July 18, on CBS from 2 to 3 p.m. ET. The program showcases the 40 top professional bass anglers from the 2020 Bass Pro Tour, competing across five days at the Bass Fishing Capital of the World for the prestigious REDCREST Championship and the top prize of $300,000.
Sunday’s airing on CBS will showcase the highlights from all five days of the event with behind-the-scenes angler commentary and interviews, as well as a thrilling final-day shootout between some of the top anglers in the sport, including Dustin Connell, Ott DeFoe, Takahiro Omori, Bryan Thrift and Jacob Wheeler. The event was hosted by the Eufaula Barbour County Chamber of Commerce. The Discovery Channel airing of the Bass Pro Tour General Tire Heavy Hitters event, originally scheduled for this weekend, Saturday, July 17, has been pre-empted for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. The episode will now air next weekend as regularly scheduled Bass Pro Tour programming resumes on Discovery next Saturday, July 24, from 7 to 9 a.m. ET.  The full, updated television schedule can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com. For complete details and updated information visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow MLF’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. |
