No rain, the morning sky is heavy with cloud, but when the St Georges leaves the quay there won't be a single boat over 12m in the harbour - the entire fleet is at sea this morning,...
yesterday, the inshore boats made the most of the break in the weather and picked up the nrmal fayre for this time of year including ray...
including a nice big blonde for young Roger N...
bass...
squid...
and brill should make good money this morning...
with supplies of fish adversely affected by the weaver the length of the UK...
shots of squid have been a feature of beam trawl landings of late they are everywhere including in the Helford and Fal estuaries and Brixham harbour......
pelagic fish like mackerel...
are fair game for these fish which, according to those who have been catching and gutting them at sea this season tell, they will eat anything that they can get down their gullets...
even bass apparently which leads some to suggest that they pose a very real threat to stocks of inshore fish as they are not afraid to venture close inshore as the fishermen who work from the Helford river will attest to.....
away goes Mr Tonkin with his morning's purchases...
he might be SWHA tag number 2 but he was number one bass man yesterday...
mackerel by the thousand...
the market at dawn...
with lorries-in-waiting...
yet another fender bites the dust, mainly due to the action of gribble work, starved to death woth no wooden hulls to chew on these days......
last of the season's yachts, en passant.
