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30 June 2024 7 AM Durban Beachfront Update by Adam

30 June 2024 Perfect Conditions Durban KZN update by Adam

30 June 2024 7 AM Durban Beachfront Update by Adam

30 June 2024 7 AM Durban Beachfront Update by Adam: over to Adam for today’s on-the-spot update broadcasted directly from the Durban Beachfront. Where it looks like it’s all happening.

Over to Adam for his comprehensive roundup and forecast for today…

Durban in the Morning

Morning guys, it’s Sunday the 30th of June 2024, time is just past 7. 30, as you can see we’ve passed a low tide just after 4am, we’ve got the incoming tide now, next high tide will be around 10. 30. Windguru shows settled conditions, very little wind, low swell, long swell period, so lovely fishing conditions.

Current wind is 10kmph. Northwest. Temperature is 17 degrees. Pressure is 102. 2 and stable. Wave net is showing water temperatures off Durban is dropping. Still a little too warm for the sardines but at least it’s in the right direction. Sardine action yesterday. There was netting at Pennington and Scottborough.

Still plenty of sardines around. Lots of shoals in the deep. Next, we’ll have our sunrise view. So these are the conditions off Durban. Beautiful settled conditions. Not much of a wave for the surfers but Lots of boats launched today. There are still about 10 boats out at the bait spot at the North Breakwater.

And I counted about 15 boats fishing at the Blue Lagoon, Virginia area. I don’t know if there’s Garrick action there, or if everyone’s trying for snook this morning, but lots of boats on the water. I’ll be heading out to sea later, and stay tuned for more updates. If we come across shoals of sardines out at sea, we’ll definitely post 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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5 PM SARDINES Update by Kevin in Qora 19 June 2024 and it’s all GOOD NEWS

5 PM Sardines Update 19 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora

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.

Cool guys. Talk to you soon. Cheers

THANK YOU KEVIN!

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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11 AM Sardines in KZN on an exciting 19 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora

Sardines in KZN Hibberdene 11AM 19 June 2024

11 AM Sardines in KZN on an exciting 19 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora

11 AM Sardines in KZN on an exciting 19 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora: yes well it’s all happening except the netting as I wrote this at 11:15 AM. Kevin compiled a great summary and a report and here it is.

Over to Kevin…

?Howzit everyone, this is Kevin at Qora Mouth, just north of Mazepa Bay in the Southern Transkei. While our spotters have come through for us, they say that there’s a lovely shoal, a little bit deep off St. Mike’s right now, but heading north slowly. This could be just a little splinter group off the big shoal that moved past Port Edward yesterday.

It doesn’t sound like it’s a huge shoal, but there are sards moving north, which is wonderful news. Thanks for watching. Even though they were a little bit deep, which is probably due to the warmer water. They’re just heading a little bit deeper. The deeper you go, the colder it gets. The deeper you go, the warmer it gets.

So these sides are just following the cold water. That’s what they do. And they work a little bit erratically. So all we can do is report on the current situation. We did hear of a good net that came out at Hibberdene yesterday afternoon, late. So the sards are still around, and I suspect that the big shoal that passed Wild Coast Sun yesterday is going to get up and going as well.

If I look out deep, I see there is a lovely south swell starting to pick up again. And that south swell, the closer it gets to land, and it generally takes about 24 to 48 hours to move in closer, and once it comes onto the continental shelf, because of the shallower water, those swells pick up into much bigger swells, they release a lot more energy, and the sards are going to find that extremely beneficial for them to start moving up the coast where they come to the surface, and they use that forward momentum of that south swell, where a south swell is actually moving from south to north, Which is against the current, so that brings the sards to the surface very quickly.

We’ll keep you updated we have got a report also in Durban that the water is still sitting around 22 degrees. But that is one degree less than it was, so that’s also good news. So all these factors are now looking very, very good and favorable for these sards to move in close. And then it’ll be game on once again.

Cool. Thanks a lot, guys. We’ll talk to you later, probably put out a report this afternoon if anything happens. So keep watching and keep looking for the latest reports from us at The Sardine News.

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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Sardine Run 24 might be over already?

Sardine Run 24 is over 15 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora

Sardine Run 24 might be over already?

Sardine Run 2024 might be over already? Kevin answers this question and a few more in today’s edition of The Sardine News.

How’s it everyone? This is Kevin from Qora Mouth, just north of Mazepa Bay in the southern Transkei. So yeah, it’s been a quiet day again for the third day in a row. We’ve heard of one net that came out at Pennington, a very small net, and guys are wondering what has happened to the sardines. So let’s just do a little recap of what is actually happening here.

