Rhoda Hedd

Rhoda Hedd as a young girl on Pinhorn's Beach.
Rhoda Hedd as a young girl on Pinhorn’s Beach.

“I was one of the very few girls down in the stage…” said Rhoda, sitting at the table in her home on Pinhorn’s Beach. It overlooks the landwash where her family operated their fishing premises for decades. “I used to love to get the prong to help with the fish. I pronged hundreds of fish from this point [the stage head] to the barrel, to feed the fish to them… But the prong wouldn’t be in my hand very long if one of the boys saw it.”

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