One West Virginia dad etched his name in fishing history by making an impressive catch on the most unassuming gear imaginable.
On July 21, Tyler Rutherford and his relatives spontaneously decided to fish a family farm pond.
They took worms and a few poles, and Rutherford soon cast a line from his 3-year-old daughter’s pink fishing pole out into the 1.5-acre pond.
The young girl is only able to reel the line in, so Rutherford casts it for her.
“We all just grabbed a thing of nightcrawlers,” Rutherford told the West Virginia Outdoors podcast. “I’d got my daughter a little pink $9.99 Zebco from Academy Sports and I’d got my little boy one for Easter.
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