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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 2026-07-11, not this morning. Wind is a forecast. Observed water versus the table is a today-only instrument.
7.2OF 10

Forecast

low confidence

Forecast brief for Saturday, July 11. Back to this morning

Morning line

Eleuthera 7.2 on Saturday, July 11. 9 mph ESE. Mostly clear. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.

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-1.7-0.9-0.00.81.7LHLHLHLHSat 8 AMSun 8 AMMon 8 AMTue 8 AM
low slack · -1.23 ftModeled M2 · not a gauge

Wind

OPEN-METEO

NESW9MPH

From ESE · gust 11

Sky

OPEN-METEO

Clouds

Mostly clear

A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.

Moon

12% lit

Waning crescent

mid range · 12%

Water

No gauge

Water

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48°92°

Today’s range 2.4 ft

low slack

-1.23 ft modeled

Clock

Modeled M2

  • LowSat 7:00 AM · -1.25
  • HighSat 2:00 PM · 1.22
  • LowSat 8:00 PM · -1.19
  • HighSun 2:00 AM · 1.15
  • LowSun 8:00 AM · -1.09

Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.

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Next two weeks

Pulling the 14-day strip…

Where

  • Current Cut

    channel gut · public structure · deep

    6.4

    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

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats

    hard flat · public structure · skinny

    4.9

    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: Permit.
    skiffwadefly

When

  • Incoming water

    9.0

    Sat 9:00 AM → Sat 4:00 PM

    Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.

  • Outgoing water

    9.9

    Sat 3:00 PM → Sat 10:00 PM

    Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.

  • Incoming water

    9.9

    Sat 9:00 PM → Sun 4:00 AM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Outgoing water

    9.9

    Sun 3:00 AM → Sun 10:00 AM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Incoming water

    9.0

    Sun 9:00 AM → Sun 4:00 PM

    Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.

Why — and who

  • — Tide is low slack (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
  • — Mostly clear. Sky is workable.
  • — Wind 9 mph ESE. 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.

Permit

Trachinotus falcatus

7.3

Thermal window

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66°92°

In peak season for this water.

Bahamas: catch-and-release.

Bonefish

Albula vulpes

3.7

Thermal window

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64°92°

Off-season here.

Bahamas: treat as C&R. Flats licensing has been tightening — verify before you wade.

Jack crevalle

Caranx hippos

5.8

Thermal window

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64°94°

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

5.8

Thermal window

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66°92°

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.