Rickard Gustafsson | Saturday, 4 April 2026
This week started out a bit odd. During the Sunday my right eye was itching and irritated. I don’t really know when it started I just noticed that I had scratched so much on the eye lid that it was starting to get irritated. So I figured it was best to actively avoid touching the eye any more. Come Monday and it didn’t feel quite all right but didn’t think much about it. When I checked the eye in the evening I saw that there were a lot of blood vessels visible in they eye and when I asked Minna to have a look she thought it was some small injury in the eye.
On Tuesday morning it wasn’t better so I did call to get some advice what to do and they found a time for examination just a few hours later. I got a really good examination of both eyes and I got confirmed that Minna was right. The eye was injured in the white of the eye. Minor injury and it looked clean. I got some salve to put in the eye three times per day to keep the wound from getting infected. The wound should heal nicely without any other intervention. Today, Friday, it feels better. But during the week the eye has been both hurting and itching. And the visibility is impaired due to the eye being clogged by the salve. And I have a competition Easter Monday. So I’m giving the other competitors some advantage in the accuracy at least. The weather doesn’t look promising either.
This Wednesday was opening of the seatrout season. Cold weather with mist and cold water gives hard conditions for the fishing. Some sun to warm the water would’ve helped the ones that had taken the day off to fish. I saw some nice catches being made during the day but many people were struggling and didn’t find any fish. I was stuck at work, or at least I had to work the full day. And the cold weather also didn’t encourage me to get off work early. But I managed to make a short trip after a quick dinner. The area I fished had cold water and the wind was cold and blowing in the offshore direction.
I didn’t have any contacts at all while drifting a big area. The water was moving fast and the wind also, so some parts of the drift could’ve been fishing without any stripping.
So I switched location to find some protection from the wind and at the same time moving towards home.
In the new area I lost the fly when it got stuck in something. Putting a new fly on quickly and started to cast again. Soon I got a tug in the line when I had landed the fly very close to the shore, it felt like a fish but I thought it was a rock. Checking the fly, the hook was sharp and no debris. So I turned the boat around to drift past that area again. As soon as I landed the fly in the same square meter as the previous drift I hooked a small sea trout. I managed to get an other cast into that square meter before I had drifted too far. Got a take again as soon as I started to move the fly but didn’t hook it. Probably another seatrout in the same size. They have a tendency to clump up like that when the water is cold. I made a few more casts in the drift but no more contacts. Then it starting to get dark so I called quits.
Cheers, Rickard