Fishing near Johnston in Providence County, RI

Check Prices

• A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
• Dat Food,
  Maple Peas,
  Chick Peas
• Crank bait, surface poppers
• Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
• Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures
• Rattle trap
• senkos t rigged midnight flake
• White Nichols spinnerbait w/ white grub trailer
• shiners nightcrawlers and meal worms
• Maize and molasses really the only action we got here

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• porgy
• pogie chunk
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• 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
• live linning pogies
• Medium sized Frog
• Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
• Shiner one foot below float.

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

• used baby brush hog
• 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'.
• 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
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Carolina Rig
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture

Minnow Check Prices

• 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, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• menhaden
• Shiners
• medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags
• live shiners medium size
• live shiners and senkos
• mediums
• Hitting it real well with shinners
• 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.

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
• 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...
• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
• top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
• same as bass bait
• topwater and worms
• Rapala Poppers
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.

Lizard Check Prices

• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• Sluggo
• red 5" Senko
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.

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.
  
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• spinner, silver with red trim
• rooster tail spinner
• uh, spinnerbait
• golden spinner
• tornado black
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber
• white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
• yellow spinner colorado blade silver
• 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
• neon green spinner bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

• green scum frog
  
  yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Strike King Rage Toad
• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• green scum 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
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner

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
• 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.
• black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
• strike king watermelon flake worm
• red shad pwer worm
• red shad powerworm
• clam worms
• black/chart flake senko
  yellow/green spinner
  bass pro 4.5 inch cut tail worm pumpkin seed
• black w/chart specs senkos
  
  wacky rig and texas
  
  both close to shore

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• 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.
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Green rattling to Zuri

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• 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.
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap

Soft Baits Check Prices

• Drop Shot
• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• Dropshot
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
• Worm, and Spinnerbait
  
  1.48lbs, and three 1lbers
  
  4 shorts
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Drop shot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo

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

• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Rooster tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

• small lightning stick
• orange, black split center
• Dilly diver shad
• 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
• rebel ghost minnow - silver
• i had 10 (3 were 20+) and nicholas had 11. most were crankbaits, though i caught a couple on a rooster tail.
• Rapala DT-4, Perch
• perch rapala
• nicholas caught 15 and i got 4. all on rapalas
• tried a soft worm for a while, but got nothing. crankbaits and spoons work well on this pond.

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
• Blk/red w blk mister twister 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
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot

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 rattling bobber lol
• Night crawler on a #8 hook

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

• Powerbait
• porgy snagger
• Just bread balls
• 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.
• same bait, dough bait
• uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.