When the trawl came up it was a sight to make angels weep.
Every few mornings either the trawl or the lobster-traps would yield something unusual.
A second tub trailed after the first, its trawl being attached to the end of the other.
Out on the shoal he was a silent but interested spectator while the trawl was being pulled and the fish taken aboard.
Fathom after fathom of trawl came in over the roller.
Gaffing the buoy aboard, he pulled up the anchor, and soon was hauling in the trawl over the wooden roller on the starboard bow.
He was soon unhooking hake and coiling the trawl into its tub.
Bait was stripped from the hooks; fish on the trawl were devoured until only heads and backbones were left; and the robbers themselves were caught in increasing numbers.
Seven or eight small haddock and cusk, and then once more the trawl began to yield hake.
The remainder of the trawl was pulled in in silence.
As soon as it reached bottom Jim lifted the first tub of trawl to the wash-board.
It was almost noon before the whole trawl was aboard.
I've seen 'em so plenty that they floated a trawl on top of water for half a mile.
Indeed tangle bar, dredge and trawl form a series which are fitted for use on the roughest, moderately rough and fairly firm, and the softest ground respectively, although the dredge can be used almost anywhere.
A tendency to return to the use of the small beam trawl for deep-sea work has lately shown itself.
The frame of the "Challenger" trawl consisted of a 15 ft.
The first haul of the "Challenger" trawl brought up fishes, and most of our knowledge of fish of the greatest depths is due to it.
A small beam trawl was first used from the "Challenger" (fig.
The course can also be altered during shooting or towing the Blake trawl with far greater ease than is the case with others.
An Agassiz trawlvery successful in the North Sea has the following dimensions: length of the connecting rods and therefore of the mouth 8 ft.
This and the greater spread make the trawl especially suitable for the collection of fishes and other swiftly moving animals.
A return to canvas covering has latterly occurred in the small dredge called the mud-bag, trailed behind the trawl of the "Albatross" for obtaining a sample of the bottom, and in the conical dredge.
The main differences of this trawlfrom the dredge are the replacement of scraping lip by ground rope, the position of this ground rope and the greater size of the mouth.
It was proposed to carry on the trawl fishery by means of “iron screw welled smacks of 150 tons burden.
This is Jack Trawland no other--the only Jack Trawl I ever knew.
It is of the greatest importance to young Trawl here, and it would not much delay us.
I certainly wish that you would put Peter Trawl on board that homeward-bound ship.
Mrs Trawlhas run into debt on all sides, and when the goods are sold there won't be five shillings in the pound to pay them, that I can see, so her children must take the consequences.
We were unable totrawl on the bottom until we reached Melbourne, when a trawl was made in Port Phillip Harbour to try the gear and accustom men to its use.
These hooks were baited and the trawl was set each night.
Each trawl had a thousand hooks, a strong ground line six thousand feet long, with a smaller line two and a half feet in length, with hook attached, at every fathom.
The thought also that we might drift within sight or sound of a vessel, or within sight of a trawl buoy, made us afraid to sleep.
We tried to sleep lying down in the bottom of the boat with our heads in a trawl tub, but we were stiff with cold, the boat leaked badly, and it was necessary to get up frequently and bail out the water.
The six trawls stretched away from the vessel like the spokes from the hub of a wheel, the buoy marking the outer anchor of each trawl being over a mile away.
We were drifting with a trawl tub fastened to the "painter" as a drag to keep the boat headed to the wind, when it began to rain.
We hope to let them all be clear of the trawl for the future.
When it is concluded, the trawl is again lowered and the fish cleaned and packed; by the light of a torch formed of rope, dipped in tar.
The trawl beam is a heavy pole, some 30 or 35 feet long.
For a mistake in this respect would be certain to bring the smack across another; in which case the trawl ropes would become entangled--involving, in a heavy sea, the certain loss of one or the other.
The trawl rope is slacked out or hauled in, as the case may require and, generally, volleys of strong language pass between the respective crews.
If the night is clear you can sleep, except when the trawl is being got up.
The second meal was taken before the trawl was lowered, at six or seven o'clock in the evening.
Still more important was it to notice upon which side the trawl was to be lowered, after being emptied; and upon which tack the vessel was to proceed.
A trawlconsists of a line some 3,000 feet in length, to which are attached short ones about a yard long, on each of which is a hook.
When one buoy is reached the end of the trawl to which it is attached is drawn up, the hooks examined and the fish taken off.
To bait a trawl requires from an hour and a half to two hours.
The short lines are placed about six feet apart, so that each trawl has about 500 hooks.
Leaning overside, I could see the pocket of our trawl drawing near, still some fathoms deep, a phosphorescent and flashing cloud.
