Fishing near Coventry in Kent County, RI

Check Prices

• drifting worms no sinker
• Crank bait, surface poppers
• Live Bluegill
• Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
• mummies
• keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu
• Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
• A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
• pearl jerkbait
• pearl strike king jerkbait

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• meal worms
• porgy
• pogie chunk
• live linning pogies
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
• Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
• Medium sized Frog
• mussels on hook jigging

Creature Check Prices

• used baby brush hog
• Brush Hog in the pads
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish

Tube Check Prices

• Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• running a bass pro shops 3.5 inch tube. Little fish were having a hard time choking the bait down, but they managed.
• texas rigged

Minnow Check Prices

• Hitting it real well with shinners
• Fish where hitting hard on shiners, one hit be so hard my line broke at the bobber and the fish took it and the bobber never surfaced again!? there some very big fish here!
• used mostly live shiners,but when they ran out I was using a spinner bait and a surface frog and hitting pickerel and base, lots of Yellow perch here as well.
• 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.
• menhaden
• Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
• big dead goldies
• mediums
• live shiners medium size
• live shiners and senkos

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
• 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...
• 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.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• white luck-e-strike 110
• small slgos
• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
• spinner, silver with red trim
• Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
• rooster tail spinner
• uh, spinnerbait
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber

Frog Bait Check Prices

• green scum frog
  
  yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged

Squid Check Prices

• double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Rapala slash bait
• others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• Thomas Spinner
• Thomas spinner
• mepps #4 silver and white trailer
• grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
• yellow rooster tail 1/8th
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• silver/red inline spinner
  
  white/red spot jerk bait

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• black rubber worms... preferably Berkly 7 inch, done up with the texas rig... or even top water poppers.. they are pretty aggressive over there.. pretty easy to catch
• using bass pro shops worms that i just picked up and they hold up a lot better than the garys.
• black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
• tried the 5" green pumpkin worm today, vise my regular watermelon and it worked well.
• yum dinger 5" watermelon seed
  
• landed the 2.10 on a 5 inch worm lost the monster while swimming a jig
• Red worm from Big O's.
• Plain red worms. Big O's Bait and Tackle is just north of the Pond's main entrance on Farnum Pike. Pass the entrance on the left and look for the house (Big O's) about 3/4 mile on the left. They are open from around 5:30am until 8:30pm. $3 a tub of 26-30 redworms... several baits and jigs available.
• Had the worms hooked weedless and just casted into the lilly pads and we kept bringing them in.
• red shad pwer worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• carolina rig
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• dark worm very slow
• 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.
• cocahoe medium speed

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerkbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Drop Shot
• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• Dropshot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• I used powerbait rubber worms.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• First cast and I had one.

Crankbait Check Prices

• orange, black split center
• small lightning stick
• 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,
• rapalla balsa floating minnow
• Rapala segmented shad
• rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
• 4" jerkbait silver-black back
• Dilly diver shad
• strikeking 3xd in green shad
• KVD 1.5 Bluegill

Bass Jig Check Prices

• i used a jig and wacky worm.
• war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
• green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
• blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
• chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
• blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Corn Yellow Powerbait
• same as usual
• Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
• dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• Just had the crawler on the bottem. Had the hook about 1 foot above the sinker, so the sinker got the weeds instead of the hook.
• very basic, traditional techs..and I never use a bobber. that way I come out with either a lmb or catfish in this spot, its a win-win situation :)
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"

Lipless Bait Check Prices

Herring Check Prices

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• 2 0z Zara Spook
  9" Sluggo(White)

Grub Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• Running a keitech 3" spider jig with BPS crappie Jig head. Fish did a good job almost getting away, fought very hard, and almost straitened out the hook.

Other Check Prices

• Powerbait
• porgy snagger
• Just bread balls
• same bait, dough bait
• uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
• 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.
  
• These are trout waters and by RI rules that means no chumming, no corn. So boilies, glugs and maple peas were on the menu. I had a few good hits on some homemade Scopex flavored boilies but no hook ups.
  
  The one I did manage to catch was on Maple peas, two on a short hair, with a 2 oz semi-fixed bolt rig.
• Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
• Fished pogey chunks