Fishing near West Greenwich in Kent County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Sunfish, Bluefish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 164
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 241
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Kayacking Big River near West Greenwich

Kayacking Big River

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Reynolds Pond near West Greenwich

Reynolds Pond

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rip kyle j mather near West Greenwich

rip kyle j mather

my son kyle on one of the fishing trips we went on he loved fishing too he was a lot like me! he love the out doors too rip kyle ( missing him badley!!!!!!!)
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chain pickerel near West Greenwich

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chain pickerel near West Greenwich

chain pickerel

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largemouth bass near West Greenwich

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Top Fishing Spots near West Greenwich

Breakheart Pond
Breakheart Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.25
# Reviews: 4
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Reynolds Pond
Reynolds Pond

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Frosty Hollow Pond
Frosty Hollow Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.25
# Reviews: 4
Views: 3990

Beaver River
Beaver River

Avg. Rating: 3.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 2364

Tillinghast Pond
Tillinghast Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1627

Tarbox Pond
Tarbox Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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West Greenwich Area Fish Species

Recent West Greenwich Fishing Reports

breakheart pond Fishing Report Apr 27, 2010

breakheart pond

Breakheart Pond, RI -

after a poor day at beach pond, me and a few buddys went looking for a more private spot and boy did we find one, in 5 minutes , i had already caught ...

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Kayaking On the Big River Fishing Report Sep 23, 2014

Kayaking On the Big River

West Greenwich., ri -

7hours kayak trip on the Big River Management area (north). My fishfinder detected a few fish. I only caught one nice size pickerel. No trout.. :(. ...

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Big River trip Fishing Report Jun 24, 2015

Big River trip

Big River, RI -

two hours early evening on Big River yeilded 2 1 1/2 lbs fish on the lower left side of Zeks bridge. First trip out on my new kayak and I love this bo...

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Tillinghas Pond Fishing Report Sep 26, 2014

Tillinghas Pond

Tillinghas Pond, West Greenwich -

Came here about 4 weeks ago and killed it with shiners, next trip will be this weekend. The lack of rain may be cause for a poor day fishing, but Im h...

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5 am on the pond Fishing Report Sep 27, 2015

5 am on the pond

Tillinghas Pond, West Greenwich -

on the pond before sunrise, hit better than 20 fish and two over 4 lbs....

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Tillinast Pond Fishing Report Sep 29, 2014

Tillinast Pond

West Greenish, RI Plane Rd -

Spent 2/3 of the day starting at 6am used shinners and bagged 35-40 fish 3 over 18 inchs....

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Baits and Tackle used near West Greenwich

Check Prices

  • drifting worms no sinker
  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
  • Live Bluegill
  • mummies
  • keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu
  • pearl jerkbait
  • pearl strike king jerkbait
  • I was using a mepps #2 silver blade and white dressing
  • Lost my #2 mepps spinner after i hooked into the big unknown fish. Took the smallies on a 1/6 orange roostertail. Then hung up and lost that.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • meal worms
  • live linning pogies
  • pogie chunk
  • porgy
  • mussels on hook jigging
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • eel
  • deadly dick
  • eel/1 oz weight

Creature Check Prices

  • used baby brush hog
  • Brush Hog in the pads

Tube Check Prices

  • Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.
  • running a bass pro shops 3.5 inch tube. Little fish were having a hard time choking the bait down, but they managed.
  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • texas rigged

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • 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.
  • Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
  • live shiners medium size
  • drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom
  • big dead goldies

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 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...
  • 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.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • white luck-e-strike 110
  • small slgos

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
  • rooster tail spinner
  • uh, spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged

Squid Check Prices

  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala slash bait
  • others at this pond using gold fish,trout bait and worms

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • Thomas Spinner
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • Thomas spinner
  • grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
  • yellow rooster tail 1/8th
  • small spinners and very small rapala's
  • spearing/sqid

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • on the teaser
  • gulp shrimp

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • tried the 5" green pumpkin worm today, vise my regular watermelon and it worked well.
  • landed the 2.10 on a 5 inch worm lost the monster while swimming a jig
  • using bass pro shops worms that i just picked up and they hold up a lot better than the garys.
  • 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
  • yum dinger 5" watermelon seed
  • black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
  • texas riged power worm
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • clam worms

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • carolina rig
  • dark worm very slow
  • cocahoe medium speed
  • 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.
  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
  • 4oz buck tail with a strip of squid and live mummy chub.
    a 14inch non weighted trailer with a yellow skirt & live mummy

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick

Craw Check Prices

  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
  • yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • I used powerbait rubber worms.
  • Swimming plug
  • White Sassy shad

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Moby Worm

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • First cast and I had one.
  • yo zurry

Crankbait Check Prices

  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • Rapala segmented shad
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
  • 4" jerkbait silver-black back
  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick
  • strikeking 3xd in green shad
  • KVD 1.5 Bluegill
  • Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
  • i used a jig and wacky worm.
  • chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
  • blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
  • blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • same as usual
  • Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
  • dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
  • very basic, traditional techs..and I never use a bobber. that way I come out with either a lmb or catfish in this spot, its a win-win situation :)
  • 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.
  • one huge cold nightcrawler

Lipless Bait Check Prices

Herring Check Prices

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)
  • D DICK

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • 2 0z Zara Spook
    9" Sluggo(White)
  • slow and steady retrieve

Grub Check Prices

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Running a keitech 3" spider jig with BPS crappie Jig head. Fish did a good job almost getting away, fought very hard, and almost straitened out the hook.

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.
  • Fished pogey chunks
  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • 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.

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