So last week I mentioned my eye. It seems good now and I don’t have to run around with blurred vision any more.
But it caused a bit of a problem when I attended a small competition during the easter. Wounded eye and I couldn’t use contact lenses, so I was not able to wear sun glasses. And this isn’t the first time for this happening. So I should probably get a pair of prescription sun glasses. What’s the best allround lens colour for a fly fishing competition?
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Warm weather is still here. Snow and ice circumstances are similar than normally two weeks from now. Good thing is that it is clear weather or at least not raining anything.
We are still hoping to have ice fishing group end of this month. There is small change that it will happen as this week we have had some cold nights around - 7 celsius and even days have been barely zero or just above in sun. Wind has been helping also so spring has been slowing down.
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This week's fly is Bob Popovics' siliclone. Like so much of what sprang from his mind it’s deadly. In my opinion it’s probably the best mullet imitation ever devised and unlikely to be superseded.
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We've had a two consecutive days off from fishing this week, both due to a weather system that brought 40kph winds, thunderstorms, torrential tropical rain and wall to wall heavy cloud cover. It must be tough for people who are on a week long fishing break knowing that a third of their fishing time has been lost due to the conditions, however Tracy and I can be a bit more relaxed about it given the length of our stay. In fact, I think it's fair to say that we both needed a rest as we'd been hitting the flats pretty hard, spurred on by some great fishing.
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It's early autumn now, as is the way of New Zealand, and in Auckland the ever-present wind is here to greet me. I launched early and went looking for fish, not sure what target species would show.
Classic harbour fishing. Boats on the move, a tanker sliding past, the Waiheke ferry thumping through. Not quite what you picture when you think fly fishing, but that's part of the appeal. Auckland is busy, noisy and working, and the fish are there anyway. Plus it's close and doesn't involve a big drive. Although I must admit I'm starting to feel the pull of winter trout fishing — with the right timing it can be productive in the limited open waters around the country, and the boat might come in handy for a few of those adventures. That's for another day.
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It’s Sunday at the time of writing this. Yesterday night I had my weekly in-boat endurance bike ride. Indoor riding I find harder than outdoors. But indoor-riding, when it’s 32->28C and 80->98% humidity, is an absolute kiler. I have two small fans that blow warm hunid air at me as I ride. 5hrs and 150 virtual KM. There is absolutely no way I could run a marathon after this. It’s far harder than 180KM outdoors. Still that’s why I do it! It makes the outdoor 180KM Ironman ride seem like a pleasant training ride in the park.
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So after practicing in the park with the 20’ leader for a few days, I had a chance Sunday, to see what it would take to fish it in the river and to find out how the carp like it.
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This week started out a bit odd. During the Sunday my right eye was itching and irritated. I don’t really know when it started I just noticed that I had scratched so much on the eye lid that it was starting to get irritated. So I figured it was best to actively avoid touching the eye any more. Come Monday and it didn’t feel quite all right but didn’t think much about it. When I checked the eye in the evening I saw that there were a lot of blood vessels visible in they eye and when I asked Minna to have a look she thought it was some small injury in the eye.
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As we know in English you have these silent letters as many other languages. I don't know who come up this idea, but for Finnish person this is stupid. In English you write letters on paper and then you just don't say all of them. In Finnish you say all the letters you write. We are equal even to letters. At least we don't waste paper for nothing.
I have been tying flies this week, it is slowly coming together. Some are still ugly as hell and some even start look pretty decent. All of them will catch a fish, or will they? I saw few interesting comments when dropping rabbit hole in tying.
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This week, I'm giving you another saltwater fly; the polar fiber minnow. It's a pattern that's been kicking around for a few decades but maybe isn't as popular as it should be.
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Last week I mentioned the interesting feature of our hire car's entertainment system in that it shows music videos on the screen in the middle of the centre console whilst I'm driving – I'm pretty sure that would be illegal back in the UK, driving without due care and attention and all that. I've also been struggling with another supposedly simple bit of technology this week – the action camera. It's Tracy's idea that we both wear these, mainly because we tend to separate when we're on the flats and therefore have no record for prosperity of some of the catches we made (or perhaps she didn't believe my stories of the monster bonefish that I'd caught and wanted proof!).
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