Don't worry bout the sand Matt, I know this bloke that spent the whole morning jammed up on the hard.....
Those bass we found were concentrated right in a certain spot, twitch wiggle your lure over the back branch on the RHS and get smacked.
On a side note, we had 1/2 an hour to kill on the way back to the ramp Sunday morn, Andy pulled one Last barra off there to finish up.