Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We headed down to the boat late on new years eve, then we sailed and headed off some 30miles to the south of Newlyn. The weather had moderated from the day before when we shot and we had a lovely peaceful start to the new year and the fishing was pretty good as well.

     The Penlee lifeboat and her crew had an early start as well, as the beam trawler Travessa

We were out fishing on thursday and we were planning to carry on until monday as the weather was fine and although the fishing was slack the prices had been good up until then. Then we got a fax from PTA calling us in early to land on Fridays market as the prices were starting to fall away quickly.

So on thursday afternoon we steamed  in and landed what we had for the 3days

We sailed early monday morning and headed south by 30miles, the fishing wasn't to bad with a good run of megs and monk but not a lot of bulk to go with it. The weather was still poor when we shot, with the wind still coming  from the north, but it soon eased and we had a lovelly fine night for a change on monday evening.

The next day we headed west and we found the fishing better

We sailed yesterday morning and shot after a couple of hours steaming, the forecast was giving the wind cyclonic then going northerly 10, which is off the land so we thought we would be alright for the night.

Unfortunatly for us the low moved further north and west than predicted and we had an increasing ssw wind. The wind wasn't flying to the north as predicted so when the wind reached

We are hoping to sail tomorrow morning after yet another gale 9 from the southwest comes through tonight. We have been in since a week thursday ago, so we will be glad to get back out to sea and try to find some fish.

The prices are apparently through the roof, with soles making £21 a kg, and monks making £18 a kg, so we will have to hopefully get some fish and try to catch a