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caught while fishing the Salmon River in Pulaski NY during the Holidays

A 30+ pound Salmon and a female
Steelhead caught while fishing the Salmon River Pulaski NY


A family King Salmon and a very
bright silver bullet caught on the Salmon River Pulaski NY

A 20+ pound Male Steelhead with another female Steelhead caught in
Pucker Brush Creek, NY
A couple of "Hogs" King Salmon and a bightly colored up Male Coho
(ready to eat an angler :)
all caught on the Salmon River Pulaski NY
Teresa with her FIRST fish EVER in her entire life she has caught!
(16lb.approx. steelhead.)











20+ pound
steelhead caught on Pucker Brush Creek NY

20+ pound steelhead
caught on Pucker Brush Creek NY
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Mustad Scandinavian Sales Manager |
Mustad US Sales Co-ordinator |
Hello Guys!
I just wanted to share some exciting news with you.
A couple of months ago I was fly-fishing the Salmon River
in Pulaski, NY with Geir Sivertzen and Bob Funk (Mustad US Sales
Manager). We had a tremendous day catching 50 of the 85 salmon and
trout that we hooked. It was truly the fishing outing of a lifetime.
The river was filled with fresh lake-run Chinook and Coho salmon, brown
trout and steelhead.
I was fishing with 8 pound tippet when I hooked into the Coho salmon
of a lif
etime. After a 25 minute battle, I managed to grab its tail as our
guide Randy Jones, was busy chasing fish that Bob and Geir were
fighting. My Coho salmon measured 35 inches (88.9 cm) and weighed 22
pounds (9.98 kg). After weighing and measuring it, I quickly released
it back into the river. It was by far the largest Coho Salmon I had
ever landed in nearly 20 years of fishing for them. The next day, I
looked at the International Game Fish Association, IGFA, Record Book
and saw that the 8 pound tippet class Fly Rod record was 19lb 9oz. My
fish beat the World Record by well over 2 pounds. I felt sick, because
I did not go through all the necessary steps to register the fish as a
record. So, the old record stands, but we all know that I beat it.
The fish was caught on one of my special flies I came up with, called Jeff's Coho Candy. It is tied on a Mustad 80500BL size 10. Recently I have started tying the same fly on a Partridge SINGLE SALMON SALAR BLACK in size 9 as well. Above on the left, you can see me holding the "would-have-been-a-record" Coho. From now on I'll carry a copy of the IGFA Record Book in the back of my fishing vest.
Best fishes
Jeff Pierce
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