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.
Bahamas · Eleuthera / Exuma edge
Bonefish should be the day — weather decides more than Andros; wait.
East-side ocean flats, Current Cut, the Exuma bank if you keep going. Permit and bones, more weather than Andros.
- ⚠ This brief is for 2026-01-31. 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, January 31. Back to this morning
Morning line
Eleuthera 7.6 on Saturday, January 31 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
high slack · -1.00 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
96% lit
Waxing gibbous
spring range · 96%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 2.0 ft
high slack
-1.00 ft modeled
Coast
No live coast layer
Sargassum check failed. Not a GPS pin. Not all-clear.
Clock
Modeled M2
- LowSat 8:00 AM · -1.00
- HighSat 2:00 PM · 0.97
- LowSat 8:00 PM · -0.93
- HighSun 2:00 AM · 0.88
- LowSun 9:00 AM · -0.83
Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
- 6.4
Eleuthera east ocean flats
hard flat · public structure · skinny
Ocean swell and wind. When it lays down, it is the shot.
- — hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
skiffwadefly - 5.2
Current Cut
channel gut · public structure · deep
Named cut. Current is the whole fishery. Not a beginner wade.
- — channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
skiffspinfly
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
9.4Sat 9:00 AM → Sat 4:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Last light · outgoing
9.4Sat 3:00 PM → Sat 10:00 PM
Last light on outgoing water.
Last light · incoming
8.0Sat 9:00 PM → Sun 4:00 AM
Last light on incoming water.
First light · outgoing
9.4Sun 3:00 AM → Sun 10:00 AM
First light on outgoing water.
Incoming water
9.4Sun 10:00 AM → Sun 5:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Why — and who
- — Tide is high slack (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Waxing gibbous moon — spring tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.
7.3
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.