Bonefish
Albula vulpes
Thermal window
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Present, not peak.
Bahamas: treat as C&R. Flats licensing has been tightening — verify before you wade.
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 7.4 on Tuesday, October 13. 11 mph ESE. Clear. YOLO day is Tuesday, August 25. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
From ESE · gust 13
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Clear
Clear
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
5% lit
Waxing crescent
mid range · 5%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 1.8 ft
low slack
0.78 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.
Cherokee Sound
hard flat · public structure · skinny
Classic wade. Ocean influence. Wind is the whole problem.
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.
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
10.0Tue 9:00 AM → Tue 4:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Incoming water
9.7Tue 3:00 PM → Tue 10:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
8.7Tue 9:00 PM → Wed 4:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
10.0Wed 3:00 AM → Wed 10:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
10.0Wed 10:00 AM → Wed 5:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Bonefish
Albula vulpes
Thermal window
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Present, not peak.
Bahamas: treat as C&R. Flats licensing has been tightening — verify before you wade.
Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
Thermal window
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Present, not peak.
Bahamas: catch-and-release.
Jack crevalle
Caranx hippos
Thermal window
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Present, not peak.
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. Present, not peak.
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.
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