Open 7 days: Mon-Fri 10:00-6:00
Sat 9:00-5:00 Sun 11:00-3:00
3166 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. Thousand Oaks, CA
805-496-7332 fax 805-497-7400 outside CA 888-308-2688
email wayne@malibufishntackle.com
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Christmas Island January 2001 is booked! I have just returned from a bonefishing trip to Christmas Island, with my son-in-law J.J. Gerritsen. This could well be the best bonefishing aneywhere, plus big trevally and offshore game fish. The stay was for one week -- only one charter plane a week makes this flight. We stayed at the Captain Cook Hotel. In the US this would be a motel at best, with beach huts or cottages. We had a beach cottage with a thatch-roof facing seaward giving us a nice sea breeze. The cottages are simple but pleasantly decorated. We fished six and a half days; my slow day was four fish in the two to four pound range. Our first day which was a half day fishing, I hooked ten fish landed nine lost one to a blacktip shark. These were my first ever bonefish, five blind casting and five sight fishing. The fish ran about two pounds, they also ran all your fly line off and into your backing I have never had a two-pound fish of any kind do this on a fly rod. The guides had eyes of an eagle for spotting bonefish cruising the drop-offs; at one guide for every two anglers you get more then enough attention. We did encounter tough conditions for fishing: fifteen to twenty five knots of wind with low broken clouds; more normal would be ten to fifteen knots of wind with clear skies. You are in the trades here, two degrees from the equator with only thirty inches of rain a year.
My big day on the fish was thirty plus bonefish in the three to six pound range and one six pound trevally. JJ now holds the family record with a twenty seven-inch bonefish on this trip; the world record could exist here! I met Tim Pask who has started his own lodge on the
island, after being a customer of the hotel for years. I took a tour of Tim’s
lodge very nice, like early Baja Eastcape.
The lodge takes ten fisherman per week, the cost is $2595.00 per person,
Tim offered a fifteen percent commission on land package which I will pass on to
club members making the week $2295.00. That will include charter air from
Hawaii, food, room, boats and guides for the week. You will need to get your
self to Honolulu and home. This trip is close to a sure thing, as you will find
in the fly fishing world. We are booked. The
dates for the Christmas Island trip have been changed by the airline. We now
leave Hawaii on 1/7/01 and return to Hawaii on 1/14/01. (NEW DATES).
Tim has the best guides on the island working the best flats Let’s go
rip some lips! Wayne |
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