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5 September 2024 Welcome Back Adam Kamdar reporting in from Durbans Golden Mile

Paddlers enjoying off Durbans North Beach Pier

5 September 2024 Welcome Back Adam Kamdar reporting in from Durbans Golden Mile

5 September 2024 Welcome Back Adam Kamdar reporting in from Durbans Golden Mile: after a few deserved days off, Adam Kamdar is back on Durbans Golden Mile with another comprehensive conditions report.

Durbans Conditions

It’s a beautifully flat day out on the ocean as Adam Kamdar checks back in with the team at The Sardine News. There are surfers catching a few peaks coming in from the east. There are paddlers staying on top of the cold water. The divers have vowed to take advantage of these rare windless and calm conditions for this time of the year.

Durban Paddlers enjoying the calm conditions

Although yes, spring has sprung but it takes a few weeks into September before the winds start to back off and give us those calm balmy days we are all here in KZN for.

Like today!

Which, except for slightly chilly water at down to 18 degrees Celsius, is a typical KZN ocean-goers’ day out on the water. The colder water usually means a slower bite for anglers. But some species like the cold. And many others become doff and slow. So spearos generally don’t mind a drop in the mercury.

Spearfishing

Yesterdays Spearing Report Today

As you might have seen from The Bear’s spearfishing report yesterday (above), the brusher are putting on a show in the shallows. Further out deep, the geelbek are playing the game too. Both very hard fish to shoot. But these fish are around if you have the bottom time and the patience.

Anglers can use the information from The Bear’s reports at The Master Watermen website when planning their own fishing excursions. There is no more valuable intel available anywhere! Since it comes from Durbans waters way down deep!

Estuary

We have about a month or more hopefully, before the rains start up again. When this happens, all the crap upstream is delivered downstream by the flooding. Rendering the estuaries brown and useless. Sure you can fish in the brown. With sardines and the like. But our passion is sight fishing with lures. And for this, we need clean water.

Like it is now. Crystal clear and warmer than the ocean! Recently we have been catching perch, kingfish, rock salmon, garrick and kob. In fact two days ago, one guy here got two kob on paddletail down near the mouth. And guess what….the second fish he was fighting when a Zambezi chomped it right in half!

This, if anything, proves the healthy state of the river. And the vital role it plays in being a nursery for developing fish. The government and certain unscrupulous lobbyists (who know who they are), are trying tooth and nail to destroy/impede the natural flow of this marvellous and majestic ‘Mother of all Rivers’ – the Umzimkulu. Using all sorts of pathetic excuses to get billions of rands to squander – ANC style.

Watch this space for further developments on the saga…

Sardine Maps

Having intel to make the right decisions can save you hours and hours of frivolous sardine hunting. We have taken great care to log the activity of each sardine run since 2021. These records are available for anyone to look at.

If you study the maps year to year, you will see that right now we are only just in the middle of good sardine conditions. And that in previous years catches were made right into the summer months.

Sardine Map 2024

Sardine Map 2023

Sardine Map 2021