Fishing Christmas Island (Kiribati)

[Fish Head]

A group of six of us have just returned from Christmas Island (Kiribati)chasing anything and everything. As usual, bonefish inshore and GTs offshore were the popular targets, but what I really enjoy about fishing there is the diversity of what you can catch. You can be stalking bones in shin deep water on a secluded back country flat when all hell breaks loose as a massive GT crashes into the shallows. Offshore you can have guys casting with light gear into the shallow edges hooking coronation trout, red bass and sweetlips (long nose emperor), while guys are casting poppers out the other side getting monstered by GTs. The toughest decision each morning is which rods to take and which ones to leave behind!

Highlights for me include catching my first milkfish on fly, watching GTs hunt flying fish, seeing guys getting dragged around the deck by GTs and seeing yellowfin getting airborne chasing poppers and stickbaits.

Coming in over the Back Country

Runway View

Flats GT for Travis this fish ate at the rod tip and then did a quick 360 dash around him before burrowing back to deeper water

Bonefish close up

Yellowfin on popper

Longnose Emperor locally known as sweetlips

Tuna hitting a stickbait

Early morning run

[samsteele115]

Awesome. GT's in shallow water would be the pinnacle for me.

Great report

[Fish Head]

Zane Hooked Up

Pennant Fish

GT on FCL Labo CSP Stickbait

Running Repairs

Coronation trout on FCL jig and Synit rod

Le giving a GT some stick

Red Bass

[Fish Head]

Down the hatch

View from the backyard

[Tom156]

The close up of the GT is awesome!!

[mick2me]

Great Pics guys... can't wait to finally get my chance to get into some of that action.

looks like you living the dream

[Manni79]

:woohoo: :woohoo: EPIC :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Luvit]

How do photoshop those GT's to get them to look so big! :dry:

Love the black GT, stunning.

[Damien2Rad]

Looks epic.

Can't wait to get on another big trip.

[ryanyoung]

That is a top report, glad I clicked on it!!! Great fish caught, and some great shots!!!

Cheers,

Ryan.

[Rocket75]

"wow" he says wiping drool from keyboard

[pancakes_and_haggis]

How do photoshop those GT's to get them to look so big! :dry:

Love the black GT, stunning.

Shoot with a wide angle lens from about 200mm I front of the fish!

Epic report Duncan looks mad

[ONTHECHEW]

Great report duncs,

Bringing back some good memories, didn't get any Tsunami warnings did you :whistle: Can't wait till october, going to get Matty onto his first Gt, make that first 50 gts

Andrew

[Angus]

Holy moly!

That is amazing.

Since Andrew and now your report this has made it firmly to my bucket list!!!!!

Epic!

Angus

[Keen-as-fisho]

Unreal, definitely a trip I dream of doing, hopefully this week my numbers get drawn Thanks for sharing Duncan

[dassa]

Thanks Duncan that is a great report I love the photo's of the 3 gt's 1 after the other big, BIGGER and holly JESUES CHRIST I didn't think they got that big. That is 1 place on the top of my bucket list to go and fish for sure and here's fingers crossed my numbers come up this week.

[John]

great photos!