Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We arrived back in Newlyn this morning followed by yet another unseasonable gale, this was the story for the duration of the trip, with a gale pretty much every other day. The fishing has been good so it was well worth plodding on, but at times we were being thrown around a fair bit and we did wonder if it was worth it.

We had good fishing of haddocks, flats and monk at the start of the trip, then we shifted inside a bit to southwest of the scillies by 10-15miles and we had 2 days of really good dory fishing, with one day netting 300kgs. They are a good run of john dorys with the average weight being 2kg's per fish, which is as good as it gets.

This may well be our last landing before we head up to macduff in Scotland for our refit, which will take 3weeks. If the weather doesn't improve tomorrow we won't have enough time to get another trip in before we leave on friday, for the four day steam to Scotland.

The Crystal Sea is looking worse for wear now, with plenty of weed hanging off her hull and plenty of bare patches that are in dire need of paint. Hopefully this will be sorted by David Patterson and his painting gang and we have a long list of jobs to be done by macduff, so in another 3 weeks she should be heading back to the southwest to fish once again all ship shape and bristol fashion.