What a Day to be Out There KZN Cooking Conditions by Adam Kamdar. Plus Catch Report!

What a Day to be Out There KZN Cooking Conditions by Adam Kamdar. Plus Catch Report!

What a Day to be Out There KZN Cooking Conditions by Adam Kamdar. Plus Catch Reports Plus Catch Report!!: Yep, another beautiful KZN day unfolds. Light winds. 23 Degrees water. The beginning of a good spring tide. Conditions are great for fishing. And the fish are around.

Over to Adam with today’s ocean conditions report PLUS the recent catch report…

Catch Report

Summer has started without even giving spring notice. It is a bit chilly today, but warming fast here on KZN South Coast. And well, the catches…and this catch by Kyle and mate recently, tells a very cool story!

Wahoo, tuna and dorado!

Some rivers, including the Umzimkulu, have blasted out plumes of brown water. Almost orange really.

But!

Some fish love the brown. Check out the inshore catch report collection…

The halocline, where the brown meets the blue, is where the Dorado roam. Aswell as billfish, and the toothy critters like wahoo and couta. And tuna!

This incredible phenomenon occurs right on our doorstep. The halocline normally lives upstream in the river. Where it moves in and out with the tides (tide pulse). This is what we chase in the river all day long. It is blue down under the brown since salt water is more dense than fresh.

Then it starts to rain about this time of the year, and the halocline is expelled out to sea (flood pulse). It is this movement of the halocline that triggers off so many important biological instances. And has been happening forever.

A trick is to find a spot that is brown – but that has clean water underneath it. This is where to chuck a bait.

Thanks

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

Alan of NPS Fishing…

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

Save time and money by checking out Township Hyper’s Facebook page. Full of fun, knowledge and promotions!

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
masterwatermen.co.za – news from deep down