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Posted on October 26, 2024October 26, 2024 by Sean Lange — Leave a comment

Blue Lagoon Garrick Report by Sean Lange and Adam Kamdar 8am 26 October 2024

Blue Lagoon Garrick Report by Sean Lange and Adam Kamdar 8am 26 October 2024

Blue Lagoon Garrick Report by Sean Lange and Adam Kamdar 8am 26 October 2024: Another fun Saturday for KZN ocean users! Light winds from the south all day. Starting nice and offshore and swinging around to a gentle east angle. Not picking up at all.

Adam Kamdar is out there making the most of the cool conditions and sent in this clip before 8am! “That’s Him” fighting and boating a double-figures looking garrick out off the Blue Lagoon area.

There are many boats and oceancrafts out there looking for live bait and a chance at a tough-fighting garrick fish. Adam is going to be sending in more action clips from the water through the day. His next one is already in!

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Garrick fishing news right from the water…video by Adam Kamdar and Township Hyper.

Blue Lagoon Garrick Report Two by Adam Kamdar on the water

This time it’s charter boat Simply the Best who has not one, but two garrick on the line. This video focuses mainly on the fish at the back of the boat. The cabin gets in the way of seeing the second fish being handled from the starboard bow.

Adam reports many boats out having a fun day. Weirdly enough, this is the second Saturday in a row that has panned out so nicely. Those are good statistics for this time of the year. As we expect a beast of an east to start early tomorrow and destroy the ocean in no time flat. Maybe the very early birders will get a line wet or catch a wave or two.

The divers will be getting in very early tomorrow for sure and we all look forward to the next Bear report from the Master Watermen website. There must be some clean patches somewhere up or down the coast for the okes to dive in.

Synoptic

More reports to follow throughout the day…

Sardines n Sighting Maps

It has been a fantastic sardine run this memorable 2024. And all the action has been logged right here on The Sardine News. This year’s map has been viewed 188,000 times and keeps growing.

Which led us to decide to keep the map live. And keep adding unique marine animal sightings and events. That occurs non-stop all year round. This year we started to log more whale and dolphin sightings. And we even had a shipwreck! And a freaking tornado! And recently a capsized KZNSB boat!

These events will from now on be included in the Sardine News Sightings Map for 2024. And on the 1 January 2025, we shall start all over again.

Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps. Great for a windy day like today to research. With instructions to install The Sardine News right on your phone or desktop.

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 – complain about your municipality here

Websites

umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za – will get you right out and onto the edge
thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine
masterwatermen.co.za – news from deep down
mydofishinglures.co.za – MYDOs for global orders

Posted on October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 by Sean Lange — Leave a comment

Monday More Fun Day for KZN Surfers by Adam Kamdar in Surf City

Surf City 14 October 2024 Durban KZN by Adam Kamdar

Monday More Fun Day for KZN Surfers by Adam Kamdar in Surf City

Monday More Fun Day for KZN Surfers by Adam Kamdar in Surf City: Welcome back to the sardine news. We have Adam Kamdar checking from what has turned out to be another surfing day in KZN and Durban in particular.

Over to Adam Kandar at North Beach in Surf City…

Durban

Monday More Fun Day for Surfers in KZN by Adam Kamdar on the Spot at North Beach in the famous Surf City that is Durban in South Africa.

Good time to be a surfer as the swell promises to build all day long. And reach a massive pulse tomorrow. Up to 5 meters at the crack of dawn! Obviously for this time of the year, the wind has agreed to join the party and will be cranking through at an enormous rate of knots.

SW

Gusts of up to 40 knots, which equates to like 80kmh, will punctuate the strong south-westerly tomorrow too. It looks to be at least 15 or 20 knots all day long. Only backing off on Tuesday night.

NE

The northeaster is plotting its big comeback from Wednesday morning and into Thursday all day. It’s gonna come charging in as early as it can, and will steadily build all day long reaching a maximum of about 15 knots in the afternoon.

With a low tide at 8:45am on Wednesday, that morning is going to produce the goods for any surfers who can make it out through that pounding surf. Before the NE makes it too bumpy.

And although Durban will get some SW juice that day, it will be nothing like what the south and north coasts will look like that morning. Lines to the horizon and light winds until the tide turns. As the tide turns from low to high water moving in – that’s about when the onshore NE will start to pick up. Before that, the tide will be draining fast and little offshores will spring up all over to compensate for the fast-receding water and therefore air pressure. As the tide drains, it sucks air off the land to create those regional and sporadic offshores, in the face of prevailing high pressure systems. The east ruins this quicksmart so you got to get in early as possible in these situations.

Fishing

The fishing has been excellent everywhere. Kob and garrick making up for most of the excitement. With the odd handsome brushed in between. We will see exactly what fish are about with the Bear Report coming in later today. This valuable information will be posted right here on The Sardine News at around 5pm.

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