Butthead’s Beat: No birth certificate required
The SAPS Umzimkhulu Rock and Surf Angling Club has come up with a great idea to hold a shad competition between Scottburgh and Port Edward on Saturday, August 8.
ASK yourself… what is the South Coast most famous for?
* Sardines? Well, that phenomenon seems to have become more of a ‘big tease’ than anything else. There was a small showing last month at Margate and the boffins predicted we were in for a fishy flood. Hopeful seine netters were seen prowling the coastline for a month, but the crates on their roof racks remained empty. Scotch that one.
* Macadamia nuts? There’s a good opportunity there after one local farm set a world record for its crop recently, but the ‘nuts’ at Tourism still need to think of some clever marketing ploy before we crack that one.
* Shad? Most coastal areas can also lay claim to this one, but let’s not cast that idea out the window yet.
The SAPS Umzimkhulu Rock and Surf Angling Club has come up with a great idea to hold a shad competition between Scottburgh and Port Edward on Saturday, August 8.
Judging a winner might be interesting. Based on the size of the shad on sale (illegally) on the highway near the Hibberdene turn-off, most of the prized fish are so small they might not register on the Richter Scale.
But that’s beside the point. There’s bound to be a few big ones hiding among the masses trying to masquerade as sardines.
Perhaps this is another idea Tourism can build on. Nobody really went bananas over the suggestion of a ‘South Coast Nut Festival” in this column a few weeks ago, so how about a ‘South Coast Shad Festival’?
Country Club chairman Leon Reeders was one avid fisherman who thought it was a great idea when discussing over a braaiied chop recently.
Not shad?
Leon confessed that he might be keen, but his phobias got in the way of his fishing skills.
He was spooning for shad at Sandspit recently and had no luck at all while others all around him were virtually catching one the moment their bait hit the water.
Why was he spooning and not using bait?
He confessed that he didn’t like the smell of sardine on his hands. He thought of using surgical gloves, but the very fresh memory of a visit to the doctor that morning for a prostate exam put him off the feel of latex as well.
So what is the South Coast really famous for?
How about cost-effective family holidays with great Blue Flag beaches, friendly locals and no ‘unabridged birth certificate required’.
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