Breakfast v Drive - Fishing Challenge
Go Fish Magazine, Natal Power Boats and Nikao Fishing Adventures will host the rival line-ups in a battle to decide the East Coast Radio fishing bragging rights for 2013.
The teams will launch from Durban Ski Boat Club at around 04h30 on Saturday and will fish until 10h00 in the morning.
The latest Kingfisher Report suggests the presence of both yellowfin tuna and dorado, while some smallish couta have also been caught recently.
The Breakfast Stack will be represented by Mak Dlamini, George Thorne, Dawn Dunn and our resident Fishing Freak - Wes Cruickshanks.
Flying the flag for the Drive team will be Andre Bloem, Jason McCall and former commercial fishing skipper Alain Tardin.
Andre Bloem and Tardin last month teamed up to help Dlamini on his maiden fishing trip.
That outing was geared to Dlamini catching his first fish.
It will be very different this weekend.
Dlamini will have to rely on the experienced Cruickshanks for assistance, with Bloem and Tardin concerned purely with beating their former pupil.
"Mak knows that on the boat we will not be buddies this weekend. We will shake hands afterwards, but from 04h30 to 10h00 we will be rivals," Bloem said on Thursday.
"The plan is to again start by targeting maasbanker and mackerel for live bait. I read in the Kingfisher Report that tuna and dorado are biting at Number 1 ground and I suspect our skippers will want to get bait quickly and then head out to this spot," Bloem added.
Tardin, who made a name for himself as a tuna fisherman off Cape Town, caught a 12kg tuna at Number 1 earlier this year.
Last month FreeSpooltv took members of the Sportswave team on a tuna quest that ended without success.
The team bagged plenty of mackerel and maasbanker, but a shark robbed Dlamini of the only big hook-up of the day off Umdloti.
Dlamini was in to what we estimated to be a kingfish of around 5kg. The shark gobbled it with ease and eventually bit through the nylon.
"That shark was strong. I am hoping to avoid one this weekend. I will also be making a point of staying in the boat," Dlamini said.
Drive show producer, McCall, has had a bug this week and is currently rated doubtful for the fishing on Saturday.
His teammates are wishing him a speedy recovery as men of his stature are literally in short supply.
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