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Afternoon Sardines Roundup by Kevin in Qora 23 June 2024 GOOD WATER TEMPS! #sardinerun2024 #sardine #run #2024 #sardines

Afternoon Sardines News 23 June 2024 by Kevin

Afternoon Sardines Roundup by Kevin in Qora 23 June 2024 GOOD WATER TEMPS! #sardinerun2024 #sardine #run #2024 #sardines

Afternoon Sardines Roundup by Kevin in Qora 23 June 2024 GOOD WATER TEMPS! #sardinerun2024 #sardine #run #2024 #sardines Kevin is back! It feels like an eternity since we have been on our own. Kevin got the seasonal Transkei flu bug. But is back already with this afternoon’s sardine report!

How’s it, chaps? This is Kevin at Cochemouth, just north of Mazepa Bay in the southern Transkei. Sorry you haven’t heard from me for a couple of days. I’ve been down with the flu, so you probably have got a bit of a croaky voice still, but let’s try and give you a summary of the last few days while I’ve been absent.

Not many nets, nets came out, prior to today, but we’ve now heard of two nets that have come out in the Shelley Beach area right by the Ski Boat Club. One this morning and one just now this afternoon. There’s also reporting of shoals around Issa Pingo and even up in Amanzimtoti side. There’s people reporting that there are sardines offshore.

So I think what we can attribute this to is the water temperature drop. Thank you Adam Kamdar for your update on the temperatures. I got a temperature from Durban this morning, the water was sitting at about 21 degrees. And Adam is saying that it’s now at about 20 generally. But he was finding some cold patches out offshore.

Of about 16 degrees. So this is exactly what we were waiting for. The sardines are now going to have lots of reason To move around the bluff and move on to the Durban beach front and keep moving northwards up the north coast This is what they need. They need water around the 20 degree mark or lower. So yeah, this is all good news chaps Uh, let’s see what the next couple days brings but All we can do is look at the current conditions and give our forecasts based on that, but this is what we’re going to say now is that we’re going to see a major movement of these shoals that have been lingering back sitting on the south coast because of the warmer water ahead of them and thankfully they didn’t move out into the They still hug the coast, but a couple of kilometres out, but they’re going to definitely move in closer now, and they’re going to have all those predators on their backs, which is going to push them towards the shore, and I expect they’ll move past the bluff and into the Durban area fairly soon, over the next day or so, and then they’ll start heading north.

As well. You know, their migratory instincts push them North no matter what happens. They want to go North. That’s just where they migrating to. So yeah, this is all good news. Good news for the netters. Good news for the public. Good news for the fishermen. So yeah, we’ll update you as things change.

Anyway, that’s all I got for now. Afternoon sardines! Cheers.