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GoDive Reports Hundreds Of Gannet At Cintsa

Gannet Birds By The Hundreds In Cintsa By GoDive

GoDive Reports Hundreds Of Gannet At Cintsa

GoDive Reports Hundreds Of Gannet At Cintsa: Elton and crew checking in at lunchtime…

“dolphins swimming around excited clients hey guys just a update from the um go dive crew operating out of Sinza obviously we had those two tough weeks in um Port Elizabeth where although we saw a little bit of action it just wasn’t what we were hoping for uh moving on to Cintsa um the first day was pretty good we launched on the 4th and we did get a couple of um you know small little bait balls which were kind of dissipating as we arrived and then the next couple of days were really quiet um I think uh we had a spotter plane go up for us they saw four gannets the whole flight between East London and kind of Wavecrest area uh no dolphins no whales and nothing really really really look like a desert out there um and that was two days ago today luckily it looks like it’s turning a little bit uh the team just reported back um hundreds of gannets in the area uh and a lot of uh dolphins as well so as they sent me the last update they were approaching the first signs of a proper bait ball and they were gonna get in so yeah we will uh definitely report back to tonight or tomorrow um whether it’s a what the visibility water temperature and what if it was in fact sardines and not maybe mackerel or some sort of other bait fish but yeah looks like a sardine run 2025 is a coming into swing now so we were very excited I still got about five weeks of this so yeah really really um excited for what’s to come”

The gannet birds that have flown up here from the Cape are a sure sign that sardines are in the area…

Sardines and Sightings

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You can also get around the season in a real fun way by checking out our annual Sardine Run Maps. This is a real groovy way to follow the progress of the sardines each year.

You can even download our app to your phone or device, accept notifications, and you will never miss a single sardine.

Here are the links to existing and past  Sardine Sighting Maps…

2025 Sardine Map

2024 Sardine Map

2023 Sardine Map

2022 Sardine Map

2021 Sardine Map

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 – log your municipalities transgressions here

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8 May 2025 Durban Conditions Sunrise Timelapse

Durban Conditions by Timelapse

8 May 2025 Durban Conditions Sunrise Timelapse

8 May 2025 Durban Conditions Sunrise Timelapse: Another Perfect Day…

Adam Kamdar of Township Hyper in Durban has been creating pieces of art recently. With his camera! If you have been watching The Sardine News show on YouTube, you will know and appreciate what I am talking about…

The timelapses!

Not only are these magnificent efforts portraying Durban for what it is – a paradise of some sort – but they also reveal far more than we ever thought. About the ocean and atmospheric conditions at that moment. The sped-up footage betrays all that the normal pace eye can not see at all.

A big thank you to Adam. You can show your appreciation by popping over to his Township Hyper Facebook page. This is also where Adam runs the promotional side of things at the huge shop and keeps his shoppers up-to-date with relevant goings-on in and around Durban.

Click on over to TownShip Hyper on Facebook, right HERE!

And watch the report right here…

Good morning aye shot Adam
that was the best
most prettiest time lapse we’ve done so far
Durban is paradise really is the most wondrous place
okay and the ocean is absolutely marvelous today
if you can go you must go boy
this is the conditions that we’ve been waiting for
for so long these perfect days cheese keep us alive
the dreams of these days so get out there if you can
alright let’s start up with the moon
there’s quite a big moon 84%
that’s great news for the impending possible
maybe sardine embarkation up the coast
so with Gary Hook reckons they gotta have a full moon
this is the first full moon that’s come along
since the time that we’ve been talking about sardines
way too early I acknowledge that
way too early that we actually studying the conditions
that the sardines need to come up here
and that’s why
I mentioned the hot water in the beginning
because that Agulhas current is screaming again
that will make the counter current stronger
and we’re stepping closer to the sardines bit by bit
there’s hardly any waves
so surfing I’m not sure about but diving and fishing
you gotta go eh 18 to 24 degrees stable atmosphere
1 0 1 8
light on shore in the off
light offshore in the morning
and light on shore in the afternoon
as per usual low tide in the morning
the tides are still moving quite a lot 92 minutes
that is quite a big jump and then high tide
13 forty eight and low tide in the afternoon 19:41
again rad
we’ll catch you in the next report
don’t forget to like and subscribe and maybe even join
Ciao Ciao

Ian at The Block – 9am

Good morning Sean Good Morning everyone
Ian here coming from the Port Shepstone river mouth
Umzimkulu what a beautiful day today
we’re on the low tides going out
I think it’s the first day of spring
if I’m not mistaken um
so we have a pretty much of a very low tide today
uh this morning and then obviously
tide turning towards the afternoon lunch time
as you see it’s looking quite awesome
little bit of a the swell here n there
but more than like an ankle tapper
but the fishing conditions are superb
a little bit of a
offshore blowing down here at The Block
at the moment believe the wind kinda gusts about 10 Ks
today during the course o the day
I think
it’ll make much difference on the sea conditions
but yeah what a lovely
lovely morning here at the block
there’s some guys trying their luck
believe the guys got better fish here
last night and so yeah hoping for a epic day today
I’m here at the office Guys
tight lines and have an awesome day stay safe

Sardines and Sightings

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Member of WhatsApp Sardine News HOTLINE, access to restricted content on thesardine.co.za, LIVE Broadcasts from the Beach during the sardine run. And direct contact with the Sardine Spy network team.

You can also get around the season in a real fun way by checking out our annual Sardine Run Maps. This is a real groovy way to follow the progress of the sardines each year.

You can even download our app to your phone or device, accept notifications, and you will never miss a single sardine.

