I’m in Mahe, Seychelles today and have been here as host of a Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures trip since Sunday afternoon. I came early to guarantee my arrival (winter storm flying through USA can be unpredictable) and also to be fresh when my eleven guest arrive to fish with me at Providence Atoll. The bad thing however is that I shouldn’t be here now because its Tuesday afternoon on this side of the world and we should be fishing!
The scheduled plan was that we were supposed to catch our charter flight out to the fishing early this morning. The flight and trip have been postponed. There’s an out of season cyclone brewing and forecasted to give Providence Atoll a direct hit on Thursday.
This is obviously a very disappointing situation for everyone. It’s especially awful for me right now because its me that invited everyone along. But this is life as a world traveling fly fisher. Mother Nature can be cruel sometimes and we must simply be glad to be alive.
As of now, we are hoping to fly in on Friday which would give us six days of fishing instead of the original dream nine day trip I planned. But at this point we would all be delighted with six days at Providence. Best of all, my guests are being great sports about this and we are going to have a good time here in Mahe for a few days!
More to come this week. You can follow this threatening storm at Windy.com. Be sure to slide the forecast ahead using the bar on bottom through upcoming dates.
Noooooo!!! Seriously!!!!!! Looks like it might be a tough ride for the Maya’s crew also. Hope you get some epic days when you get there!
Stay safe and keep feeding Sammy
Hang in there (#@%%)…I cant even joke about the nickname, my friend! Be safe and I am Looking forward to more epic blogs when you return.
Thanks fellas for not teasing me on this one. Indeed it hurts miserably!