#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.
Afternoon Sardines Roundup by Kevin in Qora 23 June 2024 GOOD WATER TEMPS! #sardinerun2024 #sardine #run #2024 #sardines
Afternoon Sardines Roundup by Kevin in Qora 23 June 2024 GOOD WATER TEMPS! #sardinerun2024 #sardine #run #2024 #sardines Kevin is back! It feels like an eternity since we have been on our own. Kevin got the seasonal Transkei flu bug. But is back already with this afternoon’s sardine report!
How’s it, chaps? This is Kevin at Cochemouth, just north of Mazepa Bay in the southern Transkei. Sorry you haven’t heard from me for a couple of days. I’ve been down with the flu, so you probably have got a bit of a croaky voice still, but let’s try and give you a summary of the last few days while I’ve been absent.
Not many nets, nets came out, prior to today, but we’ve now heard of two nets that have come out in the Shelley Beach area right by the Ski Boat Club. One this morning and one just now this afternoon. There’s also reporting of shoals around Issa Pingo and even up in Amanzimtoti side. There’s people reporting that there are sardines offshore.
So I think what we can attribute this to is the water temperature drop. Thank you Adam Kamdar for your update on the temperatures. I got a temperature from Durban this morning, the water was sitting at about 21 degrees. And Adam is saying that it’s now at about 20 generally. But he was finding some cold patches out offshore.
Of about 16 degrees. So this is exactly what we were waiting for. The sardines are now going to have lots of reason To move around the bluff and move on to the Durban beach front and keep moving northwards up the north coast This is what they need. They need water around the 20 degree mark or lower. So yeah, this is all good news chaps Uh, let’s see what the next couple days brings but All we can do is look at the current conditions and give our forecasts based on that, but this is what we’re going to say now is that we’re going to see a major movement of these shoals that have been lingering back sitting on the south coast because of the warmer water ahead of them and thankfully they didn’t move out into the They still hug the coast, but a couple of kilometres out, but they’re going to definitely move in closer now, and they’re going to have all those predators on their backs, which is going to push them towards the shore, and I expect they’ll move past the bluff and into the Durban area fairly soon, over the next day or so, and then they’ll start heading north.
As well. You know, their migratory instincts push them North no matter what happens. They want to go North. That’s just where they migrating to. So yeah, this is all good news. Good news for the netters. Good news for the public. Good news for the fishermen. So yeah, we’ll update you as things change.
Anyway, that’s all I got for now. Afternoon sardines! Cheers.
7AM Conditions Report for KZN 21 June 2024 by Adam Kamdar of Township Hyper
7AM Conditions Report for KZN 21 June 2024 by Adam Kamdar of Township Hyper: Adam is up and at it this beautiful KZN Winter morning…
?Good morning, guys. It’s 6:39am on Friday, the 21st of June. Here’s your tide chart for today. As you can see, we’re in the middle of the outgoing tide. Low tide should be in around three hours time. Your wind guru forecast shows moderate northerly winds becoming fresh northeasterly in the afternoon, with partly cloudy temperatures ranging from 18 degrees up to about 24 degrees.
This is the atmospheric pressure. Tides for fishing shows that it’s stable at 127 HPA. Your current data shows how widely it can fluctuate from day to day. Yesterday was almost 0. 7 meters per second. Today’s drop down to 0, 0. 1 meters per second. Next, we look at tides for fishing showing excellent fishing conditions today for one hour around sunrise and close to sunset.
And in the middle of the day, two hours before noon, fishing should really be on. Next we’ll move to your Durban view. And here’s the Durban scene. Absolutely gorgeous morning. There’s a bit of chop on the water from the northerly wind. This wind will freshen in the afternoon and become north easterly.
You can see how the flags are stiff in the breeze. The trees are wavering in the wind. That’s towards Blue Lagoon.
If you’re looking for sardines it should be around the Winkelspruit to Warner Beach area today. Just watch The Sardine News on social media to follow all the latest movements of the sardines.
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.
