Posted by: davidstevens
on Feb 09, 2009
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The boat is on the way in again this evening with a nasty storm to follow, Alec has been away to the southwest of lands end by 15miles. He has been seeing a nice bit of prime fish this trip with monk, sole, brills and red mullets making up the catch but also the usual mix of haddocks, red gurnard, whittings, pouts and the dreaded congers. It has been a poor trip with the weather being unsettled right
Posted by: davidstevens
on Feb 06, 2009
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We sailed on monday this week and headed to the western fishing grounds, we had good fishing of Blonde rays this week, they usually set in this time of year and the catches were quite steady. We were also seeing many other winter species coming on the ground, there were witches,soles,sand soles and congers, as you can imagine we were chasing the congers all
Posted by: davidstevens
on Feb 01, 2009
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On Friday I went aboard the boat to sleep hoping that when I got up the wind will have eased and I could go out and get a days work in before the next gale on sunday, So at 4am on saturday mornig We got up and it was still blowing hard, we had the forecast which was giving se6-7 occ 8 so the crew and I turned in again . we set our alarms for 8am to get up and do some jobs on the gear as the weather
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jan 29, 2009
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We sailed again early monday morning, as we left Newlyn there was such a strong north west wind blowing down the coombe that we had a job to get out of the gaps, I had to put the throttle down to scrape clear of the south pier. So we new were in for a rough ride, sure enough as we got clear of Gwennip head and opened up the sea it was blowing a north west gale.
As we were shooting the nets
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jan 24, 2009
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I have just got home after another short trip, we are landing tomorrow morning for PTA on monday morning. The fishing was good again we have 90boxes for 5hauls 24hrs. We were catching quite a few pollack's and lings this time, the south west gales must have stirred up the ground and now they are on the move across the ground, shifted off the wrecks.
It was a poor trip with a huge
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jan 22, 2009
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I went on the internet monday evening to see what the weather was doing and it was looking poor for the next day, then I woke up early on tuesday morning and it seemed quiet, so I went on the net again and the weather was not coming as first forecast. So I called the crew and we set sail early tuesday morning, I have to say the swell was huge as we got out to open sea and we were glad to get the
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jan 18, 2009
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Were still in the harbour along with the rest of the fleet waiting for the stormy weather to pass, I have to admit it's quite frustrating knowing that we could be out on good fishing, but a least it's so poor that you are not Iming and aming. The weather is still forecast to be sou west gales all of next week as well, but we have plenty to do, on monday Janis and I are going to start
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jan 15, 2009
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We landed our catch last night and it was sold at Pta this morning, we got lucky and carried on fishing well, mainly catching Haddocks,gurnards and smooth hounds, we had 170boxes for 36hrs at sea which for us is good fishing. I am glad the fish was handy this trip as we didn,t really have enough time to travel very far. Unfortunately the weather is looking awful for the next week ahead! so
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jan 13, 2009
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We landed our last trip on Sunday morning and had 145 boxes of Cuttles and Haddocks and a bit of prime, for our 3 days to the SW of the Lizzard.
It blew a Southerly 9 Sunday night into Monday but the wind droppped away quickly through the day so we prepared the boat and headed off on Monday evening. As we approached Tater-Du lighthouse (Lamorna) we encountered a huge swell so thought
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jan 09, 2009
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We landed our first catch of the New Year after 4 days at sea, the prices were good and we had a nice bit of fish for our time - so we're off to a good start - lets hope it continues for the rest of the year!
We are off to the SW of the Lizard again but have moved further west today the fishing has been good with a few more Haddocks this trip. However what is unusual is that we are catching
