Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We sailed last wednesday and we headed west and shot to the south of the scillies, the weather when we sailed was fresh from the northeast and a large swell was starting to build. Before we left I had a forecast and we were going to have a series of low pressures pass overhead with the wind being cyclonic and strong at times so we new this would be an unpredictable trip.

The fishing

We sailed last wednesday night and we are due into land our catch to PTA this evening. The fishing has been difficult this week and we have had to move grounds alot to stay fishing, we have a good mix of prime and flats but the whitefishing has been slacker. 

This is quite the norm for mid february as it can always go slack this time of year and with a long spell of cold easterly winds

We sailed last friday and headed back out to the grounds to the south of the scillies, the fishing wasn't that great but what we were catching was prime fish.

We had extra work to do this week, we were asked to do some discard trials this week by Dr Tom catchpole, who works for CEFAS, which is the fishiery science body for the UK.

We work two nets which is a method known as twin

We sailed on saturday and for the time of year the weather has been quite settled, the fishing has been steady, with a good mix of fish. We have travelled around a bit in the search for the best fishing, we started the trip away off to the south of the lizzard, then we moved to the west by a dozen miles and now we are to the south of the scillies.

Its been a cold old week with a constant&

We sailed early last saturday morning and with a huge spring tide due over the next few days, we headed away off to the southwest so that we could get out of the strongest of the tide.

The fishing started off not to bad, but as we had just put new warps aboard,  I thought that the fishing was down a little. With new warp being very greasy when it first goes on the winch