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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 2026-09-23, 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 Wednesday, September 23. Back to this morning

Morning line

Eleuthera 7.2 on Wednesday, September 23. 7 mph E. Clear. YOLO day is Tuesday, August 25. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.

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-1.7-0.80.00.81.7LHLHLHLHWed 8 AMThu 8 AMFri 8 AMSat 8 AM
high slack · -1.22 ftModeled M2 · not a gauge

Wind

OPEN-METEO

NESW7MPH

From E · gust 10

Sky

OPEN-METEO

Clear

Clear

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

Moon

89% lit

Waxing gibbous

mid range · 89%

Water

No gauge

Water

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48°92°

Today’s range 2.4 ft

high slack

-1.22 ft modeled

Clock

Modeled M2

  • LowWed 8:00 AM · -1.22
  • HighWed 2:00 PM · 1.20
  • LowWed 8:00 PM · -1.16
  • HighThu 2:00 AM · 1.11
  • LowThu 8:00 AM · -1.05

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 11 mph · Clouds · 3%

Stay or drive · Eleuthera vs G. BahamaOpen the calendarMorning dispatch

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

  • Incoming water

    10.0

    Wed 9:00 AM → Wed 4:00 PM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Outgoing water

    9.7

    Wed 3:00 PM → Wed 10:00 PM

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

  • Incoming water

    8.7

    Wed 9:00 PM → Thu 4:00 AM

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

  • Outgoing water

    10.0

    Thu 3:00 AM → Thu 10:00 AM

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

  • Incoming water

    10.0

    Thu 9:00 AM → Thu 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).
  • — Clear. Sky is workable.
  • — Wind 7 mph E. Castable. Sight-fishing is on if the sun is out.
  • — Waxing 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 8 days. Catch-and-release is the culture on the bonefish flats. No NOAA gauge. No invented holes.