Fishing near Cranston in Providence County, RI

Check Prices

• Crank bait, surface poppers
• A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
• Dat Food,
  Maple Peas,
  Chick Peas
• Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures
• Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
• basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
• drifting worms no sinker
• Worm
• senkos t rigged midnight flake
• Rattle trap

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• porgy
• pogie chunk
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• live linning pogies
• 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
• Shiners on a bobber
• meal worms
• Shiner one foot below float.

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• used baby brush hog
• baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker
  
  palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
• palm tree red skirt black trunck
• HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
• using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
• Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.

Minnow Check Prices

• menhaden
• 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.
• live shiners medium size
• live shiners and senkos
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• Shiners
• 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.
• Caught by a friend on a shiner.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Topwater pencil bait, shoots down about 1-2 feet when you yank it, then pops back up to the surface.
• Pencil bait, same as other
• 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...
• Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
• BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
• same as bass bait
• top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
• Rapala Poppers
• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.

Lizard Check Prices

• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• Sluggo

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• 4 INCH SHAD

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.
  
  

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

• green scum frog
  
  yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
• green scum frog
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Strike King Rage Toad
• chartreuse SnagProof frog

Squid Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• Jerkbait
• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• a lot of plastic worms work out.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• silver/red inline spinner
  
  white/red spot jerk bait

Dry Fly 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
• black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
• strike king watermelon flake worm
• Red worm from Big O's.
• clam worms
• 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.
• 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
• senko

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.
• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• Green rattling to Zuri
• carolina rig

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.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
• strike king red craw texas rigged
  
  blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Lure (Other) Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• First cast and I had one.
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• Rapala Jerkbait

Jigs Check Prices

• Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

• orange, black split center
• small lightning stick
• Dilly diver shad
• My Limit was:
  2.27lbs
  1-3/4lbs
  1lb 10oz
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  
  
• Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
• Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
• caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
• Zoom salamander
  Sunfish crank bait
• shallow shad rap
• rebel ghost minnow - silver

Bass Jig Check Prices

• 3/4lb on Jig
  two 10 inchers on drop shot
• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
• Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Corn Yellow Powerbait

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• 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.
• Night crawler on a #8 hook
• night crawler on a rattling bobber lol

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

• 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

• porgy snagger
• Powerbait
• 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.
• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar