Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

With the big tide coming up we had to head else where so it was safer to work our gear, for tose of you who are unaware how tide effcts us imagine the sea flowing like a river and trying to work a boat and the gear and keep in a straight line so we avoid wrecks and nasty hitches. It does help though at times as if we keep heading with the flow of tide we can save fuel as the vessels speed is helpedby the rate of tide. We headed south of the scillies on the 29th and shot our first haul we neted 110stone of hads 660kgs and they were a good run and luckily for us the fishing kept up at that rate for the next twelve hauls (3 days) so  come  early monday we had run out of ice and boxes, we were tired but delighted. We got in monday mid morning and we worked all day after having been up all night,when we have been going non stop for a couple of weeks there is a lot to do, We'll have a night home and sail again. Just hope the prices are good tuesday.