Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

Al and the crew got in on thursday morning and we landed the catch that they had for the couple of days, that they managed to snatch.

Whilst we were landed a film crew were down from the BBC, they had been in the area filming the history of fishing and familys at sea and they had got in touch with my Dad and asked if he could help.

The programme goes quite in depth into how diferent

With another 24hour gap in the weather,We sailed agiain monday evening and steamed off a little further this time, to see if we could find a bit better fishing. We have so far got another 5hauls hauls in but its quite poor now and I think we will be blown in again later as they are giving severe gales for the rest of the week and through the weekend.

The fishing hasn't been to bad with

We sailed again late thursday afternoon after we had landed, so the fish would make Fridays market.  Alec had to come in on thursday morning early, as the sender for the autopilot had bust on the rudder, so they had to stear the boat by hand whilst towing and with a southwest 6-7 it was not easy to keep the boat on coarse.

The forecast was for a southerly 8-9 for a time so they came

The poor spell of weather is set to continue this weekend and with them giving sothwest 8-9 again tomorrow it looks like Alec will be blown in again. the fishing hasn't been to bad with a few haddocks and nice bit of flat and monk, but its not big fishing just picking away.

The prices are holding up which is good, but supplies have been short recently, so they should be ok this time when

We sailed on thursday evening as the gale from the north west was starting to ease, we didn't go to far only a couple of hours off, as the forecast for saturday was poor again.

We managed to get four hauls in, the first haul was not so good as there was still a large swell running when we shot, but this eased and by the secound tow we had far better weather and the swell had droped.