Today we tour Myrtle Beach which is a popular East coast haunt for the youngsters during their Spring break. It kind of reminds you of Durban with all the entertainment and holiday places. We also look for a venue to celebrate Sven’s birthday tomorrow. Again the place is driven by decor advertising to catch the eye of customers and create a mood of fun.
Now the search is on for extraordinary advertising.
We take a short drive to one of the famous beaches on the east coast, to celebrate Sven’s Birthday on Monday, We will then tackle the next leg to Lake Berkley in Kentucky. We just took a few photos on route, one of the places was a Town called Andrews. I owned everything there.
We will now relax the next three days in the sun.
And if that does not attract the people, you can always hire a signpost for the day!
I had waited a long time to fish this famous lakes system, but was quite amazed as to the actual depth and way that this lake was fished, nothing to what we are used to in South Africa. Firstly the majority of the lake is not much deeper than 6 ft, there are stumps all over the show, so there are specially marked ways that you can run your boat along, so you cannot just hop from one spot to the other by gunning it, you have to follow special waterways. The first day we must have travelled in excess of 90 miles on very rough water.
Unfortunately I was drawn with a Pro that was a good fisherman, but his strategy was to go sight fishing for 5 fish that he had located during his practise. So we were basically just looking for those fish on the beds, which left little opportunity for me to catch a fish, to be honest I only had one bite the whole day. What a disappointment.
Hopefully day 2 would get better.
Day two promised to be better, my Pro for the day had caught a 13lb bag the day before and assured me he had spots with good fish. This was the type of guy to fish with, he immediately gave me lures for the three patterns that we were going to fish. As I mentioned before we only fished water that was between 2 and 4 ft in grass. Horny toads did not produce but he used a Skinky shad (my new secret) and Senko’s. Unfortunately even his spots did not pan out as planned and we struggled to get fish. I finally got a good fish of 3.07lb which still put me into 85 spot. I unfortunately could not stick 3 more good fish due to them short striking the lure.
Well not the result I had expected, but we will put it out of mind and focus on the next one at Lake Berkley in Kentucky next week. At least the second day Pro, who incidentally is a fish Biologist gave me three packets of Lures that work excellent on Lake Berkley.
Finally it is time again for the next FLW even and we need to be at registration in Manning, another one horse town in South Carolina. Whilst purchasing my fishing license for SC in the Wal-Mart we found Sven’s Birthday present. It was a big decision and box that we had to think about, but wit three nagging kids we filled the last bit of space in our car with a complete Rock band set for PS2. And what fun we had playing until late at night. Erich when we come to South Africa again I will bring the special edition of ACDC to rock into history.
