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The Sardine News Late Edition 22 August 2025 FULL Reports #shad #sardines #bridges #fishing #report

The Sardine News Late Edition 22 August 2025 FULL Reports #shad #sardines #bridges #fishing #report

The Sardine News Late Edition 22 August 2025 FULL Reports #shad #sardines #bridges #fishing #report

The Sardine News Late Edition 22 August 2025 FULL Reports #shad #sardines #bridges #fishing #report

welcome back to the Sardine News ALL the fish and more
hey a big welcome back to you
the Sardine News in the afternoon edition
Chelsea says howzit alright
we got some very good news today
like really good news and I’m gonna start it off yeah
and yes
that was our good friend Jace and now here is the very
very good news
the guys deployed a net and guess who is back
welcome back Kioshin
so guys I’m back
I thought it was over
but I’m back and so is the rest of the team
Veez One and uh
we’re back on the beach um
sort of walking again
so we decided to net today and we are at um Caradeen
in front of Karridene Hotel
and we got a nice net about an hour ago
so there’s a lot of sardine action
I believe there’s still a lot of action on the coast
and uh yeah
Veez One is a nice net if anyone wants fresh fish
we are selling at uh at Winklespruit
uh near Green Roof
at the entrance to Green Roof
so the team is back and I’m back and back on the beach
and uh yeah
sardine run 2025 isn’t over
yeah it’s really good to see you again Kioshin
you do such a really good job down there
thank you very much for all the reports
and it’s so nice to see you up and riding again okay
moving right on
morning guys
beautiful morning stunning day
couple of nice shad
came out here early
and then they’ve just went off the bite
waters perfect
a lot of peckers around
well
couldn’t work ask for a better day
take time off come fish
yeah while we at the block check this out
thanks Roosta
for sending us this update from such a cool angle
but yeah
I don’t know what to say or what to comment about this
because I’m sure some people are gonna get upset hey
yeah yeah
anyway they look like they’re digging at the bottom
at the other side as well
so I don’t know I just don’t I’ve got no comment
moving along
morning all from the pond in Port Edward
not much shad action going on here
there’s quite a crowd gathered there with the guys
with the big sticks I’m gonna hang around and see
I think someone’s hooked something big
garrick came out here the other day on
it was close to 20 kilos
just taking the beauty of the surrounds here
it’s absolutely stunning
light north easterly
8 to 10 K’s an hour making fishing still fine
nothing wrong
anyway this is me from Port Edward saying goodbye
tight lines everyone
okay thank you Roosta
Allen Steve for your reports
we’re gonna go over to Ian
who’s got something to tell us thanks Ian
good uh
morning everyone
coming to you from the lower south coast
uh this awesome Friday morning
um all of you guys know me
I’m the uh squidgits man
so this morning um
we will head down to the rocks and uh
I’m gonna use my trustworthy bait squidgits
so we’ll keep you updated on uh
how it goes if we catch or not
um I had some guys um
WhatsApp me last night with awesome catches of um
I believe they were some other fish caught
but um they never sent me any posts
I will see if I can get hold of them
and ask them to share but they got some big black tile
I did post it last night as
as as it came in
so yes um guys
um while we’re here um
I believe there is another supply of squid guts on the
um uh
on on the Durban
Durbs area they’re calling themselves squid guts uh
comes in a bottle similar to mine with an orange lid
guys um
I I wish them all the luck
I wish them tight lines and real runs
but guys if
if if
if it does not say squidgits
it’s not squidgits and I’m saying this with a reason
it’s not a matter of just sourcing bait
packaging it and sending it out there
um I’ve been um
doing squidgits now for more than 10 years
so I have fine tune is the bait
um so there is a secret twist to the squidgits
and so yeah um
like you say um
proof in the pudding and the guys are doing well
um
and um
yeah the posts have just been streaming in on
on how um
fishing has changed uh
things in the last couple of months
but anyhow guys
um I’m not really worried about that
um just if it doesn’t say squidgits
it’s not squidgits so yeah
it’s up to you uh
to decide
um what you wanna do
what you wanna buy
what you wanna spend to waste your money on
so guys uh
from me
um I’m heading on down now to the water’s edge
uh and I will be using squidgits
the golden bait and um yeah
let’s see what we can get this morning
hopefully I am blessed with some good fish
there has been a increase
a lot amount of small fish in the water
um so yeah
they’ve been going to town
and not getting the big fish to the bite
so yeah with that said
uh let me head on down
uh Sun’s almost almost up
uh we have a bit of cloud
so maybe give me a little bit more darker
morning hours to fishing so from me
uh down here on the south coast from the squidgits’s man
I’ll be in touch uh during the course of the morning
uh to all you guys out there on the rocks
stay safe tart lines and real runs
so good morning guys
just a recap of this morning’s uh broadcast
um yeah
uh bit hazy this morning
the sun’s coming up a lot of sardines in the water
a hell of a lot of sardines
but yes on the squidgits
the golden proof in the pudding
this guy jumping around there we go
you just keep quiet a bit
you can see squidgits
and a danger right in the corner there
so yeah guys proof in the pudding
uh even on rough days yeah
we’re getting fish cheers guys and tight lines
and then finally we would like to thank
the people who ordered MYDOs this week
and joined the HOTLINE
you’re the lifeblood of the sardine
thank you thank you
and thank you again um
we’re gonna just go out mentioning National Garrick Day
it’s coming up you know
in a month or so
but there’s a cool video that I posted this morning
that we made in 2008
might be our first sardine news video of all time
but it’s on I’m not gonna put it on now
cause it’s like 9 minutes or something like that
but it’s on the channel somewhere
and it’s highly recommended alright
don’t forget to join the HOTLINE to support us too
that’s our biggest thing welcome Roger
welcome Sharon welcome Callum
welcome all those new people who have just joined up
right if you can just also like and subscribe
that’s just good enough for us to thank you
thank you and thank you out

