Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We started our trip last saturday night, we have been working 30-40 miles off to the ssw of Newlyn. The fishing has been reasonable but very spotty and we have been on the move constantly, trying to stop in the fishing.

We had poor weather again tuesday daytime, with  another southeasterly blow giving us a pasting again, when all of a sudden on janis's watch the fuel consumption

We came back to Newlyn this morning after a rough 3days at sea, they were giving a gale for the daylight today, so with us only being 3hours away we headed in and landed our catch. We also had some repair work to do in one of the nets, as in the poor weather the net had got damaged and the port wing needed resetting.

The Tranquility also landed with us today so we shared the transport, the

The boat is due in this afternoon after a 6 day trip to the southwest, the fishing has benn godd and Al and the crew have over 300boxes onboard. It is a good mix of fish with half being made up of a good run of haddocks and the rest is a mix of Megs, monk, dory, whittens, squid, lemons, with a few cuttle's starting to show.

The forecast is not looking to good for the

We arrived back in Newlyn last night after a 5day trip away to the south of Newlyn by 30-40miles, the trip started off slack for the first couple of days, then we moved out deeper and we got in on some good fishing. We were having a good mix of fish with some good hauls of haddocks and a steady basket of monk tails a haul, with a few megs and a sprinkling of other fish.

The weather was fine

We have just finished a 5 day trip off to the south of the lizzard point, the fishing was a bit slack this trip. It was a funny old tide with it remaining quite flat for a few days around the top of the spring, which is never any good for the fishing.

But there was a nice bit of squid to be had at times, the squid are getting quite large now, as this is usually the best time of year&