The most prominent activity on North Andros, and the major draw for many of the island's visitors, is the sport of bone fishing . Although many of the creeks, flats, bights and rivers here sport countless numbers of hungry bonefish, the North Bight is the focus of the fishing scene, about thirty miles from Andros Town airport.

You can always find a great assortment of fishing boats parked at the wharf at nearby Nicholl's Town , a small burg of six hundred residents living in breeze-block and tin-roofed homes and scattered wooden shacks, lying near the island's north tip along a beach fringed by tall palm trees. To the east lies the pleasant fishing village of Lowe Sound , which has a guesthouse for visitors, several small bars and restaurants, and a few recommended bone fishing guides like Arthur Russell (phone 242/329-7372).

Less appealing, the town of San Andros , further south along the east coast, consists of a few concrete houses surrounded by pine forest, with a nearby harbor at Mastic Point . Both settlements are tiny and virtually without services. On the island's rugged west coast, the tiny fishing village of Red Bays is the only real settlement, reachable by a bumpy, unpaved fifteen-mile road from San Andros.