It has a lightly spotted blue-green back and is by far the largest and most prized game fish. It weighs between 1.5 and 30 kg. Those over 13.5 kg s. Tyee sized Salmon routinely take up to an hour or more to land and have been known to take over 4 hours to successfully bring in the boat.
Coho usually live for three years and grow rapidly in their final year.
They weigh between 1.3 and 14 kg s. In the Strait of Georgia from April to early June, small Coho passing from the grilse stage to maturity are called Blue backs. Unlike the other Salmon species, the tail of a Pink has no silver in it. In the sea, Pinks have silver bodies with spotted backs. They are more abundant in Northern waters in odd numbered years.