If you’ve ever gone fishing, you are all too aware of how much patience is frequently required.

When you know something has taken your bait, long periods of waiting in stillness are broken by unexpected bursts of exhilaration.

It’s definitely not for everyone, but I can speak from personal experience about the gratification that comes with successfully landing the fish you’ve been attempting to catch.

So I can only image the level of curiosity one Minnesotan adolescent felt when he reeled in a wallet with a respectable sum of money.

Connor Halsa, according to accounts, was fishing in Lake of the Woods in Minnesota when he felt a tug on his pole and immediately thought he had hooked a large fish.

But when Connor brought his line in, he saw that it wasn’t a fish after all, but rather a wallet.
The 14-year-old claimed, ‘My cousin opened the wallet,

and he said some words you probably shouldn’t say, and he showed everyone,’ in an interview with WDAY-TV.

It turns out that the wallet wasn’t merely an old thing that someone had thrown away since they no longer needed it. No, a business card and $2,000 were present.

Now, I don’t believe it’s a leap to argue that many kids out there would have kept the money for themselves at this point. Who would, after all, know?

But Connor is made of a different material. After consulting with his father, he decided that calling the

number on the business card in an effort to reconnect the wallet with its owner was the proper course of action.

The money was his because he worked hard for it rather than us, according to Connor.

The wallet belonged to Jim Denny, an Iowan farmer who claimed to have lost it a year earlier while out fishing.

To meet Connor and his family, Jim flew to Moorhead, Minnesota. He offered to pay Connor for helping him retrieve his lost wallet, but the adolescent turned him down.

Instead, Jim fashioned Connor a personalized cooler. The farmer responded, ‘I have the billfold in my hands, and it is still hard to believe.