Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

The wind freshened hard all morning and by midday it was a gale so we headed off into land our catch. It was a poor run home beam on all the way so very rolly, but we got in around two ish and Brian from hoskings transport landed us. We had a good trip for 48 hours fishing we had 160boxes, nice and fresh for tomorrows market.

We had a few jobs to do when we got in so all hands got to it

The last couple of days we have been catching a lot of coal. The coal is all over the grounds and gets covered and uncovered with the winds and swell. The coal is left over from the remains of ship wrecks and in the trecherous area off Lands End there has been many a shipwreck over the centuries. Fortunately for us there is some fish in the nets along with the coal! The Squid fishing has been quite

We stopped in today it wasn't the best of weather, wet and windy so we decided to put our rough ground net on the quay for a bit of TLC. It's been a while since we stopped so the net had taken alot of wear so all the crew and I got afast of it, but just like it, it rained all day so we ended up all soaked to the skin, but at least it was a good job done.

Alec went down the engineroom

The boat is due in this evening to land her catch for Plymouth tomorrow, Alec has a good mixed trip onboard for 4 1/2days fishing (see catch onboard) but this is the end of my time off for now. Although we love our job its also good to be home. Alec and I have each been away recently for 6-7weeks non stop so we are glad of a rest and some down time, i'll be away with the boat next trip so its

Over the past couple of months we have noticed that there has been far fewer gulls around, I'm not saying I miss the sqawking or even the mess that we have to scrub every week off our shelter and windows after we have carried and fed them all week,but its not the same without them around. We have spoken to other fisherman and they have noticed this as well so the gulls have not fallen out with

We sailed again early weds morning and shot 12-15miles south of the wolf, a bit of monk has set in around here and the tows are fairly staight so with the big tide that is in the water we can go around with it and use it to our advantage.

We had a cable on the net yesterday which ripped our net so we had a busy day mending but other than that the weather is quiet and sea is calm, the

We just finished another trip fishing to south of the scilly isles, the catch was good mainly haddock gurnard squid monk and dory we had 270 boxes for 5days.

 The weather has remained settled and is still warm, a theme of this year has been that the fishing patterns have been behind schedule about 3 weeks later than normal and this trend is continuing Alec and I think its  due to

The Autumn Fishery has arrived up and down the coast of the South-West. Our Squid fishery has turned up along with the Dory and Gurnards and we're even starting to see a few Bass in the catch. Up to the east in Brixham and Plymouth a fair few Cuttles are being landed, so if the gales return we may head east. We can carry on working tucked up behind the headlands of the Lizard and Start Point giving

We're on the way in tonight after a couple more days fishing, hopefully land our catch to a strong market as supplies have been short this week due to poor weather. We're still fishing fairly handy and we have been fishing for Squid, Gurnard, Haddock and Dory. We did have a supprise in our last haul today as we netted 20kg of large Black bream! It is a great fish to look at as well as eat

We got away again after last nights gale had another good days fishing the gurnnards seem to be setting in at the wolf like they always do this time of year. The market for gurnard has been stronger this year thanks to promotions by many celeb chefs and people like mike at M&J seafoods this all came about by the sea food Cornwall team highlighting the merits of the gurnard and suggesting it