Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We sailed last Friday with Rupert the cameraman from the BBC onboard once again, as the last two trips that he sailed with us were bad luck, we asked him to take a turn out of himself this time before we sailed. The first trip that Rupert did with us was back in december, when we were forced back in after two hauls with by a vicious storm. The next trip was the last trip when the

We sailed last saturday night and headed to the grounds to fish, as we were shooting the nets I could hear an unhealthy clanking noise coming from the engineroom, the fire alarm started to ring off as well. I headed down to the engineroom to investigate and was met with smoke and sparks coming out of the auxillary engine gearbox.

This didn't look good, so I stopped the enngine and

We Sailed again in the early hours of wednesday morning and shot where we had left off the trip before. The fishing had slacked off to what is was the day before, so we had a search around, but we never found the fishing any better elsewhere.

Quite often we find that after a very strong blow the fishing can go slack, as the sea goes milky with all the stirring up, so we can

We sailed again early thursday morning and headed off to where we left off the day before. The fishing was still good with a nice mix of fish with a few monks, megs, hake, lemons and cuttle, we were not catching a huge volume of fish, but it was quality, high value fish so it was a decent living.

So all was going well until on janis watch we slowed up a bit, but as it was poor weather and

We got another 36hrs fishing in, the fishing was good once again, with a nice bit of prime but not a huge amount of whitefish, but the quality fish is making good money at the moment.

We started steaming back to Newlyn late last night, the wind was on the bow on the way in, as it was blowing quite hard from the north. We were seeing mainly rain all the way in, but as we approached mounts