Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
Thermal window
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Present, not peak. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: catch-and-release.
Bahamas · Abaco
Sea of Abaco, Marls, Cherokee, the ocean cays. Wadeable Marls and skiff water both. Rebuilt after Dorian — verify which creeks and lodges are actually running.
Forecast
low confidence
Morning line
Abaco 6.5 on Wednesday, August 26. 8 mph NE. Overcast. YOLO day is Tuesday, August 25. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
From NE · gust 9
Sky
5% rain
Clouds
Overcast
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
97% lit
Waxing gibbous
spring range · 97%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 1.7 ft
outgoing
-0.70 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.
Monthly YOLO day
Tuesday, August 25 · 9.7
Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast — and it is a copper day. waxing gibbous · mid · tide range ~2.1 ft · wind to 12 mph · Clouds · 10%
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
Great Guana ocean reef / bar
sand dropoff · field manual · mid
Nipper's sits on the dune above one of the prettier reefs. The bar is intel. The fish are on the ocean side.
Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks
creek bight · field manual · mid
Pete's Pub is the bronze-foundry bar. The creeks behind it are the water.
Cherokee Sound
hard flat · public structure · skinny
Classic wade. Ocean influence. Wind is the whole problem.
The Marls
hard flat · field manual · skinny
Wadeable, mangrove, skinny. The Abaco classroom. Verify post-Dorian access.
When is moving water in a good hour — not the day. Today’s ring mixes the best mark, the lead fish, and the best window, then taxes the sky. A strong incoming can sit under a weak day if the wind or the fish is off. Calendar cells are a third recipe: range, moon, and the day’s forecast.
Outgoing water
8.8Wed 8:00 AM → Wed 11:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
7.4Wed 10:00 AM → Wed 5:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.7Wed 5:00 PM → Thu 12:00 AM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Incoming water
9.7Wed 11:00 PM → Thu 6:00 AM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
9.7Thu 5:00 AM → Thu 12:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
Thermal window
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Present, not peak. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: catch-and-release.
Bonefish
Albula vulpes
Thermal window
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Off-season here. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: treat as C&R. Flats licensing has been tightening — verify before you wade.
Jack crevalle
Caranx hippos
Thermal window
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Treat as incidental. Not why you booked the flat.
Great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
Thermal window
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Treat big cuda as catch-and-release. Not why you booked the flat.
Regs citedBahamas flats and bonefish rules · current Bahamas guidance · rolls in 7 days. Catch-and-release is the culture on the bonefish flats. No NOAA gauge. No invented holes.