One local competitive fishing club is hooking some big ones, Deneige Broom has the story on a real team that has really reeled in some attention on the water.

Meet 74-year-old Barbara Wachter. She's been a hooker since 1979 and proud of it.
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"We lasted much longer than the men on the lake said we would. They said we wouldn't last six months and we're still here," Wachter says.

With the wind blowing through their hair---14 ladies of the Bass N' Gal Talquin Hookers Bass Club take to north Florida and south Georgia waters regularly---waiting for that perfect catch.

"I'm a competitive person and you can get your sanity out there. I love the water, grew up fishing. You learn a lot it's a sisterhood," Pam Munroe says.

As a honorary hooker, I didn't catch anything, but I'm told, once you catch one, that's when you're hooked.

"It's something that once you get into it, it becomes addictive," Sarah Dunn says.

Their fishing regime is a little more physical than you'd think---and to reel in a big one---they survey the area days and weeks before a tournament hoping to find a hot bed of activity.
The ladies have even been known to show the men up a time or two. But when most women would probably steer away from the name they embrace it---because after all----hooking its what they do.

Getting bass hook line and sinker is more than a past time time for these women---it's a lifestyle.

"It's fun being a hooker!" concluded Munroe.

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