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the Old World. Isaac Walton mentions one, 

 caught in England, measuring two feet in 

 length. The longest perch on record measured 

 twenty-nine inches. 



In Russia they frequently weigh as much as 

 seven pounds. 



Three pounds is a very big perch with us. 



Take the world over the smaller the water the 

 smaller the fish, and the warmer the water the 

 larger the fish. 



Perch grow very fast; in the first year an 

 inch perch will become a six-inch one in the 

 third year. A half-pound perch will produce as 

 many as 250,000 eggs in a season. 



First and foremost in the perch family I 

 must place the "crappy," which is most com- 

 monly tallied about, yet it is neither common 

 nor so well Imown as it should be. 



It is very generally called "white" perch, but 

 it is not a true white perch. This fish is silver- 

 gray in any other than black water, where its 

 color becomes speckled, black and white, the 

 male being darker on a white ground than the 

 female. 