Here are the links to existing and past  Sardine Sighting Maps…

2025 Sardine Map

2024 Sardine Map

2023 Sardine Map

2022 Sardine Map

2021 Sardine Map

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 – log your municipalities transgressions here

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Perfect Day in May

Perfect Day in May

Perfect Day in May: it’s on! For fishermen, surfers and divers! Small swell, hardly a breeze, sunny skies, warm water that’s almost clean…! And there are gamefish jumping all over the place.

Surfing

Durban is really small as the 1.5m south south east swell tries to wrap around the piers and get in there. There is still not much tide, just over half a metre or so.

The south and north coasts will fare better with this swell direction.

Diving

After many near misses, hopefully today we will see some shore diving from the spearos. Who have been having a great time – but only out deep! Here is the Bear Report from yesterday…

Fishing

Here we have Alan at Shelly Beach this morning, thank you Alan!

Ian Logie’s exciting report of gamefish jumping around after the freshly arrived sprats got many people out onto the rocks to try throw a spoon the distance. You need a good cast to get to the snoek but they are there right now and anyone with a farcaster is in with a throw.

Ian, yesterday…

Perfect Day in May

Another prefect Day in May by Adam Kamdar

Sardines and Sightings

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Member of WhatsApp Sardine News HOTLINE, access to restricted content on thesardine.co.za, LIVE Broadcasts from the Beach during the sardine run. And direct contact with the Sardine Spy network team.

You can also get around the season in a real fun way by checking out our annual Sardine Run Maps. This is a real groovy way to follow the progress of the sardines each year.

You can even download our app to your phone or device, accept notifications, and you will never miss a single sardine.

Here are the links to existing and past  Sardine Sighting Maps…

2025 Sardine Map

2024 Sardine Map

2023 Sardine Map

2022 Sardine Map

2021 Sardine Map

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 – log your municipalities transgressions here

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FULL Fishing and Conditions Roundup from Ian, Sean, Bruce, Adam and more…

Fishing Conditions RoundUp

FULL Fishing and Conditions Roundup from Ian, Sean, Bruce, Adam and more…

FULL Fishing and Conditions Roundup from Ian, Sean, Bruce, Adam and more…: What a day! Starting out early with Adam, we got a good look at the conditions out at sea. And then Adam is backed up Bruce, Ian and mysefl as we go all around gathering intel on the fishing, the water, and the sardines.

Elton (GoDive) down south have been consistently seeing and diving with sardines but they are also very early, just like us!

Ian’s report is loaded. Snoek, kingfish, bonito and sharks. And oh yes, sewage as RNM workers are on strike again and sewage is flowing at The Block, and at Number 6 pump station upriver. When are these jokers gonna realise the damage they are doing. Diapers, condoms…all of it, going straight in!

Sardines and Sightings

Join the Sardine News HOTLINE for 2025 and Neva Miss a Single Sardine! We first upload to YouTube, and then progressively up to the rest of the social platforms (Facey, X, etc) as the bandwidth allows.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN as a Member on YouTube, and receive all these perks too…

Member of WhatsApp Sardine News HOTLINE, access to restricted content on thesardine.co.za, LIVE Broadcasts from the Beach during the sardine run. And direct contact with the Sardine Spy network team.

You can also get around the season in a real fun way by checking out our annual Sardine Run Maps. This is a real groovy way to follow the progress of the sardines each year.

You can even download our app to your phone or device, accept notifications, and you will never miss a single sardine.

Here are the links to existing and past  Sardine Sighting Maps…

2025 Sardine Map

2024 Sardine Map

2023 Sardine Map

2022 Sardine Map

2021 Sardine Map

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 – log your municipalities transgressions here

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The Sardine News and Capital Radio

Capital Radio and The Sardine News

The Sardine News and Capital Radio

The Sardine News and Capital Radio: it was a few years back when I discovered this amazing piece of work by Craig Johnston on YouTube. It was seriously motivational to me, and it certainly transformed the direction I was taking on YouTube.

So the theme of today’s report, although it is still a bona fide sardine report from Elton and the GoDive crew, is paying homage to Capital Radio. The Sardine News did the weekly fishing report at 6pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 1990 or so, it was a long time ago! Watch the sardine report below, and then watch the two-hour epic about the struggle and eventual plight of Capital Radio 604. You might need popcorn – and a tissue for the ending…

My tenure at Capital Radio as the fishing reporter lasted about two years. Rubbing shoulders with the radio greats. And getting paid! R172, every two weeks! Back then, that was money. Anyway, please watch this really good piece of work, it deserves all the views it can get…

When I couldn’t make it into the studio to do my show, I had to call in via ticky box, and we would do the report over the phone. I remember many times standing in a remote ticky box, shoving in R1 coins like a slot machine junky and having to hold for ages as the DJ cued me up. It was such a panic that I would run out of coins mid-show!

Just like today with The Sardine News!

Sardines and Sightings

Join the Sardine News HOTLINE for 2025 and Neva Miss a Single Sardine! We first upload to YouTube, and then progressively up to the rest of the social platforms (Facey, X, etc) as the bandwidth allows.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN as a Member on YouTube, and receive all these perks too…

Member of WhatsApp Sardine News HOTLINE, access to restricted content on thesardine.co.za, LIVE Broadcasts from the Beach during the sardine run. And direct contact with the Sardine Spy network team.

You can also get around the season in a real fun way by checking out our annual Sardine Run Maps. This is a real groovy way to follow the progress of the sardines each year.

You can even download our app to your phone or device, accept notifications, and you will never miss a single sardine.

Here are the links to existing and past  Sardine Sighting Maps…

2025 Sardine Map

2024 Sardine Map

2023 Sardine Map

2022 Sardine Map

2021 Sardine Map

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 – log your municipalities transgressions here

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