fishing shoal bay : NT Barra

rosco84 · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:43 pm Post subject: fishing shoal bay

hey all,,
just after a bit of advice and few ideas,
my plan is to load up friday night and head around the shoal bay and spend the night there chasing a few barra any what ever would like to give us a bit of fun, just a few things i trying to work out before i lock it in, so if any one can help me out i would really appreciate it cheers

low tide is a bout 430 in darwin and of around the 3 metre mark, my biggest concern is will i have time to get access out of buff creek and over to the rock before dark so i can set up, i understand there is a time difference in tides from darwin??
if i do have time my plan is to chuck the boat in around 430 chase livies and then motor around spend the night over there then waiut till 8 or 9 next morning and come home, just not sure how fine i will be cutting it with my time,,

looking forward to hearin some responses
cheers ross

SUSIE Q · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:29 pm Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

fROM MY EXPERIENCE launching at buff on a 3mtr low you have missed the boat. I would be putting in at 3pm or sooner to be safe. Good tides, great spot but be SAFE and give yourself enough water to work with ALTHOUGH i am basing this on my boat a 5.3 quinny with a 115 4stroke so a smaller more versitile tinny 3mtrs may be plenty. Just my thoughts BUT the BIG BARRA must be there somewhere. Good luck.

SUSIE Q · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

Remember nothing worse than planning everything only to be STUCK with not enough water. The place takes some time to workout as we have all been stuck in shoal bay. You ared not trying hard enough if you havent been. cHEERS

deano · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:47 pm Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

if you really want to learn how to fish shoal bay.............. :fishing:

do it how everyone else has...............................................the hard way :bricks:

maxpower · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:01 am Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

I would say you are dreaming getting out on 3m. I normally work on 4m of water.

bandit · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:13 am Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

unless you have a little tinny that you can drag you wont get over the sandbar at bottom of the ramp let alone out the mouth til at least 7pm.

rosco84 · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:53 am Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

cheers for the advice i think. i will have a bit more of a think about it. Am pretty keen though. Might even have a look at night cliff even that might push it. Or even better might hit the boss up and try to get off work at mid day

Deigs · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

i would give it at least 2 hours after the change to be safe to leave buff if you dont no it well it's only about a 10min run to the rock then. launched there the other day in a 5m boat and touched at the mouth but as you go round the beakons start to swing round and head out to sea try and stay away from mud flats should see the water breaking on them good luck

rosco84 · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:27 pm Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

Deigs wrote:

i would give it at least 2 hours after the change to be safe to leave buff if you dont no it well it's only about a 10min run to the rock then. launched there the other day in a 5m boat and touched at the mouth but as you go round the beakons start to swing round and head out to sea try and stay away from mud flats should see the water breaking on them good luck

cheers "deigs" yeah i be heading out in a 5.1 , but am now going to knock off at midday on friday, so should give us a bit of time up our sleeve. looking forward to it

deano wrote:

if you really want to learn how to fish shoal bay.............. :fishing:

do it how everyone else has...............................................the hard way :bricks:

hey deano, i can appreciate where u ae coming from, but the whole idea of these forums are to throw the questions out there and hope like minded people are willing to lend a hand and a few handy tips??

itsinmeblood · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

think deano might have meant it's one of those places best learned first hand, a mud map of shoal bay aint worth the mud it's printed on
:cheers:

Lats · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:40 am Post subject: Re: fishing shoal bay

I recently went out of Buffalo Creek. The GPS tides said 4.6m and there was only 1m of water getting out so, yeah as said before, anything below 4m could be tough

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