Bonefish
Albula vulpes
Thermal window
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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
Permit 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 2027-02-16. No wind forecast that far out — score is tide, moon, and season. Not a copper day.
Tide + moon
low confidence
Forecast brief for Tuesday, February 16. Back to this morning
Morning line
Eleuthera 8.2 on Tuesday, February 16 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
incoming · -0.40 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
77% lit
Waxing gibbous
mid range · 77%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 2.9 ft
incoming
-0.40 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- LowTue 5:00 AM · -1.47
- HighTue 12:00 PM · 1.44
- LowTue 6:00 PM · -1.43
- HighWed 12:00 AM · 1.40
- LowWed 6:00 AM · -1.36
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.
- 8.4
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, Permit.
skiffwadefly - 6.8
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.
- — In-play: Permit.
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
9.4Tue 8:00 AM → Tue 2:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
9.1Tue 1:00 PM → Tue 8:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.1Tue 7:00 PM → Wed 2:00 AM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Outgoing water
9.4Wed 1:00 AM → Wed 8:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Incoming water
9.4Wed 7:00 AM → Wed 2:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Why — and who
- — Tide is incoming (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — Waxing gibbous moon — mid tide range. Marsh and passes usually want the extra current of a spring.
8.4
Permit
Trachinotus falcatus
Thermal window
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Present, not peak. This tide stage (incoming) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: catch-and-release.
Great barracuda
Sphyraena barracuda
Thermal window
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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
Thermal window
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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.