Pick your poison

Don't be shy, you have a choice. On the west coast, the rain comes every other day. We're not talking chump drizzle. We're talking 100 to 300 mm in a 12 hr period. The kind of rain that takes the N Ram and makes it flow like the Bow below Carseland. It rages. Sure, 18 hours later you can fish, but you have 10 hours to fish that water before you get soaked again.
Your other choice is to head east of the alps, where it's dry. There's a catch. Every time a front moves along the west coast and soaks the coast, the winds howl everywhere east. And anyone thinking the Crowsnest winds are bad, try sustained 110 to 130 kmh with gusts 130 to 150. The worst we've seen is near 170kmh. Now, imagine 3 weeks straight of choosing rain or wind. Pick your poison, live with it.
Today, I stood 17 feet below a 6 pound brown and couldn't cast to it in 45 min of trying. The wind too every cast and put it on the rocks. Had I tied a rock to my fly, I don't think the fly gets there.
Below is a typical NZ weather forecast when we get a progression of fronts moving through, often every 36 hours.
Pick yer poison, indeed!