As mackerel in the North Atlantic begin their customary early-year practice of swimming strongly into the southwest along the deepwater edge west of Scotland, David Linkie looks back eight years to a trip on the Peterhead midwater trawler Pathway PD…
Boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Venturous LK 75 LOA: 26m Built: Parkol Marine Engineering, Whitby 2015 Type: Single-rig whitefish trawler Home port: Symbister Got some pictures of your own to share? It can be an image…
David Linkie looks back to a whitefish trip on Fraserburgh skipper Sandy West’s twin-rig trawler Virtuous FR 253 in August 2012 Skipper Sandy West had taken aboard a good mix of cod, haddock and whiting, together with a couple of…
Rye’s bespoke fishing quay has made this south coast town the perfect base for a father and son team who use a triple-rig trawl to target flatfish, reports John Periam. Photographs by Geoffrey Lee Rye in East Sussex has a…
The Cornish hake netter Ajax is back at work following an extensive refit to repair near-disastrous fire damage, reports Phil Lockley Swift work by local firefighters, fishermen and harbour staff prevented a fire aboard the Newlyn netter Ajax resulting in…
Boat of the week, taken from Fishing News Name: Stefanie M N 718 LOA: 51m Built: Karstensens shipyard, Skagen, Denmark 2005 Type: Midwater pair-trawler Home port: Kilkeel We’ll be back next week with our latest boat focus. Got some pictures…
David Linkie looks back to a day spent with Shetland skipper Victor Laurenson and crew of the Burra fly-shooter Radiant Star LK 71 in August 2010 Seine-net boats catching a wide selection of whitefish in coastal waters have been an…
The first sprats from the traditional localised niche fishery were landed at Mallaig earlier this month. David Linkie looks back to a night aboard skipper Robert Summers’ Rebecca Jeneen in December 2012, pair-trawling for sprats with Willie John McLean’s Caralisa…
As is customary at this time of year, when mackerel move into Shetland waters at the start of their annual migratory pattern, an extensive range of local and visiting boats have landed mackerel at Lerwick – as shown in this…
Banff father and son skippers take delivery of Whitby-built twin-rig trawler Built by Parkol Marine Engineering for skippers John and David Clark, the new 20.4m dual-purpose prawn and whitefish twin-rig trawler Reliance III BF 800 sailed from Fraserburgh towards the…
