Minnesota Teen Fishing Reels in Pockets With $2,000, Returns It to Proprietor

• A teen in Minnesota was fishing together with his household on a lake when he reeled in a pockets.
• The pockets was stuffed with $2,000 in money and had been dropped within the lake a yr earlier.
• The teenager returned it to the Iowa farmer, saying, “We did not actually work exhausting for the cash. He did.” 

A 14-year-old in Minnesota hoping to catch some walleye pulled in one thing totally completely different — and much more worthwhile.

Connor Halsa was lately fishing on Lake of the Woods in northwestern Minnesota together with his household when the road went taut, WDAY-TV reported Tuesday. “I assumed I had a giant fish, and I set the hook actually exhausting,” he advised the outlet.

However when he reeled in the catch and his cousin netted it, they realized it wasn’t a fish in any respect, however a pockets full of $2,000 in money.

“My cousin Brandon opened the pockets up and he was like — he mentioned some phrases that you simply most likely should not say,” Halsa advised WDAY, including they took the payments out and laid them out to dry.

Contained in the pockets was additionally a enterprise card, so Halsa’s household used it to trace down the proprietor: Jim Denney, a farmer in Iowa who dropped the billfold a yr in the past whereas fishing at that same lake, which was greater than 70 miles lengthy and huge.

“I let you know what, if I did not if I received the billfold in my palms. It’s nonetheless exhausting for me to consider,” Denney advised WDAY. He traveled to Minnesota to choose up the pockets and money. He additionally gifted Halsa a custom-made cooler and took the teenager’s household out to dinner.

Denney additionally supplied Halsa a reward, however he wouldn’t settle for it. “We did not actually work exhausting for the cash. He did, so it was his cash,” Halsa mentioned.

The incident was harking back to one other curious catch lately reeled in by a bunch of anglers in Florida, together with Tampa Mayor Jane Castor.

Castor was fishing together with her household within the Florida Keys in July after they pulled in a black package deal that was bobbing within the water — and stuffed with $1.1 million price of cocaine.

That 70-pound catch was not, nevertheless, returned to its proprietor.