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 — hold for the next push through the cut.
East-side ocean flats, Current Cut, the Exuma bank if you keep going. Permit and bones, more weather than Andros.
- ⚠ This brief is for 2026-05-13, not this morning. Wind is a forecast. Observed water versus the table is a today-only instrument.
Forecast
low confidence
Forecast brief for Wednesday, May 13. Back to this morning
Morning line
Eleuthera 7.4 on Wednesday, May 13. 10 mph E. Mostly clear. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
low 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
low slack
-1.23 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- LowWed 7:00 AM · -1.24
- HighWed 2:00 PM · 1.21
- LowWed 8:00 PM · -1.18
- HighThu 2:00 AM · 1.14
- LowThu 8:00 AM · -1.08
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
Current Cut
channel gut · public structure · deep
Named cut. Current is the whole fishery. Not a beginner wade.
- — channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
- — In-play: Permit.
skiffspinfly - 5.5
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 low slack tide is a secondary match.
- — In-play: Bonefish, Permit.
skiffwadefly
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
9.9Wed 9:00 AM → Wed 4:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
9.6Wed 3:00 PM → Wed 10:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
8.6Wed 9:00 PM → Thu 4:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.9Thu 3:00 AM → Thu 10:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.9Thu 9:00 AM → Thu 4:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Why — and who
- — Tide is low slack (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Mostly clear. Sky is workable.
- — Wind 10 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.
Jack crevalle
Caranx hippos
Thermal window
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. In peak season for this water.
Treat as incidental. Not why you booked the flat.
Great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
Thermal window
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. In peak season for this water.
Treat big cuda as catch-and-release. 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.