Summer Fly Fishing?

[UncleLeon]

I’m coming back to New Hampshire the third week of May and will be there until the end of August. I’m hoping to practice some fly casting on Winni and wondering how feasible salmon fishing is during the summer without trolling. Ive got enough experience with a downrigger to know roughly where to find baitfish on the thermocline later in the summer, but those depths don’t seem very friendly towards fly fishing.

Early mornings I see fish nip the surface but I’ve never found out if they are salmon, nor if salmon rise that far in the warmer months. With sinking line I expect I could reach the necessary depths but I don’t know if I’d be wasting my time not covering the same amount of area that the trollers do.

Any advice would be appreciated as I’m still new to fly fishing and finding salmon on Winnipesaukee. I understand that this will be an uphill battle but I think it’ll be way more worth it than just sitting and staring at my downrigger!

Many thanks

[bobkatfly]

I fly fish in the area but I wouldn't do it on Winnie in the summer. Right now (April) just after ice out, maybe....I've caught salmon in August on the surface but I was trolling streamers and in fishing terms it was truly luck.
Are you only interested in casting from a boat or do you have a canoe or kayak? Are you only interested in salmon? There are remote ponds in the area within 1 hour that are fishable for trout in the summer. Some of them stay relatively cool. Some are hike-in and some are road side. Also, you can wade some of them from shore. Then again, traveling North to the Ellis or Saco rivers (to name two) are a good bet for river fishing.