Fishing near Charlestown in Washington County, RI

3.52 Rating based on 153 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Blackfish, Scup (Porgy), Black Sea Bass, Bluefish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 93
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 182
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rocky point near Charlestown

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3lb Smallmouth near Charlestown

3lb Smallmouth

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Watchaug Pond near Charlestown

Watchaug Pond

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Top Fishing Spots near Charlestown

Ninigret Pond
Ninigret Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
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Watchaug Pond
Watchaug Pond

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 7100

School House Pond
School House Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
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Buckeye Brook
Buckeye Brook

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 900

Quonochontaug Pond
Quonochontaug Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
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Wood River
Wood River

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1947

Charlestown Area Fish Species

Recent Charlestown Fishing Reports

6/3/12 Fishing Report Jun 03, 2012

6/3/12

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Watchaug Pond Fishing Report Jun 15, 2009

Watchaug Pond

Charlestown, RI -

We spent 2 nights camping down at Burlingame State Park in RI.

Drove down there friday after work and fished until dark with only 1 fish- 1.5lb...

Avg. Rating: 3
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kayaking Fishing Report May 08, 2010

kayaking

Factory pond, ri -

awesome than fell off after catching massive pickerel...

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Coldest, Worst Start Ever, But Fun and Worth It As Hell: 2 Bullies! Fishing Report Dec 07, 2011

Coldest, Worst Start Ever, But Fun and Worth It As Hell: 2 Bullies!

Secret RI Spot #1 -

Its been a while since I wrote a goddamn good fishing tale:
So it all starts out in Southern RI and I love this spot and always have. I don't u...

Avg. Rating: 5
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Secret Pond RI Fishing Report May 02, 2011

Secret Pond RI

Blizzy Pond RI -

Love this place! In southern RI.

First off we woke up at 3:30am and got to the spot around 4:30am. Its a long drive from like the middle of RI...

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Charlestown Beach Fishing Report Aug 27, 2008

Charlestown Beach

Charlestown Beach, RI -

Lazy beach fishing at Charlestown Beach RI. Casting bait from shore, some bluefish hits but no fish landed. Dead low tide....

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Baits and Tackle used near Charlestown

Check Prices

  • Chartreuse Blonde
  • t n w and squid rig
  • mummies
  • keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu
  • drifting worms no sinker
  • I was using a mepps #2 silver blade and white dressing
  • pearl strike king jerkbait
  • pearl jerkbait
  • Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
  • Live Bluegill

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

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.
  • tube and worm (sand worm)

Creature Check Prices

  • Brush Hog in the pads

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • 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.
  • 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.

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...
  • 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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • small slgos
  • white luck-e-strike 110

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

Squid Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala slash bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • spearing/sqid
  • small spinners and very small rapala's
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • Thomas spinner
  • Thomas Spinner
  • white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • gulp shrimp
  • on the teaser
  • Pink Spro bucktail jigs with squid/spearing
  • Hammered Jig
  • sqid
  • squid
  • gulp
  • jigs

Worm Check Prices

  • texas riged power worm
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • red tube sandworm
  • 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.
  • blue black worm
  • tried the 5" green pumpkin worm today, vise my regular watermelon and it worked well.
  • i use the keitech ayu worms and a regular green with gold fleck sinko
  • used a t-rigged 5" sinko

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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Moby Worm
  • Platium Blonde 1/0 and olive flatwing deceiver 1/0

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Swimming plug
  • White Sassy shad

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
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,
  • Rapala segmented shad

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
  • chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
  • little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw
  • 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

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Herring Check Prices

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 :)

Lipless Bait Check Prices

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

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid
  • Green crabs cut in half on a 4/0
    Gamakatsu Octopus hook
  • Green crabs cut in half

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

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

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

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