Angela Eastridge really loves to fish. On a recent trip to Toledo Bend lake, while her husband was bass fishing, she decided to fish from the pier in front of Harborlight Marina. She was fishing with her granddaughter, 6-year-old Kaylee Truxillo, late in the afternoon having a blast catching bluegill with nightcrawlers under a cork.
Around 6 p.m., her cork vanished with a jolt, and Eastridge knew the fish on the line was different than the ones she had been reeling in. “I was scared the line was going to pop. I didn’t know what I had.” She “walked” the fish down the pier towards the bank. “When I get almost to the edge, I just hurried up and I flung it up onto the land.”
The fish turned out to be a 10