Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

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, thefishing was slackish, mainly due to the rough weather, but we had a finer day yesterday and the fishing was quite good for the day. One haul we had a nice few dorys and we also caught 5 nice sized black breams. The flats were the most scarce, with us only catching 10boxes for the time, this is not unusual when there is a heavy swell as the bridle lifts as the boat rides the sea, so we tend to loose the flat as they go underneath them.

We  are going back aboard the boat tonight and we are leaving in the early hours so we can be on the grounds for the daylight, it's looking unsettled still this week, so lets hope it doesn't last to long.