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be a sport indulged in by many of the boys, but for 

 a pack of tingling thrills and moments requiring 

 quick thought give me a musky on the lightest of 

 tackle." 



RIVER MUSKY FULL OF PEP 



The river musky seems to put up a gamer fight 

 than one of equal size caught in lake waters. Es- 

 pecially is this so when the river waters have a swift 

 current. Every minute of his life the river musky 

 has to fight the current in his hunt for food, and this 

 daily battle against the swift waters gives him a won- 

 derfully developed set of fins and a kick in his tail 

 that compares favorably with the driving power of 

 the off hind leg of an army mule. J. C. Knudtson 

 of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, landed a 35-pound 

 musky from the swirling white waters below the 

 falls, and here are the facts about the thirty-minute 

 nerve-tingling scrap : 



" All good things come my way on or about the 

 2Oth of the month, and when this date stole around 

 in August I slipped down to the Chippewa River one 

 morning before daylight, armed to the teeth with 

 tackle, for a shot at the famous green muskies that 

 feed below the falls. I fished from shore, casting 

 my Heddon's Dowagiac Wiggler out into the rapids 

 and reeling it in across a mighty promising looking 

 eddy. After a few unsuccessful efforts, which I 

 chalked up to practice, I felt a mighty lunge that 



