A 14-year-old angler failed to land a big fish on a recent trip to a lake in Minnesota but did manage to hook a wallet with $2,000 cash inside that had been lost by a farmer a year earlier.
Connor Halsa was fishing on Lake of the Woods when he felt his rod snag on something.
“I thought I had a big fish, and I set the hook really hard,” Connor told WDAY in Fargo, North Dakota.
But when the boy’s cousin brought Halsa’s catch out of the water in a net it was instead a billfold stuffed with soggy cash and – crucially – a business card with a man’s name on it.
“My cousin opened the wallet up, and he said some words you probably shouldn’t say, and he showed everyone, and we took the money out and let it dry,” Halsa told the outlet.
The name on the card was Jim Denney, a farmer from Iowa who had lost the wallet while fishing on a boat on the lake a year earlier. He was stunned to get a call returning the lost cash. “I have the billfold in my hands, and it is still hard to believe,” Denney told WDAY.
Denny drove to Halsa’s home to get the money and the boy refused a cut of it as a reward – but he did accept the offer of a new cooler.
