This story comes from Bill Huff, Jr. who shared this story from a 1912 edition of the Lyons Republican newspaper.
How is this possible? This happened before the canal was put in the St. Lawrence River. In those days, ocean fish travelled down the river as far as Sodus Bay. No reports of Great White Sharks however!
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