Salmon River, Pulaski, NY – Photo Essay
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I headed up Friday night to Pulaski, NY, for my first experience of salmon fishing. The reports we had read on the Internet were very mixed. Most people were in agreement that conditions were poor. The fish weren’t running.
Thanks for sharing.
There are several other tributaries in the area that dont get the pressure that the Salmon gets.
I have a steelhead trip on the calendar for Nov 2, and very well make it up there in the spring as well. Any suggestions for other tribs to try? Preferably east of Rochester. PM me if you’d rather not broadcast!
Zach, we had to fight our way through a ton of kings to get that brown, but in the end it was worth it. 😉
I’ve seen the madness on the Salmon River during steelhead season. This past weekend it was surprisingly tame. I think negative reports on the conditions have kept people away, and the season is still early. I suspect that by next weekend it will become a place that I’d rather not be. Still, the draw of big fish within a reasonable drive from a lot of cities is pretty strong.
Now it’s back to fall stripers and blues for a while. Too many fish, not enough weekends!
Patrick, you can definitely see it in many of the kings. The ones who’ve been in the river longer look pretty beaten up, and you can tell by the fight as well. The fresher kings just explode when hooked up. The river is experiencing unusually low flows of 100cfs, and I suspect the low water is making their journey harder, not to mention the ever-present angling pressure. Many of them also had bite marks from lampreys, a less-desirable imported species in the Great Lakes.
Steelies are in the river, but not in great numbers yet. My understanding is that they should start moving in soon to gorge on the salmon eggs. It would have been great to hooked into one of those to have had the Salmon River ‘grand slam’– king, coho, steelie, brown. The occasional sucker fish is just a bonus.
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