Sardines in Durban Tomorrow? 12 June Sardine Report

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Sardines in Durban Tomorrow? The blitz that the sardines are on this year has been impressive. They came out of the starting gates on time and in sync. But then something happened that had them accelerate and cover the entire Transkei south to north, in less than a week to a few days.
This happened during the tornado-inducing cut-off low-pressure storm we had last week. The sardines must have slipped out to sea. Found favourable swell and water conditions out there. And put pedal to the metal.
Over to Kevin Tuohy in Qora…
Scottburgh
From early, Scottburgh Beach has been buzzing with sardine activity. Nets went in and sardines were for sale on the main drag before 8 AM!
Umgababa
This hot spot continued to deliver today. This morning nets went in and came out full up.
Freeland Park
This is lovely long beach that is perfectly suited to sardines and catching them. Nets were going in at around 1 PM.
There are sure to be many more nets going in this afternoon. Some sardines have made it to Brighton and Ansteys Beach already. They are far out but tomorrow is a great bet for Durban Beach Front.
In from of the Cutty Sark, the sharks were putting on a spectacular show again.
Brighton Beach
Better known as Cave Rock, out off the tidal pool at 2 PM or so today, thousands of feeding gannets were busy annihilating these first few pilot shoals swimming past. The way that these pilot shoals got all the way to The Bluff so quickly and efficiently certainly will go down in history as some sort of record.
Durban Tomorrow
There is little doubt that the sardines will be on the Durban beachfront tomorrow morning. They might even be there this afternoon!
Watch this space!
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[@seanmitchell504]

At 1pm today there a small pocket of sards passed my house North Beach, Umdloti. Just behind the back line. The only visible predators were three juvenile gannets gorging themselves.

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Lucky Fishes!

[@mzanziman9150]

I stayed in the same airbnb as the thumbnail...

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Lucky fish!