It was on a cane rod built in 1932, and with a very light tip.
On a size 22 midge and 5x tippet.
I'm gonna need a bigger net...
To show you there are "normal" trout on the Guad
I was fishing a rubber egg (Potter's milking egg) threaded through the leader with a needle, followed by a bare hook, a piece of 5x tippet, and the midge dropper. You can see the rubber egg bumped up against my split shot - the little fish is on the bare hook - and if you look straight down from my pinkie, you can see the size 22 midge.
But even better than that, Monday my daughter and I loaded up the kayaks and headed to the coast.
I had already checked the weather, and knew Monday would be the best day for us to fish, so we headed straight to the water.
Here she is coming off the channel
she's towing the bait bucket behind her - we did real justice to a pint of shrimp.
Her first fish, a nice little rat red - below the 20-28" slot limit in TX, but great fare on a light rod, and I release reds anyway.
She was fishing a Falcon 6-1/2' spinning rod with a Penn 4200 SS ultralight, and 8-lb. spiderwire.
I didn't come prepared with a stringer, but when I caught my first spec (seatrout), 19", I made do with my pliers and a line from the boat.
I quietly added another to the stringer, and she really started getting into the fishing.
I was fishing my Lew's Saltwater baitcaster with a new Lamiglas Rogue River 8-1/2' rod. I love fishing long rods on the flats, and this one is rated nicely, 3/8-2oz. which will cover just about all inshore needs.
We were tossing shrimp on a bare hook below a styrofoam clicking bobber (Mansfield Mauler) and no weight.
My baitcaster did very well with little-to-no weight - I was very happy with it.
In addition to reds and specs, we were catching sheepshead, and they're an altogether different animal on the flats than at the jetties - they really want to get back to deep water. You can see what a bend they put in the rod
sorry I didn't photo one, but they were honking fish - 14-16 inches, and almost that tall, but with their funky mouths and armored heads, I had no way to string one up, but I did get bitten (very solidly) trying to string the first one - so we let them go (they're also hateful to fillet).
Getting down to the last two shrimp, the line was shot on her reel, from the pull of the fish jamming her line under the wrap on the spool, so we called it.
We got a dozen fish each, and some great table fare in four keeper trout
A good morning on the flats.
And to put something on here that's about shooting, when Tuesday cooled on us, she started shooting her pellet gun. Her best 10m group was 4 bullseyes out of 5 shots...
You can't beat the combo of canoes/kayaks, fishing, kids, and shooting! 
