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Chris Bailey of Reel Outdoors TV
About Reel Outdoors TV
I got involved in Outdoors TV pretty much because of 9-11 and my love for the outdoors. As I looked at hunting and fishing shows prior to 9-11, I found them all to be carbon copy Bass Master-Buck Master want-a-bees and the outdoors experience is much much more then that. I wanted to "Tell the Story" with the bloopers, the side plots and memories that sear themselves into our minds and force us go back to the woods just as a salmon is driven back to its place of birth. You all know what I mean; to smell the pines, watch a trout rise in mirror clam waters, or spy a monster buck feeding in high lupine meadows.
After four years and 14 awards and nominations including "Best Big Game", "Best Videography", and "Best Fishing Series", I think we are getting there. In a nutshell, we like to mix it up by doing some shows close to home and then shake it up a bit with a trip to the Amazon, India, do a bow Safari in Namibia. Best Fishing Trip- one of our early shows on Peacock Bass of the Amazon, flying in float planes to areas that has never seen a non-native walk its jungle shorelines before. The fishing was obscene and we had jaguar tracks in our tracks on the way back to the plane. Best Hunting Trip- Last week, finally drew the San Juan-Elk Ridge bow tag after 14 years and took a 350 B&C bull at 4 feet (yes, it is all on film). He had nowhere to go but right through me and I had no place to get out of the way. He chose to bust through a mesh of trees and I am still here.
Why Camp Chef?
You all remember trying to cook on those old Colman stoves, don't you? Pumping and swearing, then waiting for 15 minutes for the pan to heat up. When I first fired up a Camp Chef it was like the men on "Tool Time" as I bellowed out a "UUH-UUH-UUH", Now that's a small furnace. Then all the hunting buddies would gather around and comment on all the different gizmos that you can use with it. You can fry with it, sear a steak with it, slow roast a chicken or turkey with it, smoke a chicken, and even deep fry a chicken with it. For you Easterners, you can make a first rate crab boil with potatoes, corn and the works. What can't it do? I don't know, we haven't found it yet. Gals, you can hold your Tupperware parties or baby showers, us hunters have our Camp Chefs to accessorize with- know what I mean, Vern!
Now instead of showing up to camp with some cans of beans or hitting Subway on the way it (you know exactly what I am talking about) we are competing to see who can outdo the next guy at making dinner. One year Ray Greer (my good friend and often Co-Host of RO) showed up in Steelhead camp with some mighty thick porterhouse steaks which were pretty spectacular I must say, but I dominated him (I'm not just saying this, it was voted on by all in camp) I had just returned from a trip to Alaska and brought in tow some halibut loin steaks that were so fresh they were still quivering. Git er done! Camp Chef has created a renaissance for outdoor cooking. | 