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 2027-01-30, not this morning. Wind is a forecast. Observed water versus the table is a today-only instrument.
- Tide · modeled — no NOAA gauge
- No NDBC on this desk
- Sargassum check failed — not all-clear
Forecast
low confidence
Forecast brief for Saturday, January 30. Back to this morning
Morning line
Eleuthera 8.3 on Saturday, January 30. 9 mph E. Clear. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
incoming · 0.69 ft · drag or hover for the clockModeled M2 clock — no NOAA gauge on this water. Not a buoy.
Wind
OPEN-METEO
From E · gust 12
Buoy
No station
None
No honest NDBC or C-MAN near this water. Do not invent a buoy.
Sky
OPEN-METEO
Clear
Clear
A 20% shower chance is not a cancel. A soaker is.
Moon
46% lit
Last quarter
neap range · 46%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 3.2 ft
incoming
0.69 ft modeled
Coast
No live coast layer
Sargassum check failed. Not a GPS pin. Not all-clear.
Clock
Modeled M2
- LowSat 4:00 AM · -1.62
- HighSat 10:00 AM · 1.61
- LowSat 4:00 PM · -1.59
- HighSat 11:00 PM · 1.57
- LowSun 5:00 AM · -1.58
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. First light and last light are named when the clock is the story. 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
9.1Sat 8:00 AM → Sat 12:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
10.0Sat 11:00 AM → Sat 6:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Last light · incoming
9.1Sat 5:00 PM → Sun 12:00 AM
Last light on incoming water.
First light · outgoing
8.1Sun 12:00 AM → Sun 7:00 AM
First light on outgoing water.
First light · incoming
10.0Sun 6:00 AM → Sun 1:00 PM
First light on incoming water.
Why — and who
- — Tide is incoming (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Clear. Sky is workable.
- — Wind 9 mph E. Castable. Sight-fishing is on if the sun is out.
- — Last 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.