Seeing red.

 Good monk fishing should keep the markets happy this morning.......

 with the St Georges having a smattering of lemons........

 and a few boxes of huge line caught squid from the Ela-J........ 

 as landing of black gold grow in quantity.........

 red seemed to be the 'in' colour with red gurnards, red mullet......

 and a handful of redfish thrown in for good measure.........

 Mr Thomas keeps his measure of a box of small JDs........

high water at the back of the mission where Coombe River meets the sea.

Donal Turtle - Gone fishing Gone.

 The funeral for retired skipper and owner Donald Turtle will be held this Friday at St Peter's Church in Newlyn...........

 published in 2005, Donald's seagoing memoirs recounted a life at sea beginning in South Shields as a trainee merchant seamen during WW2 and the Atlantic convoys 

until the time he handed over the last of the family boats, the netter and liner Ben Loyal to his son John Turtle. Donald was a firm believer in conservation and fished with longlines for many years, even after most other boats in the fleet had long since ceased. Other boats in the family over the years were the Bonny Mary and the Mayflower - sadly, the Through the Gaps archive is missing photos of these.

Men at work.

 Just as well the tiny marine creatures responsible for this sort of damage, capable of munching their way through greenheart timber.......

 don't make their way ashore and start on any wooden content they find........

 the bow of the crabber is looking tidy these days........

 good to see oldest man of the port still willing to turn his hand to a spot of mending when called upon.........

 nothing a few blows with a hammer won't put right on the ice works conveyor........

 or the application of heat........

 the last thing pots see before they leave the crabber Intuition........

one not to be missed for any fans of Newlyn School artist, Walter Langley at the Centre, Newlyn next week on Wednesday 30th November.

Lady Maureen in dock.

Brixham beamer heads for Newlyn, offloads her gear at high water on the old Stone Quay and then heads over to penzance and into the Dry Dock.

Friday's market.

Frantic and even one or two international phone bidders expected on this huge star ray this morning.......

when it comes to nasal passages skate are a short, or long nose ahead........

good reds signify well looked after fish from the Trevessa IV........

like this landing of mullet and bass from the Plymouth inshore boat, Spurn Light.......

black is back, the cuttles have set in off the Start by the looks of these tubs.......

a winter break for a Cornish Sardine net.........

clean decks aboard the Cornishman.........

unlike the fish market which is running in black, those cuttles would turn the whole town sepia if left unwashed........

looks like a spectacular sunrise in the offing........

and time for a visit to the Newlyn Orion Gallery for their new show.......

up comes the sun from the East.

Hake - keep it simple.

Pan fried hake on ratatouile.

Olly oil - a big dollop or three....
add garlic sliced to taste along with an aubergine diced into 1" cubes to hot olly oil - heat till coloured......
add a good teaspoon or more (to taste and colour) of paprika and a dash of tabasco.....
add a dash of water at any time if the pan dries.......
add two crudely chopped peppers and two chopped toms......
add a dash of water if the pan dries......
the fish will take 10 minutes at the most to fry off, skin side down first till the skin is crispy, turn over for the last few minutes or pop under a grill, or in a hot oven......
garnish the rats with basil.......
simple and quick.

Fishing focus - the beam trawler.

Brixham beam trawler Lady Maureen can be seen making her way to Newlyn after leaving the fishing gorounds south east of Start Point in Devon.  Life aboard a beam trawler is typified by this account of a trip aboard the smallish beamer, Semper Allegro skippered on this occaision by the late Roger Nowell.