Fishing near Barrington in Bristol County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Yellow Perch, Striped Bass, Sunfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 181
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 377
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TROUT HEADS CLOSEUP! near Barrington

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Biggest Trout for Opening Day near Barrington

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My 4 Keepers near Barrington

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Top Fishing Spots near Barrington

Brickyard Pond
Brickyard Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.667
# Reviews: 6
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Barrington Beach
Barrington Beach

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
Views: 2380

Barrington River
Barrington River

Avg. Rating: 3.25
# Reviews: 4
Views: 2334

Warren River
Warren River

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
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Palmer River
Palmer River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1137

Providence River
Providence River

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
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Barrington Area Fish Species

Recent Barrington Fishing Reports

mmmm..carp Fishing Report Jul 10, 2009

mmmm..carp

Brickyard Pond, RI -

best carp day yet...

Avg. Rating: 4
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echo lake   Fishing Report Aug 06, 2009

echo lake

barrington ri -

nice small lake with ample parking
no boat ramp. pretty good shore fishing. lots of sunfish, brown bull heads. and largemouth bass...

Avg. Rating: 3
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Evening fishing Fishing Report Jun 27, 2010

Evening fishing

Echo Lake, RI -

Fished around 8 o'clock, stood on the herring landing and casted near big patch of lily pads about 30 feet out....

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What kind of fish is this Fishing Report Sep 11, 2010

What kind of fish is this

echo lake, ri -

I caught this fish on a top water bait, thinking it was a bass and after pulling it ashore I couldn't figure out what it was....

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Holdens Boat Fishing Report Apr 12, 2008

Holdens Boat

East Bay Rhode Island -

Bluefish trip, extremely easy day when the baitfish are running, just follow the bubbling water. No monsters though...

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looking for stripers Fishing Report May 14, 2009

looking for stripers

hurrican barriers, way up the providence river -

Left @ 7:00 from Middletown RI. Followed the birds, schoolie stripers chasing the little minnows, 24 in, 23 in, 25 in. We decided to head up the bay, ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Barrington

Check Prices

  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
  • Dat Food,
    Maple Peas,
    Chick Peas
  • Worm
  • Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
  • i used pogy
  • shiners
  • senkos t rigged midnight flake
  • Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • 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
  • used baby brush hog
  • Flipping a laydown
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • 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.

Minnow Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 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.
  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
  • 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
  • Rapala Poppers
  • 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.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • Sluggo
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 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
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • uh, spinnerbait
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • 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
  • All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
  • Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs
  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • rooster tail spinner
  • neon green spinner bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • green scum frog
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • 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

Squid Check Prices

  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

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

  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • clam worms
  • 5 inch brown and green senkos
  • senko
  • black w/chart specs senkos

    wacky rig and texas

    both close to shore
  • black/chart flake senko
    yellow/green spinner
    bass pro 4.5 inch cut tail worm pumpkin seed
  • black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
  • 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 senko
  • Watermelon Red flake rigged weed less, casted right by the lily pads

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 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
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • carolina rig
  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • 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
  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • 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
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • 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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick
  • My Limit was:
    2.27lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1lb 10oz
    Two 1-1/2lbers

  • Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
  • Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
  • caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
  • Dilly diver shad
  • Zoom salamander
    Sunfish crank bait
  • shallow shad rap
  • 2 bass on a Rapala floating minnow, 1 pickerel on a spinnerbait

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
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

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
  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
  • 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

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).

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • same bait, dough bait
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • Just bread balls
  • porgy snagger
  • Powerbait
  • 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.
  • Pink Powerbait nuggets

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