The sardines that come off the Agulhas Bank, which is where they spend the summer months. It’s off the tip of Africa. And then wintertime, they come off the banks because they are a migratory species. And the whole biomass of the shoal moves as a shoal up the west coast of Africa towards northern Namibia, southern Angola, where they breed and they spawn.

Very nutrient-rich water. And then At the end of winter, they head out deeper and they move back to the Agulhas Bank in kind of a cycle. And the sardine run is just the splinter group that took a wrong turn off the tip of Africa and they moved up the east coast. So the sardine run is actually the splinter group that isn’t supposed to be there.

It was supposed to be part of the main shoal but because of the cold upwellings and the nutrient-rich water that’s brought up by the Benguela current, they move up the east coast of South Africa and what they do is they follow this cold plume and when they get to the KZN waters They actually are reaching extremely warm water.

I got a report today that the water on off Durban beachfront is at 22. 7 degrees Celsius, which is way too warm for these sardines to survive in. So I doubt that these shoals will reach much further than Durban, even though we have seen some minor cast netting happening off of Balito. I’m going to say that.

You know, these sardines have now reached the limit of, of the cold water plume. It’s now dissipating into the warm Gullis current. And they now are going to be starting to head out into the deeper ocean and looking for cold water. And once they find that cold water, they then get caught in the southward current and there’ll be moving back to the Agulhas Bank.

So yeah, that’s kind of where it’s at, but you know, You know, it’s not all dead yet. We have just seen some footage of possible shoal off of Port Edward coming through. I’m seeing, you know, it was just a still photo. I’m seeing some discoloration in the water, but that could also be wind. Wind sometimes plays tricks with the mind.

And people give us false reports. So I don’t see any predator activity. I’m not seeing any gannets And there are so many gannets up in that area right now of the south coast Because they’ve been feeding for the last week or so. So yeah, I’m going to take it with a pinch of salt But let’s hope for the netters sake and for the industry that there is another shoal coming through But that remains to be seen over the next day or so We will then get confirmation that that actually was a shoal of sardines coming through.

And there you are. So let’s hope for the best. Yeah, what I’m thinking is that the sardine run is basically over. That the sards have all moved out into deeper water. We’ll keep you updated if anything changes. And just keep watching Sardine News because we keep things relevant and we keep things current.

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for now. Talk to you guys soon. Cheers.

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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9AM Saturday Sardine Summary 15 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora, Adam in Durban and The Bear on the Coast

Saturday Sardine Summary 15 June 2024 by Kevin 9 AM

9AM Saturday Sardine Summary 15 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora, Adam in Durban and The Bear on the Coast

9AM Saturday Sardine Summary 15 June 2024 by Kevin in Qora, Adam in Durban and The Bear on the Coast: The Sardine News Saturday Sardine Summary.

Morning, chaps. This is Kevin at Qora Mouth, just north of Mazepa Bay, in the southern Transkei Let’s cross over to Adam, on the Durban beach front for his early morning report.

All the fish and more. It’s Saturday morning on the Durban beach front. Gorgeous conditions. There’s a wave for the surfers who have patience.
Lots of boats on the water today. We’re expecting a southwesterly this afternoon. But at the moment, it’s pretty calm. Lovely settled conditions. Hope the guys get some good fish today.

Right. So thank you, Adam. Thanks for your input. Let’s also have a chat to The Bear, who’s also giving us a little early morning report on how things are going.

Okay, everybody have a good day. Y’all see looking ballistic, uh, from bluff down. Very flat. And it’s definitely bizarre. Sardines will be around. So go and get your game on, peeps. Have fun. As always, dive safe on the straight spears. All the fish and more fish and more fish and more fish cool.

Thanks guys. Thanks for your input always much appreciated Yeah, what we can say is that there are The crews the netting crews are down at Pennington right now. They’re all on the beach. Nobody’s launched things are kind of quiet for a second day in a row and let’s think positive here.

Let’s cross our fingers and hope that the sards haven’t moved out into deeper water yet. But that very well could have happened. You know, they’re reaching, as we said yesterday, very unfavorable conditions. They’re now in the KZN waters where they were following a cold plume up the coast, very nutrient rich water, and as they get towards where they’re at now, they start getting a little bit confused because it should be actually staying cold and it’s actually getting warm.

So at about now, these sards will all move out into the deep and Yeah, look for cold water. So let’s hope that hasn’t happened already. The netters are still positive because they’re on the beaches. So yeah let’s see what the day brings and we’ll get back to you as things change. Cheers.

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