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#Pennington #Sardines netted at 11 AM today 25 June #2024 #sardinerun2024 #sardine #run

Sardines netted at Pennington 11AM 25 June 2024

#Pennington #Sardines netted at 11 AM today 25 June #2024 #sardinerun2024 #sardine #run

#Pennington #Sardines netted at 11 AM today 25 June #2024 #sardinerun2024 #sardine #run: head down the south coast today and try your luck at ambushing your very own shoal of sardines.

Hot spots are…

  • Pennington
  • Scottburgh
  • Warners and Winkle
  • Toti
  • The Bluff

As the tide goes out, many shoals will be trapped in the gulleys, channels and pools all along the wondrously jagged Kwazulu Natal South Coast.

R300 a crate

Starting price on the 250 or so fresh crates of sardine is R300.

With sardines being netted at Pennington, and many smaller shoals all over the coastline, this afternoon should turn things around completely with a very strong incoming tide.

High Tide Sardines

As the tide comes in and pushes over the sandbank, many sardines will go the same way. Netters often find success on high tide launches. Although the launch and entire operation goes up quite a few notches on the danger scale. You do not want to be near a full sardine net in any decent-sized shorebreak.

Rubbish

Why are shad anglers so dirty? Umtentweni has trash all over the rocks after today. You know who you are.

Affiliated YouTube Channels

https://youtube.com/@Brucifire – highly entertaining surf reporting

https://youtube.com/@thesardinenews – neva miss a single sardine

https://youtube.com/@mydotackletalk – highly technical sport fishing

https://youtube.com/@surflaunchingsouthernafrica – getting out there safely

https://youtube.com/@waterwoes – complain here

Affiliated websites

https://umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
https://umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za –  sardine run coming up
https://thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
https://masterwatermen.co.za – news from deep down
https://brucifire.co.za – surf and conditions reporting
https://fishbazaruto.com – your dreams are out there
https://mydofishinglures.co.za – technical sport fishing

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Sunny Sardine Afternoon Report 24 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora

Sunny Sardine Afternoon Synopsis and Forecast 24 June 2024 Kevin in Qora

Sunny Sardine Afternoon Report 24 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora

Sunny Sardine Afternoon Report 24 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora: Kevin is back in studio with another highly sought after synopsis and forecast as to what the sardines are up to right now.

Sunny Sardine Afternoon

How’s it chaps? Yeah, this is Kevin at Qora Mouth, just north of Mazepa Bay in the southern Transkei. Thank you for all the messages wishing me well and that I get over the flu. I’ve been inundated with them today. since yesterday’s report, but thank you guys. Appreciate it. I’m feeling much better. But in the news today, yo, Winklespruit, huge net, huge net just came out, and that’s wonderful news that these sards are moving much closer to the coast again, and it’s about to be game on.

Yeah, it’s it’s going to get real now, guys. The water temperature still in Durban is hovering around the 20 degree mark. There’s some colder patches out there and that’s good news because that mixes in with the warm water and keeps the temperature stable. So yeah, let’s hope over the next couple of days these sards around the bluff, which I’m saying they’re going to do.

Winklespruit is not very far from the Bluff. It’s right there. And once they’re around the corner and they get onto the Durban beach front, then chaos, chaos. But as you guys can see in the video The public, you guys are getting a little bit too close to these nets and you know, it’s dangerous.

Really, it’s it’s not something you want to do. Keep away from these netters just because of predator activity. You guys are wading in deep into the water to get the sods that are escaping from the nets and that’s not safe. It’s not safe at all. So we don’t want any tragedies. We don’t want anybody bitten by sharks.

There’s a lot of predators around and yeah. So that’s all we can say about that Durban area.

Transkei Wild Coast

But let’s talk a little bit about what’s happening here down south in the Transkei. What we’re seeing here is a lot of birds, a lot of gannets, and the water inshore is actually quite warm right now. Which I’m gonna say is actually just that current that moved through Durban of about 24 25 degrees has now reached the Cape, the Eastern Cape, and our water’s sitting at about 22 degrees right now, which is quite warm for the Eastern Cape, but But what I can say is that there’s lots of gannets, and they’re not flying in formation as we discussed earlier.

