Fishing near Lincoln in Providence County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Mirror Carp, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Yellow Perch, Sunfish
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Girl fishing near Lincoln

Girl fishing

I have had the chance through volunteering to meet some great kids and here is another one, she had a true passion for fishing and was eager to learn all she could
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Ride and Fish event  location near Lincoln

Ride and Fish event location

We picked a location Near the Kelly house where the towpath met the bike path. We had 4 good runs but only one fish caught in the 3 hour period. This is primarily due to inexperience as most participants had never fished before.

It is about 12 feet wide with a depth averaging 3-5 feet, murky slow moving water with fairly clear brush making casting a breeze.
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Lincoln Area Fish Species

Recent Lincoln Fishing Reports

First time out Fishing Report Jul 27, 2010

First time out

Cumberland/Lincoln -

Took pre-fab rods out with my older son, JJ. We tried the Blackstone in Manville, but decided on Lincoln Woods instead. Not even a nibble, but we saw ...

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Lincoln Woods Fishing Report Apr 27, 2010

Lincoln Woods

Olney Pond, RI -

many spots to fish here...

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Barneys pond at the damn dam.  Fishing Report May 02, 2016

Barneys pond at the damn dam.

Barneys Pond, RI -

Was waiting for around 5 to get out there. Knew the conditions were decent having rained for the last 12+ hours. Got to Barneys in lincoln around 6, t...

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Day on the Pond Fishing Report Nov 03, 2014

Day on the Pond

Smithfiels, RI -

Kayak of the Pond 1 Bass and three of the Biggest Black Crappie I've seen in a while!...

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Palmer, MA Part 2 and Middle Pond/Mystic Lake Fishing Report Sep 06, 2011

Palmer, MA Part 2 and Middle Pond/Mystic Lake

Barnstable,MA/Palmer, MA -

Back on the weekend of August 13th, me and a friend of my mine decided we wanted to bring my boat to Cape Cod and do some fishing. We dropped into Mi...

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Stump Pond Fishing Report Aug 08, 2010

Stump Pond

Stump Pond -

Our neighbor told us that Stump Pond (aka Stillwater Reservoir) in Smithfield had a great setup for first-timers. They were right!!...

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Baits and Tackle used near Lincoln

Check Prices

  • 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
  • senkos t rigged midnight flake
  • Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
  • we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
  • 5 inch senko neon green/cream 4 inch watermellon w/ blk flake they were hitting on the way in. just drifting and casting on little cleo spoons.
  • Worm
  • Maize and molasses really the only action we got here
  • zoom watermelon seed finese worms

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • 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 shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • porgy
  • Medium sized Frog
  • pogie chunk
  • live linning pogies
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • Chartreuse Powerbait

Tube Check Prices

  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • texas rigged
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • drop shots and topwater

Creature Check Prices

  • 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'.
  • used baby brush hog
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
  • Carolina Rig
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • 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

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.
  • 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
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • live shiners and senkos
  • menhaden
  • live shiners medium size
  • Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
  • Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin

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

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • Sluggo
  • red 5" Senko
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go
  • 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass

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

  • rooster tail spinner
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • golden spinner
  • tornado black
  • Tornado spinner bait
  • Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
  • 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
  • Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
  • Red/black single Colorado gold

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • Spro Frog
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Weedless Topwater 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

Streamer Check Prices

  • Chart/White clouser

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
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    1. 9in
    2. 10.5in
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
  • 1st. 8in 6oz
    2nd. 5in
  • 1/8in Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    1. 15.5in
    2. 13in 1lb
  • 1/8 Rooster Tail
  • 11-3/4" on a tube
    11-1/2" on wacky worm
    7" and 10" on inline spinner

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Red worm from Big O's.
  • 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
  • live bait works well here also wether its frogs shiners or just a nightcrawler. i found swimbaits and spinners are also great just depends on weather conditions
  • red shad senko 6 inch
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • bass master 6 inch madi gras
  • black blue fleck
  • black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
  • senkos you name it i tryed it tried a kvd squair bill 4 ft dive even tried a plug around the pads

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • xps swimbait
  • Dark Senkos wacky
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • 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.

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • Jerkbait
  • 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.

    1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out

    a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts
  • 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

  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
  • DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
  • Drop Shot
  • 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
  • Dropshot
  • Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
  • 11" Drop Shot
    11-3/4" Carolina Rig
  • 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
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
  • Rapala Original #7
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Rooster tail
  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
  • Rooster Tail
  • 1 on Rooster Tail
    1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
  • 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
    4 on Rooster Tail
  • DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
  • Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • First cast and I had one.

Jigs Check Prices

  • Spider Grub
    1st was 2-1/2lbs
    2nd was 1lb 6oz

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Dilly diver shad
  • small lightning stick
  • orange, black split center
  • 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
  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
  • Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
  • 4"senko
  • texas rigged senko
  • 5" and 6" Senko

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • regular silver spoon
  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
  • 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.
  • nice large nightcrawlers
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • we used live worms it worked very well
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • rattler
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed
  • Red and white daredevil

Grub Check Prices

  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • 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
  • Powerbait
  • porgy snagger
  • Just bread balls
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • Again the Dat food boilie line really worked well here. Shrimplies(shrimp) and gold( pineapple) performed above my expectations. Feed corn was of course also on the menu and produced a few good runs.
  • Bait for carp: (which are the only fish I am coun ting for here)
    Chum the night before with a mix of Maize and oat/bran/grits method/ground bait

    Hook bait was maize on a hair with tutty-fruity or molasses glug, or maize or corn-pops on the hook with a oat/bran/grits pack bait

    Bait for sunnies/bluegills/etc:
    Meal worms, canned corn, bread

    Many were caught as part of the event but I did not keep a tally.

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