The Saturday Letter · Vol. 1 · No. 34
August 17 – August 23, 2026 · August fundamentals · Bahamas · 1 of 1 desk · this week’s desks
Permalink: /newsletter/2026-08-22
This week on your coast
Summer pattern holds. Smaller packs, honest shots, west-side permit if it lays down. Fly in the morning. Shade at noon.
This edition is Bahamas only — Bahamas. Coasts you did not elect stay off this letter. Scores are 1–10. They are not bite guarantees. Read this month’s seasonal fundamentals.
Bahamas
Bahamas desk
Bonefish country
Today
medium
Permit should be the day — the creek mouths and the bights; tarpon live in the darker water.
Summer pattern holds. Smaller packs, honest shots, west-side permit if it lays down. Fly in the morning. Shade at noon.
— Tide is outgoing (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).
— Waxing gibbous moon — mid tide range. Sight water often prefers a moderate range and clean water over a huge spring.
Open the Andros briefBox score · August
Hogfish
Bahamas
Keys and Caribbean patch reefs. Not a Texas bay fish. Not a bonefish headline. He lives on the hard bottom, not the grass.
Yellowtail snapper
Bahamas
Islamorada to Key West, then the Bahamas and the Spanish Virgins. Patch reefs and the first drop. Absent from Texas bays.
Mangrove / gray snapper
Bahamas
The snapper that will live in a Texas jetty and a Keys creek. Schoolies on structure. Bigger fish on the wrecks. Not a yellowtail.
Noise, not the headline: Jack crevalle, Great barracuda.
Rules
No coast-wide harvest closure is on the board this week. Still verify before you keep a fish.
August by region, type, and speciesRegs 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.