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Another stiff South Wester rips through KZN today 12 August 2024 by Adam Kamdar

Another South Wester rips through KZN

Another stiff South Wester rips through KZN today 12 August 2024 by Adam Kamdar

Another stiff South Wester rips through KZN today 12 August 2024 by Adam Kamdar of Township Hyper: Finally, the east winds have been beaten back and the low-pressure systems are now dominating. Hoping that these conditions will prevail as we squeeze the last bit of juice out of winter that we can.

Spring is gonna spring in two weeks time!

Over to Adam…

Cold Front captured on Camera

Adam Kamdar captured the SW blow from earlier this moody KZN morning

Cold front comes over Durban for the 2nd time in 2 days

Moody Durban KZN vista by Adam Kamdar

And not a half hour later…

Warm Water

KZN water refuses to cool down. Will not drop below 20 degrees Celsius, and has consistently stayed over 22 degrees Celsius for week after week. And now this cold front will calm the ocean and currents even more and the water may even get warmer.

Fishing

The garrick and kob are gonna be around for a while still. The shad might come back if the water cools. And there has been a good showing of Natal Snoek this year.

Spearfishing

Check out the annual Garrick and Snoek competition results and gallery at https://masterwatermen.co.za. Keeping an eye on the spearos really dials you in as to what is going out there. They also have an interesting YouTube Channel brimming with reports and things at https://youtube.com/@masterwatermen.

Surfing

After all that waiting in earnest for the high-pressure conditions to be overridden by these low systems, we can expect waves to surf at some places in KZN over the next few days.

JBay has been cooking and you can read all about those waves at https://brucifire.co.za or at his channel at https://youtube.com/@brucifire.

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