Mylor
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Boy Willie
Hook and line, Sail and Oar
Tim first fished with his dad George, and left school at 16 to work full time on fishing boats. He spends the winter months fishing for native oysters on the Fal from his traditional wooden Falmouth working boat, the Boy Willie. During the summer he handline fishes for mackerel from his other boat, the Leviathan, which is kept at Customs House Quay, Falmouth.
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