Each fall, thousands of salmon swim upstream along the Salmon River and nearby creeks, trying to return to the state's Salmon River Fish Hatchery in Altmar, where they were born. The fish head home to spawn. But they face a gauntlet of fisherman in the waterways around Pulaski, drawn by the fishes' large sizes and numbers. In this audio postcard, Joanna Richards spoke with local Pulaski resident and 30-year-fisherman Jose Fernandez along a small stream, where he was stalking salmon and escaping the crowd.
Fall in Pulaski brings thousands of salmon, and fishermen out to catch them
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Jose Fernandez holds a small salmon he caught in a creek in Pulaski. He's been fishing in the area for 30 years.
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Jose Fernandez shows his daughter and mother-in-law the salmon he's just netted in a Pulaski creek.
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Jose Fernandez's family captures a shot of their catch.
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Jose Fernandez has been teaching his daughter Olivia, 7, how to fish, during this year's salmon spawning season.
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Jose Fernandez pulls a salmon he caught from a net, as his daughter, Olivia, watches.
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One of Jose Fernandez's relatives holds a brown trout the family caught in a Pulaski creek.
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