Eventhough we are experiencing some of outstanding early steelheading, for the time in as long as I can remember, steelhead are the last thing on my mind.

Instead, I have bonefish and biminis, Crazy Charlies and big ASS trevally on the mind.

Christmas Island, here I come!!

I'd rather have the cold and gray with the smile from Bob's latest fishing partner. Christmas Island was done after they stopped taking t-shirts for tips

Sparky: I am very interested in how your trip goes. Please give us a full report. I am especially interested in the GTs. I have traveled much farther than Christmas Island only to find none. If you slay em I will be right behind you.

Sparky,

The Trevally come and go very quickly there. Remember to have your guide carry the heavy rod while bonefishing (some of them do not like to do it). I missed my only chances by not having the 12wt available when the opportunity presented itself.

Good luck. You will have a great time.

Just don't go out in your speedo and get burned to a crisp.

Dave-
I will definately provide you and The Board with a full report.

The Christmas Is. GT fishing is some of the best in the World (plus Bluefin Trevally are very prolific down there).

If you go to Christmas and want to focus on the GT's, book a week with Moana ($300/day-he also offers week packages). Moana is famous for being of the best GT guides in the World plus he also has the only center console boat on the Island.

The VAST majority of the GT fishing on the Island is done while wading the flats or trolling from the outriggers. However, Moana can easily manuever his boat along the edges of the flats to allow for the angler to cast at big GT's cruising the dropoffs (plus his boat allows for easy following of the big ones).

A good freind spent a day with Moana in October and they ran into numerous GT's (on the fly) and landed one over 50#'s.

Sparkey Boy,

Hope you've got some big-ass flies for those ULUA (ooh LOOH ah). That's what they call 'em in Hawaii and I've seen 'em go 100# plus.

I watched a segment on a Hawaii fishing program called Let's Go Fishing when they featured Christmas Island. That was before it was such a "destination" spot for serious bonefishers toting the long rods. Anyway, these guys spent the morning catching 8-12# bones and keeping them. For God sakes, what for I was thinking to myself. Well in the second half of the show, they just severed those bones in half, skewered a half a bone on a humongous circle hook and tossed into the nearest deep channel off the flats. Those GT's hit like a ton of bricks, and fight like freight trains. They're damn hard to pull against when they turn sideways on you (a favorite tactic of all jacks) so hope you are armed with at least a 12 wt rod.

Looking forward to your report when you get back. Make sur you get a few pictures of the 'omilu , or blue trevally..... absolutely stunning colors that put even our most flamboyant salmonids to shame.

fNp-
I have heard the stories about bonefish and GT's (hell, a big GT will eat a small black-tipped shark) and I guess if I get desperate, I can bonk a small bonefish, skewer a large fly through a small fillet and pich it out there (there are many that do just that).

I will be armed with numerous #10's and 12's but my go to rod will be a CND Atlantis Surf-tamer. It is a two-handed 11' #11 that I will line with a #12 35' shooting head.

A good freind took the rod down there in October (before the rod came into final production) and amazed all the guides as they had never seen anything like it. 100' casts were easy...

Needless to say, he cleaned up!!

And speaking of blue-fin trevally, here is a picture of the CND Atlantis with a good sized blue-fin trevally. Yes, they are stunning fish!