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News From Quincy He's Come Out From The Woods Today & Someone Is In For A Big Surprise

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Well I suppose I better put in a guest appearance! I just don't know where the time goes, can't believe my back let me down for some of the season, this year. But I have been doing plenty of work behind the scenes. One of these things was looking into getting my own boat, so there would three boats for next year, but as of yet we're not quite sure what is happening for next season, as it is still too early for M&J to make a decision. I think as a whole the feedback from the [...]

Landing Sunday

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On our way in, landing Sunday with 425 fish! A decent run of fish! Possibly away again Tuesday, but will be a short trip as I have to be in Plymouth on the 4th October. Gee up where does the time go eh! I'm sure the older you get the quicker it goes. If we are away next week you won't be hearing from me, nothing personal, you will be hearing from number 2, if he hasn't done his back in again. We've had a fine trip home, weather wise! Thank you God! I am sat ere trying to chill ou [...]

Nova Spero

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Landing Sunday morning with 420 fish =.

Might Be Our Last Trip

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Well Don't know what to do now! Plently of whales, plently of feed, plenty of boats, sod all fish! I reckon they're gone, that's it finito! No more til next year, straight up, I hate to say it, bit I'm just being realistic. Quincy might be keen as mustard, chomping at the bit because he has been off with a bad back for near as dawn it two months now! I don't know whether I can take that risk of trying another trip, running up a 6k bill! I know nothing ventured nothing ga [...]

Season Drawing To A Close

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Today could be the last day of the season! Days are closing in the fish are going deep. The weather is breaking...this certainly isn't the place to get caught out in bad weather even in this battleship! The trouble is we need at least 10/12 days to have a chance of getting a trip. A trip is enough moneys worth of fish to pay the expenses. Have enough left over to share between myself, the crew! Just to try let you understand the running coats of my vessels per trip is approximately £6, [...]

Sun Is Shining

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The Weather is flat calm! The sun is shining, which is very unusual for u ere west of the emerald isle. Well we found an odd big fish today, along with John & the Spanish this morning, looked premising but the afternoon/evening was crap! Anyway we had 64 waxers. We've got Irish stew for tea tonight....Tom's recipe with plently of herbs and garlic! Wot a fella he is a real diamond! Stocks are getting low so might have to steak a tuna up! Anyway today has been a good day compared to th [...]

News From John

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The Charisma will be landing on Friday with around 500-600 fish!

It Has Gone Quiet

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All quiet with the fishing at the moment, due to water being a lot colder....no fish! We split up with the Charisma to try to find a bit of something. We went west and had 25 fish and John went south east and had 43 fish. I think the fish could have migrated early, as they are way up north. We are going to steam south east tonight to try and find some warmer water, the food chain isn't the problem as the sea is full of krill and small srimps, which the whales feed on! The Spanish boats have [...]

Only 16 Fish Today

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We both had 16 fish each today....the water is colder! The fish are gone....where...God only knows! Keep towing ....keep believing....more like keep towing! Hopefully improve but hard to tell at this moment in time! Regards Captaino

Fish Ain't Feeding

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Well what can I say....this job is a rollercoaster of emotions! Ere I was yesterday buzzing thinking I would have 2-3 more days fishing like yesterday, so I would be in for my Wedding Aniversary and have a couple of nights with Jax kissing & cuddling! Then this bloody happens......NO FISH! So looks like I gotta do the distance, serves me right for building my hopes up I suppose....lash up! Anyway no fish, they are deep, can't see or don't wanna see the lures, either that or the 15-18 [...]

Whackie Races

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We are both 120 miles west of the sun.......ain't gonna shine anymore! A bit of a close proximity fishing today, plenty of boats going in all directions! Me and John are in the thick of it....ace day! John and us have 200 fish a picece. Fine weather at last....still raining though! Roast pork for tea, Tom 'the fiddler' is doing the cooking to give Dickie a break! Gotta make up some spare lures! Regards Captaino.

p.s. love you Jax, Jack & Jod xx

Away Again

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Well after getting blown away into southwest Ireland, we have iced up, fuelled up & have some fresh provisions to stop scurvy setting in! We are away again, spoke to Walshy, he says the fishing has been poor with him, so we are going further north west as that's where all the pair teams seem to be heading. So we will see how we go eh! I hate to say it but I reckon the tuna are to far up for this time of the season, they should be a degree of latitude further south. The French skippers [...]

Landed In Ireland

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Well we are in tied up along with 24 French tuna boats. Bloody good job too, it's howling over here....westerly severe gale force 9 slowly easing off tomorrow night. John's ok he stayed out, each to their own I suppose. Anyway we managed to get transport sorted out to land our 400 fish and send them back to England for the weekend. Cornish lin-caught tuna is pure quality and totally environmentally friendly.....let's not forget that! Anyway it's ice, fuel, grub then away aga [...]

Severe Gale Sheltering In Castletown

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Poxy weather has broken....not that it really settled in the first place! A big anti-climax compared to yesterday! Me and the boys were expecting 'big licks'! Yep for six hours you wouldn't think that there was tuna in the sea! anyway the afternoon/evening gave us a days work - 75 fish! Which I am happy about, but it just goes to show with this job, one day the tuna are going ballistic and the next day very little! This job is so unpredictable! Walshy turned up today....he had 70 fis [...]

What A Day

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What a difference a day makes! Piss poor weather - southerly 6 to 8. It's been pissing it down all day.....I mean all day! One week I'm in the Canaires lying on the sand next to Jax watching the kids play in the water, next week I'm out here getting soaked to the skin with severe backache! But it's been worth it! Shit hot fishing today...they've been chewing their little heads off! We ended up with 310 fish....woosh! Nice fish too.....I'm chuffed to bits! Severe forecast [...]

Weather Is Terrible

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Here we are again after a lovely holiday with my family! It's back to reality wuth a bump....to put it mildly! Day one ....crap! It's been crap weather...no fish! From what I can gather, two boats towing a big, big trawl at night are way up north for the time of year (west of dingle),which could mean a shorter season for us. What with the weather like it is up here. Being on the edge of the continental shelf you get big, big sea up here, it is totally different to th [...]

Charisma Landing Tuesday

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News from the Charisma: They had 70 fish on Saturday and 133 on Sunday. The Charisma is coming into land tomorrow, at the minute they have a rough total of 600 tuna.

Landing Sunday

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We had quite a good day today....104 fish! We had 8 fish while we were about to get lines in, but it was too dark to continue, which was a pity! Nice sized fish throughout the day....slow but steady fishing! It was very foggy to start with less than 5th of a mile visability at times and all the boats steaming around you at 6+ knots. It got too much so I pulled away from there....we weren't catching anything there anyway so went to a clear patch and started fishing. We're landing Sun [...]

Charisma

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The Charisma had 75 big fish yesterday! John will be landing Tuesday.

Good Fishing Good Size Fish

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Had a good day today in many ways. Weather was good....lovely and calm! Even saw the sun and had to put sunglasses on....bought them especially for this trip! We had 125 fish nice sized ones. We started fishing right amongst the Spanish from first light and that helped without a doubt, the only problem was it got a bit foggy, with the visability down to a third of a mile. At one point I counted 25 Spaniards around us within a 3 mile range, on the radar. That was nerve wracking I can tell you! Th [...]