Tompkins: A casting call for young anglers Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:35 p.m., Wednesday, May 30, 2012 The boat and its three occupants seemed almost ghostlike, tucked tight to the shadowed east bank of the backwater slough, where a thin strip of gauzy mist was fast losing ground to the summer sunrise's inevitable evaporative effects.