Fishing near Bristol in Bristol County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Striped Bass, Scup (Porgy), Brook Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 161
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 320
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Bristol Narrows near Bristol

Bristol Narrows

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21" Black Sea Bass near Bristol

21" Black Sea Bass

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Heading out to the Point near Bristol

Heading out to the Point

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18" Black Sea Bass near Bristol

18" Black Sea Bass

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off Bay Island near Bristol

off Bay Island

caught 8 black sea bass that day and lots of scup.

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SCHOOLIE near Bristol

SCHOOLIE

3 OF THEM, FIRST OF THE YEAR
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Top Fishing Spots near Bristol

Kickamuit River
Kickamuit River

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Bristol Harbor
Bristol Harbor

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Mount Hope Bay
Mount Hope Bay

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Warren River
Warren River

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Mt Hope Bridge
Mt Hope Bridge

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Barrington Beach
Barrington Beach

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Bristol Area Fish Species

Recent Bristol Fishing Reports

Afternoon Shore Fishing at Bristol Narrows Fishing Report Jun 05, 2010

Afternoon Shore Fishing at Bristol Narrows

Bristol, RI -

Started fishing around 3pm, just after high tide. Fished for about 20 minutes with no bites, then got a nice hit by this fish. Caught on clam bellie...

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Porgy Fishing Report Jun 10, 2010

Porgy

Colt State Park, RI -

Porgy fishing...

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Sea Bass Fishing Report May 29, 2012

Sea Bass

Common Fence Point, RI -

Didn't go for Sea Bass, but that's all we ended up catching. ...

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STRIPERS IN EARLY MAY Fishing Report May 07, 2009

STRIPERS IN EARLY MAY

BRISTOL HARBOR -

The day started with us launching the boat @ burma road in Middletown, RI @ 2:00. We then ran up past prudence island on the way up through the bristo...

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stripper fishing with my good friend marco Fishing Report May 20, 2008

stripper fishing with my good friend marco

OHIO LEDGE PROVIDENCE RIVER OPENING -

5:30 this morning my buddy mark and i set out for our maiden stripper quest of the season. Mark, my best freind, had everything ready to go, Fresh pog...

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EARLY SCHOOLIE STRIPERS Fishing Report Apr 29, 2010

EARLY SCHOOLIE STRIPERS

ISLAND PARK, TIVERTON, PORTSMOUTH RI -

WENT WITH SMALL TOPWATER STUFF, NOTHING, SWITCHED TO A 4"INCH SHAD RUBBER SWIM BAIT. POW 3 LITTLE SCHOOLIES, 14', 16, 18, HAD A BLAST CANT WA...

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Baits and Tackle used near Bristol

Check Prices

  • basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • i used pogy
  • Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
  • Dat Food,
    Maple Peas,
    Chick Peas
  • Worm
  • drifting worms no sinker
  • shiners

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • live linning pogies
  • pogie chunk
  • porgy
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • Shiners on a bobber
  • green crabs
  • sandworms
  • greencrabs
  • Used some Medium Shinners

Creature Check Prices

  • baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker

    palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
  • using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
  • palm tree red skirt black trunck
  • HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
  • used baby brush hog
  • Flipping a laydown
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Black and Blue as usual

Tube Check Prices

  • texas rigged
  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.

Minnow Check Prices

  • menhaden
  • live shiners medium size
  • live shiners and senkos
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • mumpers
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • Shiners
  • Some guy bought some live shiners at Big O's and left us with a few. This one was about 3" long and brought in a 10" perch.
  • Large (heavies) shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Pencil bait, same as other
  • Topwater pencil bait, shoots down about 1-2 feet when you yank it, then pops back up to the surface.
  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
  • I only used topwater frogs, black buzz and some weedless ones that I picked up at bass pro. The 22" was cought on a light green weedless frog. One day I'll buy a scale...
  • same as bass bait
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
  • Rapala Poppers
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
  • fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • Mann's Shadow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • Sluggo
  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
  • Shad colored 5" Senko

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • yellow spinner colorado blade silver
  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
  • Spinnerbait
    Limit consisted of:
    2lb 5oz
    2lb 4oz
    1lb 15oz
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 6oz
  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
  • Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • rooster tail spinner
  • neon green spinner bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • green scum frog
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits
  • Stanley Ribbit
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner

Squid Check Prices

  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits
  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • clam worms
  • Watermelon Red flake rigged weed less, casted right by the lily pads
  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • black senko
  • senko
  • 5 inch brown and green senkos
  • black w/chart specs senkos

    wacky rig and texas

    both close to shore
  • black/chart flake senko
    yellow/green spinner
    bass pro 4.5 inch cut tail worm pumpkin seed
  • caught it on a greenish senko
  • Senko
    1st Bass 1lb 15oz
    2nd Bass 14oz

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Got 3 bass on shiners( including the biggest). 2 small ones on yum 5 in green pumpkin plastic worm. 5 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Yum 5in green pumpkin worm. Also got 3 on shiners ( including the biggest). Got two small ones on yum. 3 bluegill on small lure too.
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • carolina rig
  • cocahoe medium speed

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
    Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber

    Also 2 shorts
  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
    1-3/4lber
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Two 1-1/4lbers

    also a couple 1lbers, and a short

    Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Lure (Other) Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Rapala Jerkbait

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
  • Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
  • My Limit was:
    2.27lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1lb 10oz
    Two 1-1/2lbers

  • caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
  • Zoom salamander
    Sunfish crank bait
  • shallow shad rap
  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick
  • Dilly diver shad
  • And Lipless Crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Red and white daredevil
  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • zara spoof

Grub Check Prices

  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • same bait, dough bait
  • Just bread balls
  • porgy snagger
  • Powerbait
  • Fished pogey chunks
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Chummed with feed corn/maple peas and a ground mix of oats/grits/bran/condensed milk/cream corn

    Hook bait was Feed corn and maple peas
  • I had a variety of bait with me, however they were only striking a pack bait made of grits, corn juice and molasses plus some other flavoring.

    roughly 24 oz quick grits
    juice from one can of corn
    a good bit of molasses
    baby rice cereal to help fluff it out

    Place one or two corn pops on the hook and then pack it pretty good into golf ball sized lumps around your hook and pops.

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