Fishing near Foster in Providence County, RI

3.38 Rating based on 277 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Mirror Carp, Chain Pickerel, Smallmouth Bass, Sunfish, Calico Bass(Black Crappie)
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 180
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 291
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Top Fishing Spots near Foster

Moosup River
Moosup River

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Barden Reservoir
Barden Reservoir

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Flat River
Flat River

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# Reviews: 3
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Ponaganset River
Ponaganset River

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# Reviews: 1
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Ponaganset Reservoir Dam
Ponaganset Reservoir Dam

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Ponaganset Reservoir
Ponaganset Reservoir

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Foster Area Fish Species

Recent Foster Fishing Reports

Hopkins Mill Pond Fishing Report Apr 27, 2010

Hopkins Mill Pond

Hopkins Mill Pond, RI -

Great Trout Spot...

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Old Killingly Pond Bullheading Fishing Report Jul 15, 2008

Old Killingly Pond Bullheading

Old Killingly Pond, CT -

There was 6 of us. We Were Bullhead fishing at 9Pm. Was a little slow when we first started, took about 45mins to get the first Catfish. We Left abou...

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Carbuncle pond Fishing Report Apr 13, 2008

Carbuncle pond

Carbuncle pond, RI -

6:00 am no rain 6:20 first salmon its by 7:00 am 3 salmon are caught and 1 rainbow trout turns out to be a great sunny day after the thunderstorm roll...

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Top water action Fishing Report Jun 25, 2015

Top water action

Carbuncle Pond -

bass, blue gill and turtles all hit top water today....

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sat 5 mile pond for a few casts Fishing Report Nov 07, 2009

sat 5 mile pond for a few casts

5 mile pond -

Just moved to danielson and been trying to figure out what is around here I have the quinabog river but dont know much about it but managed a couple f...

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Bullhead on the Five Mile Fishing Report Jul 16, 2008

Bullhead on the Five Mile

Five Mile -

We Started Fishing at 1am we left at 3am, and in 2 hours we caught 22 bullheaded catfish....

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Baits and Tackle used near Foster

Check Prices

  • Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
  • Rattle trap
  • White Nichols spinnerbait w/ white grub trailer
  • drifting worms no sinker
  • shiners nightcrawlers and meal worms
  • Live Bluegill
  • Tube
  • nuts berries vegetation of all natures and LIVE GAME !
  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • one 1-1/2 lber and 3 other all around a pound

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • porgy
  • Medium to small sized frogs seem to work the best but ive even caught pike and largemouth off of a full grown frog sink em or let em swim on top either way works very effectivly
  • Medium sized Frog
  • pogie chunk
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • meal worms
  • live linning pogies
  • 1 on the Senko
    1 on Sqiggly tail
    4 on Kivas
  • Hand size Kivas

Creature Check Prices

  • used baby brush hog
  • 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
  • Carolina Rig
  • zoom brush hawg pumpkin
  • Brush Hog in the pads

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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.
  • 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!
  • big dead goldies
  • mediums
  • 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.
  • medeim to large shiners and never thought nightcrawlers would work through the ice but i ended up with a crappie and a perch while jigging one just waitin for my flags
  • menhaden
  • Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
  • Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.

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.

Lizard Check Prices

  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • white luck-e-strike 110

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
    11-1/2" Short
    1lber culled
    Limit was:
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 7oz
    1-1/4lbs
    1lb 1oz
    1lber
  • rooster tail spinner
  • 2lber on Spinnerbait
    10" on drop shot
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • My 3 Fish Limit was:
    1lb 11oz
    1lb 4oz
    14oz

    4 Shorts too

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

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

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
  • Thomas Spinner
  • 11-3/4" on a tube
    11-1/2" on wacky worm
    7" and 10" on inline spinner
  • 6" and 8" on inline spinner
  • Thomas spinner
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • yellow rooster tail 1/8th

Nymph Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • red shad pwer worm
  • red shad powerworm
  • Had the worms hooked weedless and just casted into the lilly pads and we kept bringing them in.
  • using bass pro shops worms that i just picked up and they hold up a lot better than the garys.
  • Red worm from Big O's.
  • Plain red worms. Big O's Bait and Tackle is just north of the Pond's main entrance on Farnum Pike. Pass the entrance on the left and look for the house (Big O's) about 3/4 mile on the left. They are open from around 5:30am until 8:30pm. $3 a tub of 26-30 redworms... several baits and jigs available.
  • yum dinger 5" watermelon seed
  • 4 inch wacky sekos
  • 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
  • Yamamoto sinkos

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerkbait

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Drop Shot
  • 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
  • Dropshot
  • Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
  • 11" Drop Shot
    11-3/4" Carolina Rig
  • Drop shot

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
  • 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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
  • I used powerbait rubber worms.
  • Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
  • Rooster tail
  • Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  • Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
  • Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • First cast and I had one.
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Crankbait Check Prices

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

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • i used a jig and wacky worm.
  • green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
  • All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
  • 1-1/2lber on Jig
    11" on Dropshot
  • blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
  • war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
  • blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
  • Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 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.
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • 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 :)
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"

Lipless Bait Check Prices

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Grub Check Prices

  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Again the Dat food boilie line really worked well here. Shrimplies(shrimp) and gold( pineapple) performed above my expectations. Feed corn was of course also on the menu and produced a few good runs.
  • powerbait yellow
  • same bait, dough bait
  • Bait for carp: (which are the only fish I am coun ting for here)
    Chum the night before with a mix of Maize and oat/bran/grits method/ground bait

    Hook bait was maize on a hair with tutty-fruity or molasses glug, or maize or corn-pops on the hook with a oat/bran/grits pack bait

    Bait for sunnies/bluegills/etc:
    Meal worms, canned corn, bread

    Many were caught as part of the event but I did not keep a tally.

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