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.
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.
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.
