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10 am Update: Gale Force Winds and Extreme Temperatures

4 August 25 Gale Force Winds and High Temperatures

Gale Force Winds and Extreme Temperatures

Gale Force Winds and Extreme Temperatures: the ocean is still moody and the weather feels the same way. Cold and windy early, the wind is coming off the ocean briskly. Warming and calming through the morning. Going straight into Berg Wind conditions after lunch and into mid-afternoon. And then it’s gonna blow!

Those first few hours of Berg Winds might have a really good effect on the ocean. But as it gets dark, a huge buster from the south comes rolling in to round the day’s crazy weather off. Today really could be four seasons in one day.

Over to Adam early this morning from the Durban Beachfront…

Gale Force Winds and Extreme Temperatures

The Bear Reports

We have just received a report in from The Bear of the Master Watermen website …

Shad Fishing

Maybe after today’s radical set of weather and sea conditions have had their effect, the shad might come back inside and within reach. The water has dropped in temperature all the way down to 20 degrees in some places. This is great news as it might entice the sardines (and therefore the shad) back.

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