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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.