Line fishing for white fish – Woven Communities / Basketmaking Communities in Scotland Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:31:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.8 Couple working together setting bait in Cromarty /collection/couple-working-together-setting-bait-in-cromarty/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:33:22 +0000 /?post_type=collection&p=320 Continue reading “Couple working together setting bait in Cromarty”]]> William ‘Lairdie’ Finlayson and Maggie ‘Bolt’ Price, his wife, are working together in their yard, at 65 Gordon’s Lane, Cromarty setting baited lines into a scull. From the blurred images of their hands, its looks as if he is passing the line to her, which she baits and sets into the basket on her right. The basket is a scull of  the very deep kind, characteristic of the area. Line fishing was used for catching white fish, an all year round occupation. According to Am Baile, women prepared the bait and fixed it to the lines, even carrying men to their boats so they would start the day with dry feet. They also carried the catch from the boats back to the shore in baskets.

Couple working together adding lines to longline baskets PC CAMPBELLROSS 21 Am Baile

]]> Blind Benjie Finlayson plays fiddle, with all the materials for making a line basket to his left /collection/blind-playing-with-all-the-materials-for-making-a-line-basket-to-his-left/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:21:35 +0000 /?post_type=collection&p=314 Continue reading “Blind Benjie Finlayson plays fiddle, with all the materials for making a line basket to his left”]]> ‘Blind Benjie’ Finlayson is playing fiddle, sitting with his father who baits lines, feeding them into a deep Cromarty-style line scull. A half-finished scull lies on the ground between them, while a bundle of the materials for making it, probably willows or sauchies, lies behind near the wall. 

]]> Longline baskets on the beach at Cromarty, c1910 /collection/longline-baskets-on-the-beach-at-cromarty-c1910/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:11:59 +0000 /?post_type=collection&p=312 Continue reading “Longline baskets on the beach at Cromarty, c1910”]]> Two fishermen work on the shore beside a boat, below the fishertown at Cromarty. Beside them are several sculls, or scoos, – line baskets. The small boats reflected the type of fishing and the sculls used, which was close to home. Cromarty line baskets, or sculls, are characteristically deep in construction. This, and the other images of Cromarty taken around 1910, reveal a thriving fishing community, very involved in line fishing.

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