Christmas Island 2021 Hosted by Gorge Fly Shop

Join Travis And Lyndsey Fly Fishing Christmas Island

Join my wife Lyndsey and I for an amazing trip to Christmas Island.  We will be hosting a trip to Christmas Island through Fly Water Travel May 4th to 11th 2021.  If you have not been to Christmas Island it is a flats anglers must do trip.  It is not just the Bonefish and Giant Trevally that make this trip so great, it is the pure number of different species of fish you can catch there.  Many fish that you have never seen before.  Doto the number of bonefish Christmas islands is also a good spot for first time flats anglers. 

Thank you, 

Travis & Lyndsey Duddles

Rate: $2,690.00 per person based on double occupancy

Note: Private rooms and guides are available for an additional charge

Included: Accommodations, meals, guided fishing, four bottles of water per person per day, ground transportation on Christmas Island.

Includes:

• 7 nights 6 days 
• Meals, four bottles of water per person per day
• Guided fishing
• Ground transportation on Christmas Island. All meals and nights aboard Tortuga

Not Included:

• All airfare to Christmas Island
• Accommodations/meals/transfers in Honolulu
• Alcohol and Soda
• Miscellaneous expenses
• Fishing license
• Staff and Guide Gratuities
• Departure Taxes

Space is limited!

Lyndsey & Travis Duddles would love you to have you join them on this adventure!

Call Travis - (541) 386-6977

or Visit our Travel Section

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Adventure Steelhead 1/30/2015

Recently, John and I did some serious bushwhacking/exploration. We had been looking for a new way to get down to the river, and after a failed attempt or two, we found it. 

Steelhead!

 I should say that we found a place where you can park within a certain distance to a river, with public land from the road to the river. Unfortunately, there is no “trail” to speak of, just a poorly used game trail that meanders about 2000’ down a cliff side. It’s not a straight down type of cliff, but a definitely steep slope. I would surely ski it if it was covered in snow.

After an hour of scrambling down this slope, we managed to get to the river right where we thought we would end up (according to our calculations via Google). However, it quickly became apparent that we would not be able to leave the river in the same manner that we went down. Getting up the same way that we descended would not only have been extremely difficult, we would have spent hours climbing up the loose brush and rock. Climbing down had not been that bad, but the thought of going up was pretty much out of the question.

So we fished this run that I had been eyeing for a while. Unfortunately, it was much faster than and not as deep as we had hoped. Bummer dude… Luckily, I am Swiftwater Rescue Certified, and one of the things I learned how to do is cross a river that is moving fast by linking arms and walking in step with a partner while leaning on each other to keep steady. This was really the only way to get across the river as it is fast and forbidding. So we slowly crossed the river and walked downstream along the bank for a while until we found a decent looking piece of water.

So this is where the fish story comes in! 

 I started swinging this run and quickly got my fly into a really nice looking bucket. A fish grabbed my pink bunny leech in mid-swing. It then dropped the fly, and then hit it again even harder on the hang-down at the end of the swing. One head shake and it dropped the fly again. By this point, I was yelling and swearing at this fish. Jon had stopped and was watching the action.

After the second grab (and drop), I quickly stripped the fly twice as it was hanging down at the end of the swing. As if I was trout fishing, this steelhead boiled on my fly and slammed it as hard as possible. I saw all of this as the fly and the fish were in less than two feet of water and less than fifty feet from me. The fish then screamed about fifteen feet of line off my reel and popped off. That fish was hooked and lost. I had never had a steelhead take a fly three times like that in one swing, and never had a winter fish eat a fly on the strip.

So instead of standing there staring at the water in disbelief, I fired a cast ten feet off where that fish popped off towards the deeper side. I mended the line and stripped the fly once. Less that a second later, this fish took the fly again, even harder that the other three times, and proceeded to put me in my backing while going airborne several times.

When I finally landed him, the hook was up in the roof of his mouth, right where it should be. I thought that maybe, just maybe, there were two fish out there that were involved in this incident. When we took a closer look, we could see the fresh hole, still bleeding, in the corner of his mouth from where I had just put a hook in him on the previous cast.

I have been fishing for a long time, and I never had a steelhead ever act that aggressively towards my fly,

especially a winter steelhead. Winter fish are not exactly known for moving a long ways for a fly. Grabbing the fly four times total and getting pinned at least twice in two casts is unheard of. The adventure of getting to the river was totally worth the sweat and soreness, but the fish was a bonus that gave us both a glow and a smile for the rest of the day.

We ended up having to walk down the river for quite a while before climbing up the other bank. We then had to figure out how to get to our car on the other side of the river several miles upstream, but that is a completely different story.

Andrew Perrault | Product Specialist | Steelhead Adventurer 
Gorge Fly Shop
541.386.6977

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Get out and fish: Make an Adventure you Won't Forget

"Funny how a melody sounds like a memory. Like a soundtrack to a July Saturday night" EC

Secrets in the Sauce

There's something special about growing up in small towns or at least traveling to them. Maybe its the mom and pop diners that serve the best chicken fried steak you ever had, or that dive bar with the animal heads mounted proudly and it just so happens, they serve a mean steak and a killer bacon burger. Or maybe it's the brick and mortar fly shop you always stop by just to say hi, pick up a few flies and check whats new. Either way, we all have our favorite places to travel, places to eat and stretches of river we find our self longing to get back to.

Adventure Starts Here

The adventure of finding these new places, small towns to hunt, camp and fish really sparks my interest. I enjoy nothing better than traveling an unbeaten path on foot or with the top down on the ol' Jeep. Whenever I re-capture that feeling, I grab hold with full swing.

So what moves you? A particular fly. A rod. A river?
We all have special memories we like to hold near and dear to our hearts for safe keeping... I'll tell you the zip code where I chased the biggest buck, but good luck finding the same spot. For many, the fly used on that memorable day... your mojo or secret sauce might be tucked away in a fly box and remains a secret to this day, but whats the story?

Travel the unbeaten path

We invite you to tell us your story, give us an adventure we'll never forget. If names of rivers or towns are too important to disclose, leave them out of the story or change their names to protect their identity. We want to hear the story, not publicize and make it a destination listing. If you don't have a story to tell, go find one this year. If not for us than for yourself. Travel the unbeaten path...

From the Oregon Coast to the Columbia, the John Day to the Deschutes and everything in between we call these our home waters. Mid-March, Greg and I team up and head southeast to the San Juan River for some fishing below Navajo Dam near Aztec, New Mexico. With a little luck we'll remember to turn the camera on; capture some memorable grabs, test some worthy product, eat a killer burger or two and taste some flavorful bourbon. Not necessarily in that order or on camera. Upon our return we hope to provide you with video worth watching and a story worth reading. We don't know exactly what we'll encounter, but that's half the fun and most of the adventure, but we promise you this: It will be our adventure, our story. We hope you make your next fly fishing experience an adventure you wont forget.

Article by: Mike Prine
Gorge Fly Shop

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