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