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Bahamas · Eleuthera / Exuma edge

Permit should be the day — the cut and the Exuma-edge banks as they fall.

East-side ocean flats, Current Cut, the Exuma bank if you keep going. Permit and bones, more weather than Andros.

  • ⚠ This brief is for 2026-10-11, not this morning. Wind is a forecast. Observed water versus the table is a today-only instrument.
7.6OF 10

Forecast

low confidence

Forecast brief for Sunday, October 11. Back to this morning

Morning line

Eleuthera 7.6 on Sunday, October 11. 8 mph ESE. Mostly clear. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.

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outgoing · -0.11 ftModeled M2 · not a gauge

Wind

OPEN-METEO

NESW8MPH

From ESE · gust 11

Sky

OPEN-METEO

Clouds

Mostly clear

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

Moon

0% lit

New

spring range · 0%

Water

No gauge

Water

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48°92°

Today’s range 1.5 ft

outgoing

-0.11 ft modeled

Clock

Modeled M2

  • HighSun 5:00 AM · 0.75
  • LowSun 11:00 AM · -0.76
  • HighSun 5:00 PM · 0.75
  • LowMon 12:00 AM · -0.74
  • HighMon 6:00 AM · 0.77

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

    7.4

    Named cut. Current is the whole fishery. Not a beginner wade.

    • — channel gut on a outgoing tide is a classic match.
    • — In-play: Permit.
    skiffspinfly

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats

    hard flat · public structure · skinny

    6.7

    Ocean swell and wind. When it lays down, it is the shot.

    • — hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
    • — In-play: Bonefish, Permit.
    skiffwadefly

When

  • Outgoing water

    9.9

    Sun 8:00 AM → Sun 1:00 PM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Incoming water

    9.6

    Sun 12:00 PM → Sun 7:00 PM

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

  • Outgoing water

    9.6

    Sun 6:00 PM → Mon 1:00 AM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

  • Incoming water

    9.9

    Mon 1:00 AM → Mon 8:00 AM

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

  • Outgoing water

    9.9

    Mon 7:00 AM → Mon 2:00 PM

    Moving water in the right part of the day.

Why — and who

  • — Tide is outgoing (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
  • — Mostly clear. Sky is workable.
  • — Wind 8 mph ESE. Castable. Sight-fishing is on if the sun is out.
  • — New moon — spring tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.

Bonefish

Albula vulpes

6.6

Thermal window

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64°92°

Present, not peak. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.

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

Permit

Trachinotus falcatus

6.6

Thermal window

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66°92°

Present, not peak. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.

Bahamas: catch-and-release.

Jack crevalle

Caranx hippos

5.8

Thermal window

—

64°94°

Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Present, not peak. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.

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. Present, not peak. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.

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.