Fishing in the summer
months means from small boats. While it wasn't as cold
as winter fishing, the sea keeps moving about in a way the
sea-ice doesn't. Sea-sickness is fairly quickly overcome,
unless your job was to coil the rope into the rope bucket as
it came in, which could be difficult in a heavy swell.
This was a calm day
wind-wise, but there was about a 12ft (3.5m) swell and we
really shouldn't have been out in it, but it was fun,
especially as we would power up the waves as they came in
and took off over the top of them.
It meant getting the net in
was easier too. Pull in as much rope as you could when the
boat went down into a trough, then hold onto it for dear
life as the up-swell came and lifted the boat and net with
it, that way the swell did the work and you didn't have to.
Paul Ward -
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