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 · Eleuthera / Exuma edge
Permit 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 2026-03-15, not this morning. Wind is a forecast. Observed water versus the table is a today-only instrument.
Forecast
low confidence
Forecast brief for Sunday, March 15. Back to this morning
Morning line
Eleuthera 7.4 on Sunday, March 15. 9 mph E. Mostly clear. YOLO day is Tuesday, August 25. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
high slack · -1.23 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
From E · gust 11
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Clouds
Mostly clear
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
11% lit
Waning crescent
mid range · 11%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 2.4 ft
high slack
-1.23 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- LowSun 8:00 AM · -1.23
- HighSun 2:00 PM · 1.21
- LowSun 8:00 PM · -1.17
- HighMon 2:00 AM · 1.12
- LowMon 8:00 AM · -1.06
Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.
Monthly YOLO day
Tuesday, August 25 · 9.1
Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast — and it is a copper day. waxing gibbous · mid · tide range ~2.4 ft · wind to 10 mph · Clouds · 3%
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
- 6.2
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, Permit.
skiffwadefly - 5.7
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.
- — In-play: Permit.
skiffspinfly
When
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.
Incoming water
9.9Sun 9:00 AM → Sun 4:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
9.6Sun 3:00 PM → Sun 10:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
8.6Sun 9:00 PM → Mon 4:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.9Mon 3:00 AM → Mon 10:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.9Mon 9:00 AM → Mon 4:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Why — and who
- — Tide is high slack (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Mostly clear. Sky is workable.
- — Wind 9 mph E. Castable. Sight-fishing is on if the sun is out.
- — Waning crescent moon — mid tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.
7.3
Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
Thermal window
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In peak season for this water.
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.