10-29-2013, 12:48 PM
The bucks develope a bulbous hooked nose, the hens very little, also the gums,as stated before, are not black like a chinook and typically the lower jaw on a chinook comes to a relatively sharp point compared to coho.
The color is another telling sign to me, though chinooks get "black", I have never seen one that is nearly totaly black like I have seen so many coho, it is one feature I really like about coho. The colors they sport are dramatic and I find the black particularly so.
To add, the white creases in the operculum are typical to coho as well, I do not recall ever seeing that on a chinook.
Admittantly the photo could be better, but from what I see, I call it a coho.
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The color is another telling sign to me, though chinooks get "black", I have never seen one that is nearly totaly black like I have seen so many coho, it is one feature I really like about coho. The colors they sport are dramatic and I find the black particularly so.
To add, the white creases in the operculum are typical to coho as well, I do not recall ever seeing that on a chinook.
Admittantly the photo could be better, but from what I see, I call it a coho.
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