As winter breaks in Cornwall and the sun starts rising earlier, you’ll see the small boat fishing fleet of Cornwall steaming out before sunrise every morning. They hunting mackerel. I had the privilege to fish commercially for mackerel out of Mousehole for a season. It was hard work but some of the most rewarding hours I’ve spent at sea. The feeling of a hand line filled with 15+ mackerel as you pull it up and it’s just “silver” coming over the gunwale, it’s exhilarating…. you yank that tiller over hard…
Tag: A Look Back Series
So was thinking about Easter weekend in Cornwall and in particularly the Good Friday walk which is a fantastic tradition in Mousehole. It stems from the Spanish raid of 1595 (Wikipedia article on the raid). If I remember the story correctly, the women of the village would dress up and carry sticks so that they looked like soldiers caring muskets, then patrol the cliffs between Lamorna and Mousehole to give the Spanish the impression that the village was well defended. (If I got the story wrong please correct me in…