Author: Sean Lange

More secure payment options now available at The Sardine News online store

More secure payment options now available at The Sardine News online store: we have partnered with YOCO to offer their slick and secure payment gateways for our online store.

We have used many payment gateways in the past, including international operations. And YOCO’s offering in comparison has been excellent.

Website

On our website here, you can now choose your payment method. Between;

• Credit card
• Debit Card
• Payment gateway EFT
• Regular EFT

Point-of-sale

The YOCO operation involves a point-of-sale card machine that is linked to your store portfolio. And your bank account.

Payments

Take 72 hours to make it from our client’s card, into our bank account. The commissions are comparably good with a special rate for purchases under R50. Very neat for portable or roaming businesses.

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With YOCO to receive all these benefits. And opportunities. And resources.

YOCO is most certainly an excellent way to dip your toes into the e-commerce ocean. Al the while unifying your sales and marketing efforts into one channel. Serviced correctly, this is a very productive situation to be in.

Use this LINK to get affiliated with YOCO. Once you got that sorted, we can build you a website that integrates seamlessly with your payment gateways.

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Contact Sean on umzimkulu@gmail.com or WhatsApp +27793269671.

Fastest possible way to hit the beach

Fastest possible way to hit the beach: nothing is faster than this.

So if you are hanging out on top of Chapman’s Peak, in Cape Town…and next thing you spot a shoal of big yellowtail come cruising around the boulders and into the beach in front of you…this is what you can do…

https://rumble.com/v1oyl8r-base-jump-chapmans-peak-2013.html?mref=1by9hf&mc=7mir6

Safety first

Just remember to …

• choose the right spot to land on
• throw your sinkers and spoons down before you launch
• have mates filming you (yes we got double angle)
• have a safety boat
• triple-check everything

Disclaimer: this stunt was done by a highly trained and very professional stuntman who is still very well alive. Do not ever do anything like this. Ever.

Rumble

Join us over at Rumble by following the video link above. A whole new experience for creators and audiences alike. We haven’t quite got the hang of it all yet but this video should definitely ‘make a splash’.

In the meantime, our new channels on YouTube are growing steadily and you are all invited to join our community of like-minded outdoors people.

We have these two growing nicely alongside our main channel:

• Surf Launching Southern Africa – watch and learn from an ever-growing collection of surf launches and beaches
• Water Woes: say it in Afrikaans or Dutch. We are fed up with the state of the nation of South Africa

Thank you ever so much for the support on YouTube before, and let’s hope that this journey into Rumble space will be some fun together.

By The Sardine News who can also take you fishing all over the place including Bazaruto and the KZN South Coast/Transkei which are two places fishing extremely well right now.

2022 Garrick at The Block

2022 Garrick at The Block: It’s been a great year for the garrick hunters in Port Shepstone. But being a garrick hunter this year has meant spending hours facing off with huge east winds that try blow you right off the beach. Or torrential outbursts of rain and west winds.

A big thank you to Alan down in Shepstone who took the time to shoot and submit this fun little video.

The Good Days

In amongst these crazy days, are a few pearlers and this is when the fish can take some punishment.

Check this video out that we shot over a decade back…when the went mad too.

But it seems the crew have started moderating their catches as it’s becoming very clear that the population, which is isolated and vulnerable, is going down fast. Between the jiggers in Port St. Johns and the total loss of estuarine nursery habitat here in KZN, this little community of friendly garrick need all our consideration.

The Garrick comunity

Do not swim past Kosi Bay in the north. And do not make it around the Cape much further than the warm water in False Bay.

This isolated paradigm that the garrick find themselves in, is their weakness.

Tag and release

It was the efforts of Dr Rudi van der Elst and his team at the Oceanographic Research Institute that got most of us tagging. In the 80s. And these exact efforts have resulted in a high-level understanding of how our little garrick population lives and survives here in Southern Africa.

Other garrick populations

The Mediterranean definitely is the garrick’s ideal habitat. It is a giant estuary anyway (with a man-made leak out to the Indian Ocean on the East side – the Suez Canal).

The garrick get really big here.

Here in South Africa, we also get them rather big. And very hard to catch at those sizes. Once a garrick gets about 18 or 20kgs, it becomes a hell-fighter.

Garick Gallery

So if you want o get in on the garrick action on the KZN South Coast this year, drop us a line on +27793269671 or email umzimkulu@gmail.com.

By The Sardine News and Umzimkulu Adrenalin.

Paddling baits through the surf on kayaks at Pomene in Mozambique

Who needs a drone? When you can just paddle your baits out on a set of kayaks through the surf? Well, these guys fishing the Pomene Point in Mozambique have engineered and perfected a drone-free deep-sea fishing system.

