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I'm pleasantly surprised after cold salmon (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

coho

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'salmon' is the definition.
(type of salmon)

'i'm pleasantly surprised after cold' is the wordplay.
'i'm pleasantly surprised' becomes 'oho' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'cold' becomes 'C' (eg on taps).
'oho' put after 'c' is 'COHO'.

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(Other definitions for coho that I've seen before include "Fish" , "Small north Pacific salmon" .)

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