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Hi Jonny,


One of the Tyne boats posted last week that they had seen a big pod of dolphins too. Unfortunately I missed them as we came back in around 13.00. It must have been a magnificent sight.


I have not seen any dolphins so far on the couple of trips that I've made since lockdown ended. Not sure what this particular pod would have been chasing yesterday. You sometimes see huge shoals of small fish on the fishfinders which fill the screens, or sometimes you get long, long streams of them, often stretching for hundreds of metres in length, but we didn't see any of that yesterday. That said, as we approached the piers, there was a large number of seabirds, herring gulls, black-headed gulls, black-backs and even gannets, consisted of perhaps 50-60 birds in total congregated around a small patch of sea about 300-400 metres out from Warkworth pier, and just to the north. We didn't investigate though. Earlier in the week, we had seen some of the big shoals of baitfish and had dropped sabikis down, to find out that there were coleys underneath. It would suggest that these shoals could be small sand eels, but whether it is them, or the coleys that the dolphins were after I couldn't say.


There was someone fishing Warkworth pier at the time that we got in, and there were 2 more walking up the pier with rods, but that was early afternoon so not you I guess.


Cheers,

Adrian


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