After A Boy Reeled An Old Purse Out Of The Water, His Aunt Looked Inside And Took Decisive Action

It was an exciting day for a sixth-grader from South Carolina. Brodie Brooks was on a fishing trip with the promise of adventure, and he was packing a new rod. All he wanted to do was catch a big fish. Yet while things didn't quite work out as he planned, Brodie certainly did bring a whopper ashore that day. And the mysterious catch set the scene for a stunning story.

Big catch

When the young boy felt his line dip into the water, he was certain he'd got a big catch on his line. “I felt that I really had a fish,” Brodie told InsideEdition.com. “But then when I got it up to the surface, I was like, 'I ain’t got no fish.'”

A catch to remember

To be sure, 11-year-old Brodie will vividly remember the fight for his massive catch on July 3, 2017, for a long time. And all because of what was actually hanging on the end of the boy’s rod when he managed to pull his line in.

The start of a mystery

The boy and the small fishing party he had joined that day, at Lake Hartwell in Anderson County, SC, had all been excited when Brodie had snagged something big. But that excitement turned to astonishment because Brodie had caught hold of something that was not a fish at all. The boy’s prize was a water-logged and leathery old bag.

Brodie's shock

When the party set out on the fishing trip to the local reservoir that morning, young Brodie had one thing on his mind: his box-fresh Ugly Stik fishing rod. He was eager to try out his new piece of kit — but also anxious that no harm should come to it. But some kind of damage seemed increasingly likely when the boy snagged what he thought was a big one.