Anyone Have Tips For Tin Can Bay?

[Chappo]

Hi all,

Myself and two mates are heading to Tin Can Bay Qld next Saturday for 5 days fishing. Picking up a house boat at Rainbow Beach and towing a 4.1 dory widebody with a Yamaha 30hp as our fishing boat. Wondering if anyone has fished this area before and can give advice on best rigs, bait and where to fish etc. I'm not asking anyone to give up their best spots, just after a heads up on what type of species and general advice. We are hoping to motor up past Inskip Point and into the Great Sandy Strait.

Thanks in advance

Chappo

P.S. We will have six mud crab traps on board, but none of us have reallly done any serious mudcrabbing before. Any advice on this, best bait, where to put the traps and how to keep the crabs alive for a potential trip back to Sdyney would be greatly appreciated.!!!!!!!

[youngy555]

I did a two week trip up there over newyears, make sure you take a yabby pump and on low tide stock up with yabbies, the whiting up that way are of abundance and good sizeed as well. Get yourself a decent map of the straits and fish the creeks that run up past poona, and tinnanbar, kauri creek (on map) proved to hold some decent flatties, whiting and mangrove jack (if you've never fished for these guys before do a bit of readin, they r awesome fun), thats also whre i got all the muddies i caught, from the straits, go up the creek till its about <40m wide (15min boat ride), best pots to use are the round ones but i got them in rectangle pots, use dead fish frames as bait,. A few old fishos campin near me pulled a few barra one morning so really be prepared for anything.

Pelagic action should be available right down to inskip point with the area around big mick (Green beacon directly inside channel between inskip point and fraser) the weather was dreadful when i was up there so barely got out amongst it, its a beaut area up there, sandy straits is like a bay, protected so the dory wil handle it all, beware of the tides, the way you get somewhere on a high tide may generally be dry land a few hours later. anyway it really is a change of scenery, dugongs and sea turtles bloody everwhere.

[Seagoon]

Yes, watch out for stone fish!!! Its beautiful but... stunning.

[Chappo]

Thanks for the heads up. Sounds like you had a good time. Were you on a house boat or camping? None of us have fished for mangrove jacks before. We'll definately be giving it a go! We've got a mixed array of hard bodied lures etc to throw around. My mates are also keen to get into some pelagics. So far from what I've read and what your saying, that the best chance is in the channel between Inskip Point and the bottom of Fraser Island. We'll see what happens. Can't wait! Chappo