Good time to be there PA.
  Different having a place up there- ya can go even when the odds are against ya. Gotta cut grass anyhow.
 When we had to drive up for just  short stays it was bout the same time your talking bout _ much better odds.
  Tuna- Early AM or late evening on those RI beaches - when the beach bunnies are gone- can get some nice runs of Blues or Bass close in. Used to be in Misquamicut every year in mid to late August. FUN.

Yup it's a completely different fishery when you have a stake in it. For us transients it becomes a take it when you can or leave it all together .
Now if I could only get Jack to come play in the below 32 deg water :)

HT-Be prepared for real cold water up in RI.  Water temp was 64 last week.   

Hey - have even seen some nice size SHARKS right in the surf at the crack of dawn in Westerly by the public beach--if the swimmers only knew lol.

As long as the sun will shine and salt ponds are not too windy, we be fine.
After this muggy hot weather here , clams are going to come aboard :)

Didn't fish for kings for 20 years.
For me a couple of i day trips, really only the morning,and mayby an overnoight camp if a friend comes in for a couple days.
I don't think he has beached one yet, its the reason I took time to land the beasts I photoed last year.
I don't care about catching numbers, after 1 or 2 full on fights with kings it becomes work for me.
 
Rather save precious time off for a little later in the fall.
 
Mid end Sept for me unless there are strong early runs.
 
Mostly those trips are to figure out the changes in the river and finding the place that feels good to me not catching kings.

I just don't get tired of the Kings and Ho's,love that screaming drag after the head shake.I know the Steel are prettier and fight hard,but there is something about those big boys that tickle me
The trouble with below 32 degree water is that it turns to ice,that hinders the fish somewhat.However,if you can provide a flat screen TV and a bottle of Makers Mark in the HEATED ice HOUSE I may join you Rich

PA-I'll bring the venison stew and we'll make a festa on ice.

My favorite tactic is Popsicle flies drifting by a few kings. The best is one all by itself, float it by a few times so it sees it, then when its had enough of it, they snap at it. And when you know... You know. I do alot to make sure i dont snag, I've gone from snagger, to fly fishing over the past 20 years. All self taught, and I've come along ways since catching my first mud shark at 9.
 
But nothing beats drifting and egg sucking leech under a few kings and having a steelhead slam it on the back end of a drift.  

Jack I have friends that feel the same as you.
Its not the pretty but the difference in speed I dig.
Its as if I know what kings are about to do while steel has me 2 moves behind just trying to catch up.
Ialso love coho.
They fight about the same as steel except when I punch a steelhead they go crazy but a coho I have to show some muscle before they go ballistic.
After that it is game on with either till they burn themselves up and become managable.
I like the chrome before the water drops below upper 40s.
Once it chills down they lose 20% of their wildness in my mind and while still awesome fighters they are not the same as the earlier fish.
 
dw I used to fish lots of popcicle type flies and they work great.
I find that a little smaller flies with less flash and movement caught more kings for me.
Things that look more like what they are programmed  to chase in the lake.
A preditor is always a preditor even when they aren't feeding is my therory.