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Dad captures daughter’s excited reaction during sweet fishing trip

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Girl makes big catch on 1st fishing trip with dad
Matt Brewster/Tiktok
ByLaryssa Demkiw and GMA Team
March 24, 2023, 1:33 PM

A father and daughter’s fishing trip has gone viral and no, it isn’t a fish story at all.

Matt Brewster, who has been traveling to Florida to go bass fishing for several years, said his 9-year-old daughter Ali had been begging to go with him, even practicing her casting.

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So for the first time, Brewster took Ali along and she was ready as ever!

Matt Brewster’s 9-year-old daughter Ali burst into tears of joy after catching a nearly five-and-a-half-pound bass on their trip together.
Matt Brewster/Tiktok

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Ali reeled in a bass that weighed nearly 5 and a half pounds and burst into tears of joy.

Matt Brewster took his daughter Ali on her first bass fishing trip recently.
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Matt Brewster took his daughter Ali on her first bass fishing trip recently.
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Brewster shared a video clip of the moment and Ali’s excited screams on Facebook and TikTok, where it quickly went viral, garnering more than 3 million views since March 12.

“Yes! It’s so big!” Ali said in the video. “I’m going to start crying … I don’t even care if it weighed like five pounds, that felt so good!”

Afterward, Brewster said Ali caught more than a dozen additional bass and told him, "Daddy, I think we have grown so much on this trip."

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