David Hayes was fishing with his 3-year-old granddaughter Alyssa in the pond behind their house when she decided she had to go to the bathroom. She handed him her rod, and while she was gone a fish snapped at her bait. After a twenty-five minute battle, Mr. Hayes landed the largest catfish ever caught in North Carolina.

With a pink plastic Barbie fishing rod.



This being the rural south, the burly outdoorsman took quite a bit of ribbing from his neighbors. Luckily nobody thought to ask why he had the sunglasses on.