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 · Andros
Bonefish should be the day — west-side white sand — schools, then the double-digit singles.
Bonefish capital. West-side white sand, schools by the acre, double-digit singles. Creeks and bights hold tarpon. Permit on the west side and outer cays May–October.
- ⚠ This brief is for 2026-12-12. No wind forecast that far out — score is tide, moon, and season. Not a copper day.
- Tide · modeled — no NOAA gauge
- No NDBC on this desk
- Sargassum check failed — not all-clear
Tide + moon
low confidence
Forecast brief for Saturday, December 12. Back to this morning
Morning line
Andros 7.8 on Saturday, December 12 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. YOLO day is Sunday, August 30. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
incoming · 1.02 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
No wind reading
Buoy
No station
None
No honest NDBC or C-MAN near this water. Do not invent a buoy.
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 2.2 ft
incoming
1.02 ft modeled
Coast
No live coast layer
Sargassum check failed. Not a GPS pin. Not all-clear.
Clock
Modeled M2
- HighSat 8:00 AM · 1.02
- LowSat 2:00 PM · -1.06
- HighSat 8:00 PM · 1.09
- LowSun 3:00 AM · -1.14
- HighSun 9:00 AM · 1.20
Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.
Monthly YOLO day
Sunday, August 30
Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast. waning gibbous · mid · tide range ~1.9 ft · wind to 18 mph · Clouds · 65%
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
- 7.7
West side white sand
hard flat · field manual · skinny
The cathedral. Schools by the acre, double-digit singles at dusk. Oct–June is the honest peak.
- — hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
skiffwadefly - 7.7
East side ocean cays
hard flat · public structure · skinny
More weather, fewer people than the west-side lodge water.
- — hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
skiffwadefly - 7.1
Bights and creeks
creek bight · field manual · mid
Resident tarpon Apr–Oct. Bones on the creek mouths on a moving tide.
- — creek bight on a incoming tide is a classic match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
skiffflyspin
When
When is moving water in a good hour — not the day. First light and last light are named when the clock is the story. 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.
Incoming water
7.4Sat 8:00 AM → Sat 10:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.4Sat 9:00 AM → Sat 4:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Last light · incoming
9.4Sat 3:00 PM → Sat 10:00 PM
Last light on incoming water.
Last light · outgoing
7.4Sat 10:00 PM → Sun 5:00 AM
Last light on outgoing water.
First light · incoming
8.5Sun 4:00 AM → Sun 11:00 AM
First light on incoming water.
Why — and who
- — Tide is incoming (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Waxing crescent moon — mid tide range. Sight water often prefers a moderate range and clean water over a huge spring.
8.4
Tarpon
Megalops atlanticus
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Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: treat as catch-and-release.
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.