Firedog -
With chinook I would say that tailing the fish would be better than netting. When tailing chinook a glove is not needed. They have a much narrower cadual peducle or wrist in from of the tail than steelhead that makes them much easier to hang onto. Grabbing steelhead or coho in front of the tail is like trying to hold a bar of wet soap while chinook, chums and pinks have built in handles.

The only trouble with tailing chinook is that when the get large it may be hard to get your hand around the wrist - for me that is a fish in the plus 40# range - may you have lots of such troubles. As mentioned earlier using gloves on fish that are likely to be in warm water or around for sometime before spawning like spring chinook is just asking for problems for the fish.

Another consideration is those chrome bright fish just entering the river. Those fish with loose scales are very fragile. Anything that may knock off scales such as netting is likely to cause significant mortality. Once the scales become "set" the fish is much more tolerate to handling.

Tight lines
Smalma