Verified sardine sighting at Coffee Bay April 2021
This verified sardine sighting came to us via Jason Heyne of The Master Watermen website. The Master Watermen website can be found at https://masterwatermen.co.za and is updated weekly with a roundup of spearfishing action going on up and down the KZN Coastline.
As you can well have heard in the report above, these sardines were found in a pocket of extremely cold water. That came in to the coastline off Coffee Bay in the Transkei, for a few days in mid-April this 2021 season. So bearing in mind, that the cold waters are where the sardines live normally, and its water below 19 degrees that gets them into the shallows – that the spate of warm water that brushed our coastline recently, is not such good news for early sardines.
This lick of warm water did however bring with it the king mackerel and the odd billfish that are finding their way into camera lenses all over the place. The Master Watermen site team is busy compiling such encounters into their next dive report. Which promises to be another jam-packed source of information right from where it counts – underwater!
You can catch up with the Master Watermen website at https://masterwatermen.co.za or you can read up on their latest report right here:
And, yes. That is the first garrick of the season. Shot this last week!
So between these guys up north with their intimate network of spies spread out far and wide, to Brucifire and his penguins in Jeffreys Bay, the Sardine News correspondents in the deep ‘Kei, all dialled into The Sardine Newsroom here in Port Shepstone, we have got you covered. With bona fide sardine sighting patrollers, this sardine run 2021.
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