What is going on with the SARDINES by Kevin in Qora?

What is going on with the SARDINES by Kevin in Qora?

What is going on with the SARDINES by Kevin in Qora?

Hi everyone this is Kevin from Qora Mouth
uh just north of Mazeppa Bay in the Southern Transkei
well um
things are maybe quietening down a bit in KZN
I mean there are nets coming out
but you know um
I think it’s getting to that time of year where it’s uh
beginning of July and uh
the sards are kind of petering out a little bit
the shoals that came up already through
and the ones that they’ve been netting
but I can say
that we had those two large shoals
that moved through the Transkei
within the last two weeks
and I’m pretty sure they’re gonna reach KZN
but we just don’t know where they are right now
nothing in shore
no reports from Port ST Johns of the guys diving
there was was a small report from the Haven Hotel
which is at the Mbashe River
that there was some action there
but smaller shoals just a fractured shoal
so yeah we just don’t know chaps
we don’t know if those are gonna reach
KZN or if everything is kind of going out now
into the current but what I can say is down here
we got a huge swell on the horizon
big south swell generated by that cold front
that came through the Cape
uh the ships are rocking and rolling out there
so yeah let’s hope that uh
things change and that some of these shoals
make it up to KZN and fill things up
and the netting can resume again
anyway we’ll keep you updated as things happen and um
yeah
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Thanks Kevin!

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