Ryan's Adventures

Headed to the Ranch with Matt and Jamie, our good friends... Saturday: Drove over, arrived maybe around 7pm? Went for a quick Ranger ride to the Culdesac, up the ridge, the cabin, then down to the corral. At the corral it started raining, but the sun was shining through, it was quite a sight. Of course I didn't have my camera, so I just had to enjoy it while it lasted. Went back and had some Trader Joes pizza and just relaxed. Sunday: Woke up, drove to the ridge on the other side. Circled around, past the meadow, etc, then crossed to the other side and headed back to the house near the cul-de-sac. Went for a quick ride down to the pond with the girls on the quad, and guys on the motorcycle. We rode the bottom loop and then headed back to the front gate. The girls went back to make lunch and we headed out on a quick guys ride. We basically circled the whole ranch with the go pro video mounted to my helmet. We got back, had lunch. We then shot guns down at the shooting 'range...

I'm packing up and heading up to Pyramid Lake near Reno, NV tomorrow.  Hopefully I'll be on the road by 6am.  There is some weather forecasted, we'll see how it goes.  I think we will be camping at the South Nets.  Billy and Al will be there for sure.  

Gotta get these things outfitted and take them out for a test fire. I still have to mount my 6-24x scope on the savage.

Everyone left, so i went to Crowley north end by myself with the float tube. Kicked out to some other boats to midge, they were getting a fish maybe every 15 min, I finally got 1 bump after about 30 min. Some strippers came through and got 3 or 4 hits right next to me near the shore on Green Banks, so I decdided to start stripping. I had a black wooly bugger with green punk perch trailer. I finally got hit hard right off the little point, Gary's point, pretty close to the shore. It was a feisty 18" rainbow, pullin hard, and I pulled a little too hard back, and he came unbuttoned. I put it back down, and caught another little 12 rainbow 20 minutes later. As I was leaving around 12, some guy said he just caught a 24" rainbow in front of the trucks on a Loeberg. I think that's the spot! I drove home, pretty uneventful, I think 4:34 moving time, and 17 min stopped time. Sad to leave!

Woke up, was on Crowley by 930am. Got a few take downs midging in the middle of the north end in around 7 ft of water, small dinks. Overall, fishing was pretty slow all day, I think I got 2 fish, Dad got maybe 4? All small rainbows. Tim and Robbie got 32 trout on the boat trolling, some on an Arctic Fox Trolling Fly Black with Red Tinsel and a Tasmanian Devil with like Yellow wings and some red/black spots in the middle. Robbie maybe got 3 fish, Tom maybe got 3-4. Left lake at about 645pm. Came home and had steaks for dinner. Last full day here.

Woke up, got ready, headed down to Crowley. Tim and Robbie were in the boat, and Tom Gary Dad and I drove in my truck to the north end of the lake via dirt road. We were in the water by about 930am. We got a few fish midging, then did some trolling and got a few more, then a few more midging towards the end of the day. Tim and Robbie maybe caught about 12 fish, Dad and I caught about 12, and Tom and Gary got about 6. Good day. We stopped by the troutfitter on the way home, then had a good spaghetti dinner. Another beautiful day!

Woke up, decided to head down to crowley. Got out on the water, started out in the north end. Wind came up, left that spot after about 45 minutes. We headed up to the crooked creek area on the boat and trolled around for ZERO bites!! We got off the lake, and then drove up to the Hot Creek Trout Hatchery. It was crazy to see all these huge trout up close. We took some underwater video seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHOjr7SU6kc We continued down and checked out the rest of Hot Creek, which was pretty interesting to see the hot springs. We came home and put the porta boat together in preparation of the next day. Gary and Robbie arrived and we had sausage and sour kraut (sp?) for dinner.