We sailed early last saturday morning and with a huge spring tide due over the next few days, we headed away off to the southwest so that we could get out of the strongest of the tide.

The fishing started off not to bad, but as we had just put new warps aboard,  I thought that the fishing was down a little. With new warp being very greasy when it first goes on the winch, it can cause extra drag in the water as the grease goes fluffy to look at on the wire and it acts [...]

We sailed last Friday with Rupert the cameraman from the BBC onboard once again, as the last two trips that he sailed with us were bad luck, we asked him to take a turn out of himself this time before we sailed. The first trip that Rupert did with us was back in december, when we were forced back in after two hauls with by a vicious storm. The next trip was the last trip when thehydrolic clutch went down, so we thought that he must of been carrying bad luck with him, so we had [...]

We sailed last saturday night and headed to the grounds to fish, as we were shooting the nets I could hear an unhealthy clanking noise coming from the engineroom, the fire alarm started to ring off as well. I headed down to the engineroom to investigate and was met with smoke and sparks coming out of the auxillary engine gearbox.

This didn't look good, so I stopped the enngine andhad a look inside the clutch box. The teeth on the clutch were all over the engine bed and there wa [...]

We Sailed again in the early hours of wednesday morning and shot where we had left off the trip before. The fishing had slacked off to what is was the day before, so we had a search around, but we never found the fishing any better elsewhere.

Quite often we find that after a very strong blow the fishing can go slack, as the sea goes milky with all the stirring up, so we canonly presume it must be like a fog on the seabed and the fish can't see enough to feed. 

It's Captain Edwards here again....feeling a bit better after reflecting on the good things in life, not just fishing!

We will be in tomorrow with 230 fish. I will see what the weekend brings in the way of news on tuna fishing front and take it from there, as to see if we try another trip or not. It's flat calm at last and it's warm at last, typical as we are going in eh! Nevermind, going home to see the wife and children. I can't wait, nor can the lads! Gotta go and ti [...]

On way home to see Jax, the children and lick my wounds! Getting the boat ready to go wrecking, which will take about a week. Wreck netting does exactly what it says on the tin, we shoot nets alongside wrecks on the sea bed, as fish like ling, cod, pollock congerate around the wreck. See how it goes by reading the skippers blog on the novasperofishing.co.uk website. My Spanish friends are stil going west into the Atlantc, the positon that  they gave me today, I estimate that they are about [...]

That's it we have had enough! The news with my Spanish friend is 'bonito finito'. I am absolutely gutted, as I really want this tuna fishery to work, but you have to be realistic if you are running at a loss. The boys aren't earning any wages, then you have to try something else. Unfortunately that's what we are gonna have to do. Just hope and pray that this season is just a one off and next year will be better.

The poxy weather hasn't helped, that much I'm s [...]

I've been talking to my Spanish skipper friends, they reckon the season is over! They reckon that the fish have gone deep, south west into the Atlantic, does anybody reading this wants to buy a well maintained, beautiful tiger of a fishing vessel. She can be delivered free of charge. Dunno what else to say really,which for me is a first, especially with the nickname 'Wordsey'. We are 450 miles west of Lands End. I'm darned if I'm going any further west, so w are towing east t [...]