My son (he was 8 at the time) was fishing off the dock at the State Park on Nehalem Bay using a Micky Mouse rod and reel with a hook and a boiled cocktail shrimp. To make a long story short, he hooked and landed a 7-8lb silver on that little rod. No tag and the day before silvers opened so he let it go. His first salmon and he practiced C&R!