Paul Arden | Wednesday, 11 March 2026
There really are just not enough hours in the day at the moment! Many of my Zoom students are coming out of hibernation. The good thing about the US clocks change is that instead of teaching flycasting using the stern floodlight at night, is that I can be up early in the morning, teaching during my sunrise. No wasps! I don’t know why wasps come out at night in the jungle but they do. It can be entertaining but sometimes I could do with a little bit less entertainment in my life.
I’ve written before, that I enjoy the contrast between morning teaching and evening teaching. For about 5 months of the year I’m mostly coaching at night with my US students (East Coast certainly). For the rest of the year it’s dawn and through to around 10am, depending on the coast.
Australia/NZ that’s always morning for me. EU/UK is mostly afternoon/evening my time. I’ve become an expert on world time. Clocks changing on different days, in different parts of the world, does of course complicate matters. Here the clocks don’t change at all of course, but we don’t have the long or short length days either! (Attached POD)
Many (probably most) of my students have cast through the winter. A few indoors which is great. Southern parts of US never really stopped casting.
I can’t really bring in new students at the moment from Eastern Time US, not until I see how things shape up. Europe & Australia no problems. West Coast is also fine.
It’s nice to be catching up with students again, after the winter hiatus. Roll on their summer!! I’ve actually forgotten what these seasons are like, with short winter days and cold grey skies. Here in the tropics it’s either Wet or Dry. And right now it’s Dry. In fact arguably we only had two weeks of Wet this season, and that’s going to create some interestingly low water levels later in the year most probably. I wonder how many boats I’ll turn over this year?
Right: I have a Bahasa Malayu lesson coming up. Have a great day!
Cheers, Paul