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Bahamas · Eleuthera / Exuma edge

Permit are the hunt — 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 2026-08-30. No wind forecast that far out — score is tide, moon, and season. Not a copper day.
6.8OF 10

Tide + moon

low confidence

Forecast brief for Sunday, August 30. Back to this morning

Morning line

Eleuthera 6.8 on Sunday, August 30 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.

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-2.0-1.00.01.02.1HLHLHLHLSun 8 AMMon 8 AMTue 8 AMWed 8 AM
high slack · 0.90 ftModeled M2 · not a gauge

Wind

OPEN-METEO

NESW—MPH

No wind reading

Sky

OPEN-METEO

Sky not in

Sky not in

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

Moon

94% lit

Waning gibbous

mid range · 94%

Water

No gauge

Water

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48°92°

Today’s range 2.1 ft

high slack

0.90 ft modeled

Clock

Modeled M2

  • HighSun 7:00 AM · 0.92
  • LowSun 2:00 PM · -0.97
  • HighSun 8:00 PM · 1.03
  • LowMon 2:00 AM · -1.08
  • HighMon 8:00 AM · 1.11

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

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats

    hard flat · public structure · skinny

    6.4

    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: Permit.
    skiffwadefly

  • Current Cut

    channel gut · public structure · deep

    5.9

    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

  • Outgoing water

    8.5

    Sun 9:00 AM → Sun 4:00 PM

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

  • Incoming water

    9.4

    Sun 3:00 PM → Sun 10:00 PM

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

  • Outgoing water

    9.4

    Sun 9:00 PM → Mon 4:00 AM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Incoming water

    9.4

    Mon 3:00 AM → Mon 10:00 AM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Outgoing water

    8.5

    Mon 9:00 AM → Mon 4:00 PM

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

Why — and who

  • — Tide is high slack (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
  • — Waning gibbous moon — mid tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.

Permit

Trachinotus falcatus

5.5

Thermal window

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66°92°

Present, not peak.

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.