Ryan's Adventures

Well 2012 is upon us and it's time to reflect back on 2011 and remember the good times. In January I finally bit the bullet and bought a LCD TV for my room.  I have thoroughly enjoyed it all year!  I purchased a new Axis Pan Tilt Zoom webcam to display more views down in Shell Beach.  It worked great all year and led to a slight redesign of www.shellbeachwebcam.com. February was pretty low key with a few local fishing trips.  I went bass fishing at Anderson and Lexington.  We caught some fish at Anderson and I was lucky to get my first bass at Lexington on a jig.  I got 3 trout at Shadow Cliffs from shore with Jon. March we got into some good cutthroat fishing at Pyramid Lake outside of Reno.  I went bass fishing again at Anderson and also bought a new bass fishing rod, a Shimano Clarus, from Coyote bait and tackle.  The rod was a spin rod to be able to maybe drop shot a little bit better.  Much faster action than I'm used to. Ap...

Having a family full of outdoor enthusiasts, you never know what kind of adventure you will find yourself on. Someway or another we found ourselves chasing wild mustangs. There's a great spot we know of that we have good results of finding the horses. We checked the weather forecast and figured it would be a good day to go explore. We would have 2 UTV's going on the trip, a Polaris Ranger Crew and a Yamaha Rhino. These vehicles are slightly better suited for the trip because of some of the narrow and overgrown roads. After a beautiful drive through the high desert, we arrived at the staging area. There were some dove that fluttered around the crystal clear spring as we loaded up the ice chests and gathered our gear. There is a cool old cabin where we stage (below) It looks like someone has redone the corral (below) Gettin' ready (below) Off in the distance we saw a trail of dust. A truck you ask? No, a herd of running horses! Imagine that, we didn't ev...

Since I have moved to Northern California, I'm always looking for someplace new to explore. I came across Bullards Bar Reservoir north of Sacramento. I searched the internet and found nothing but good things about it. So we decided to give it a try! On Saturday we awoke around 6:30am to try and get an early start. We were able to get on the road by 8am. The drive up was pretty easy. We came in through Marysville. I'm pretty sure the route through the 49 is lots of up and down and winding road. We launched at Dark Day launch ramp. The launch was free (amazing, right?) and there was no mussel inspection, but the girl at the kiosk said to expect inspections next year. Bummer! It was around 11am and the ramp was pretty busy. Lots of people going shoreline camping, etc. We got on the water and started motoring around. Map of the lake (above) Quite a bit of houseboats out here! (above) Skipper and first mate (above) Lots of pine trees and emer...