Local youth featured on sports website

Six-year-old Tee Cooper of Aimwell holds a seven pound, twelve ounce catfish he caught using a candy gummy worm after he and his maternal grandparents, Jerry and Ilene Guinn, ran out of bait on a recent fishing trip.

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July 19, 2022

An extraordinary fishing trip for six-year-old Tee Cooper of Aimwell was recorded by his maternal grandmother, Ilene Guinn, and featured as a Reader Report on the Louisiana Sportsman website on July 14. He is the son of Malcolm and Victoria Cooper and grandson of Jerry and Ilene Guinn, who took him on this particular fishing excursion.

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