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The Saturday Letter · Vol. 1 · No. 34

Week of the water

August 17 – August 23, 2026 · August fundamentals · Bahamas · 1 of 1 desk · this week’s desks

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This week on your coast

Andros

8.1

Permit should be the day — west-side white sand — schools, then the double-digit singles.

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

This week

Bahamas desk

Andros

Bonefish country

8.1OF 10

Today

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Permit should be the day — west-side white sand — schools, then the double-digit singles.

Summer pattern holds. Smaller packs, honest shots, west-side permit if it lays down. Fly in the morning. Shade at noon.

Water.
4 mph E · 0% rain
Tide.
incoming
Moon.
Waxing gibbous · mid
Window.
Incoming water — Moving water in the right part of the day.
6.6Tarpon6.6Permit

— Tide is incoming (modeled — no NOAA gauge on this water).

— Clear · 0%. Sky is workable.

Open the Andros brief

Box score · August

In peak this month

  • 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.

Regs citedBahamas flats and bonefish rules · current Bahamas guidance · rolls in 8 days. Catch-and-release is the culture on the bonefish flats. No NOAA gauge. No invented holes.