p there with the trickiest of life decisions is that call of whether or not to cancel a fishing trip. When the various meteorologists start predicting wild storms with heavy rain on the horizon, and even an ex-tropical cyclone perhaps veering down from the tropics, these decisions start to weigh like tungsten. Safety first of course, but with precautions in place, predicting whether you are rolling into an uncomfortable waste of time, or a wet but absolutely doable mission is another. Making that call is never easy, especially with how erratic New Zealand weather forecasting can be. Weather patterns slide away at the very breath of the clouds. Being an isolated set of islands doesn’t help with this predictability of course and the changeable nature often feels like a set of dice are being rolled, especially after gloomy sets of weather have hit in succession; the coin flip of