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5 EPIC Fishing Battles From This Past Week

Henry Giant Kob In Christmas Bay Sheffield Beach

5 EPIC Fishing Battles From This Past Week

5 EPIC Fishing Battles From This Past Week: enjoy the picture show…! (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou)

good morning welcome back sardine news okay
we’re gonna try something different here today
we’ve got a lot of fish around
a lot of fish
and we’re gonna get to see five fights here
mainly at the Block in Port Shepstone
and also one in Christmas Bay
up in Sheffield on Ballito side
but what fun to watch these guys
some of them get away most of them get caught
let’s dive right in and join Alan at the block
another guy on here
also we think it’s a Garrick it’s the third one now
in about half an hour
so let’s pull up with Garrick here at the mo
still on still playing it
I think you had bait
what you had bait on there or what sardine
spoon okay
picked him up on spoon
still playing it
it’s a big guy there playing
nice nice
why we that side why we right so not coming here right
come around with him
Drei link Außen ja Bitte
hey vaai for ot sharp here he’s hooked on the gill
vaai sharp its hooked on the gill go quickly
gaff him gaff him
gaff him gaff him
whoa
well done well done
well done what’s your name
Naren right Naren
Naren thanks Naren well done
hey shot Allen for always being on the spot like that
and Naren that’s a beautiful fish
well done not to be outdone
here comes Deez next
this is gonna be quite a long session over here
there’s two fish coming up which one gets away
now there’s a guy onto a nice fish here
fishing in the front
Ous are saying a Garrick
but he wasn’t using a lure
is it Dees it looks like Dees huh
hey what you got there Dees Dees
what you got
what you got
Garrick
what is it
Garrick
nice fish
hey that rock in front there
that’s a gotta get it past that
what bait you using Dees sardine 4/09
still on here
that’s a tricky part
this is a tricky part
get it over that rock
there we go he’s got it past
guys got a problem this side
if it goes over that rock
trying to get it away from that rock huh
going over that rock
AIBO…came off
cut him off over the rock
unlucky
he’s still on here
now the trick is to get it over that rock
and before this goes beyond this rock here
you’ll see he’s coming
starting to bring it in
out here
that rock
that’s probably why they are swinging around that
hes kind of got it past that rock
Deez
Nice Garrick Hey
so coming this way coming back coming back
coming this way
hey nice work
Dee’s that’s a great funny
now you can see in the background behind Dee’s
that’s his wife watch that lady
now there’s another fish came out on a on a spoon here
very good very nice fishing that morning
not sure how many came out all together
but then we’re going to check on Dee’s wife
and see what she caught the other morning
other evening I think it was
yes yes yes
hey what fun hey
well done Zahira that’s a beautiful fish
right now we’re going to Christmas Bay to visit Henry
our latest contributor to the Sardine Hotline
and check what he caught
muck big kingie or something
come on
oh it’s just sitting
okay still on yet oh gosh
I don’t know what it is solid son oh oh
hey what a fish Henry Sheesis
man thank you and it’s so very nice to have you
as our North Coast correspondent for the Sardine News
right we’ve got one more fish to go you might have seen this one before if
Evert at Margate Pier about a week
ago don’t forget to like and subscribe and if you join this channel
you would have seen all these videos long time ago Ciao

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Do The Sardines Spawn Here In KZN?

