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Fishing Sunwich Port with Sunwich Superette

Fishing Sunwich Port with Sunwich Superette

Fishing Sunwich Port puts you in the game for all kinds of angling action. Gamefish love the bay and are often caught right from the rocks or beach with lures or baits. The shad love the inside gulleys and channels and put on a great show. Karanteen and blacktail frequent the nooks and crannies afforded by the jagged and random reef throughout the bay. And the sardines! Yep, they also pull into Sunwich every time they make the journey this way…

Sardines at Sunwich Port, on the lower south coast of KZN Natall
Sardines at Sunwich Port, on the lower south coast of KZN Natal (c) Orcas

Sunwich Supperette, across the road from the beach, have been growing their fishing department year by year, and by now can be pronounced a fully functional and well equipped fishing store.

Headed by Ismail Jama and well supported by his family, the store has grown from strength to strength over the past few years. Delicious takeaways and Indian cuisine are on offer too! Sunwich Superette is a favourite convenience for locals from Umzumbe to Umtentweni.

AND…Sunwich Superette stocks The Mydo range of lures. Baitswimmers and couta traces. Mydo SS Spoons. And the super fun Luck Shot range of dropshot heads and rigs. Ismail also carries his own brand of lures, at incredible prices.

More to follow…

 

 

 

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Sardines at Sunwich Port: Photograph

Sardines at Sunwich Port: Photograph

Janet of Orca’s Bar and Restaurant, in Sunwich Port, keeps a sharp vigil for marine life passing by. Here she captured one of the many shoals of sardines – that are causing quite a stir down on the KZN Lower South Coast, at the moment.

Sardines at Sunwich Port, on the lower south coast of KZN Natal (c) Orcas
Sardines at Sunwich Port, on the lower south coast of KZN Natal. Natal sards, or redeyes? Natal sardines were netted at Pumula on Monday  (c) Orcas Bar and Restaurant

Janet has a machine of a camera, with a telescopic lens, and is able to get right up close and personal with all kinds of marine life. Orca’s Bar and Restaurant features a huge whale watching deck, upstairs…perfect for checking marine life out.

Janet reports that the many humpback whales that were regularly seen cruising north lately, have all but disappeared. The whale migration did occur in deeper water this year, but they are due to return on their way back to the icy south, over the next few months. Dolphins have been up and down, but also looking as confused as the many wandering fishermen – all missing the sardines.

With some of the shoals of sardines spotted, were big dark things with big fins – according to Janet, a few shoals were definitely accompanied by big dark shadows!

Orca’s Bar and Restaurant features a truly south coast style menu with steak, egg ‘n chips narrowly beating the surfers special, as my favourite slection from their cool menu…check Orca’s out at Sunwich Port Beach, KZN south coast, for good food and vibes.

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The “Sard’s” proper south coast barrel

 The “Sard’s” proper south coast barrel

It takes many, many barrel rides, to finally get one this good, on video.
Sard, well done, fantastic ride…and see you in the morning!

Other than Sard’s fantastic ride today at an undisclosed faraway location, practically every surf spot on the south coast fired today. And it looks to be that way for the next two weeks solid!

Productivity week!

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Great White killed at Sunwich Port

Great White Shark Tracking Project
Great White Tracking Project
Great White Tracking Project

In a wierd twist within the Osearch Shark Tracking story we started to follow last week, one of the tagged Great White Sharks was caught and killed by the Natal Sharks Board at none other than our favourite surfing beach – Sunwich Port, down here on the south coast of Kwazulu Natal!
The beautiful fish weighed 300 odd kilograms and was taken to the NSB headquarters in Umhlanga for analysis and whatever else they do to the carcasses there.
The shark took a drum line bait and must have died a horrible and gruesome death…much like a snared wild animal poached in a game reserve.
The Natal Sharks Board have systematically decimated the local shark population of Zambezi, Tiger and other sharks here on the KZN south coast and unfortunately, pelagic sharks like Great Whites also fall prey to their killing methods.
Drum lines are a move towards lessening their indiscriminate impact on the environment…but gill nets are still deployed up and down the beautiful Kwazulu Natal South Coast. These gill nets have been killing dolphins, turtles, rays, sharks (lethal and non-lethal) and other forms of marine life like whales for the better part of half a century now.
A bureaucratic organization – funded by municipalities and the tax payer…the Natal Sharks Board and it’s staff and management can be credited with the most cruel ocean animal killings imaginable.
All to protect the tourist dollar as inland punters flock to the Kwazulu Natal coastline each school holiday.
The shark nets do not cordon off a beach from sharks at all – many, if not most sharks are caught on their way back out to sea…on the inside side of the nets. What the nets and drum lines do is reduce the local population of lethal sharks in an area…seriously unbalancing the ecology in that immediate area.
Twisting the story even further…another shark attack was recorded at Port St Johns, down the coast in the Transkei. Port St. Johns has the highest incidence of shark attacks in the world.
Solutions? Many solutions to the shark attack problem are available. Shark spotters are deployed in the clear waters of the Cape…sonar has been proposed to the NSB as a monitoring system in dirtier waters of KZN, but was ignored completely…
Observation and avoidance using technology would far outweigh simple killing and eradication.

Check out the Osearch project here…https://thesardine.co.za/?p=1153

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