You’re-never-too-old-to-catch-the-fish-of-a-lifetime

From the you’re-never-too-old-to-catch-the-fish-of-a-lifetime department:

Meet Fran Phares, 87, of Mooresville, Mo.

She had fished most of her life without catching anything really memorable — until last year.

When she went down to her pond with her daughter, she really wasn’t expecting much. On her last cast, she threw her crankbait along a bank and immediately felt something strike.

After a tussle, she got the bass to the shallows. But she didn’t have a net. So her daughter waded in, grabbed the fish with a pair of pliers and tossed it onto the bank.

Fran later learned that she had a 6-pound bass, a fish that is being mounted.

“This pond has been around for a while, so I knew it had to have some big fish in it,” she said. “But I never thought I’d get anything http://www.kansascity.com/sports/outdoors/story/1688278.htmlthis big.”