Berthed in Peterhead

Tied up now until after the New Year.

Hake

Hake on Peterhead fishmarket

We landed today prices were good especially for the hake.

We are on our way ashore .We had good fishing yesterday of Coley and Hake

4 ton haul

Lapwing hauling with 4 tons .Weather is still calm .
Its not often the weather is like this in December.

TOPE!!

JOHNNIE AND RORY WAE A BONNY TOPE

7 ton haul of coley

December !!

Not the weather you expect for December,but its very welcome!!
We caught 5 tons of coley last haul first fish we have seen this
trip

LOVELY DAY FOR A CHANGE!!

Thats us started fishing

BONNIE DAY

We left Peterhead a couple hours ago .Weather is going
to be good for a change.Its our last trip this year.

LATEST NEWS

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1515976?UserKey=

Click on the link above for our latest news .We are landing this afternoon.
Hope to sail tomorrow afternoon for the last trip this year!!!

SE FROM SHETLAND

We sailed on Monday afternoon.Fishing se 40 miles
from Lerwick Shetland .Weather has been poor since
sailed,but it has improved the last 12 hours.

NOT SAILING TODAY

WE WERE GOING TO SAIL TODAY AT 2 PM BUT CANCELLED BECAUSE ITS A GALE OF
WIND .HOPE TO GO AWAY NOW AT 2 TOMORROW.

BETTER DAY IN THE BLUE TOON

COORSE DAY IN PETERHEAD!!!

BERTHED IN PETERHEAD

We came into Peterhead last night at 5 .Fish were sold today good prices.

Been a very wild day here .Wind gusting to 60 knts .

OCTOPUS!!

Still fishing but not getting alot!!!

STRANGE FISH TO CATCH!!

Couple of Rays Bream.Can,t remember us catching any
of these before.They are usually caught much further south!!

NEWS UPDATE!!

We sailed on Monday afternoon .Fishing has been mixed .
Best haul we have seen was a couple days ago when we got 6 ton
of coley.The picture is of an old anchor we picked in our
net on Wednesday.

Berthed in Peterhead

Budding Rose and Lapwing berthed in Peterhead .Hope to sail tomorrow

LANDED TODAY

Budding Rose and Lapwing landed today.Prices were really good
We will be in port now until after the weekend .

GOOD HAUL!!!

Good haul yesterday mostly hake and coley

BUDDING ROSE LEAVING PETERHEAD TODAY

SAILED TODAY AT 12.00

BUD NEWS

Budding Rose is now in harbour ,came into Peterhead
on Saturday.Fish were sold today prices were good.
Hope to sail possibly on Wednesaday getting a repair
done to our main engine.

11 TON HAUL OF SAITHE

BIRDS!!!

Birds picking small fish out of the bag while hauling

Bonny Morning

Sailed on Sunday afternoon

SE GALE

its been a se gale here since Tuesday .Budding Rose is still in Peterhead not sailing until Sunday.

BACK IN PD

LANDED TODAY PRICES WERE GOOD.HOPE TO SAIL THURSDAY AGAIN IF THE WEATHER IMPROVES.SE GALES FOR TOMORROW

bonny day again

won,t be like this next few days its a poor
forecast

bonny day

ON THE FISHING GROUNDS AGAIN

Sailed on Wednesday morning .

BOATS ON THE BEACH IN VORUPOR

SMALL BOATS IN HANSTHOLM

DANFISH 2009

JUST BACK FROM VISITING DANFISH 2009 AND IN THE DANISH FISHING PORTS OF HANSTHOLM ,THYBOREN AND HVIDE SANDE

OUR CATCH ON THE MARKET

Landing our catch this afternoon

ARRIVING IN PETERHEAD TONIGHT

Landing tomorrow afternoon

BUD/LAPWING NEWS

Just spoken to skipper of the Lapwing on the sat phone

just now and he was saying the fishing has been okay

with them ,just the usual mixture !!!

STEAMING OFF TO FISHING GROUNDS

BUDDING ROSE PD284

Our last boat.She sank in a storm in the 1988.

Budding Rose PD84

My fathers first boat .She was built in Lewis shipyard

Aberdeen 1974.The picture was taken in 1977 on the

River Thames London .She was down their representing

Scotland at a fishing demonstration campaigning for a 50mile

mile limit

PETERHEAD FISH MARKET

Prices were okay today for Cod,haddock ,whiting ,coley but very poor for hake and megrim

IN THIS AFTERNOON!!

thats 61 miles to go ,fresh day but not so
bad as the forecast was saying.
ETA PETERHEAD 16.00HRS

GOOD HAUL !!

Pity it was all saithe!!

Coming alongside Lapwing.Skipper
of Lapwing has a camera away this trip!!!

NORWEGIAN PURSER PASSING OSEBERG

Arnoyfjord a 22 metre purser fishing for mackeral beside us

Bonny Day

Its been fine weather since we sailed on
Sunday.

Norwegians mackeral boats

Fleet of Norwegians beside us yesterday.Some them
are only 10 metres long.!!!

BUZZARD OIL AND GAS FIELD

Buzzard is 30 miles ne from Peterhead,we passed
it half an hour ago after sailing today at 16.00

DINNER TONIGHT!!!

ANTARES LK 419

LANDING IN PETERHEAD TONIGHT

Seal eating fish

You never used to see a seal in Peterhead

harbour .Nowadays you see them all the

time!!!

PETERHEAD BAY

Peterhead bay this morning

PETERHEAD FISH PRICES TODAY

IF YOU CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW YOU
GET TODAYS FISH PRICES .AS YOU,LL SEE
THEY WERE QUITE GOOD .GLAD WERE
IN ITS BLOWING A GALE HERE!!
http://www.caley-fisheries.co.uk/prices.htm

HEADING FOR HOME

Thats us heading for home again.
Just in time as there is a bad depression
coming in for tomorrow.Forecast is storm 10
for the west coast of Scotland.Eta Peterhead
6 am.

CHANGE OF WEATHER AGAIN!!

Flat calm today change from yesterday!!

GALE OF WIND!!

Winter is not far away ,gale of wind
here today should moderate in a few hours!!

FPV JURA

Fishing protection vessel Jura beside us yesterday.
Fish has been scarce but fishing was a bit better
yesterday

FISHING AGAIN!!

Thats us fishing again after our week off

STILL IN PETERHEAD

We are still in the harbour not going away until Sunday.

GRATITUDE PD202

Davie our engineers fathers boat passing us

tonight as we left Peterhead,but bad

news we are back in again!!Lapwing

hasn,t got the back of his gearbox problems.

SAILED BUT BACK IN!!

We sailed today at 2.00 pm but had to

come back to PD as our pair partner

had a problem with his gearbox .We

don,t think its anything major so

we might get away tomorrow fingers

crossed!!!

ITS NAE GREAT WEATHER IN THE BLUE TOON TODAY!!