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Christmas Island
Captain Cook
Hotel
The Captain Cook Hotel has 24 twin-bedded rooms plus six
bungalows all with private shower and toilet. Rooms have
coffee making facilities plus refrigerators, and some
rooms have air-conditioning for a surcharge. There is a
dining room, a market and a private beach just steps
away from the guest rooms.
Christmas Island has become one of the most popular
year-round destinations for bone fishing. It is perhaps
the best bone fishing in the world, with vast numbers of
fish on easily waded, hard white sand flats. Experienced
flats anglers will often average 15 to 20 bonefish a day
with a 30-plus fish day possible. Most of these fish
will average about three pounds and several could be in
the six to nine pound range.
Adding to the excitement are three different kinds of
trevally -- giant, blue, and striped -- that are taken
on the flats while bone fishing, and also along the
lagoon edges and in the surf. Trevally are very strong
fish that strike savagely at or near the surface.
The weather is remarkably dependable. The island is only
119 miles north of the equator. Year-round daytime highs
are in the mid-80's, while evening lows are typically 72
degrees with a light breeze. Weather will seldom
interfere with your fishing enjoyment.
Flats fishing here is almost entirely wading and does
require some self-reliance in terms of stalking,
spotting and casting to fish. The guides will wade and
assist in spotting. Anglers are transported to the
numerous expansive flats, whether in comfortably
outfitted light trucks or in one of several lagoon
"punts" -- large flat-bottomed boats that are also used
for trevally fishing in the protected waters of the
lagoon.
This destination is one of the best "First-Timers"
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