Bonefish
Albula vulpes
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In peak season for this water. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: treat as C&R. Flats licensing has been tightening — verify before you wade.
Bahamas · Abaco
Bonefish should be the day — the Marls and Cherokee on foot, or the ocean cays by skiff.
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.
- ⚠ This brief is for 2026-11-21, not this morning. Wind is a forecast. Observed water versus the table is a today-only instrument.
Forecast
low confidence
Forecast brief for Saturday, November 21. Back to this morning
Morning line
Abaco 7.1 on Saturday, November 21. 6 mph SE. Mostly clear. YOLO day is Tuesday, August 25. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
incoming · -0.97 ftModeled M2 · not a gauge
Wind
OPEN-METEO
From SE · gust 8
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Clouds
Mostly clear
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
89% lit
Waxing gibbous
mid range · 89%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 2.1 ft
incoming
-0.97 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- LowSat 7:00 AM · -1.13
- HighSat 1:00 PM · 1.09
- LowSat 7:00 PM · -1.04
- HighSun 1:00 AM · 0.98
- LowSun 8:00 AM · -0.95
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 · 8%
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
- 6.8
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.
- — creek bight on a incoming tide is a classic match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
skiffflyspin - 6.7
The Marls
hard flat · field manual · skinny
Wadeable, mangrove, skinny. The Abaco classroom. Verify post-Dorian access.
- — hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
skiffwadefly - 6.7
Cherokee Sound
hard flat · public structure · skinny
Classic wade. Ocean influence. Wind is the whole problem.
- — hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
wadeskifffly - 6.7
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.
- — sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
skiffspinfly
When
Incoming water
9.7Sat 8:00 AM → Sat 3:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
9.4Sat 2:00 PM → Sat 9:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
8.3Sat 8:00 PM → Sun 3:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.7Sun 3:00 AM → Sun 10:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.7Sun 9:00 AM → Sun 4:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Why — and who
- — Tide is incoming (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Mostly clear. Clouds steal the window on bones and permit.
- — Wind 6 mph SE. Castable. Sight-fishing is on if the sun is out.
- — Waxing gibbous moon — mid tide range. Sight water often prefers a moderate range and clean water over a huge spring.
8.4
Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
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Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: catch-and-release.
Great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Present, not peak. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Treat big cuda as catch-and-release. Not why you booked the flat.
Jack crevalle
Caranx hippos
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Treat as incidental. 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.