Still quite common - best access is by boat
Must be almost exclusively by boat. In several years of prowling around the Fraser on foot I have seen exactly two people using the bar fishing technique, unsuccessfully in poor locations. Having read about that method, before I invested in yet another fishing outfit, I followed a guide book to the bars and was unsuccessful in finding a single location: couldn't find it, no parking, no trespassing,.... So I got an oldtimer who used to bar fish to spend a day to show me where. At all his old places, same result: keep out, no public access, no parking, no trespassing..... Being completely unsuccessful, we ended up in the other kind of bar.
No wonder bar fishing advice always concludes with the coy admonition to search out you own locations. Without a boat there doesn't seem to be many and as a beginner it is hard to know if it is the correct type of water to try when there is nobody else using that method at an access location. It seems to me to be a method where location is very important.
I can follow the herd to flossing locations but if I am to try bar fishing, I need more information. I don't live near the river and don't have the time after a long drive to spend days searching.