A little report from Fly Water Travel from Christmas Island. Brian gave an interview a while back about Christmas.
“This past week was great!!! Bones were very active in the AM, less in in the PM. Caught a few smaller trevallys….not GTs. Guides said this was the best week they remember in months!
via Christmas Island Report « Fly Water Travel’s Reel News – 800-552-2729.
I was wondering what other little gems there might be in the South Pacific. I’m sure there are a loot of them out there, just as I am sure that more than a few of those gems have been or are being destroyed by netting… those are the days we are living in.
I found this site with a story about Anna Atoll (my daughter’s name is Anna, so it caught my eye, although they later refer to it as Anaa).
I cast a metre ahead of the fish and did not have time to react as the bone bolted to the fly, took it and departed so fast I didn’t see the loop in the line go around the butt of the rod. It was all over in seconds with the 6 kg tippet breaking so sharply that the line recoil-ed back up the rod.
via See the whole post here – GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Courtesy of Blood Knot Magazine and Fishing Jones… a little recap.
The first one, an eight pounder, broke off my tippet. Or, more accurately, I did on the strip set.
via Parrot Cay Bonefish by the Numbers | Blood Knot Magazine.
Johan posted this to my Facebook Bonefish on the Brain page… I like it. No surprise there. Abaco is on the list for sure!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxsgQlEYI3o?fs=1&hl=en_US
I think I’m just about ready for The Drake Film Festival with this little video. To be honest, I haven’t had as much hair as that guy has… ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGiLL3ta1oQ?fs=1&hl=en_US
OK… maybe film isn’t my calling.
This is why Deneki is pretty much awesome. Check out this little bit of goodness that just went up on the Deneki blog. He posts new content every day and it is consistently good stuff.
So you’re thinking about going bonefishing? Awesome! It’s a highly addictive sport in an amazing setting.
via (story link) Your First Bonefish.
New blog I found thanks to Flatswalker. He’s fairly new to bonefishing and that is always fun to see people get hooked on it, as I have.
So many things to write about the past 5 weeks. Where to start? I went to Eleuthera with the idea of staying for 2 weeks. Ended up staying for 5!!
via Make the Cast!!!.
I was looking for bonefishing leader formulas and found this story from MidCurrent which was just a delightful find. Really good stuff if you are interested in tournament fishing or pursuing big bones.
Think chasing giant bonefish is the same as throwing to schools of hundreds on the white sands of the Bahamas? Think again. Renowned tournament fisherman Tim Mahaffey shares some secrets on fly selection, gear choice and mental preparation in pursuing double-digit bonefish.
via Fly Fishing for Giant Bonefish – MidCurrent.
PS – 59 days until Belize.
My ticket is paid for. I’m headed to Belize in November. Sadly, I couldn’t pay for the ticket in Trident Layers.
I’ll be headed to El Pescador where I’ll hope to chat in person with Lori-Ann Murphy.
I still wait to hear if my friend Shane will be able to come along. If not, I’ll be flying solo.
Can’t wait. Started tying some #8’s last night.
Can't wait.
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First, the climate for buying and selling houses is crazy… a house that we bought 6 years ago with zero down and no questions asked is now something that lenders are taking a VERY close look at… one walked away from it, another has agreed to do the deal, about a week late. We’ll make about… get ready for it… $500. Luckily we only put in about $30K in improvements. I’m very glad to be getting out of the real-estate game in Silicon Valley where your half-a-million dollars doesn’t go real far.
Depending on the neighborhood, this could be $500,000 - $1,000,000
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It takes a long time to get to Aitutaki… I just did a little Kayak search and it figures it would take about 68 hours to get from SFO to the capital of the Cook Islands (and longer to get to Aitutaki). Man… I’d love to fish with Butch, but that one is going to have to go on the “next 10 years” list.
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Turns out there is a glitch with the iPad kayak.com app in that it seemed to add about 45 hours to the trip to get to Aitutaki. It seems entirely possible to get to Aitutaki in something like 15 hours and maybe even less. I had one reader tell me this… which is awesome.
I think your calculations in flying to Aitutaki are a little off…my wife and I have tickets booked in January out of LA on Air New Zealand. We leave LA on a 9.5hr non-stop to Rorotonga, have a short layover and then 55 minutes to Aitutaki. The non stop is only available one day each week each direction, but it is available. Plan on fishing with Butch 4 days while there and the rest on my own. We’re going for two weeks too!
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I have started doing a little contract work (non-fly fishing related, very Silicon Valley related). Work, as it turns out, gets in the way of writing this blog a bit. Still, it might actually make it easier for me to enter into negotiations on future trips with the wonderfully beautiful and intelligent woman I conned into marriage I call my wife.
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I really like the Trout Underground… especially when I totally agree with him on things like the re-licensing effort on one of my favorite rivers. I have found that my local fly club has signed up with the lunatic fringe and won’t respond to my questions about why the hell we’d do that.
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Frequent Flier miles on Alaska don’t do me a whole lot of good. No (as in zero) flights available for my open travel days to either Puerto Rico or Belize. Looks like I’ll be buying my plane ticket with cashish instead of accumulated miles. To this I say “boooooo.” However, on a positive note, the “SkyRider” seat has yet to become a reality… I don’t to take my red-eye on one of these satan seats.
No... no thank you.
