Wide Bay Bar

[Back In Black]

Guys,
Looking at venturing up to Tin Can & heading out through the bar as Noosa is getting really dodgy, & has become very limiting in the times you can cross.

For safety, I would want to cross Noosa on a 2/3 + high tide & return on the same, but while the bar is poor, I'd still leather do it in daylight hours, & the chances of a good day, coinciding with a highish tide on daylight is slim, hence the idea of heading up to TCB.

Its just too far from Mooloolaba to fish DI, & I have the issue of travelling from Noosa to Mooloolaba, which I did on Friday & it was exactly an hour from leaving here till I was on the water, & then add the time to travel to DI & further north, well, it becomes a challenge.

My question is, is Wide Bay Bar as bad as people make out?? I realise its a long bar, but in good conditions, & realistically thats when we fish, is it an all weather bar, regarding tide times?? Do you have to cross on a highish tide, or aren't tides a real issue.

Does the bar change much, unlike Noosa which changes constantly, or is it reasonably constant?? How much water would you have under you on a low tide in the shallowest part of the bar??

I've just got to get up there & get a red to shut bananna up!! LOL

Thanks felllas,

Tony

[rosco1974]

its a good bar mate,long yes but it is a good deep channel,when I went the other week it was good to cross and deep,be no trouble in your tub...there is a gutter they use inclose to the beach but being my first trip up I just went out through the channel vmr at tin can give me
cheers rosco

[shaungonemad]

In good conditions it's quite fine bit ugly on the run out the turning point has moved a bit you need to stay north about a hundred meters or so fishermen's gutter is a good short cut but gets shallow

[Casey Ison]

Giddy mate bar is as any bar is great in good conditions shit in bad. As said above if u use the waypoint stay well clear of turn point. Other then that there's plenty of water outta bank can stand up on a big swell at low tide but yeah. Good luck you will be right.

Cheers casey

[Back In Black]

Thanks casey, but what is the turning point you & shaungonemad are talking about??

[shaungonemad]

The bar has a bend in the middle the sand has moved at this point meaning you will need to go north to get around it

[rosco1974]

its the marks you get from tin can vmr there is a turning point they give you,as said we went around 70-100mtrs nrth of it as well

[Back In Black]

The bar has a bend in the middle the sand has moved at this point meaning you will need to go north to get around it

The bar is bent?? LOL

[Casey Ison]

Yeah mate 3 wps to cross it inner middle and outer bank there's Leeds on Inskip point for the first leg through the mad mile and a board on Fraser which indicates the turn it has a white light which means your correct to turn and red and green means your off course. My old boy has been skipper at tin can coast guard over 20 years and honestly you only use these as references he has always said drive where its calm within reason obviously.

[Moejoes]

Wide Bay Bar.jpgI think this is what they are talking about Tony
Bit like Noosa Bar but only on a larger scale............

[Casey Ison]

Here's a pic my brother took of my old cruise craft when we were crossing outta bank flat day tho

[shaungonemad]

The bar is bent?? LOL

Sure is it can be a bit of a washing machine at this point have a look at google earth it will give you a good idea what it looks like

[shaungonemad]

The first time I crossed it you could of water skied anywhere you wanted it's not like that to often

[FisHard]

Does anyone jig the wrecks outside the bar for Trevally etc?

[Back In Black]

I think this is what they are talking about Tony
Bit like Noosa Bar but only on a larger scale............


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Seriously mate, get it right..............