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…
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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…
News in from me old buddy Ross who had a cracking day diving yesterday. Having spent hours hunting those beauties myself, take it from me, those are bloody good fish for Mount’s Bay! Nice one Boet! Here’s the detail from Ross: Had a great day spearfishing today. Went out with Dad in perfect weather to the Greeb. Dived hard for zilch. Then on to Mt Mopus, dropped a marker bouy and started drift diving in strong current. I could manage about 4 to 5 dives per drift before Dad had…
Update 15/02: Some footage from yesterday, very close to where I used to stay http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26201276 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26199009 Some serious damage around Cornwall from a “proper” winter storm… Not to much damage in Mousehole compared to other places like Porthleven. The below youtube videos are from Sennen and Porthleven. Next storm is due this weekend. Stay safe all. Waves off the Longships and Sennen. http://youtu.be/KDy5IqsElpY Pic from when I was last at the Longships… spearfishing. Don’t think it would be wise to be out there on a day like in the vid!…