Are The Sardines Spawning in KZN

Do The Sardines Spawn Here In KZN?

Do The Sardines Spawn Here In KZN? Deep diving Beth Neale has a question for us…we have tried to answer it as best we could…

Welcome back to the Sardine News
yeah welcome back
Sardine News beautiful
beautiful June day again June 18th
just marvelous wonderful stuff
not too much sardine action going on
I heard a rumour that there was a net in *Toti
going just now but in the meantime
um since there’s been so much sardine action
the last few days
I’m kind of relieved that there isn’t too much
news coming in but I’ve been getting lots of comments
lots of questions and I got a question from Beth Neale
we all know who she is and uh
I couldn’t answer it so I figured no ways
I’m gonna ask Kevin to answer it so Kevin off you go
thanks mate
yeah that’s open to debate um
the problem with spawning is that they
they spawn in cold water
that’s why the major shoal moves up the east coast
I mean the west coast um
that’s where they you know come off the Agulhas Bank
they move up up the west coast to Angola
and southern Angola and northern Namibia
that’s where they’re spawning
and then they’re moving back to the Agulhas Bank
and the
the East Coast sardine run is an anomaly
and nobody knows yet if they actually do spawn
because that is what the migration is all about
but Ushaka Marine World had a study going on
where they were trying to figure out
if these sardines are just like
going to their death
and becoming part of the food chain
because of the mistake of coming up the East Coast and
um
there were there’s no results yet
as to whether they are actually spawning
or whether that a large portion of that shoal
once they reach warm water
goes out to the deep
and moves back to their Gallus bank
they don’t even know that yet
so yeah that’s
like a question that everybody would love to know
because that then
that means that the sardine run
actually serves a purpose
uh for the
for the you know
biomass of the sardines
but there’s no definitive answer to that
and that’s something that
if you could come up with the answer to that
scientifically you’d be a millionaire overnight
bud ha ha ha I wish I could figure that shit out
another thing to bear in mind with the sardine run
is that uh
Antarctica
ice cold water down south is very nutrient rich water
that’s why the humpbacks kind of
hang out there in the summertime
and that nutrient rich water full of phytoplankton
in winter time
you get a cold upwelling that moves up north
and it moves over the Agulhas Bank
and that’s what triggers the sardine run
very high nutrients
lots of phytoplankton and that’s what they’re following
um off the Agulhas Bank up the west coast of Africa
and they’re feeding on that the whole way and spawning
and then moving back to the Agulhas Bank
in the summertime so
with the cold upwellings that happen
and kind of splits down at the Cape
these sardines that make the wrong turn
the water that’s coming up
the East Coast is also very rich in nutrients
the same nutrients
and by the time they get to the warmer water
in case it in it’s too warm for this phytoplankton
so that’s also part of the question
um cause they’re gonna run out of food pretty soon
and we don’t know even
if those sardines make it back to the Agulhas Bank
or if they just become part of the food chain
so it’s a very intricate complex
uh situation that’s happening and uh
would love some answers cheers

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Where are the sardines today?

Where Are The Sardines Today -

Where are the sardines today?

