T Burns,
My guess is you will do better smoking it, but will still have an inferior product because you are starting out with a farmed raised fish.....which brings me to an opinion I have on the topic. In a nutshell I won't have anything to do with the farmed raised salmon you find and Costco and many other stores in the Northwest. I tried it once and found the taste relative to wild/hatchery fish caught commercially or by myself to be truly inferior in taste.
JMS