awesome day at the lake, pics, UPDATED

Jensen · Last edited by Jensen on Sep 08, 2007 1:05 pm; edited 1 time in total

Finally got to get the boat out for the first time in 2 weeks and went to our favorite riding spot at about 4pm for a nice evening session and it was awesome, had a lot of people in the boat so the wake was sick and had awesome water to ride in.

updated: went camping here a couple weeks ago, some more shots i'll share, saw 1 other boat out there the whole day, amazing. pics at the bottom

Jensen · Posted: Jul 31, 2007 1:40 pm Post subject:

some more... had a friend try and take some pics of me riding with my new 30d and every shot was out of focus Rolling Eyes

below is my friend kevin, and trevor on the surf. didn't stop til it was dark out, good times.

E.J. · Ladies Man Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7597 City: Mogadishu

NICE..... #4 is my favorite.....

Looks like a beautiful place to ride.......

Justin 25 · Addict Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 797

Awesome, and like E.J. said, it looks beautiful.

Zcaithaca · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 251 City: Ithaca

nice camera!

sweet surf wake too

SeaLyon · Posted: Aug 01, 2007 4:35 am Post subject:

Nice. I like the wipe out shot Smile

WakeBoarder44 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 1107

I wish I had a Malibu V ride... what a wake... and cool place to ride too!

Cool

liquid_force_balance06 · Criminal Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 60

#5...That's one saaweet bail.... Shocked

Jensen · Posted: Aug 01, 2007 12:08 pm Post subject:

Zcaithaca, thanks, you can't really tell its a 30d from the picture since their are such bad quality, couldn't keep a shutterspeed above 1/50 since it was getting quite dark. and yes, the vride throws an incredible surf wake with minimal weight, only 100 pounds of lead on top of the stock balast and wedge.

liquid_force_balance06, haha, it didn't look that bad in person but once i went back to the pictures and saw the board coming down on his head it looked like it could have been nasty.

E.J., thanks, that lake is unbelievable, relatively smooth water all week and butter almost every week day.

Blake · Posted: Aug 01, 2007 1:40 pm Post subject:

Jensen · Posted: Aug 01, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

Blake, i think i had it set on iso 400, and then forget to bump it up when the sun slipped over the mountain, but i always shoot in Av mode for wakeboarding and keep it wide open or stopped down once or twice. and i had a polarizer filter on which probably made me loose another 2 stops of light and i forgot to take that off as well lol

Jensen · Posted: Sep 08, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject:

new pics

Jensen · Posted: Sep 08, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject:

and a 4 shot pano

chaz28o · Posted: Sep 08, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject:

I hate living 5 minutes from the delta - cuz I don't go to the lakes often enough Crying or Very sad

Great photos - I haven't been to BB in long time - Dark Day is a beautiful launch

inter · Addict Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 539 City: BC

Jensen, that pano shot is beautiful.

nickl011 · Posted: Sep 09, 2007 10:20 am Post subject:

That looks like an ideal place for boarding/skating/surfing. Is anyone else even on the lake?

chaz28o · Posted: Sep 09, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject:

Bullards Bar gets packed on the weekend Crying or Very sad

Jensen · Posted: Sep 09, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

inter, thanks

lfpimp, on a weekday the lake is just empty, only a few bass fisherman. on the weekends though it gets a little crowded but empties out at about 5pm every time.

chazz - ya, its gotten a little more popular, especially with tubers, but most are from sac direction and clear out early to get home since its about a 2 hour drive for them.

Jensen · Posted: Sep 09, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:

oh ya, and all those pictures were on a sunday at about noon Very Happy

, nobody even there.

and i was there on the friday before labor day, literally saw 1 other boat, and on actual labor day there was only a dozen or so boats after 3 oclock.

RC · Addict Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 771 City: Tuscaloosa

Jensen, what lake is that on? it looks just like smith. I went up there last night and rode all day today.

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

RC- it's Bullard's Bar. The lake has been featured in a bunch of wake vids over the years...

KRaven · Newbie Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 47

Nice pictures... We don't have many lakes around this area that look as nice as that. Ours are all packed on the weekends. Keep it up.

chaz28o · Posted: Sep 13, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

We used to go to Bullards back in the early 80's

There was no Marina / the only gas was off the lake about five miles east of camp

You could go there 4th of July weekend, and there would only be a half dozen campers in camp the whole weekend

It became my favorite lake (even over Shasta) but around 1990 the marina opened and gas was available on the water and the crowds came

But for a while..... It was a great lake