Long Island

Type
Saltwater flats, Long Island, The Bahamas
Live gauges
None listed
Listed by
2 authoritative lists
Guides
1 name it
Shops
1 nearby

Today on Long Island

No live reading
Why there is no reading

No provider we read publishes a machine-readable feed on this water. We show no number rather than a guessed one.

Regulations & lists Guides & shops

Calm shallow water against a mangrove shore under a hazy sky
Photo credit

The mangrove shore of south-west Long Island. Photo: Rüdiger Stehn from Kiel, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More about Long Island

Long Island is a saltwater flats fishery in The Bahamas. The Government of The Bahamas and the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Investments and Aviation both name it on their fishing pages.

Where to fish

About this

Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish. Most waters here need a rod licence or permit and often a beat booking or club ticket; the listing pages under Regulations say which.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Restrooms near Long Island

Restrooms near Long Island

Restrooms within 2 miles of Long Island in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

More water near Long Island (6)
  • ExumaExuma · Saltwater flats · about 135 km
  • Acklins and Crooked IslandAcklins · Saltwater flats · about 148 km
  • AndrosAndros · Saltwater flats · about 339 km
  • AbacoAbaco · Saltwater flats · about 402 km
  • Grand BahamaGrand Bahama · Saltwater flats · about 495 km
  • BiminiBimini · Saltwater flats · about 502 km

Sources OpenStreetMap via Nominatim (position)Overture Maps places (guide map points)

Where the map point comes from

Position: the OpenStreetMap feature “Long Island” (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), found with Nominatim; a point on or near the named feature, approximate.

We hold no access map for Long Island yet.

The map shows shops and guides nearby that publish a street address on their own website. Everyone else is in the lists below.

Regulations and official lists

About this

Each line is an official list that names this water. Those pages are the authority on seasons, licences, limits and closures for each beat or reach; read them before you go.

Guides and shops near Long Island

About this

Listings are unclaimed: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

1 guide name it on their website

Guides

1 shop nearby

  • Stella Maris, Long Island

    Bonafide Fly Shop

    • Fly-fishing shop
    • Lodging
    • Casting lessons & classes
    • Unclaimed
How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Shops whose website names this water first, then fly shops within 100 km when the shop's website gives its location.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species

About this

The species the agency lists here; presence varies by reach and season.

Listed by the agency

  • Bonefish
  • Permit
  • Tarpon

Fish these in the US

About this

Matched on the fish the agencies list for both waters first, then the same water type, an official designation or flagship listing on both, and a similar mapped size where USGS hydrography covers both.

At most two waters per country. A shared fish is a listing, not a promise: presence varies by reach and season.

Like the Long Island? Same fish, US waters.

  • A fly angler, face covered by a sun mask, casting while wading a flat, seen from the waterlineAgency-named saltwater fishing water
    Photo credit

    Fly fishing on a flat in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Photo: NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    Florida Keys flats

    Florida

    Same fish: bonefish & permit · also saltwater flats

  • Calm, glassy water of Biscayne Bay reflecting a cloudy skyAgency-named saltwater fishing water
    Photo credit

    Biscayne Bay in Biscayne National Park, Florida. Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    Biscayne Bay

    Florida

    Same fish: bonefish & tarpon · also saltwater flats

  • Calm Sabine Lake seen from a wooden pier at Pleasure IslandAgency-named saltwater fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Mobile Bay
    Photo credit

    Sabine Lake at Pleasure Island, Port Arthur, Texas. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Mobile Bay.

    Mobile Bay

    Alabama

    Same fish: tarpon · also saltwater flats

Gear checklist

About this

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.

Saltwater flats

9′ rod, 8 weight, sealed-drag reel, tropical floating line · Bonefish, redfish, permit and other flats species

Open the checklist
Videos for this water (2)

Watch: flats fishing basics

About this

Sight 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.

  • FLY FISHING FOR REDFISH BASICS 101 INTRODUCTION FOR BEGINNERSEmbedded from YouTube · Huge Fly Fisherman · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • How To Set Up For A Bonefish TripEmbedded from YouTube · The New Fly Fisher · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

Not sponsored All videos on saltwater flats

Fish Tales

About this

Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Long Island.

No stories from here yet.

Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

Something wrong?

All 4 sources and dates

A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Live readings come from the named provider when the page is shown, under the licence shown on each card. Designations, species and the flagship note link to the agency or body that publishes them; this page copies only the list wording and the species names. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the OpenStreetMap feature “Long Island” (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), found with Nominatim; a point on or near the named feature, approximate. Water type is our own classification.