No bass boats allowed ! seriously, what do you mean by bay ? If you are talking about bassfishing around the causeway/interstate have at it. If you mean going out to the ship channel it all depends on the wind. What are you wanting to do? You really need to watch the tides, there are shallows there as well as rock piles where old ships threw out ballast stones. The is good fishing on out going tides, don't expect to catch a bunch of 5 lbers tho.