Bernard Herbert Fisher

Bernard Herbert Fisher (1916 - 2006) is a journalist and a Canadian TV host. It is usually called Red Fisher .

Born with the the United States, it early becomes a legend of the world of fishing in its country. He exerts initially the trade of sporting retailer and officer of the marine and the coastal Garde. In 1948, it is established with the temple of re-elected fishing .

When he moved with the Canada in 1963, he launched an emission varieties to the radio called The Red Fisher Show . This emission having had a great success, it passed on television in 1968.

The plate of the televised version was established in a fictitious place called Scuttlebutt Lodge (the cabin of the mass grave). The emission diffused film-cassettes silencer on the activities of sport where were sporting high-speed motorboats of the time like Gordie Howe, Eddie Shack, Johnny Bower and Ted Williams.

At the same time, Fisher writes a sports column which is read in 180 newspapers. In 1971, it publishes its first book of poems, heading Poems Of Our Great Outdoors . With the difference of the other sporting organizers of the time, its emission made the promotion of the safeguarding of the nature and the relaxation of the captured preys.

Whereas well its fans do not suspect it, the emission of Red Fisher inspired the work of Steve Smith, which animates The Red Green Show on Radio-Canada.

It is deceased with Chatham in the Ontario at the 92 years age.

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