About Us
About Us
Who are we?
Fairwater is a family owned business run by a father and son team.
Ed Russell started the business and still runs the Fairwater workshops, making much of the ready to fish gear we supply, and is also full-time skipper of Halcyon. As the business has grown and developed, he is now assisted by his dad, Alan Russell, who looks after the office side of the business.
Our aims
Our primary aims at Fairwater are to promote commercial hook line fishing, but more importantly, to improve the catches of our customers. We successfully run our own commercial fishing boat, a Kingfisher 26 called ‘Halcyon’ devoted to hook and line fishing for most of the time.
This enables us not only to develop and test all the products we supply on this website, but also to offer advice and assistance on the selection and use of the products as required.
Our boat ‘Halcyon’
Halcyon was one of the last Kingfisher 26 (K26) hulls to be built at the yard in Falmouth, Cornwall.
She was fitted out from a complete hull, whaleback and wheelhouse mould kit to a very high standard by local shipwright Robert Chudleigh. Halcyon was complete and launched in October 2007 and has been fishing on a full-time basis ever since.
Halcyon has a Perkins Sabre M130c and PRM 750d gearbox turning a 27’ 5-bladed propeller. Its maximum speed is just over 8 knots. Cruising speed between 6.5 and 7 knots. It is also fitted with a top end electronics package including MaxSea 2d/3d plotter. Halcyon is now well known locally for landing some very good catches of high-quality line caught fish.
Throughout the summer months Halcyon is either jigging or trolling for Pollack and Bass during fine weather and fishing for Mackerel inshore when weather is not suitable further off. Towards the end of the summer and into autumn, Halcyon tends to target Mackerel more often.
Fairwater R&D
Here at Fairwater, we have a department devoted to research and development. We are constantly on the lookout for new materials and new products, and trialling new methods and tactics so that we might be better placed to increase our own catches, and those of our customers.
Through R&D, Fairwater will continue to introduce new products to our customers. If you have any suggestions or questions regarding our equipment, get in touch!
Halcyon carries all the equipment for all relevant hook and fine fisheries aboard at all times, allowing all opportunities to be exploited. It is rigged with outriggers for trolling for Bass and Pollack. She also has two Belitronic BJ5000 fitted for jigging and trolling for Mackerel, Pollack and Bass. We have extensive experience using the BJ5000 and so we are able to best advise our customers with set up and programming of the machines.
The very best fish caught by Halcyon command high prices at the local auction at Looe. All our select fish are tagged through the gill cover. The boat’s name – ‘Halcyon’ is printed on the front of each tag and our web address www.linecaught.me is printed on the reverse.
In order to further inform our fish buyers and end users of how and where their fish was caught, we have built the linecaught.me website. We hope to add to this over time as time allows.
In the meantime, why not browse our products?
