'Evening all!

Almost ready for sea, the William looking good in the evening sun...

having arrived earlier in the day, it is time for Don and the crew to overhaul the trawls ready for the next trip...

looks like a busy night ahead for the Scottish prawn boats, two lorries loaded with empty boxes wait for the boats to come in and land...

gull's-eye view of the crowded deck of an inshore trawler...

fine weather and big trips of fish for the boats means the market fridge is almost full...

and a big percentage of the fish landed are of course Cornish MSC Certified hake...

Boy Lee heads back to a berth for the night.

Drawn to the light - Monday morning in Mount's Bay.

Bumper start to the week for the fish market at Newlyn...

with the Scottish prawn boats like the Solstice helping to increase landings of John Dory...

though local John Dory specialist Roger took his biggest ever trip of lemon soles out of the water over the weekend...

haddocks figure in landings by all boats these days...

while these bass are sure to make a shilling or two...

head-on monks identify the boat that caught them as being from north of the border...

first landings of hake this week down to the Ajax...

and the Karen of Ladram...

with some of the 6+ kilo fish way too big for the box...

eyes down for the next sale...

5 links of chain make up the beam trawler's mat...

what a start to the week...

for any of the boats in Mount's Bay...

while some wait for their sailing orders like the Belgian beam trawler, Ruben...

and tug, Duke of Normandy...

the skipper and crew of the William Samson Stevenson must be polishing their wellies and ironing their oilskins in anticipation of the day she is set to sail, can't be far off now...

on her way to get ice, Millenia...

while it looks like the Crystal Sea has some more work to do on her trawl...

another Falmouth boat to visit the port, the Copious...

with her novel arrangement of her two net drums...

more and more yachts make the choice to stopover in Newlyn these days...

no prizes for guessing the nationality of this boat...

every fisherman gets to enjoy days like this as part of the job, compensating in some way for all the other days when you wish it was like this...

one of the country's finest contemporary artists, Ken Howard is out to capture the fabulous light this morning in a small study contré jour - and, as befitting the Royal Academy's Professor of Perspective, he employs the use of a steel rule to sketch in charcoal the basic structure of the scene in front of him. looking towards Penzance wet dock and the harbour gaps.

Fish-a-Tron

Fish-a-Tron uses advanced algorithms and image processing to calculate the size of a fish, uploading this in addition to a photograph of the fish for future examination.

Le Shambroque - classic French distant water sidewinder form 1962.

While the Grimsby sidewinder, the Ross Tiger has just taken to using Twitter - here is a chance to see another classic sidewinder in action, the trawler, Fécampois, the last classic built for the great fishing to port of Fecamp and the last in the decline of the fleet fishing for cod. The skipper was John Recher

Fog-free #FishyFriday

Prawn trawler, inshore trawlers and a beam trawler for this morning's market...

here at Newlyn Harbour...

rarer than hen's teeth, well not quite but the number of bream landed are few and far bertween at the moment...

counting the boxes, all part of the auctioneer's job...

another box of mixed...

cooked with a saffron sauce, classic French fish dish for pollack...

busy busy...

seems the Scottish guys have taken up tailing some of their monk...

just the one dinner plate sized plaice...

along with a handful of JDs...

at the other end of the market, the first hake for the week put in an appearance courtesy...

of the Karen of Ladram...

while another huddle develops around some top quality inshore trawl fish from the Millennia

the view out across the harbour from the market...

as the fish get whisked away...

with most of the boats at sea there are one or two stragglers getting work done, like the Admiral Gordon...

and the Ygraine, just about to set off on her maiden netting voyage from the port after a 22 year absence...

the 'Grey Fella' as she would be known in the Clyde...

key components of a beam trawler's chain mat...

looks like the William is not far off being ready for sea after her huge refit...

sign's of a little invasion of foreigners, one of them there Falmouth boats...

calm enough this morning...

as the Little Pearl stets sail...

age-old tradition of a play on words for the name of a boat...

while £7,150 will buy you a Cornish classic - a 20' Treeve hull - Call Joe on 07801888137 to talk about the boat for sale.