When I was a child going out with my Aitona Txomin to fish from the dock of Donostia-San Sebastian on the boat, the fishing methods that most caught my attention were, without a doubt, those made [...]
The season of mackerel (Scomber scombrus) in the Cantabrian Sea has always been a breath of fresh air for the inshore fleet and the fish processing companies, after the harsh winters that the [...]
The San Sebastian fishmarket, once known as one of the best fresh fish markets in the Cantabrian Sea, where purse seiners unloaded daily and queued to sell their anchovies, boats from Cantabria, [...]
Who does not remember the first good piece of our lives? If you ask any fisherman about the first good piece of his life, he will soon answer us … it is something that sets us on fire and boosts [...]
In the summer, when the thermocline falls to its deepest, pelagic species are those that run along our coasts and cantiles.Atunes, beautiful, bigeye, enlisted, saws are frequent tunidos in our [...]
The large pieces in our cantabrian sea are not as usual as we would like, the overfishing of the pelagic trawl and the new fishing technologies dedicated to bottom trawling leave few refuges to [...]
Spring and autumn are the seasons of the year where we practice fishing from a vertical boat with leaded lures that we call jigs, a modality little used in our cantabrian sea, since it involves [...]
Bottom fishing from a boat in San Sebastian has a long tradition, the old hake that filled our port for so many years, also called gunmen, were small inshore boats, dedicated to fishing with [...]
Although in our excursions we always enjoy the most sophisticated materials of the modern sport fishing from the boat, we do not forget the origins, the hand fishing of our “txipiron” of winter, [...]
When the waters of our cantabrian sea leave a little respite, the temperature of the waters and the currents are aliean to be able to enjoy the fishing these gadidos, cousins of the bacalados, [...]
