Warm and Overcast KZN Summer Weather 19 Nov 24

Warm and Overcast KZN Summer Weather 19 Nov 24

Warm and Overcast KZN Summer Weather 19 Nov 24: Now this is the Natal summer we know and love. Overcast days. Glassy seas. Flat surf.

And fish!

Over to Adam with today’s early report from the Durban Beachfront…

Rock n Surf

It’s been a helluva week or so. Some dodgy weather and waters. But in between, some dialled-in anglers have been on fire. Kob is the name of the game right now. The discoloured water does not bother the kob at all. They actually love it. So along with the grunter, there is plenty motivation to be having a good pencil bait bobbing around a channel or a gulley near you. You don’t have to throw far!

Margate Pier has been fishing really well. The Sandspit too.

Deep-Sea

And on the backline, we even have a November couta caught. By kayaker on the North Coast – Aldeen! Nice fish man!

Mike Kemp out off Durban was ready and waiting to invite this pretty sailfish to the KZN summer gamefish season. Catch made off Durban, rumoured at Number One.

Dorado! Plenty. Along with the sailfish, swim the dorado. And just behind the dorado are the crazy striped marlin. That swim in shoals! These fish all love the halocline and so you don’t have to empty your fuel tanks to be in on the billfish action. The black marlin season up off Bazaruto in still in full swing. These fish also hover down to the halocline and shallower waters of KZN at this time of the year.

This video is a bit old; it is from about two seasons ago. It was taken on a day when we hooked 3 marlin and this lonely sailfish. Only the sailfish eventually got boatside.

Nice work Phillip!

And one more video, this of Professor Tony Turton, talking about his beloved halocline…

Estuary

Even with the brown water flowing, the fishing in the estuaries has been excellent. I can’t divulge much more than that!

Thanks

Shoutout to The Bear. Check his website at https://masterwatermen.co.za.

Alan of NPS Fishing…

Prof Tony Turton…

Big thanks to Adam of Township Hyper for the daily reports from Durban…

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Sardines and Sighting Maps

It has been a fantastic sardine run this memorable 2024. And all the action has been logged right here on The Sardine News. This year’s map has been viewed 191,000 times and just keeps growing.

Which led us to decide to keep the map live. And keep adding unique marine animal sightings and events. That occurs non-stop all year round. This year we started to log more whale and dolphin sightings. And we even had a shipwreck! And a freaking tornado! And recently a capsized KZNSB boat! We have been updating the map with recent catches too…

These events will from now on be included in the Sardine News Sightings Map for 2024. And on the 1 January 2025, we shall start all over again.

Here are the links to existing and past Sardine Sighting Maps. Great for a windy day like today to research. With instructions to install The Sardine News right on your phone or desktop.

2024 Sardine Map

2023 Sardine Map

2022 Sardine Map

2021 Sardine Map

Channels

Brucifire Surf Retorts – highly entertaining  surf reporting

Master Watermen – news from way down deep

The Sardine News – neva miss a single  sardine

FishBazaruto – 1000 pounds plus

MYDO Tackle Talk – highly technical  sport fishing

Surf Launching Southern Africa – getting out there safely

Water Woes – complain about your municipality here

Websites

umzimkulu.co.za – self-catering right on the Umzimkulu River
umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za –  will get you right out and onto the edge
thesardine.co.za – never miss a single sardine