Christmas island fly fishing report

Here is a report from a recent Fly Odyssey group trip to Christmas Island. The guys had a mixed week with plenty of bonefish with the largest around the 8 pound mark and while Toby reported seeing good numbers of big GT's with Tom Brumm from the US busting a hook on an estimated 60lb fish.

Dear Mathew.

Christmas Island certainly lived up to it's reputation as one of the great places in the world to catch bonefish! On our best days of fishing, a dozen bonefish in a few hours of fishing was the norm and one of our party had over 30 fish on his best day. I was surprised by the size of some of the fish we saw though. Our group caught several over 7lb and one of the guy's hooked a fish that he swore blind was into double figures!

We saw decent numbers of GTs and bluefins trevally as well each day - up to half a dozen fish or more on some of the outer reefs. Some were pretty huge as well - 60lb+! We only managed to land a few small ones unfortunately, but it was still fun trying. All in all a pretty great trip, even if the wind did blow your ears inside out on a couple of days!!

Cheers, Toby