They’re not traveling big distances. They’re single birds moving around, looking for the sods. And what I’m seeing out on the horizon is lots of whales breaching. And these whales that are breaching are Brydes whales, they’re not humpbacks. Humpbacks as we know are plankton feeders, they don’t feed on the sardines, even though they are very big.

Present during the sardine run because they’re on the wintertime migratory path, which takes them up to Mozambique, but out deep, I’m saying about five to six kilometers out, I’m seeing plenty big splashes and that’s all Brydes whales that are playing, having fun and just jumping right out of the water, breaching and landing.

And those are the Brydes whales are feeding on sods. So if they’re evident, you can know that there’s sods around. So yeah, let’s I think there’s a lot more sardines still coming through from the Eastern Cape but they’re way deep out here. But yeah. Time will tell. Anyway, that’s good news for the netters.

So yeah, guys, let’s just hold thumbs and hope that this is just a bumper crop this year, which I think it’s going to be still lots of sods coming through. Anyway, that’s all I got for now. Keep it real. Keep the beaches tidy. Guys that are fishing, please guys, we’re hearing some reports of really a lot of trash being left on the beach.

If you can pack it in, bring it to the beach, then take it out with you. Clean up your areas where you’re fishing especially nylon and line, which seabirds get tangled in and it’s a hazard, hazard to the public as well, if there’s hooks and stuff like that around. So yeah, keep it real, conserve and protect.

Look after our marine environment. That’s all we got. Cheers.

Affiliated YouTube Channels

https://youtube.com/@Brucifire – highly entertaining surf reporting

https://youtube.com/@thesardinenews – neva miss a single sardine

https://youtube.com/@mydotackletalk – highly technical sport fishing

https://youtube.com/@surflaunchingsouthernafrica – getting out there safely

https://youtube.com/@waterwoes – complain here

Affiliated websites

https://umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
https://umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za –  sardine run coming up
https://thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
https://masterwatermen.co.za – news from deep down
https://brucifire.co.za – surf and conditions reporting
https://fishbazaruto.com – your dreams are out there
https://mydofishinglures.co.za – technical sport fishing

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5 PM SARDINES Update by Kevin in Qora 19 June 2024 and it’s all GOOD NEWS

5 PM Sardines Update 19 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora

5 PM SARDINES Update by Kevin in Qora 19 June 2024 and it’s all GOOD NEWS

5 PM SARDINES Update by Kevin in Qora 19 June 2024 and it’s all GOOD NEWS: Kevin has analysed the day and comes up with only GOOD Sardine News this sunny KZN winter’s afternoon.

Over to Kevin…

?How’s it everyone? This is Kevin at Qora Mouth, just north of Mazepa Bay in the Southern Transkei. Oh, we’re getting some lovely reports of the sardines moving north. In case it in multiple reports – Manaba beach, Mtwalume, St. Mike’s this morning. So this shoal is actually moving, but it is a little bit off the coast.

So they’re not hugging the coast and not in netting distance right now. So there I would estimate about a kilometer to a kilometer and a half out. So obviously as we said before, they’ve found a little bit of cold water out there. And they’re just moving slowly northward. Which is good that they’re staying close.

They’re not going out into the deep. And all we can hope for now is that the south swell that’s really dominant right now down here is going to move them in closer. And what tends to happen on the KZN coast is that as they reach the warmer water, that little cold plume that they’re in will start coming closer and closer into the beach.

And it’ll kind of squeeze them into the beach where they get within a striking distance of everyone. So yeah, we have also just heard of a net that’s gone in right now at Hibberdene late afternoon It’s about just after 4 4 30pm. So net has just gone in and we’ll wait for confirmation whether they got anything or not But normally the guys don’t launch launch unless they see that they’re within netting distance So yeah, that’s all we got for today Let’s hope for better things tomorrow You But the sards are definitely on the move.

Cool guys. Talk to you soon. Cheers

THANK YOU KEVIN!

