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US teen goes fishing – and catches farmer’s lost wallet with $2,000 inside

‘I thought I had a big fish, and I set the hook really hard,’ Connor Halsa told WDAY.
‘I thought I had a big fish, and I set the hook really hard,’ Connor Halsa told WDAY. Photograph: Mykola Tys/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

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.

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