Teen angler looks for 26th record catch this year

[WB Staff]

Emily Hanzlik hopes to catch a world record fish in 2020. The Acreage resident and 14-year-old Seminole Ridge High School student loves to fish and has since she was a young girl.

“You never know what to expect,” Emily said regarding the excitement of fishing.

She started the year off right catching a 7-pound, 4-ounce largemouth bass fishing from one of the canals in the Acreage/Loxahatchee area.

Emily hopes to earn an International Game Fishing Association world record this year. It would be her 26th, so far, competing — in some categories — against adult women anglers.

Her father Paul Hanzlik said that Emily learned to fish from himself, her grandfather and great-grandfather.

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