Don't everybody shout at once. Guys, this is a great little rod, and got its initiation pier fishing at the coast over the weekend.
OK, here it was.
We were in Corpus this weekend, and made our overdue pilgrimage to Fulton Beach to eat at Captain Benny's and fish the Fulton Beach pier (our favorite, next to S. Padre).
Captain Benny's was great, as always.
Everybody says so-and-so has the best fried seafood you've ever had.
This place really does. The oysters were perfect, so were the shrimp and grouper fillets, and hush puppies, and fries, and sweet potato fries.
The wind was horrible, beating 3' waves in 4' water. We've walked away many times with this much wind.
But my daughter wanted to go, so I agreed to fish, but they had to stay for at least one cigar. Which is exactly how long we stayed.
(I love this girl, her favorite smell is a bait shop.)
But success, even in the beating wind.
She's fishing the Penn 4200SS on a Falcon 5' UL
Two nursery specs for my daughter, and the first was a bit larger.
I got a half-dozen little trout on the noodle - sorry, too much trouble for photos.
But the best was 14 inches, which was a lot of fish on the little rod.
I had it loaded with a 4-lb. Japanese copolymer (sticking with the theme), Kamikaze, bought on eBay from an Aussie supplier.
Very happy with the line, the reel and the rod.
The noodle tip on the rod really made it feel like the little fish were in charge. To fish at all, we had to drop the rod tip and back feed, or the wind would lift our rig right up out of the water. When it got out to the edge of the lights, reel in and start over. The line and reel were perfect.