I was curious to see if people could actually tell the diffrence between white and red chinook, so I did a test. I took a piece of a white and a piece of a red, both caught the same day in the same area, and barbequed both side by side, with no seasoning on either. I had about 25 guests at a party and had about 15 of them try tasting the fish while blindfolded. Not one could tell which was which.

Even more interesting to me was the fact that they were often certain one bite was red and the other white, even when I gave them two bites of the same fish.

I dont beleive there is any diffrence in taste. I think its all in our heads. After all they eat the same stuff, but the whites do not have the gene that makes the flesh red.