The boat arrived back into Newlyn late tuesday afternoon after a six day trip to the southwest of the scillies. We landed our catch into the lorry for sale on the wednesday's market at Plymouth.

This was the last landing for nearly 3 weeks as we were due up to Tom's boatyard on the Friday morning for our annual refit and paint up, but before we headed up to Polruan we had a lot to do to get the boat ready.

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I have had a busy week again, we landed last wednesday after a short trip to the grounds off to the southerd. The fishing wasn't to bad but the fish were flighty and moving across the ground quick, which made trying to stop in the best place to fish difficult.

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Sorry I havn't blogged for so long but I have been away at sea for quite a while. The fishing has been good of late and we have been able to put a few good trips in, as the weather has remained very settled.

We are seeing a good mix of fish with the John dory's turning up in the last few weeks and there is still a nice few monks and lemons on the grounds. The haddock fishing has been steady but not a huge amount so far.

We are also seeing a nice few megs when we are working further to the west but the prices have been poor for the megs as they are mainly exported to spain, and the spanish are not buying fish like they used to due to the recession.

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