Dan could bait up trawl or lay his hand on any rope in the dark; and at a pinch, when Uncle Salters had a gurry-score on his palm, could dress down by sense of touch.
He don't trawl 'less there's mighty good reason fer it.
I helped bait up trawl ashore 'fore I could well walk," he said.
I've seen a stale one hauled up on a trawland I didn't much care, but he come to us special.
One of the smacks which drew hertrawl that night over the Swarte Bank not far from the admiral was the Lively Poll--repaired, and rendered as fit for service as ever.
It's reminding me of my hauling of my first trawl on the Banks.
Our trawl was in, our fish in the waist of the dory, and we lay to our roding line and second anchor, so we might not drift miles to loo'ard while waiting for the vessel to pick us up.
Mr. Mayo states that these were the first salmon ever taken on trawl lines in that region.
Mr. Samuel Wiley, of Gloucester, in September 1893, caught a salmon at sea off Gloucester on a trawl line fished for hake.
As the trawl lines in question were set on the bottom at a depth of 20 or 25 fathoms, the fact that these two fish at least were swimming on the bottom may be considered established.
Certain fishermen claim that when pots are set on a trawl placed across the tide the catch is greater than when the trawl is set in the direction of the current.
The trawl was set about 2 miles southeast from Matinicus Rock Light Station in 60 fathoms of water.
In the trawl method the pots are usually set about 30 feet apart, depending on the depth of water, so that when one pot is in the boat the next will be on the bottom.
We had to drift about for an hour or two when the trawl was set; and after a while the fog shut down again gray and close, so we could not see either the sun or the shore.
Once an hour a trawl was hauled in and got on board, and as the catches were satisfactory Joe was in capital spirit.
The trawl ain't a heavy one, and as I am accustomed to work it with Bill I can do it with you.
That stuff on the trawl wasn't the only bad bait, then.
The two men on the first watch were sharpening the splitting knives on a tiny grindstone and walking forward occasionally to see that the anchor and trawl buoy lights were burning.
Code and Ellinwood easily found their trawl buoy by the glimmer of the light across the water.
A youth aboard clambered up to the cross-trees, gave them the direction of the trawl buoy-light, and they started.
Next they turned their attention to picking the trawl already in the water.
When the last had been paid out, a second anchor and large buoy was fixed, and theirtrawl was "set.
He went outside and called the men in with a revolver-shot and a trawltub run to the masthead.
The outside is guarded from chafing, when the trawl is being worked over the bottom, by pieces of old net.
The beam trawl consists of a triangular purse-shaped net, about seventy feet long, forty wide at the mouth, gradually diminishing to four or five at the commencement of the cod, as the smaller end is called.
This beam is supported by two upright iron frames, three feet in height, known as the trawl heads, or irons; the lower being flattened, to rest on the ground.
The trawl had not been down an hour, when it was resolved to haul it up.
Not that he cared much for the fish which the trawl caught, but his delight was to examine the numberless specimens of animal marine life which came up at the same time.
Both hand-lining and trawling methods of fishing are in use here, but the trawl is fast displacing the older gear.
Species and seasons are the same as on Lukes Rock, but mainly cod and pollock are taken here by trawl and hand line.
Haddock are taken here in the spring months by trawling; cod are taken on trawl and in gill nets during February and March and from Augusta to November.
Fishing on this ground is by hand line and trawl by small boats and sloops, with an occasional trip by larger vessels in winter.
Virtually all taking of ground fish on these grounds is done by hand-lining, though the practice of trawl fishing has come more and more into use in recent years.
Fishing is by small craft, generally, using trawl and handline.
Trawl fishing and gill netting are done in the spring for cod and hand lining for cod and pollock in October.
As were most of the grounds of this vicinity, this ground was mainly a hand-line spot, but in recent years fishing here has been done mostly by the trawl method.
On the bottom of rocks and gravel, extending about a mile from the shores of these, in depths of from 18 to 34 fathoms, small boats and small vessels take a quantity of fish by trawl and hand line.
Fishing here is done by small boats and small vessels mainly from Bass Harbor and Southwest Harbor by trawl and hand line.
Gill-netters operate from Kettle Island to Halfway Rock and Italian boats trawl at all seasons off The Graves.
Material brought up by the trawl will often afford specimens; but, failing these sources of supply, the muddy deposit from deep niches between the rocks at low-water mark will often provide a very interesting variety.
You will proceed, keeping under the surface, till you reach the Dogger Bank, and find yourself among the trawl nets of the English fishermen.
For one thing, we shall signal them to clear out of the way, and when they have their trawl nets down and can't move!
You get the trawl warp ready, and we'll either tow him or steer him.
All that day, until the trawl went down, Jim sat growling and brooding.
