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GIANT PERCH IN NORTHERN CANADA Martens Falls is a post situated thirty miles up the Albany River and the Indians living there are the Ojibways There are not many of them and they spend their days in hunting and fishing I am in charge of the post and for diversion do a little fishing and hunting On my last fishing adventure on the 24th of June of this year I had set a sturgeon line for Martens Falls is a good place for sturgeon and every year Ave catch quite a number big and small The one I took recently was certainly a fine one his weight being forty two pounds his length sixtyone inches and cir ¬ cumference twentyeight inches This sturgeon broke a hook two and onehalf inches cast from my line This morning I caught a perch twenty six inches in length and not long ago I had perches of eleven and twelve pounds white fish of two and three pounds AVe have many fish at this place and a good assortment
