The biggest advantage at the villages is that your boat meets you just a few steps from your bungalow.
Anglers will be transported to the fishing in versatile South Pacific style, sea-worthy skiffs to the many productive bonefish flats and to the reef drop-offs for exciting light tackle tunas, travelly, wahoo, rainbow runners and bonito. We have eliminated the use of pick-up trucks so that anglers are able to maximize their valuable fishing time. All of the guides are experienced and knowledgeable in all types of fishing. They have been previously employed by other island facilities and guided the area flats and outside reef waters for years.
Air Pacific, the airline of Fiji, offers weekly round trip flights between Honolulu and Christmas Island every Tuesday a 3 hour flight each way. Air Pacific offers spacious seats, a full meal service and a movie on this short flight. Once at the lodge, guests unpack, settle-in, and set-up their tackle for the next 6 days of fishing. With the guides on hand, you will be briefed on the week’s fishing program.
The price is $2,000.00, per person for bookings deposited prior to January 1 for 2007/2008 trips, after January 1, 2008 the price is $2,095.00
50% deposit will reserve your trip
Price includes sharing bungalow accommodations and guide for every two anglers with 4 anglers per outboard motor-powered 35 foot skiffs.
The roundtrip Air Pacific 737 jet from Honolulu is not included.
The entire “Villages” staff are well trained, service minded and always available to make your stay comfortable and most enjoyable. For more information about the new facility, call Fishabout at 1-888 409-2008, and make sure your next bonefish trip is to “The Villages” of Christmas Island
Christmas Island is located about 1200 miles south of Honolulu just north of the equator. Weather and fishing are consistent year round. Its official name is Kiritimati, pronounced Christmas (“ti” sounds like “s”), and it is part of the Republic of Kiribati, pronounced Kiribass, The capitol Tarawa is about 1700 miles to the west. The Australian dollar is the official currency, but US dollars are always accepted. The exchange rate varies.
Christmas Island is the largest atoll in the world, encompassing about 250 square miles including the central lagoon and salt water ponds, that occupy about 125 square miles. The lagoon is a maze of deep blue channels and white sand flats loaded with the local bonefish. There are also miles of narrow flats and shallow reef zones on the ocean sides of the island that can be waded and fished when the tides are favorable. In addition to bonefish, the flats and channels contain trevally (giant, blue fin and golden), goatfish, puffers and yellow snapper, all of which will grab your bonefish fly. Mullet and milkfish are an abundant food source for local netters, most of whom no longer target bonefish or trevally.
Fly fishers will want to fish 7 - 8 wt fly rods with floating lines for almost all of the flats fishing for bonefish. For trevally on the flats, a 10 weight with floating line is ideal, just offshore and around the coral heads you might consider a 12wt - 14wt outfit with sinking lines or shooting heads.
A fly list will be provided at booking time.
Spin and conventional anglers will want a 7 - 8 foot light action spinning rod with 10lb test for flats bonefish, For trevally a stout 7-8 foot spinning rod with a 5000 size spinning reel loaded with 50-60 lb gel-spun line like Power-Pro. Offshore you can use heavy spinning or 20 - 30lb class trolling gear.
A lure list will be provided at booking time.
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