Earlier in the week the market was bust enough with the St Georges taking full advantage of the big tide...
as did Tom on the Guardian...
Friday morning saw a market packed end-to-end with fish from five boats landing their trips of white fish - just as well all the prawns the Scottish boats landed went into the back of their refrigerated transport yesterday...
the range and quality of fish was up to its usual high standard with cracking examples of tub gurnard...
witch soles...
big haddock...
bib monk...
and really big monk...
more haddock...
and even a shot of big cod from the Ajax...
both the one beam trawler to land and the Scottish boys...
while Dovers gave up what they were really targeting west of Scilly...
most of the hake came courtesy of the netter Ajax...
while all the prawn boats picked up varying amounts of John Dory...
and the full range of ray...
while the Dawn Star landed this near specimen turbot...
big monk from another angle...
and big thornback ray from another...
and yet more JDs...
and a full trip of tangle-net turbot...
while just a few boxes of top quality line caught fish like these pollack...
and bass was up for auction in the fridge...
someone picked out enough for a feed tonight...
from the fish landed by the prawn boats the ex-Orion now Faithful and Ocean Crest both now taking on fuel...
that's a lot of gear packed in a compact space to enable twin-rigging on a relatively small bot...
the yachts that call in to Newlyn come from far and wide and as a rule are accomplished sailors - you have to be to have the confidence to take in rounding the Lizard and lands En, even at tis time of year...
a bigger boat can carry her net drums atop the shelterdeck without adversely affecting er stability...
this is not what you want to see come up in the cod end!..
time for the Falmouth scalloper to have work below the waterline carried out...
Border Patrol at rest.
