Fishing near Providence 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
• Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures
• Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
• Worm
• senkos t rigged midnight flake
• basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
• 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.

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
• Shiner one foot below float.
• Shiners on a bobber

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.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
• Black and Blue as usual

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.
• menhaden
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• live shiners medium size
• live shiners and senkos
• Shiners
• Caught by a friend on a shiner.
• 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
• Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
• Hitting it real well with shinners

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...
• same as bass bait
• top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
• BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
• 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.
• Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
• 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.
• 6" Senko (see pic for color)
  Rapala Floating Minnow
• 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
• 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
• 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

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
• golden 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
• neon green spinner bait
• All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
• Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs

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
• 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
• Weedless Topwater 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
• 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

• 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.
• 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/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
• 5 inch brown and green senkos
• senko
• clam worms

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.
• Green rattling to Zuri
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head

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.
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.

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
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Jigs Check Prices

• Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

• small lightning stick
• orange, black split center
• Dilly diver shad
• rebel ghost minnow - silver
• 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
• 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
• 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
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer

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"
• Night crawler on a #8 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.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

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.
• 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

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.
• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.