='"loading" + data:blog.mobileClass'>

Wednesday 24 April 2024

Fine weather and good tides sees three days of solid fish landings in Newlyn


Rachel of Ladram heads for the gaps...

Layla May heads back after a morning on the mackerel...


as does young Neil with his punt Treen, though the fishing doesn't look to cracky this morning...


more bad news on the market as hundreds of kilos of dogfish remain unsold, a relatively rare event on the market in Newlyn, tough indicative of the issues there are with finding a market for dogs - something the guys were telling of for years when they were made to dump every dog they caught - it is not a fish they want to catch in the first place, they damage the gear and the market fr them has all but disappeared these days...


luckily the market for hake remains relatively strong...


and definitely so for fish like tub gurnard


monk livers...


haddock...


grey mullet...


John Dory...


monk tails...


big plaice, though they are few and far between at this time of year...


monk do come bigger than this but not often!..


Neil with his 11 mackerel, half a dozen came up with the first drop so the morning was looking promising, two hours and five fish later it was time to knock it on the head and head back for the gaps to land a very poor day's work...


the cuttles are on the move it would seem...


seems the sardine season is not quite over yet...


young Danny can't get enough...


yet another end-to-end...


fish auction this morning...


the harbour now filling up with boats over the big tide...


composing the shot, the harbour provides creative minds with any number of opportunities to capture the scene.

 

just some of the action in Newlyn over the last few days.

Monday 22 April 2024

Sunday into Monday morning - fish galore!


Fine weather over the weekend for a change as the visiting Scottish prawn boats begin to and back in Newlyn...



from all points of the compass...



the Faithful Star...



Boy Enzo...



and the Revival...



looks like the guys on the Ygraine are happy to be back in port with a trip of hake aboard...



just one of many netters to land over the weekend...



not nearly as happy as some of the crew on the Revival...



who have spent a good part of their trip handling prawns for freezing and fish for landing fresh...



there's an even bigger smile aboard the Girl Pamela, as a certain young man regains his sea legs after a slightly longer than planned spell ashore...



time to pressure was those suds away...



meanwhile, the man or is it a machine at the heart of the market gets busy with grading and weighing hake from the prawn boats...



off with old, on with the new nets aboard the Ajax...



Bonnie Grace, one of many inshore boats heading in through the gaps today...



at just over 4.5metres there's just enough water...



for the Vision V to enter the harbour...



once the nests were taken off it's time to get the fish ashore...



where the market guys get to grips with plenty of flats to grade...



ready for Monday morning's auction with every zone stacked out with fish...



like these MSC certified hake from the Stelissa...



Ygraine...



and Ajax...



a good selection of quality fish to go with plenty of rays of one sort or another...



top drawer flats...



head-on monk...



and good haddock from the prawn boats...



a stacked out Zone 3...



as much as the guys don't want to catch dogs, they are still to be found on many of the grounds targeted by the hakers...



megrims were among the white fish from the Scotsmen...



and a good few red mullet...



there were fish stacked everywhere...



almost filling the inshore chill room...



there's plenty of spots on a smoothhound...



last night they had a bream, or three...



landing for Tuesday's market, the Rachel of Ladram puts her fish ashore...



astern of the Britannia V....



the usual gull keeping an eye on the tide clocks...


fish transport comes in all shapes and sizes...



with the Mary Williams pier still stacked out with boats...



the Voyager is looking good bow on!