Fishing near Tiverton in Newport County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Striped Bass, Scup (Porgy), Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 141
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 260
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Top Fishing Spots near Tiverton

Creamer Pond
Creamer Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
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Stafford Pond
Stafford Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 3852

Sawdy Pond
Sawdy Pond

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
Views: 6717

Mt Hope Bridge
Mt Hope Bridge

Avg. Rating: 0
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Cook Pond
Cook Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 4
Views: 5873

South Watuppa Pond
South Watuppa Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.667
# Reviews: 6
Views: 12170

Tiverton Area Fish Species

Recent Tiverton Fishing Reports

Good day out Fishing Report Jun 05, 2011

Good day out

Private pond -

Hit a small pond in Weston in my boat and was highly rewarded with several bass. Biggest was 5, a few 3s and many single pounders. Big boy was caught ...

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fishin' at creamer. Fishing Report Sep 19, 2014

fishin' at creamer.

Creamer pond ri -

Got 3 bass on shiners. Biggest being 13in. All around logs. After a while at around 4:30pm I switched to 5in green pumpkin plastic worm( yum). Got 2 m...

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fishin' at creamer. Fishing Report Sep 19, 2014

fishin' at creamer.

Creamer pond ri -

Got 3 bass on shiners. Biggest being 13in. All around logs. After a while at around 4:30pm I switched to 5in green pumpkin plastic worm( yum). Got 2 m...

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Another Succsessful day. Fishing Report Aug 24, 2016

Another Succsessful day.

Creamer Pond -

Caught another largemouth over 14" caught three in 20 minutes of fishing!!!!!...

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Another Cold day on stafford with friends Fishing Report Oct 26, 2016

Another Cold day on stafford with friends

Stafford pond -

Went fishing again in the cold front with some friends. I say we would of caught more if we didn't goof around so much. But we caught a couple lar...

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Cold day on Stafford Pond Fishing Report Oct 25, 2016

Cold day on Stafford Pond

Stafford Pond -

With a MAJOR coldfront moving in I decided to try and catch some bass and succeeded in catching 11 Largemouth bass in about three hours of fishing....

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Baits and Tackle used near Tiverton

Check Prices

  • basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
  • i used pogy
  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • Watermelon red/gold flake Texas

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • Shiners on a bobber
  • live linning pogies
  • green crabs
  • greencrabs
  • sandworms
  • pogie chunk
  • Used some Medium Shinners
  • porgy
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long

Creature Check Prices

  • using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
  • HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
  • palm tree red skirt black trunck
  • baby brush hog (green pumpkin green 1/8 oz bullet head sinker

    palm tree green pumpkin green weight-less
  • Flipping a laydown
  • used baby brush hog

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • live shiners medium size
  • menhaden
  • live shiners and senkos
  • mumpers
  • Large (heavies) shiners
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
  • 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.
  • 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
  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 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
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
  • 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
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • Shad colored 5" Senko
  • small slgos
  • Sluggo

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • yellow spinner colorado blade silver
  • All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
  • Spinnerbait
    Limit consisted of:
    2lb 5oz
    2lb 4oz
    1lb 15oz
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 6oz
  • Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • 3 largemouth bass & 1 chain pickerel on a white 3/8oz Bass Pro Shops Lazer Eye double-willow spinnerbait
  • caught 7 pickerel and 5 largemouth bass on the following lures: willow/colorado spinnerbait, Zoom Fluke in pearl, Strike King Shim-E-Stick in watermelon green/red flake, and a Stanley Ribbit frog

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog
  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • 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
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).

Squid Check Prices

  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits
  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait

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

Worm Check Prices

  • Watermelon Red flake rigged weed less, casted right by the lily pads
  • Texas rigged 4" watermelon colored worm with a medium action ugly stick.
  • senko worm brown
    topwater popper
  • black senko
  • My Smallie was 1-1/4lb
    Vinny's was 1lb
  • Shakey Head
  • Senko
    1st Bass 1lb 15oz
    2nd Bass 14oz
  • 1st was 13oz
    2nd was 1lb 10oz
  • caught it on a greenish senko
  • caught on a senko while fishing for bass

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • cocahoe medium speed
  • carolina rig

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
    Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber

    Also 2 shorts
  • My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
    1-3/4lber
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Two 1-1/4lbers

    also a couple 1lbers, and a short

    Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • trolling a white unbrella rig from island to the red bouy. while trolling i threw medium size stick crank baits off the side and hooked up. i would make sure your hooks are strong we had a few straighten out and loss the fish

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
  • Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
  • shallow shad rap
  • Zoom salamander
    Sunfish crank bait
  • caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
  • My Limit was:
    2.27lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1lb 10oz
    Two 1-1/2lbers

  • And Lipless Crank
  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick
  • I was using a small baby bass colored crankbait, and reeling it in until it smashed into the bottom, then pausing, and they'd crush it on the pause.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.

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
  • 2 0z Zara Spook
    9" Sluggo(White)

Grub Check Prices

  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • same bait, dough bait
  • Fished pogey chunks
  • Just bread balls
  • porgy snagger
  • Powerbait
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.

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