CHRISTMAS ISLAND
Ed Blank's Adventures on the Fly is proud to offer the 250 square miles of bonefish flats surrounding Christmas Island as one of our unique personal fly fishing destinations. The island is famous for its huge numbers of bonefish in the 3-6 pound range with plenty of opportunities to catch double digit bonefish on a fly. Ten- thirty bonefish a day are the rule not the exception. These trips are for fly fishing enthusiasts who want to maximize their fishing time and flexibility while visiting Christmas Island. The Mini-Hotel Kiritimati is the smallest of the lodges on the island and can take up to 8 fly fishing guests at a time. Our size allows us to do things a little differently than our competition. We fly fish harder and we fly fish longer with no overtime charges. We fish the flats that are right for that day and tide and don't have a rotation schedule. If you want to go back to that killer flat you fished yesterday we can do it. We travel to the flats by boat every day rather than truck giving us more flexibility to move and follow the tides rather than a lodge schedule.
Christmas Island is a large atoll in the Republic of Kiribati ( Pronounced "Kiribas" the "ti" is pronounced as an "s"). It is home not only to a huge bonefish population but to several species of trevally as well (including the giant which runs up to 100 lbs.). Imagine a hundred pound eating machine attacking your surface popper while you helplessly hold on! Then just pray you have enough backing! If that's not enough how about tuna or wahoo, Mahi mahi, sailfish?
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Christmas Island Facts: Christmas Island is the largest coral atoll in the world with an area of 248 square miles of which 125 square miles is land and the remainder lagoon. It is 2,015 miles from Tarawa, capital of the Republic of Kiribati; 1,335 miles from Honolulu; 4,000 miles from Sydney, Australia and 3,250 miles from San Francisco. It lies between longitude 157 degrees 10' west and 157 degrees 34' west and latitudes 1 degree 42' north and 2 degrees 3' north. It is 145 miles north of the equator. Its population is mainly Micronesian from the I-Kiribati archipelago, with a small group of Polynesians from Tuvalu and some expatriates. fly fishing lodge on Christmas Island
Christmas Island was named by Captain James Cook who discovered it on Christmas Day, 1777. Cook's entries in the ship's log suggest that Cook had a dismal view of Christmas Island. Indeed, Cook was not alone in this view. A later owner, Father Emmanuel Rougier was almost lyrical in his account of the island after his first view in 1912. He later registered his company and stated that "the intention is to populate the island with colonists and workers of all nationalities and colors". fly fishing trips
Christmas Island is indeed subject to severe and sometimes prolonged drought and no doubt Captain Cook's visit coincided with one of these. The average rainfall is about 30 inches annually and in the last 25 years there are only eleven years on which this has been reached or exceeded. fly fishing for trevally
There have been periodic occupation on Christmas Island and this has been well established by the archaeological remains which have been found. Why they came and why they went is a parenthesis of stepping stones in the wider mystery of the great Polynesian triangle from New Zealand to the Marquesas and northward to Hawaii. One hypothesis which found favor with anthropologists some years ago suggest that these ancient voyages followed the migratory paths of land birds, knowing from observation year after year that, as they could not land on the sea, they must be flying to land somewhere.
Christmas Island has been almost continuously occupied only since 1882, when the first attempt was made to plant coconuts for copra production commercially. But even in that comparatively short period it has drawn its workers from Hawaii, Manihiki, Tahiti, Niue and, since 1941, from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Kiribati and Tuvalu).
Christmas Island is the largest coral atoll in the world with an area of 248 square miles of which 125 square miles is land and the remainder lagoon. It is 2,015 miles from Tarawa, capital of the Republic of Kiribati; 1,335 miles from Honolulu; 4,000 miles from Sydney, Australia and 3,250 miles from San Francisco. It lies between longitude 157 degrees 10' west and 157 degrees 34' west and latitudes 1 degree 42' north and 2 degrees 3' north. It is 145 miles north of the equator.
Fly fishing on Christmas Island began in the 1970's, and one of the most prestigious jobs is to be a fly fishing guide. Naturally we have picked the best of the best in this regard!
Fly fishing is now the largest "industry" on Christmas Island.
Fly Fishing Christmas Island, in Search of Fly Fishing Heaven.
CHRISTMAS ISLAND!
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