Martyn White | Thursday, 3 April 2025
I'm back from Okinawa, and even though Tokyo is unseasonably cold, I'm glad to be back. After last weeks FP I only managed half a day's fishing. Before going on the trip I knew I was rolling the dice a bit on the weather so I can't complain too much.
I went out last Thursday and hit the reef edge as the tide was falling, the light was good but I saw nothing for the couple of hours I was out there. I decided to head back and fish the flood on the south-west side. It's a flat made largely of volcanic rock and is trigger country. I saw some trevally blowing up on some bait in the distance, but nothing else for several hundred yards of flat. After that I had a couple of shots at triggers, one wasn't interested, the second ate and bit my fly off. By the time I'd made it round to the beach the wind had got up to the point where I couldn't fish so I just went back to the digs and washed the gear off. And that was the end of my fishing, the weather just got worse as the week went on. High winds, grey skies and rain. I was a bit worried about my ferry back on Sunday, but although it was unpleasantly rough I did make it back to the big island in time to grab some souvenirs and make it to the airport for my delayed flight.
Given that Okinawa is a cheap, easy trip for me it's not such a big deal; I just read, and had a few beers with some excellent food and hung out with the room gekko. Not too bad really, so I don't mind taking a risk on the weather down there now and then. But the risk of bad weather is something to bear in mind when traveling for fishing. We can control a lot of things, but the things we can't can easily ruin a trip.