Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We sailed again early thursday morning and headed off to where we left off the day before. The fishing was still good with a nice mix of fish with a few monks, megs, hake, lemons and cuttle, we were not catching a huge volume of fish, but it was quality, high value fish so it was a decent living.

So all was going well until on janis watch we slowed up a bit, but as it was poor weather andwe were on one of our regular tows we didn't think much of it. So we went to haul as usual and when we took the port net aboard, we found it to be badly torn.

Luckily we carry a spare onboard so we shot the spare, but then we had to mend the torn net. The wind was from the northeast and it was blowing quite hard (6-8), so as you can imagine our fingers didn't take long to go numb. We mended up as much as we could but it was obvious that there was a lot of net missing so we decided to leave it to when we got in, I have to say it wasn't a difficult decision.

We landed our catch last night and we came down this morning and with our Dad's help we managed to put the net back together again. It's always easier to mend a large rip when your in the harbour, as you can spread it out and you are not rolling around, having a job to stand up and cut the knots.

The weather is easing again tonight, so we are sailing again in the early hours, I don't think we will get long it's looking poor again on saturday but we'll get what we can and avoid that Tow where we had the damage.