Fishing near Exeter in Washington County, RI

3.54 Rating based on 238 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Sunfish, Smallmouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Calico Bass(Black Crappie)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 146
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 237
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Top Fishing Spots near Exeter

Chipuxet River
Chipuxet River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 2
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Barber Pond
Barber Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.2
# Reviews: 5
Views: 8781

Hundred Acre Pond
Hundred Acre Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 7183

Usquepaug River
Usquepaug River

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Beaver River
Beaver River

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

Queens River
Queens River

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 798

Exeter Area Fish Species

Recent Exeter Fishing Reports

Fishing with my son. Fishing Report Aug 08, 2010

Fishing with my son.

Barbers Pond, RT2 RI -

Went out around mid afternoon with my 6 yr old. He caught small largemouth, perch, white/silver perch, crappie. Good day of fishing...

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Early morning 7-5-15 Fishing Report Jul 05, 2015

Early morning 7-5-15

Barbers Pond -

Little to no fish today, but I did catch one decent one....

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morning fishin Fishing Report Aug 19, 2010

morning fishin

Bellville Pond -

Got up at 6:00 on Saturday morning and decided to try my luck fishing. I went to Bellvile Pond alone and a friend came a little later in the day. We ...

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Tarbox Fishing Report May 23, 2013

Tarbox

Tarbox Pond -

On the water from 9-2. Drizzly and breezy, but managed to hook up with a few bass and more than a few pickerel....

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Early Attempts... Fishing Report Mar 30, 2009

Early Attempts...

Tarbox Pond -

went with geese too test out new rods, reels and lures with hopes for an early bite...it was a bummer....

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Open Day of 2010 RI Trout Season Fishing Report Apr 17, 2010

Open Day of 2010 RI Trout Season

Browning Mill Pond/Arcadia RI -

April 10th 2010: Opening day of trout season! Caught 2 brookies at Browning Mill pond, 3 lg mouth, 5 bluegill and one crappie. A windy, cold day. ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Exeter

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

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

Creature Check Prices

  • used baby brush hog
  • Brush Hog in the pads
  • using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
  • 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

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.
  • menhaden
  • live shiners medium size
  • live shiners and senkos
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 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...
  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
  • 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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • small slgos
  • white luck-e-strike 110

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • yellow spinner colorado blade silver
  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
  • 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
  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • green scum frog

Squid Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala slash bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • gulp shrimp
  • on the teaser

Worm Check Prices

  • texas riged power worm
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • clam worms
  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • 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
  • red tube sandworm
  • tried the 5" green pumpkin worm today, vise my regular watermelon and it worked well.
  • Watermelon Red flake rigged weed less, casted right by the lily pads
  • landed the 2.10 on a 5 inch worm lost the monster while swimming a jig

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.
  • Green rattling to Zuri

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

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
  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color

Lure (Other) Check Prices

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Moby Worm

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo zurry

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
  • Rapala segmented shad
  • 4" jerkbait silver-black back
  • 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

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait

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.
  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • 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.

Herring Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • D DICK
  • Red and white daredevil
  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

Other Check Prices

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

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