Some fish are colored up, and soft, others are chrome as a dime, and running loose eggs. It all depends on water.

If the water is really clear, low and warm, the fish will sit at the mouth of the rivers until the first good shot of water. They'll blow up the river, and do their thing in the matter of just a few days.

If I keep them, I try to keep loose chromers, and keep the eggs for bait. I'll give the fish to my neighbor for the grill. I'm not a big fan of eating steelies, so I generally ask a couple people at work if they want a fish. If so I'll keep one or two for eggs and hand them over to a friend. Otherwise they all go back in the water. I'll take a lake trout on the smoker any day over a steelie. Your coho's are a whole different story. Good Eats.