Typhoon Blues

I can't actually remember what happened on each day. There was one that was completely and utterly lost to wind and rain, I didn't even touch a rod. I pushed a bike along into the wind to a wee place for some lunch, then the rain came back on heavily; almost an inch in an hour and a half. So I just had to wait and have a couple of extra beers before letting the wind blow me back across the island.

The rest of the days were spent hiding from the wind or sheltering from the rain waiting for an occasional bright spell. Handily there's a little gazebo right by one of the flats I could snooze in while I waited. When it did brighten up I'd scurry out onto the flat and some times I'd be rewarded with a shot or two or maybe a few fish. There was one day, maybe Friday that I got a good couple of hours of light at a good stage of the tide and managed to put a handful of little yellow spots through their paces. Nothing big but still fun. The next day, was much the same but the only shot I had was at a little emperor, I suspect it was a snub nose that I fed a Trigger Warning mantis before the weather deteriorated again and I went for some noodles and called it a day. That was the last fish I caught. There was another day the light was terrible the whole time so I just stuck a wired up popper on and went looking for sharks in the shallows on the lee side of the island. There were plenty around and they're pretty easy to see even in bad light, so I spent a few hours tormenting them. Easy to get a chase and then lift the fly off when the try to eat it. If I was at a beach rather than on a flat covered in sharp volcanic rock, I'd have let them eat but I didn't fancy trying to deal with unhooking a shark I couldn't beach.
ON the last day the light was actually really good while I was waiting for the tide, but as soon as I went on the flat it more or less turned to shit again. SO I went looking for triggers in the skinny stuff, if they're tailing it doesn't matter what the light is like and because it was still blowing a hoolie I was feeling confident Id' be able to make an approach on one. I did find a yellow margin and stuck the mantis in front of it. The trigger turned on the fly immediately and tipped up, but I didn't get the hook in it, slow strip and it did it again, and again and again all the way to the rod. That's triggerfish though.

All in all, a poor trip, but not as bad as it could have been given the conditions. I'm back in Tokyo now and planning what to do for the rest of my time off, I'm thinking smallmouth and maybe a bit of camping.