Last week at sea we had one of the finest trips of the year so far, which was a welcome change as this winter it has not stopped blowing from every direction.

However we are paying the price this week as another gale is currently holding us up from fishing again. We were glad of the fine spell as we had one of those trips, where  we never had the mending needles out of our hands. 

The trip started off well with a few clear hauls and really good fishing, then we had fastner after fastner and many torn nets. Then after that we managed to go clear for a few hauls and got back into the fishing, then we slowed up a little whilst towing, which we thought nothing of, but when we hauled the belly and stocking of the net were in bits.

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Back in November, Hazel Curtis the head of SeaFish economics team, called us to ask if we wouldn't mind doing some filming on our boat, and an interview on how we go about our work and how the economics of our industry effects our business.

Hazel and her team have always been very helpful to us in the past so we were only to glad to help.

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The valve on my shower broke the other day and I asked my Pal Peter ( who is a good plumber), if he could come down and sort it, which he did at very short notice which I am very grateful for.

 He reminded me that I have not done a blog for  a few weeks and he is quite right, I needed a kick in the ass, to get one done as especially as I have some good pics from the last few weeks.

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We started our first trip on the second of January and for a change we had a fine start to the year, the weather had been poor over the Xmas period and after 4 days fishing we landed and had really good prices. However fine weather in January is great for comfort and getting to sea, bu it doesn't help the prices, and they soon fell away.

Our second trip we saw poor prices and the last two trips of January, quite often the market for selling fish in January is poor, if the weather is unsettled this can keep the prices up, but if fine then they drop away quickly.

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We landed our catch last Wednesday and we called that it for this year, were hoping to sail again on the 3rd of January. 

We took the boat up to Tom's boatyard for a mini refit last Wednesday as well, we have jet sprayed the boat from top to bottom and we are going to give in under the shelter a paint up and the hull under the waterline.

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The run into autumn so far has been pretty good up until this week, we have been putting the trips in and the fishing has been good.

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Well weather wise we have all had a poor summer, I can't remeber such a wet and windy one. We have been lucky enough to be able to push through most weeks but it has been pretty uncomfortable out to sea most of the time.

In the last few weeks we have had broken trips as the unseasonable gales have forced us in during the trip.

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I thought that I would do a picture blog update, with being unable to upload the pictures for the last couple of months, I have quite a few pictures that I havn't been able to share with you.


We landed last night with another good catch and we sailed agin early this morning. 








This is a picture of an unusual fish we caught last trip, it was very simalar to the one we caught a few weeks back, any ideas on what it is?, some have suggested a Cornish black fish












We have had a few good trips in a row recently, and it is great to sea the stocks getting healthier, year on year. The industry has gone through a great deal of change and at times pain to reach this point, so we are all releived to see the good times returning.










A few more boxes of haddies on the way up to the lorry, we lift 6boxes at a time about 250kg a lift.





Jim and Dillan the lorry driver pulling the boxes into the lorry. I was helping just taking a picture for this load.






The Sennon lifeboat passing us up whilst we were landing, she had rescued a yatch from the traffic seperation scheme, in poorish weather.






A fine selection of cornish haddies all packed in ice on the way to Plymouth Trawler agents for sale.




The Polruan jubilee party, a really good turn out.





The boat made a good backdrop to the party.






The cameraman and the infamous Torpedo.

It's been a while since I last posted a blog, we have been very busy of late, so I am sorry but there has been very little time to be able to sit down and get this done, good news is that the picture upload has been sorted, so hence pictures on the blog this time.

As I said we have had a busy run just recently, back in april and may the weather was settled (remeber those days) and we manage to put a good few trips together, the fishing was good and we were pushing west and catching a good run of dorys and some really good hauls of megrims.

Then later in may we stopped for our annual refit at tom's boatyard.








When we arrived at the yard it was the jubilee weekend and Polruan had a big party down in the coal yard next to the slip on the monday, all the bunting was out, there was plenty to eat and drink and a live band, we had a great evening.

Paul and Allen and some of the men from the yard were down to pull us up monday evening just before the party started, and after they lifted us out the music started and the bbq was lit and the party started.

They even had a fireworks display that cost over £3000 it was spectactular, they put the fireworks on a pontoon in the middle of the river it worked brilliantly.

As we are regular visitors and we had just arrived the locals said that this year they'd thought they would throw a party for us, but not to espect it every year, obviously we were overwhemled, but it turned out it was for the Queen.

We had a lot of work done in the yard over the next couple of weeks we were there, the boat needed a good refit and paint up and it was good to se everyone again, so many thanks once again to all the workmen in the yard and to Allen and Paul for all the help you gave us.









We also had a mini torpedo in our nets before we went up to Tom's, it turned out to be a practice torpedo which is fired from a chopper or a frigate, it hunts for the sub and if it hits the wargame is over.

Unfortunatly it never found the submarine and ended up in our nets, when we hauled it was still active and the propellor was turning.

We thought no more of it and put it up forward for the last couple of days of the trip, when we got in I thought I'd tell the coastguard what we found and we chucked it on the quay.

The coastguard and the police came down, the coastguard guys were great and were not to concerned, but the cops cordened off the quay and put up an exclusion zone and wouldn't let us get on with our landing or jobs.

So we picked it up and put it back aboard the boat and told them to go home and grow up, they were not happy and we were nearly all arrested.

So we did as we were told(as all people should when the police tell you what to do) and we popped it back on the quay, luckily the bomb squad turned up and gave it the all clear and we got on with what we were doing.

The boat is away again now and the fishing has been steady and they are hopping to push through til next monday.