Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We landed our last trip on friday' s market, we were only away for 36hours and we had 80boxes of mixed fish which was good for the time. We spent the day on Friday cleaning the boat up and getting her ready for the long steam up to macduff, after a lnog day on Friday we went home for the night and we headed off at 11 o'clock on saturday morning.

We headed up the east coast as the

We managed to sail again in the early hours of Wednesday morning but had a poor punch out and another rough old day with a large swell running. The fishing has been good again though with Dorys, Haddock and a bit of Squid as well. We are due in to land this afternoon as there is a lot of work to do to get the boat ready for the long steam up to Macduff.

We have to get all our nets off loaded

We arrived back in Newlyn this morning followed by yet another unseasonable gale, this was the story for the duration of the trip, with a gale pretty much every other day. The fishing has been good so it was well worth plodding on, but at times we were being thrown around a fair bit and we did wonder if it was worth it.

We had good fishing of haddocks, flats and monk at the start of the trip

The summer is here and we have South-Westerly gales and rain of course! Luckily the worst of the weather has been in the evenings, so we have been able to time our landings with that so we don't lose too much fishing time.

The life boats have been kept busy with broken down down yachts, which is the norm this time of year, but the need to retrieve them in haste is all the more important

We have just finished another trip, we have been working to the south west of the lizzard point, catching a good mix of fish, but the fishing wasn't that great come the end of the week as the combonation of unsettled weather and a slackish spring tide doesn't help much this time of year.

We had quite an eventful night one night this week, in the south western approaches we have a

The Tranquility has headed back upto Scotland this week to work out of their home port of Fraserbrough, to fish for Prawns. The Prawn fishing has improved over the last couple of weeks up in the North Sea and with the Haddock prices being down, Peter, Brian and the crew thought it best to head back that way.

It has been good for us to have someone to work alongside in the last 3 months, we

We landed our catch again this morning at PTA. We had a nice bit of Squid from two days fishing off Lundy, then we steamed back home on the third day to fish closer to home. We did a short trip as with Squid it is important to land them early as the shelf life is a lot shorter than with white fish. The Squid fishing was good for a couple of days but on the third day it took off quick, so we left

We landed our catch this morning on Plymouth market, the prices weren't too bad, but there is quite a lot of Haddock being landed in the country at the moment so the price of Haddock was a bit dissappointing for us.

We had another colourful supprise in our catch yesterday - we netted a golden Haddock! I have only ever seen one before, some 7 - 8yrs ago so they are quite rare

I'm glad to report that doctor fish has been to visit the good ship Crystal Sea and the crew are feeling much better, we have been working to the south of the Scillies by 15-20miles and with a bit more tide in the water the fishing has improved.

The summer Haddocks have started, they are a good run and nice and fat. The Dory fishing has been good as well and yesterday we had a silver

With the arrival of summer we are starting to see large numbers of Basking sharks, we pass these huge beasts on our way to and from Newlyn. They like to sit in the tidal currents especially around Gwennap Head, near Porthcurno, at high tide they can be seen sifting the waters off Lamorna and Mousehole. They don't cause us any trouble nor do we seem to bother them, but the food that they are