Saturday 27 February 2010

COD

Some nice cod in our fishroom

WINDY AND COLD!!

Fishing has been very up and down the last 36 hrs .As little as 500 kilos
then next haul 7 ton mostly Cod!!!

Thursday 25 February 2010

Wednesday 24 February 2010

GOOD HAUL

Last haul mostly coley

Lapwing taking fish aboard

We sailed on Monday afternoon .Not much yestyerday
a bit better today.

Saturday 20 February 2010

We will be sailing hopefully Monday afternoon
                         

Wednesday 17 February 2010

We will now be in Peterhead until at least Sunday.I,m afraid because of the latest round
quota cuts and because of the 10 % cut in our days at sea we are going to have spend alot
more time in port.!!!

Tuesday 16 February 2010

MORE OF OUR COD ON THE MARKET

17 KILO COD

WE LANDED THIS AFTERNOON .HOPE PRICES ARE BETTER TOMORROW THEY HAVE BEEN POOR
We got into Peterhead at 23.00 hrs last night.Landing our catch this afternoon
as the Tuesday market was full yesterday morning and the scientists say the stocks
are depleted.Its not what we find on the grounds!!!

Sunday 14 February 2010

COD

we got some big cod the last haul

Saturday 13 February 2010

just fishing away bonny day again .nothing exciting on
the fish front!!trying to catch more haddocks this trip
but they are very scarce!!

Wednesday 10 February 2010

lapwing hauling

55 boxes this haul nae much since then.

Bonny Morning

We sailed on Monday night.Not much fish so far hope its better today.!!

Thursday 4 February 2010

BUD BERTHED IN LERWICK LAST SATURDAY

LAPWING HAULING GOOD HAUL LAST MONDAY

NEWS UPDATE

Sorry folks for not keeping my blog update as l usually do!!My sat phone has not been working on the boat haven,t been able to get access to the internet.Hope to get it fixed for our next trip.

Anyway we landed today after a eventful trip.We sailed last Thursday night just got off to the fishing grounds when the Lapwings salt water pump in his main engine broke .We had to tow him 40 miles to Lerwick in Shetland .He got his pump fixed quick fast and we started fishing on Saturday night .Fishing was poor first 36 hours then on Monday we got good fishing of Cod and Coley.Prices today were luckily quite good they have been poorer so far this year.We hope to sail on Monday afternoon again.