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Sardines lingering by Kevin in Qora and Underwater Report by The Bear

Sardines lingering 2pm 17 June 2024

Sardines lingering by Kevin in Qora and Underwater Report by The Bear

Sardines lingering by Kevin in Qora and Underwater Report by The Bear: this double-barreled report deals with many of the issues facing the sardine right now…

Kevin explains…

How’s it everyone? This is Kevin from Qora Mouth, just north of Mazepa Bay in southern Transkei. Well not much changed today, unfortunately. The water around Durban is still way over 22 degrees. And that’s a tiny drop from yesterday, but it’s hovering there. And yeah, I can say even in the Transkei down here, I’ve spoken to a ski boater and they were out yesterday and The water even here is way above 20 degrees.

And you know, closer in, it’s a little bit colder, but yeah, that’s a result of the current. The current is screaming right now down here. It’s running at about four to five kilometres an hour. So all that warm water from Durban is already showing up here on the Transkei coast. So there’s a lot of warm water filtering through.

And that obviously, as we discussed, affects the sardine activity up there. So let’s let’s hope things change. But here there was some cast netting going on in the shallows at Oslo beach today, right off the rocks, the guys on the beach. No netters went out, but the public were having a feast with their cast nets.

And Mdumbi. Coffee Bay. Hole in the Wall, there are some minor shoals lingering around a bit of bird activity, no dolphins present, lots of Brydes Whales, and other whales, Humpbacks in their migration, breaching, so beautiful to watch, it’s still you know, life is still very abundant on the wild coast, and Yeah, so yeah, that’s about it what we got today guys let’s just hope things change But it’s not looking good Unless some other shoals come through which I highly doubt as the migration happens once a year, and that is, you know, the, these cold plumes that come off the Agulhas Bank, the whole shoal of sardines moves on, en masse, up the west coast.

Sardines Lingering

So they do that once, and we’re not seeing any reports of sardines sitting off Mossel Bay or Knysna or Hermanus, which is where they kind of linger in that cold water until that cold water pushes north. So yeah, also another thing to bear in mind is that there is no south swell right now. I’m looking at the horizon and it’s flat as a pancake.

So, yeah, that’s what also moves these cold plumes up towards, the KZN areas. And there’s nothing evident right now. So yeah, we’re on hold. Just as always keep those beaches tidy guys clean up after yourselves even clean up after the other people Let’s conserve and protect. That’s all I got. Cheers

Report from Master Watermen

Then we go over to The Bear at lunchtime too…

Well peeps over the long weekend the sea has been ballistic. Welcome to another report by the bear. Quickly for the sardine news, um, yeah, east is up now but the sea was very good this morning. Some guys getting some snook, pretty sure some garrik came out. The east blows into the night, and then the sea is calm again in the morning.

Yeah, sea temperature’s up, um, from, uh, 19, 20 degrees to 23 and a half degrees. Very strong south north current. That’s obviously dropped off today now with the east. Anyways, not much on the sardine front, but as always dive safe and straight spears away from the bear.