Government of The Bahamas, Department of Marine Resources
Fees on the agency page
Flats fishing needs a permit; the government fishing page carries the regulations.
Not verified by us
Licence page
Andros is the largest Bahamian island, west of Nassau.
Representative photograph, not this destination.
Andros is the largest Bahamian island, west of Nassau; its west side, the bights that cut through its middle and the Joulter Cays off its north end are the flats its lodges fish from Fresh Creek, Cargill Creek and Mangrove Cay.
9 guides and lodges within 70 miles (6 fly-focused, 5 lodges). Unclaimed listings, built from each business's own website: confirm licensing, rates and dates directly.

Andros Town, Andros · 2 mi
Saltwater & ocean charters · Lodge packages · Andros & Cargill

North Andros, Andros · 15 mi
Saltwater & ocean charters · Beginners & lessons · Andros & Joulters

Cargill Creek, Andros · 17 mi
Saltwater & ocean charters · Multi-day trips · Andros & Cargill
Nassau, New Providence · 33 mi
Wade trips · Saltwater & ocean charters · Nassau & New Providence
Mangrove Cay, Andros · 33 mi
Saltwater & ocean charters · Lodge packages · Andros & Mangrove Cay
Nassau, New Providence · 38 mi
Map listing: trips not confirmed
Nassau, New Providence · 37 mi
Saltwater & ocean charters · Exuma & Nassau
Nassau, New Providence · 38 mi
Saltwater & ocean charters · Exuma & Eleuthera
The circle is the 70-mile area this page covers, around Andros Town. Tap a water for its page. Shops and guides appear where they publish a street address on their own website; all of them are listed below.
Map of the Andros area: its waters, shops and guides
Map of Andros: the 70-mile area this page covers, its waters, and shops and guides with an exact address.
The rivers, lakes or flats this hub is organised around. Where a nearby guide or lodge names a water on its own website, we say how many do. Seasons, closures and permits differ by water: check the agency pages under licence and rules.
No agency in The Bahamas publishes an open real-time river or tide feed we could verify, so no readings are shown for these waters.
From the fishery's or agency's own page (linked under sources). 7 guide and lodge websites nearby name species of their own; counted below. This is what they advertise, not a promise of what you will catch.
Buy the permit from the agency or rights-holder and read its current rules before you go. These are the authoritative pages; nothing on this page grants or implies access to any water, and no fee is shown because none was read from an agency page with a date.
Fees on the agency page
Flats fishing needs a permit; the government fishing page carries the regulations.
Not verified by us
Licence pageNothing here grants or implies access to any water.
Within 70 miles. Fly-focused operators first, then the best-documented listings. Distances are straight-line from the town centre. Every listing is unclaimed and built from the business's own website and an open map record; confirm licensing, rates and dates directly. Lodges and motherships are labelled as such.
Fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop's own website gives its location; otherwise the shop is included because it is in one of the towns around Andros Town. Confirm hours with the shop before you go.
No shops listed near Andros Town yet.
4 nearby operators publish a rates page. We never copy rates or estimate a budget for this hub; these links open each operator's own rates page.
For the non-fishing days, or the people travelling with you. Official sources only; what to do there is for their pages to say. We do not list or price lodging or flights for this hub.
A saltwater flats fly-fishing checklist: a 9 ft 8 weight rod, sealed-drag reel, tropical line, fluorocarbon leaders and shrimp/crab flies, plus sun protection and flats booties, with estimated prices and where to buy.

9′ rod, 8 weight, sealed-drag reel, tropical floating line · Bonefish, redfish, permit and other flats species
Open checklistSight casting, the strip set and sun on the water.
Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.
Not sponsored All videos on saltwater flats
Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly, tagged with a water in Andros, The Bahamas.
No Andros stories yet.
Guide, lodge and shop listings come from the Legendary directories (open map records checked against each business's own website). Everything else links to the publisher below; this page copies none of their text. A destination hub organises discovery; it does not assert public access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions, and it estimates no price.
Links checked 20 Oct 2026. Not a claim of access or conditions.