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We’re going to ditch all of our expensive fishing gear and make the switch to a little pink rod and reel.

“Pink’s her favorite color,” Lindley’s mother Lacy said. Lindley is three years old, but her age didn’t stop her from catching an 18-inch large mouth bass at the Optimist Fishing Contest on Bush Lake in Bloomington.

Both mom and daughter were quite happy with how Lindley’s rod held up. “It’s a Barbie one with striped fishes on it,” the 3-year-old casually explained. “The fish was almost as big as the rod, but it worked. They must make Barbie rods pretty strong,” Lacy Richards said.

Catching a fish like that takes patience and focus, two words not often used to describe a 3-year-old. “She wanted a worm. She liked to play with the worms more than fish with them,” Lacy said.