2-Year-Old Catches 20-Pound Fish With Barbie Fishing Pole

Opinions vary about whether fishing is actually a sport, but whatever your thoughts, we can all agree that baiting a hook, casting a line, and reeling in a fish require some combination of skill and luck.

Perhaps it was more the latter than the former for a two-year-old from St. Francis, MN, but either way, Ella hauled in a 20-pound Muskie using only her Barbie fishing pole and her wits. But mostly the Barbie fishing pole.

"Ella had her sunfish on and she's reeling it in," her mom, Carrie Haag, told Fox 9 News. "Here comes this big muskie that went and ate her sunfish. So I grabbed the pole and yelled for grandpa David."

Grandpa grabbed a net and soon they landed a 30-inch muskie weighing in at a little under 20 lbs -- a fish bigger than the fisherman who caught it. The Barbie fishing pole survived it all and little Ella was so excited, she said the first thing that came to her mind -- "I caught a shark."

After snapping a photo, the family snapped the line and let the muskie go.

Give a two-year-old a fish and ... well, they'll probably throw it back in the water and go back to making mud pies. But teach a two-year-old to fish and you could end up on the local news.

via Fark