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4 July 2024 at 7am by Adam Kamdar on the Durban Beachfront

4 July 2024 at 7am by Adam Kamdar on the Durban Beachfront

4 July 2024 at 7am by Adam Kamdar on the Durban Beachfront

4 July 2024 at 7am by Adam Kamdar on the Durban Beachfront: 4 July 2024 at 7am by Adam Kamdar on the Durban Beachfront: good morning KZN and the rest of the world. We wish you the most joyful sardine and fish-catching day today. Head south to the usual spots like Scotties and the Warner Beach area.

For now, over to Adam as he tells all…

4 July 2024 at 7am by Adam Kamdar on the Durban Beachfront

Greetings from the studio here at The Sardine News. Another wonderful KZN winter’s day as the sun comes up shining and the ocean smooth as a lake.

Buster

The threat of a buster SW has been hanging over us a few days now. But it still hasn’t arrived. Even as the weather conspirers juggle their models and predictions day to day, each morning has revealed itself in absolute south coast perfection.

Sardines

As for the sardines, well they also have been scarce. The Sardine News team traveled north and south over the previous two days. Seeing many baitballs that certainly could have been sardines. But we just couldn’t get close to them as they skirted the backline and stayed well out of reach.

Waves

The big south winter swells of June and July have been noticeably absent so far. One or two bigger days gave in fast to the smaller more direct swells coming out of the east.

Diving

It is high spearo paradise and these guys have taken full advantage of the clear conditions. Thriving gamefish. Which almost makes up for the doldrums of the past few floods.

Ocean safari and scoobies will also be making the most of the cetaceans and predators hammering at the wayward sardines.

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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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8am 3 July 2024 Sardines and Conditions Report for KZN

8am 3 July 2024 Sardines and Conditions Report for KZN

8am 3 July 2024 Sardines and Conditions Report for KZN

8am 3 July 2024 Sardines and Conditions Report for KZN: thank you for tuning in and here be your early Wednesday morning Sardines and Conditions Report for KZN.

8am 3 July 2024 Sardines and Conditions Report for KZN

8am 3 July 2024 Sardines and Conditions Report for KZN

The stable weather and sea conditions continue through the neap tide cycle as reported today. Right from the ocean. Adam and Nigel are out there catching delicious Natal Snoek right now!

Nigel with his first fish from this idyllic KZN Winter morning off the Blue Lagoon.

Sardines’

Are very hard to find right now. We scoured out every beach and vay from Mzamba in the Transkei all the way to Port Shepstone. We saw many sardines. But way out to sea. Where the dolphins and other predators were simply gorging themselves on the confused and exhausted sardines.

These sardines still don’t know where they went wrong and are just forging ahead in the hopes of breaking through into the sardine Eden. Like the rest of the population who went the right way. Up the West Coast. To spawn and breed and repopulate.

Shad

The shad are distracted by these wayward sardines that refuse to come close. And they are also out there chasing the shoals. Making for some very frustrated mombakkies looking fisherfolk up and down the coast.

At least the beaches stay clean when the shad fishermen aren’t trashing the places.

Garrick

The Master Watermen website has shown some outsized garrick falling to the spear. On average, they certainly seem to be bigger this year so far. However, some real small ones are also being caught and kept. Which is not going to work for next year’s garrick visit. And another reminder that the bag limit is 2 per person.

Kob

There are kob of all sizes lurking everywhere, mainly in the shallows. Wherever shad were biting in the daytime, you will find kob there in the night time.

We also caught this lovely pan-sized koblet in the Umzimkulu Estuary this week. By Wouter and caught on a lure.

Conditions

Are going to continue to ve excellent. And this cold front that has been promised to us will hopefully be on time tomorrow. And will airbrush the ocean into perfection all over again. And the cycle continues.

All we really need, is some cold water!

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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7 AM KZN Sea Conditions Report 2 July 2024 by Adam Kamdar

2 July Sea Conditions Report by Adam Kamdar 2 July 2024

7 AM KZN Sea Conditions Report 2 July 2024 by Adam Kamdar

7 AM KZN Sea Conditions Report 2 July 2024 by Adam Kamdar: a big good morning and a thank you to Adam Kamdar of Township Hyper for delivering the sea conditions report for us today.

?Good morning, Durban. It’s 2nd of July, Tuesday, 7 a. m. The sun is coming up and it coincides with today’s low tide. The next high tide will be at around 1 p. m. Windguru shows northeasterly winds for the afternoon, two meter swells. A very short wave period, so that’ll make the sea quite choppy today. Wind speed at the moment is 11 kilometers per hour from the north, and the air temperature is 17 degrees.

Pressure is stable at 1022. Sea temperature is around 21 degrees, still too warm in Durban. There was action along the south coast from Waterbeach area, Kingsborough area, but the sardines are still finding it too warm to reach Durban. Next, we’ll have your sunrise view.

As predicted, a little bit choppy today. You can feel the winds picking up. It will freshen in the afternoon. Make it even more bumpy. Forgive the hoarse voice. We had lots of fun out at sea yesterday. Driving amongst the sugar mackerel shoals and catching some nice fish at, uh, number one, some bonnies and a nice yellow-edged rock cod.

Stay tuned to thesardine.co.za.

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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20 June 2024 7 AM Sardine Run Report KZN by Adam Kamdar in Durban

20 June 2024 7 AM Sardine Run Report KZN b? Adam Kamdar in Durban

20 June 2024 7 AM Sardine Run Report KZN by Adam Kamdar in Durban

20 June 2024 7 AM Sardine Run Report KZN by Adam Kamdar in Durban: Adam Kamdar of Township Hyper kicks this lovely KZN Winters day off to a great start. With this cool report from the Durban Beachfront where Adam erpots incredibly good sardine and fishing conditions.

Enjoy the report and thank you Adam!

Adam Kamdar Sardine Run Report

Sardines Today?

The further south from Durban you travel today, the colder the water will get. It is actually around 23 degrees in the Durban Bay so you don’t even need a wetsuit to go surfing. But sardines don’t do warm water at all.

This means that the further south you travel in search of sardines, the more likely your chances are of finding them. From Amanzimtoti all the way to Port Edward is a vaste piece of coastline to be patrolling on a day like today. But these fish have a collective mind of their own and when they decide to hit the beach they do.

Use the Sardine Sightings Map for 2024 to gauge the movement of the shoals and what is going on with the conditions.

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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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