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Sardines at Port Edward and Ramsgate!

Sardines at Port Edward by Ant Nel

Sardines at Port Edward and Ramsgate

The sardines love Port Edward. It’s one of their favourite spots along their journey into some big fish’s mouth. Or a net.

Mark Snyman has been at the sardines for quite some time now and is dialled in enough to be proclaimed the first netter of the season to come back with a few crates of bona fide sardines.

On da beach!

Matt Defillipi got in on the action just afterwards and beached with 140 crates! Also at Port Edward.

Video report

Port Edward

A huge thanks to Mr. Ant Nel for calling in today’s action. Backed up by Lance Dunn. And the Master Watermen team. A few more boats gave it a go but missed As of a short while ago the beach has not slowed with traffic as more and more people arrive.

Sardines boats launching at Port Edward 31 May 2021

Ramsgate

Once again the Master Watermen network came through for us with this awesome little piece of action from Ramsgate just now.

R102

If you got time on your hands and would like to feel the sensation that is the annual sardine fever, then jump on the old R102 coast road and enjoy a beautiful drive down the coast. With your binoculars. Fishing rods. Or a bucket!

It’s never a guarantee, but it’s never not a guarantee either. You could be surprised anytime anywhere around any point or in any bay or cove. The sardines are still very spread out and often a little pilot shoals like these ones, will mistakenly meander too close to the beach, and become trapped by a tide or some swell.

This is what you are looking for!

Conditions coming this week

The waves have been plentiful lately. Surfers are having some fun, unlike the fishermen. Conditions have been tough. And there is a big cyclone swell predicted to come out of the north this week, and into the weekend.

Plus some heavy winds!

And although these conditions are tough to deal with, the sardines count on them!

As they do the cold water. Which, as soon as it dropped below 21, produced the sardines again this year!

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