Madden Parker had help when he caught his personal best northern pike of 39 inches earlier this month on Minnesota’s Vermilion Lake.
“[He was] being coached on reeling this beauty in by his brother Matthew,” their mother Carrie Parker emailed.
Madden, 13, and Matthew, 17, are from Orland Park.
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