Bonefish
Albula vulpes
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In peak season for this water. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: treat as C&R. Flats licensing has been tightening — verify before you wade.
Bahamas · Eleuthera / Exuma edge
Bonefish should be the day — Current Cut and the east-side ocean flats — permit first, bones second.
East-side ocean flats, Current Cut, the Exuma bank if you keep going. Permit and bones, more weather than Andros.
- ⚠ This brief is for 2026-12-16. No wind forecast that far out — score is tide, moon, and season. Not a copper day.
Tide + moon
low confidence
Forecast brief for Wednesday, December 16. Back to this morning
Morning line
Eleuthera 8.1 on Wednesday, December 16 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
incoming · 0.99 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
No wind reading
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Sky not in
Sky not in
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
47% lit
First quarter
neap range · 47%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 3.2 ft
incoming
0.99 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- LowWed 4:00 AM · -1.57
- HighWed 10:00 AM · 1.60
- LowWed 4:00 PM · -1.62
- HighWed 10:00 PM · 1.62
- LowThu 4:00 AM · -1.61
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.
- 7.7
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 incoming tide is a classic match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
skiffwadefly - 6.1
Current Cut
channel gut · public structure · deep
Named cut. Current is the whole fishery. Not a beginner wade.
- — channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
skiffspinfly
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
8.5Wed 8:00 AM → Wed 12:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.4Wed 11:00 AM → Wed 6:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Incoming water
8.5Wed 5:00 PM → Thu 12:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
7.4Wed 11:00 PM → Thu 6:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
8.5Thu 5:00 AM → Thu 12:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Why — and who
- — Tide is incoming (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — First quarter moon — neap tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.
8.4
Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
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Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: catch-and-release.
Great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Present, not peak. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Treat big cuda as catch-and-release. Not why you booked the flat.
Jack crevalle
Caranx hippos
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. Off-season here. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Treat as incidental. 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.