Affiliated YouTube Channels

https://youtube.com/@Brucifire – highly entertaining surf reporting

https://youtube.com/@thesardinenews – neva miss a single sardine

https://youtube.com/@mydotackletalk – highly technical sport fishing

https://youtube.com/@surflaunchingsouthernafrica – getting out there safely

https://youtube.com/@waterwoes – complain here

Affiliated websites

https://umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
https://umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za –  sardine run coming up
https://thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
https://masterwatermen.co.za – news from deep down
https://brucifire.co.za – surf and conditions reporting
https://fishbazaruto.com – your dreams are out there
https://mydofishinglures.co.za – technical sport fishing

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Early Sardine Report 19 June 2024 by The Bear

Sardine Report by The Master Watermen 19 June 2024 at 7AM

Early Sardine Report 19 June 2024

Early Sardine Report 19 June 2024: we are having a phenomenal early sardine run this year. So much so that The Sardine News website broke! So we will share the posts between the many websites we run, in the future. Especially here at The Master Watermen.

I just got some inside information from netters who were successful yesterday late afternoon with a net real close to Hibberdene. Just a bit north.

And right now along the backline at Uvongo and St. Mikes shoals are milling about waiting for the tide to drop.

Enjoy the video…

Spearfishing

This a great time to be a spearfisherman. Clean water. Gamefish. Sardines. It’s like a magical imaginary wonder world down there. Check out this recent gallery of catches.

Fishing

During the sardine run, fish are much easier to shoot than to catch. Which is why we all went underwater in the first place. But some anglers are getting lucky and garrick are being hooked all up and down the KZN coastline. Aswell as those lekka big old kob. The 20kg models that sit right in the shore break to ambush shad and sardines as they swim by.

You have to be completely ‘doff’ not to be catching your daily quota of shad. Which is FOUR I might remind y’all!

Deep Sea

It’s a tough time being a ski-boater this time of the year. The fish are everywhere. Every beach. Every reef. Fish have migrated to here from all over the show. To get their share of the spoils. But they ain’t biting! They are after the fresh power-packed bite-sized sardines. That are freely available everywhere right now.

Today 19 June 2024

Those outsized shoals sighted yesterday on the lower south coast have got everyone on edge. Up early. Drinking coffee and waiting on The Sardine Report.

These big shoals could surprise us all and disappear completely again. The water in Durban is 22 degrees and that is way too warm.

Yesterday Kevin in Qora was reporting his water right down to 16 degrees. And that water is not the result of any incessant easts. None have been blowing hard enough to chill the water that much. So Kevin deduces that his cold patch down there in the deep Transkei, is yet another cut off section of cold being sandwiched against the shore line and being driven north by pressure.

Kevin’s understanding of the sardines and the ocean is unparalleled. And he has a grandstand seat. His verandah! Kevin runs Wild Coast Cottages. You can get ahold of him via The Sardine News website. Which is kinda broken at the moment but it is still serving the news luckily.

Affiliated YouTube Channels

https://youtube.com/@Brucifire – highly entertaining surf reporting

https://youtube.com/@thesardinenews – neva miss a single sardine

https://youtube.com/@mydotackletalk – highly technical sport fishing

https://youtube.com/@surflaunchingsouthernafrica – getting out there safely

https://youtube.com/@waterwoes – complain here

Affiliated websites

https://umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
https://umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za –  sardine run coming up
https://thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
https://masterwatermen.co.za – news from deep down
https://brucifire.co.za – surf and conditions reporting
https://fishbazaruto.com – your dreams are out there
https://mydofishinglures.co.za – technical sport fishing

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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.

Affiliated YouTube Channels

https://youtube.com/@Brucifire – highly entertaining surf reporting

https://youtube.com/@thesardinenews – neva miss a single sardine

https://youtube.com/@mydotackletalk – highly technical sport fishing

https://youtube.com/@surflaunchingsouthernafrica – getting out there safely

https://youtube.com/@waterwoes – complain here

Affiliated websites

https://umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
https://umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za –  sardine run coming up
https://thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
https://masterwatermen.co.za – news from deep down
https://brucifire.co.za – surf and conditions reporting
https://fishbazaruto.com – your dreams are out there
https://mydofishinglures.co.za – technical sport fishing