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It’s The Whale Coast at The Bluff by The Bear #kzn #whale #season #migration #humpback

It’s The Whale Coast at The Bluff by The Bear #kzn #whale #season #migration #humpback: boig thanks to The Bear for always bringing us the goods…

Hi Peeps and welcome to another quick BEAR update video
we are at Crossways Bluff Durban South Africa
yeah southwest uh
came through last night
still blowing this morning very early
it was only about 8 knots
but moderate knots about 15
gusting maybe up to about 18 knots
set to die off this afternoon
and yeah things should be peachy by tomorrow morning
or maybe even this arvo
you can see nice blue in the foam there
so there was vis here yesterday
however
will it come clean with the South North Current
can’t see any reef on the back at the moment
but yeah been having a fun time here this morning
watching the humpback whales
there was some like right here
and there was another bunch here
and then we’ve had a lot of whales breaching as well
there anyway
hope you have a lekker Friday at the 0
3 1
and as always dive safe and straight spears
let me just zoom in quickly there
maybe you can catch him with a wild ratty haha
very hard to get on the camera though there we go
check it out
see him splashing away right there
or her!

Whale Coast Gallery

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Fishing Conditions Report Bluff to Port Edward #splash #rock #lucky #dip #brighton #beach #bluff

Fishing Conditions Report Bluff to Port Edward #splash #rock #lucky #dip #brighton #beach #bluff

Hi there Good Morning
peeps and welcome to another BEAR report
this time Brighton Beach Bluff Durban South Africa
ah we still got a little bit of swell this morning
there are gaps in between
sea’s like a mirror out there at the moment so
there’s already a little bit of North East puffing here
but there’s no viz here
as you can see very milky eh
looks like there might be viz down at Widenham
we’re draining quickly to the low now
looks like quite a bit of ground swell eh
yeah
hhhh…low tide is 10h30
sea temps around 21 degrees
current this morning almost slack
but south
that’s an AWEH from The BEAR
and as always
dive safe and straight spears
morning Steve from Splash Rock
the overnight rain and the northeast that’s blowing now
scared all the fisherman away
not just one guy there one guy there
looks like he’s baiting up
quite a chop on the sea
current is moving left to right there’s no question
and there’s a big swell coming through
this is Splash Rock being sanded up in the front
don’t see that often
anyway I’ll go around the corner and look at uh
Lucky Dip
I’m sure we won’t find anybody there
maybe the weather is scaring people away
let’s see what happens
we had Lucky Dip
probably hear it through the microphone
the east is picked up big time now not really fishable
so those are the conditions from Port Edward
Splash Rock and from Lucky Dip
Over and Out have a GOOD Day!

Thank you to The Bear and to Steven!

Gallery

And a couple nice fish caught recently…

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Hammerhead Shark Attacks My Shad Bait #mydo #baitswimmers #baitswimming

Hammerhead Shark Attacks My Shad Bait #mydo #baitswimmers #baitswimming

yeah I’d much rather be showing you a couta or a tuna
or a prodigal son or a snoek or anything
except a damn hammerhead shark
that come and took my beautiful shad
it’s hard to catch shad these days anyway
that was quite a cool display eh
the acceleration and all that quite
quite pretty to look at but um
luckily we can still glean something from this clip
because fish and sharks especially
employ different ways of getting away
you know yeah
this guy’s sneaky this shark here
we’ll see
he’s gonna try four different tricks to get away
first thing he’s gonna do though
is take as much line as he can obviously
and he heads straight to the bottom
when he gets to the bottom
you’ll see he very clearly tries to scrape
the trace out of his mouth
he’s going down there now I know the clip’s upside down
I don’t know how that happened
but it turns itself upside down
every now and then’cause
it’s just an underwater camera
that’s on the line
but you can see that he’s scraping his head
on the ceiling I mean on the floor
you can actually hear it hey in the clip there
alright next trick that he’s gonna try and pull off is
he’s going to violent head shake yeah
you know that when you fighting
the next thing is
and he’s trying to break a trace really
and uh
I’ve got some other clips to back this up but okay
then his next trick is to swim straight at you
you know that story now
you fighting it like a like a next thing hey
the lines long gone slack meanwhile he’s coming this way
he’s trying to create or
or go for the least resistance direction
so if the least resistance comes from the front there
then he’s gonna slowly work out to go that way
and try shake the hooks out
then finally he’s gonna lunge at the trace however
this guy didn’t do a very good job
at lunging at the trace
but this shark did do a very good job
yeah that’s bazaruto
and that shark bit that 400 pound nylon trace
one shot
Whoo big big jaws those things
that’s a Bazaruto shark I told you but okay
so yeah thanks
Mister Hammerhead
for visiting and teaching us your tricks
and letting us film them on camera
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Channels

Brucifire Surf Retorts – highly entertaining  surf reporting

Master Watermen – news from way down deep

The Sardine News – neva miss a single  sardine

FishBazaruto – 1000 pounds plus

MYDO Tackle Talk – highly technical  sport fishing

Surf Launching Southern Africa – getting out there safely

Water Woes – complain about your municipality here

Websites

umzimkulu.co.za – everything Umzimkulu
umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za –  will get you right out and onto the edge
thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
masterwatermen.co.za – news from under water
fishbazaruto.com – dreams
brucifire.co.za – surf retorts