Bonefish
Albula vulpes
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In peak season for this water.
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.
Tide + moon
low confidence
Morning line
Abaco 7.6 on Saturday, December 12 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
No wind reading
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Sky not in
Sky not in
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
10% lit
Waxing crescent
mid range · 10%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 2.1 ft
high slack
0.91 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
The Marls
hard flat · field manual · skinny
Wadeable, mangrove, skinny. The Abaco classroom. Verify post-Dorian access.
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.
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.
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
9.4Sat 9:00 AM → Sat 4:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.4Sat 3:00 PM → Sat 10:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
7.4Sat 9:00 PM → Sun 4:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
7.4Sun 3:00 AM → Sun 10:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.4Sun 9:00 AM → Sun 4:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Bonefish
Albula vulpes
Thermal window
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In peak season for this water.
Bahamas: treat as C&R. Flats licensing has been tightening — verify before you wade.
Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
Thermal window
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Off-season here.
Bahamas: catch-and-release.
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.
Jack crevalle
Caranx hippos
Thermal window
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Off-season here.
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.