SARDINES netted at Winklespruit NOW! 9 AM on the 27 June 2024
SARDINES netted at Winklespruit NOW! 9 AM on the 27 June 2024: Go get ’em!
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Good morning. It’s 7. 30 a. m. Thursday, the 27th of June, right now on the high tide and the next low tide will be at 1. 26pm. Moving on to Windguru. Shows partly cloudy conditions this morning with nice settle sea. Current conditions off Durban, wind blowing westerly 13 kilometers per hour and air temperature 18 degrees.
Our atmospheric pressure at the moment is 1032 hectopascals. WaveNet shows sea temperature. It’s still quite warm, around 21 degrees. We’re hoping for the water temps to drop, and for the sardines to move closer to the Golden Mile. And next, we’ll have the sunrise view. And here we have a view of the Golden Mile.
The sun is up, but it’s overcast today, so it’s not peeping through. But lovely settled conditions. We had reports of shoals, patchy shoals, swimming past the bluff yesterday. There were a few shoals off Amshloti even. So, the fish are out in the deep, uh, they could be mixed red eye sardines and sugar mackerel, but there’s definitely sardines in the mix and on the way as well.
Keep watching and keep listening, thesardine.co.za.
#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.
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.
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.
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.
