Ryleigh Welker (3 years old)
Ryleigh caught this catfish while fishing with her Mom, Christy Brumbaugh, in the pond behind her house in Cape Girardeau, MO. She amazingly pulled it in with her 3 ft. Dora the Explorer fishing rod.
The photo shows her fish stories have already started, "It's this big!!!!"
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