Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We landed our catch on Tuesday evening, all was going well, getting our jobs done in good time, so we went up to take ice. As we travelled up the habour and approached the ice works, I felt a shallow thud, so I knocked the boat out of gear as I wasn't sure what it could be, but something had obviously hit the propellor. We took our ice as planned and I phoned up Gus, who does a fair bit of

The boat is due back in this evening, Alec has had the boat away this week and with the tide cutting he headed off to the southwest. He has had good fishing again, with a nice few boxes of megrim and monk fish, so our new all purpose flat fish nets seem to be working well.

We ordered a couple of these new design nets when we were up in scotland, they have slightly less net in what we

We got off to a good start with some very good fishing for the first trip back, which we were all very glad to see, but it came as a bit of a shock to the system after being laid up for so long. The fishing was so heavy that I ended up with blisters on my fingers from the amount of gutting, I'm not complaining though, but I have told my wife that if we are in for so long again I will have

We arrived back in Newlyn on sunday afternoon after a four day steam from macduff. We had a good run down and we were lucky enough to get the tide right in the north channel and we once again reached over 14knots. There was a large spring tide over the weekend, which we tried to use to our advantage on the steam down. In some places we got it right but in other places it was quite slow going, one

We left MacDuff yesterday evening after getting the all clear from Roddy and David, the engineers. We headed north by west for the Pentland Firth. The run was good upto the Pentland with a light NW 4-5 breeze, but when we entered the firth (which is the straits between the Orkneys and the north of Scotland) we were met by quite a large westerly swell and were hurtling along in a 9 knot tidal race