Elton of GoDive Sardine Baitball Report from Cintsa #sardinerun2025 #sardinemigration #sardine #news

Elton of GoDive Sardine Baitball Report from Cintsa #sardinerun2025 #sardinemigration #sardine #news

Elton of GoDive Sardine Baitball Report from Cintsa #sardinerun2025 #sardinemigration #sardine #news :another crisp wintery morning down here in southern KZN. The offshore winds are blowing daily and this whole week is dominated mainly by south systems swinging across the country. Causing this offshore drift of air every morning – you can see the smoke from bush fires, cane fires and people whisping out over the sea. Makes for spectacular sunrises and seascapes.

We have a gentle southwesterly blowing later this morning, aiming to top out at around 12 to 15 knots as it takes over from the offshore from about low tide onwards. Later in the day, as the tide pushes in, the wind will swing even further to the east to become a proper onshore.

The ocean recovers really fast in this place at this time of the year. And often a bit of east in the afternoon will pull the prevailing SSW swell into the bays and coves for surfing for the next morning. Many nuances in the atmosphere are at play right now that produce these perfect conditions.

Meanwhile, down south in Cintsa…sardine baitball report by Elton…

all the fish and more fish and more fish and more fish
Hey morning just an update from
Cintsa uh week 4 has just kicked off
yesterday was a little bit quiet
didn’t really find much at all um
and then today all of a sudden in the cold
wet windy um
weather there was there’s quite a lot of action
right from in front of Cintsa in the bay
20 meters deep water nice clear water uh
lots of sardines lots of gannets
and then
some of the videos are also from the East London side
so
one of the boats went all the way down to East London
found great action in front there yeah
the other boats in Cintsa
all the clients on both boats are in the water
at the moment uh
I think um
the last update I heard is that the
one boats
on their third or fourth bait ball for the morning
yeah and they only launched at 8:00 so it’s really
really good conditions at the moment
lots of sardines coming through
lots of gannets
lots of dolphins and I will update further when uh
when I hear more
wow guys it’s bait fish all over the place
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