they fight hard, and you can catch them really easy. they "smoke up great" as everyone else says. i personaly eat them. i have a really good way to cook them. i guess thats from years of having my grandparents live on the duckabush where thats the only run of salmon they get. they perfected cooking them. i wait all year long to fish for dogs, i love the fight. and on my noodle rod its ever better