David Hayes was fishing with his granddaughter in a pond behind his house when she asked him to hold her Barbie fishing rod while she went to the bathroom.
The rest is North Carolina sports history.
Hayes took the fishing rod and seconds later the toy hooked a state-record channel catfish, at 21 pounds, 1 ounce.
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Bev Street has entered the record books by catching the biggest freshwater fish ever hooked by a woman in Britain. Mrs Street took an hour to reel in the 69lb 8oz catfish - that weighed the same as a Rottweiler dog.
She had first claimed the title last year when she smashed an 85-year-old record, but then had it taken from her.
But using pig's liver placed next to heaps of halibut pellets at the Willow Bank Fisheries, Kirton Lindsey, North Lincolnshire, she regained her place in the record books.
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