Christmas Island: Pictures of Paradise

Toni Karuvaara of Karuvaara fly fishing and editor of Chasing Silver Magazine has just returned from a 2 week stay on Christmas Island with friend Arto who experienced his first taste of saltwater fly fishing. As you will see the fishing was spectacular and the photos tell their own story.

























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For those wanting to travel to Christmas Island in 2009/2010 we have a a variety of packages available including a hosted trip in March 2010. For more information please email us or call on
+44 1621743711.

Fly fishing Christmas Island: Trip Report

We have a had a small group of anglers on Christmas Island for the past couple of weeks. Here is a breif trip report from Paul from Scotland. His fishing partners, Toni Karuvaara editor of Chasing Silver magazine and Arto are still there chasing the bonefish, giant trevally, yellowfin tuna and triggerfish the inhabit this pristine coral atoll.

Hi Mat,

Just a quick update on the christmas island trip. The island is a truly wonderful place to both visit and fish. When first booking the trip my main objective was to bonefish, however I quickly realised there is far more to the island than just bones. Stalking triggerfish in the coral proved to be to be both exciting and addictive, hooking the triggers was the easy part !! keeping them out of their coral homes was the hard part.





The island also has a very health population of bluefin trevally,sight fishing double figure fish in water waist deep is an experience that wont soon be forgotten. A days of shore fishing also proved to be succesful and saw tuna,trevally,seabass,queenfish and rainboow runners brought to the boat.



So all in all a wonderful trip was had in superb company.

Many thanks Matt.

Paul, UK.

For more information on our Christmas Island trips please email me

Ireland Salmon Fishing

We are pleased to announce our association with the Lower River Caragh fishery in County Kerry, Ireland. Having just spent the past three days there I think that this 3 mile stretch of water will produce some fine catches for our clients over the coming years. Having arrived on 1st of April to very low water conditions we thought that the river may make fools of us!! However there was enough fish moving in the dozen or so fishable pools to think we were at least a chance.



Our first morning on the water we concentrated on the lower pools where the tide still has some influence. Mark Nicoll jumped of a small fish, probably a kelt or sea trout. It wasn't until the Friday afternoon that the fish really started to get excited with an onset of some rain. Several pulls but no solid connections kept us interested and with a day to go confidence spread through the camp.



Our last morning our arrival was meet with little action through the first few hours. We supposed the large fish that were moving the previous evening had moved on up to Lough Caragh. But, a slight change in the weather as the wind picked up had fish rolling over the surface again. Before long I picked up a kelt on a Ally's shrimp and then an hour later Mark Nicoll managed a superb spring salmon of an estimated 14lb. An absolute cracker of a fish.



We will be heading back in July to check out the grilse fishing and then we will be hosting 2 groups next April for those big spring salmon. For those interested in fishing the Lower Caragh fishery please contact us for details of pricing and travel logistics.