Bonefish
Albula vulpes
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In peak season for this water. This tide stage (outgoing) matches how they hunt.
Bahamas: treat as C&R. Flats licensing has been tightening — verify before you wade.
Bahamas · Grand Bahama
Bonefish should be the day — the same flat, thinner; pick the darker single.
East and West End pancake flats. Big single bones on foot. A town to sleep in. The thinking wade.
- ⚠ This brief is for 2026-04-16. No wind forecast that far out — score is tide, moon, and season. Not a copper day.
Tide + moon
low confidence
Forecast brief for Thursday, April 16. Back to this morning
Morning line
G. Bahama 8.1 on Thursday, April 16 — tide, moon, and season only. No wind forecast that far out. YOLO day is Tuesday, August 25. Scores are 1–10, not a bite.
outgoing · -0.41 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
1% lit
New
spring range · 1%
Water
No gauge
Water
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Today’s range 1.5 ft
outgoing
-0.41 ft modeled
Clock
Modeled M2
- HighThu 4:00 AM · 0.79
- LowThu 10:00 AM · -0.77
- HighThu 4:00 PM · 0.73
- LowThu 11:00 PM · -0.71
- HighFri 5:00 AM · 0.71
Bahamas tides are modeled from lunar M2. Use them for windows, not a bar crossing.
Monthly YOLO day
Tuesday, August 25 · 9.7
Best remaining dry day this month with a real wind forecast — and it is a copper day. waxing gibbous · mid · tide range ~2.2 ft · wind to 10 mph · Clouds · 8%
Next two weeks
Pulling the 14-day strip…
Where
This pip is that mark on this tide — not the day on the ring.
- 7.0
West End pancakes
hard flat · field manual · skinny
Big singles on foot. No push pole between you and the fish. Oct–June.
- — hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
wadeskifffly - 7.0
East End flats
hard flat · field manual · skinny
Long walks. Hotel-based, which keeps it honest.
- — hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
- — In-play: Bonefish.
wadeskifffly
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.
Outgoing water
9.4Thu 8:00 AM → Thu 12:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Incoming water
9.1Thu 11:00 AM → Thu 6:00 PM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.1Thu 5:00 PM → Fri 12:00 AM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Incoming water
8.0Fri 12:00 AM → Fri 7:00 AM
Water is moving, but the clock is against you — heat or dark.
Outgoing water
9.4Fri 6:00 AM → Fri 1:00 PM
Moving water in the right part of the day.
Why — and who
- — Tide is outgoing (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
- — New moon — spring tide range. Sight water often prefers a moderate range and clean water over a huge spring.
8.4
Jack crevalle
Caranx hippos
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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
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Bycatch and beach noise — not the reason you came. In peak season for this water. 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.