To be fair, last week has been rather wet for most of the North Island.
The one up-side – reels have been cleaned and oiled, cracked and worn fly lines replaced and fly boxes replenished. So prepared in a material sense? Definitely!
Now we just need the weather to co-operate for opening day, October 1st …. and it looks likely the weather might just come to the party. The local forecast tells me mixed cloud and sun for the first 2 days of opening season and that’s good enough to hit the water with a realistic degree of optimism.
As John Buchan wrote;
‘The charm of fishing is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable.
A perpetual series of occasions for hope’.
Some rivers will likely be up and slightly coloured, but that creates perfect conditions for browns to lie on the edges where they can be easily spotted and cast to. And they won’t have seen an artificial fly for at least 3 months.
A series of occasions for hope …? Absolutely … and only a day to go.
Grant Petherick
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