The video shows Avery sitting in a boat with her father when she begins to feel a fish pulling on her miniature pink pole.

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"You still got it?" her father asks excitedly, "Keep reeling!"

"You've got to help me!" little Avery giggles, strain in her voice.

After some serious reeling, she begins to feel her catch getting close to the boat.

"Yes! Yes!" she cheers.

Then out of the water comes her prize, a giant bass; 20 inches by her dad's guess.

"Yes, I got one finally!" the excited little fisherman laughs, as dad congratulates her with a high-five.

You go girl!

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Peggy Harris (foreground) stocks the shelves at Sandy's IGA, which is the only grocery store in town, Tuesday, October 7, 2025, in Sparta. Hancock County has one of the highest rates of childhood food insecurity in the country. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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