Paddling drones

The paddlers move into position under the rocks where the baits are gently lowered and fastened to the back of the kayaks. The paddlers then shuffle across to the take-off zone where they sit tight waiting for a break in the pounding east surf.

When that comes, it’s two paddle-power as the paddlers dig in hard and head east for the sun. Hoping that they got the timing right. When the paddlers reach 200 or 300 metres out to sea, the baits are dropped right into the deep purple waters of the Mozambique Channel.

Pomene juts right out into the Mozambique Channel, as far East as you could stick yourself in Southern Africa. It’s like fishing the continental shelf from the rocks. And it will not be long before one of these guys gets tied to a marlin.

And it’s all on video! Enjoy Pomene Point and the Paddlers…

Cautionary measures

Having never been a fan of drone fishing – and having been witness and party to a terrifying drone attack before, this seems like a really viable alternative.

However, you need to warn others about your 300 m of braid lying in the shipping or surfing or swimming zones.

Braid is lethally sharp and will grievously injure you if you get caught up in it in the surf.

It also wreaks absolute havoc on boat gearboxes as it is so strong and fine it easily wrecks the seals behind the propellor.

Wildlife is also threatened by the misuse of braid. Never leave that stuff behind you. Plus it’s very useful for repairing or making things out in the bush. More about that at htps://plasticfantastic.co.za.

Pomene

Is the ultimate Mozambique destination. It is very far from the beaten track and yet is not impossible. Even a 2WD might get there (with some help). The surfing is world-class. The water is crystal palace. And the fishing, well, of what’s left, Pomene has a bunch still.

FishBazaruto.com

But ok it is smack-bank in the middle of the black marlin bite that occurs this time of the year off Bazaruto and surrounding waters. We are fully booked for this year (2022) but get in touch to join the felt for next year’s run. Bazaruto is the place for granders and Duarte and crew have caught and released many thousand pounders over the four decades that Duarte has been chartering in Mozambique waters.

You could also sign up to join the blue marlin armada as it assembles in February next year. We will most likely be fishing both Bazaruto and Inhaca so contact us to get in on the action. After that it’s all about the sailfish in May and June so choose your mission and let’s gooooo!

Check it all out at FishBazaruto.com and at The Sardine News.

Contact Sean on umzimkulu@gmail.com or +27793269671 WhatsApp works best as I move around a lot.

Watch and learn: the 2022 FishBazaruto.com video playlist

Watch and learn: the 2022 FishBazaruto.com video playlist is being filled with action right from the purple (and green sometimes) waters of the Bazaruto Archipelago.

We have had plenty fish and quite a few made it into this month’s playlists.

Green Water Marlin

This episode is shot during a tussle with a spritely little 100-pound black marlin so full of beans. Out the back of San Sebastian – a place where monsters swim. I attest to this, I have swum down there with them. It’s an incredible underwater scene with pinnacles and canyons making for Disneyland-type scenes.

This guy, however, would have performed better if he had jumped on a well-presented fly. Or swallowed a neat little bonito live bait on a 20lb spinning stick. The big old 80 meant for granders and driven by Charlie made short work of the fish.

You can read Captain Duarte Rato’s account of this day right here…and even watch a video!

The playlist

Features a series of longer-form video, chiefly in landscape mode. And there is also a slew of uber-cool little shorts,. Crammed with action and in digestible chunks of a minute or less.

Watch and learn

Each video holds a treasure trove of information that with each digested episode will prepare you for the ultimate showdown. For that big day when the live bait rod starts making funny shaking movements and next thing you are hooked up to a screaming blue.

Time to operate!

You will have to watch a helluva lot of these clips to get up to the standards of Duarte and crew. Aboard those two beautiful monohulls, Vamizi, and Ibo, this team is invincible. Top two marlin boats every year in Africa.

Book with Duarte

The 2022 FishBazaruto season is obviously fully booked up and we are getting to the halfway mark already. To be in on this action with Duarte next year or the year after, best you make your enquiries now already.

Other slots coming up though are the February Blues as these maniac fish come in close at Inhaca. Along with the stripes, this is a very cool trip to be on. Plus it’s so very close to the border and the fishing grounds.

Then it’s sailfish in May and June back up in Bazaruto. And we will keep you well informed of anything else exciting coming up.

2022 FishBazaruto Gallery

Carlos and Pepe…10 to 14 October 2022

Fishing aboard Strenue with Warren mid October 202

Greg and Carl 27 Sept to 1 Oct 2022

Click on over to the FishBazaruto.com website to get in touch.

Keep checking The Sardine News for more action like this. From Bazaruto and all over Southern Africa.

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