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Fishing Reports
Christmas Island
July 26, 2005
Posted by Stan Wright
Honolulu, HI 96826 USA
Email: stanwright@hawaii.rr.com
Current Report
Just spoke with Kevin over
at Nervous Water. He
reports lots of bone fish
action on the shallow
flats. We're talking 4
inches of water on bright
white sand flats for as far
as the eye can see. There
the fish ranged from 12 to
24 inches in size. (I think
that's about 1 to 4 pounds.
Thousands and thousands of
bone fish.he told me to take
my 5 and 6 weight rods if I
liked that kind of action.
His 8wt with 8 pouns test
tippit workde find but he
also likes smaller tackle.
On the deeper flats there
were bigger bones. Up to 12
pounds, but the light 8
pound test couldn't stop
their runs into the deep
water and sharp coral.
There were ulua and papio
(G.T.... Giant Trevalle) all
over the place. Action for
the G.T. was especially good
at the tide changes ans the
current ran past Cook Island
at the mough of the lagoon.
Kevins largest fish weighed
26 pounds and the largest in
his group weighed 48. You
devinatly need a 10 to 12
weight fly rod or heavy
spinning tackle for those
big boys. The papio,
that's a G.T. under 10
pounds , were all over the
place and hitting any kind
of lure or fly.
Just out side the lagoon,
the birds were feeding over
a huge schoool of 20 pound
yellow fin tuna. Again, any
lure or fly drew strikes.
Kevin assured me there are
still lots of fish and they
would even hit those ugly
flys that I tye...... I'm
going in August, can't wait.
Aloha,
Stan
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