Fishing near Westerly in Washington County, RI

3.5 Rating based on 136 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Striped Bass, Largemouth Bass, Scup (Porgy), Blackfish, Bluefish, Black Sea Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 83
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 187
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Early morning  near Westerly

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Bluefish frenzy near Westerly

Bluefish frenzy

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Sunrise at Watch Hill near Westerly

Sunrise at Watch Hill

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Sunrise at Watch Hill near Westerly

Sunrise at Watch Hill

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Ready Live Bait near Westerly

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Top Fishing Spots near Westerly

Winnapaug Pond
Winnapaug Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1461

Pawcatuck River
Pawcatuck River

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1961

Quonochontaug Pond
Quonochontaug Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1247

Block Island Sound
Block Island Sound

Avg. Rating: 3.667
# Reviews: 3
Views: 929

Pawcatuck River
Pawcatuck River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1790

Chapman Pond
Chapman Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 4161

Westerly Area Fish Species

Recent Westerly Fishing Reports

Long Island sound Fishing Report Mar 23, 2009

Long Island sound

Some where in L.I. Sound -

Fluking in the sound close to R.I. beach's...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Pawcatuck River 6-9-2010 Fishing Report Jun 10, 2010

Pawcatuck River 6-9-2010

Mouth of the Pawcatuck River, CT -

Fly fished the mouth of the Pawcatuck River starting 5:00am. Picked up several stripers in the 24 to 28 inch range. Found fish around rock piles. L...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Created by: flyangler
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kayaking in salt pond Fishing Report Jul 20, 2009

kayaking in salt pond

winnapaug pond misquamicut ri -

went out in a 2 man kayak 2 days catching schoolies caught 5 first day 2nd day caught 11 . the fish were 20" thru 271/2" we were trolling wi...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Paradise 7/27 Fishing Report Jul 31, 2013

Paradise 7/27

Paradise, RI -

Here's a long story with a quick ending. We went to the place in Southern Rhode Island that is usually a 3 quarter mile walk into the woods. We go...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Albies Make A Show Fishing Report Sep 10, 2011

Albies Make A Show

Watch Hill, RI -

My fishing schedule has sucked as people expect me to go to work! Got out today (as did half of CT, RI and NY) to try and chase some stripers and albi...

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Eastern LIS 7/26-27 Update Fishing Report Jul 28, 2013

Eastern LIS 7/26-27 Update

Fisher's Island, NY -

After dragging myself out of bed Friday at 2:30am only to see that they had upped the wind forecast and issued a small craft advisory, my day finally ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Westerly

Check Prices

  • Chartreuse Blonde
  • t n w and squid rig
  • I was using a mepps #2 silver blade and white dressing
  • mummies
  • keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu
  • live bait
  • Squid
  • pearl strike king jerkbait
  • pearl jerkbait
  • sea robin

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • deadly dick
  • eel
  • eel/1 oz weight
  • eel, frozen squid
  • meal worms
  • Clams
  • Live lined eels, no weight
  • mussels on hook jigging
  • live eals
  • Sandworms and Squid

Tube Check Prices

  • tube and worm (sand worm)
  • running a bass pro shops 3.5 inch tube. Little fish were having a hard time choking the bait down, but they managed.
  • Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.
  • Only hitting the tube and worm. Fish on every 50-100 yard run.

Creature Check Prices

  • Brush Hog in the pads

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom
  • Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
  • 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!
  • 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

  • i was using my silver and black BPS popper, until i lost it in a tree, another lure lost to the pond kings
  • Bass pro 3.5 inch black silver popper
  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • white luck-e-strike 110
  • small slgos

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail

Frog Bait Check Prices

Squid Check Prices

  • 4 oz
  • put a sinker on it and dropped it to the bottom
  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig
  • Spinner rigs with colored beads and buck tail fished along the bottom with a squid strip and spearing added
  • frozen squid
  • sabikis

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala slash bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • spearing/sqid
  • small spinners and very small rapala's
  • white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • Thomas spinner
  • Spin-flies with a brown body and gold spinner worked best. Probably a caddis-fly or brown trout paint pattern. 1/16 or 1/8 oz.
  • Thomas Spinner

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • gulp shrimp
  • on the teaser
  • Hammered Jig
  • sqid
  • squid
  • jigs
  • Pink Spro bucktail jigs with squid/spearing
  • gulp
  • skate
  • braid jig shiners squid strips

Worm Check Prices

  • red tube sandworm
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • texas riged power worm
  • same bps worm
  • i throw everything in here. the edges are very shallow so summer fishing is mostly with worms, but a crank will do in some of the open water.
  • BPS stick-o-worm 5 inch in watermelon red flake.
  • i use the keitech ayu worms and a regular green with gold fleck sinko
  • used a t-rigged 5" sinko
  • on the fast retrieve after looking for bass, the chain picks were killing it as i ran it in for another cast.
  • using the sinko melon with gold flake

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • dark worm very slow
  • carolina rig
  • cocahoe medium speed

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 4oz buck tail with a strip of squid and live mummy chub.
    a 14inch non weighted trailer with a yellow skirt & live mummy
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo
  • i was using a keitech 2" spider, and my partner was throwing there 4" worm. Both were working

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick
  • deadly dick,hopkins

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Moby Worm
  • Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0
  • Fly Fishing - Rootbeer estaz and white marabou tied on a 1/0 hook wooly bugger style. Stripers and blues were feeding on nickle sized butterfish and peanut bunker
  • Epoxy Bay Anchovie Pattern Size 2
  • Stripers surface feeding on quarter size Butterfish from dawn until about 8:30AM
  • Olive Flat wing deceiver, popper
  • Sight casting to stripers on the flats off Garniers Island Ny
  • Flatwing Deceiver

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • White Sassy shad
  • Swimming plug
  • Tube & Worm

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo zurry

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Bright blue Shadow Rap Shad.
  • KVD 1.5
  • Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
  • shad rapala flat rap 10
  • KVD 1.5 Bluegill
  • strikeking 3xd in green shad
  • tried out my new xps hard jerkbait. It swims good to. Caught the smaller bass on the jerk action and the larger on a steady retrieve.
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,

Bass Jig Check Prices

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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • same as usual
  • dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
  • Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
  • i was using a 4.8 inch fat swing impact

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • Blue/silver Castmaster with bucktail

Herring Check Prices

  • Fresh Chunked Herring

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 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 :)
  • night crawler on a rattling bobber lol

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • fish under lights and throw somethin shinny about 3 feet down

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Green crabs cut in half on a 4/0
    Gamakatsu Octopus hook
  • Green crabs cut in half

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • D DICK
  • i was using a little silver spoon 1/8 by little cleo, and was doing ok when not getting into a tree. There is not much room to cast, and any error one way or another and your in the brush.
  • Silver Diamond Jigs
  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • Bucktail tipped with squid/spearing
  • Bucktails tipped with Squid/spearing. Brian caught the 9lber on bait rod with large silverside
  • Green bucktail with red pork rind on 3way

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

  • Eels
    Squid
  • crabs
  • greenies
  • Live eel
  • buck tails yellow or white with pork rind trailer , yellow darters, slingging eels at night
  • chicken
  • blue crab!
  • blue crab on chicken

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