Where are the sardines today? Kevin answers…

alright another awesome net here at Rocky Bay guys
make your way down here at Rocky Bay
uh
moonlight Adcan Marine we did it again yeah
a nice lovely beautiful net guys
make your way down here
well done
our team is our team is happening yeah
OK
morning chaps this is Kevin at Qora Mouth
just north of Mazeppa Bay in the Southern Transkei
well we got lots of action still going on in KZN guys
um if you’re in the public
and you’re driving around looking
and you wanna go watch some netting happening
Rocky Bay is the hotspot
there’s also a net being pulled at Umkomaas and um yeah
good news for the netters
that they’re kind of sticking around in the same area
so the netters don’t have to wonder every day
where they are and what is probably happening
is that the predators have now fractured up
these bigger shoals and these sardines are caught
uh in these little bays behind headlands and um
perfect opportunity for the netters
to surround a bait ball and bring everything to shore
so if you look at the video yeah
you’ll see how big these nets are guys
these are hundreds and hundreds of crates of sardines
that are coming up coming out of the water
which is good news for the industry because obviously
a lot of these sardines end up in boxes
which is the bait for the ski boaters
and the fishermen for the next year
it’s a huge industry and um yeah
I’m sure
you’ll get a chance to go down and buy a crate or two
if you’re part of the public
um wanting to get some fresh fish
but please keep away from the netters
as we’ve discussed
it’s dangerous work and tempers get a little bit flared
um what I can tell you from the Southern Transkei
is that
I’ve got thousands of birds that are moving north
very close to shore
there’s 20 to 30 birds in a line and low on the water
which means uh
being this early in the day
they’re going towards the sardines
they’re not going home so what has
actually happened is that
that shoal that was off East London
I suspect has moved out deep
exactly the same as the last shoal did
and the reason for that is that there’s probably very
very little current out there as well
and they’re going deeper in the water column
where they’re finding the water
that’s a little bit cooler
which facilitates
them moving a lot faster up the coast
and we do know that obviously this is an anomaly
the sardine run is a fractured group
off of the main shoal
that basically lives on the Agulhas Bank
about 2 to 300 km off of Cape Town out in the deep
and they move up the west coast of Africa every year
to spawn and head back to their Agulhas Bank
um for the summer
but the sardine run is just a little fractured group
that take a wrong turn and move up the East Coast
so they they’re out deep
I’m sure that they will come in eventually
because what happens is
that they’re sitting right on the continental shelf
which is about 19 km out here
and as you get further up the coast
our continental shelf kind of pinches in a little bit
that’s why when they get towards KZN
they move in a lot closer
so we can probably expect the same thing to happen now
that this shell will make it in closer
but um not yet
they’re out deep so that’s good news for
the netters
because it means there’s a whole lot more still coming
and I don’t think it’s over yet chaps
so yeah let’s just watch and wait
but keep things real guys
and we’ll keep you
keep in touch with you as the conditions change
and we got spotters on the ground
as you probably realise all over KZN
we got guys sending us videos
sending us current updates
so yeah we’ll keep you updated as things happen cheers

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Elton of GoDive Sardine Baitball Report from Cintsa #sardinerun2025 #sardinemigration #sardine #news

Sardine Baitball by Nicolene Olckers

Elton of GoDive Sardine Baitball Report from Cintsa #sardinerun2025 #sardinemigration #sardine #news

Elton of GoDive Sardine Baitball Report from Cintsa #sardinerun2025 #sardinemigration #sardine #news :another crisp wintery morning down here in southern KZN. The offshore winds are blowing daily and this whole week is dominated mainly by south systems swinging across the country. Causing this offshore drift of air every morning – you can see the smoke from bush fires, cane fires and people whisping out over the sea. Makes for spectacular sunrises and seascapes.

We have a gentle southwesterly blowing later this morning, aiming to top out at around 12 to 15 knots as it takes over from the offshore from about low tide onwards. Later in the day, as the tide pushes in, the wind will swing even further to the east to become a proper onshore.

The ocean recovers really fast in this place at this time of the year. And often a bit of east in the afternoon will pull the prevailing SSW swell into the bays and coves for surfing for the next morning. Many nuances in the atmosphere are at play right now that produce these perfect conditions.

Meanwhile, down south in Cintsa…sardine baitball report by Elton…

all the fish and more fish and more fish and more fish
Hey morning just an update from
Cintsa uh week 4 has just kicked off
yesterday was a little bit quiet
didn’t really find much at all um
and then today all of a sudden in the cold
wet windy um
weather there was there’s quite a lot of action
right from in front of Cintsa in the bay
20 meters deep water nice clear water uh
lots of sardines lots of gannets
and then
some of the videos are also from the East London side
so
one of the boats went all the way down to East London
found great action in front there yeah
the other boats in Cintsa
all the clients on both boats are in the water
at the moment uh
I think um
the last update I heard is that the
one boats
on their third or fourth bait ball for the morning
yeah and they only launched at 8:00 so it’s really
really good conditions at the moment
lots of sardines coming through
lots of gannets
lots of dolphins and I will update further when uh
when I hear more
wow guys it’s bait fish all over the place
Mike
Mike
Mike
Mike
Mike
Mike
Mike
Mike
Mike
Mike
Mike
Mike

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You can also get around the season in a real fun way by checking out our annual Sardine Run Maps. This is a real groovy way to follow the progress of the sardines each year.

You can even download our app to your phone or device, accept notifications, and you will never miss a single sardine.

Here are the links to existing and past  Sardine Sighting Maps…

2025 Sardine Map

2024 Sardine Map

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Channels

Brucifire Surf Retorts – highly entertaining  surf reporting

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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

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