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Article: A HAPPY HOLIDAY FINE FISHING GIFTS GRACE CHRISTMAS ISLAND.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Byline: BILL BECHER
CHRISTMAS ISLAND - ``Trevally,'' yelled Beia, my normally soft-spoken fishing guide, pointing to a dark moving spot in the water. We were fishing from shore at a small cove on Christmas Island, 1,300 miles south of Hawaii.
I had been casting to the bonefish that are the featured game fish here. But we were on the lookout for giant trevally, a fish that can weigh 100 pounds and will eat a fly. It was midday and we'd been killing time until the rest of our group from the Conejo Valley Fly Fishers showed up for lunch.
Beia handed me the heavier fly rod we'd taken for just this sort of opportunity. I cast a large popper in the ...