Fishing near Hopkinton in Washington County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Blackfish, Striped Bass, Scup (Porgy), Bluefish, Black Sea Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 117
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 226
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Day trip near Hopkinton

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dad & son near Hopkinton

dad & son

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My pickerel! near Hopkinton

My pickerel!

5-6lb
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My pick near Hopkinton

My pick

Carl holding it. 5-6lb
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Mean face with my mean Pick near Hopkinton

Mean face with my mean Pick

Mean face with my mean Pickerel
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Carls first bass of 2011 near Hopkinton

Carls first bass of 2011

Carls first bass of 2011
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Top Fishing Spots near Hopkinton

Locustville Pond
Locustville Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 3
Views: 3491

Wood River
Wood River

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

Mt Tom Pond
Mt Tom Pond

Avg. Rating: 0
# Reviews:
Views: 1218

Buckeye Brook
Buckeye Brook

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

Wyassup Lake
Wyassup Lake

Avg. Rating: 3.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 5094

Chapman Pond
Chapman Pond

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

Hopkinton Area Fish Species

Recent Hopkinton Fishing Reports

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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Best trip ever Fishing Report Nov 10, 2008

Best trip ever

Pawcatuck River, CT -

Caught two stripers an hour apart from each other...

Avg. Rating: 3
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family outing with a few casts in. Fishing Report Jun 17, 2012

family outing with a few casts in.

green falls recreation area -

Went for a small hike around the green falls area. Drug the ole ugly stick with me for a shot or two at some bass. Figured i would leave the nice ge...

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bass and panfish Fishing Report Mar 05, 2009

bass and panfish

green falls pond 'ct -

bass and panfish
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Avg. Rating: 4
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Wood River Hot Summer Trout... Fishing Report Aug 27, 2014

Wood River Hot Summer Trout...

Barber Dam, Wood River -

Caught 2 Rainbow Trout on a Hot summer day.. on my kayak...

Avg. Rating: 3
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wyassup Fishing Report Jan 26, 2009

wyassup

wyassup lake -

saturday at wyassupp was a day of work, 4 of us made swiss cheese of this lake started out at the farthest island and moved our way through the island...

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Baits and Tackle used near Hopkinton

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Tube Check Prices

  • 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.
  • tube and worm (sand worm)

Creature Check Prices

  • Brush Hog in the pads
  • used baby brush hog

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Simple shiner hooked through the eyes, reeling in at a medium speed from 50 feet
  • large shiners

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

  • white luck-e-strike 110
  • small slgos

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • silver and orange fly from a kit from walmart.

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
  • Thomas double spinner w/a Berkley Gulp! 3” Smelt

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
  • frozen squid
  • sabikis
  • 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
  • Green mini jerkbait 2-3 inches long caught most of the fish but no bass.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • Thomas spinner
  • small spinners and very small rapala's
  • spearing/sqid
  • Thomas Spinner
  • white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
  • grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
  • yellow rooster tail 1/8th
  • 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.

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

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

Terrestrial Check Prices

  • Soft Plastic watermelon Creature slow retrieve

Worm Check Prices

  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • texas riged power worm
  • red tube sandworm
  • tried the 5" green pumpkin worm today, vise my regular watermelon and it worked well.
  • landed the 2.10 on a 5 inch worm lost the monster while swimming a jig
  • blue black worm
  • Wacky worming any watermellon 5" sinko
  • 5" wacky worm
  • wacky rigged 5" worm
  • same bps worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • carolina rig
  • dark worm very slow
  • 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
  • fish was laying in the shallows and i bounced the jig off its face a few times and got a reaction strike. Found the fish was blind in one eye when i got it in the boat.

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick
  • deadly dick,hopkins

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Swimming plug
  • White Sassy shad
  • I used powerbait rubber worms.
  • Chatter bait, minnow/spinner

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

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

Craw Check Prices

  • yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology
  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
  • Green/brown d-bomb with a 1/2oz weight and 5/0 wide gap hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo zurry
  • Plastic cricket
  • floating Minnow

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • strikeking 3xd in green shad
  • KVD 1.5 Bluegill
  • Bright blue Shadow Rap Shad.
  • Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
  • KVD 1.5
  • shad rapala flat rap 10
  • 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
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
  • chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
  • i used a jig and wacky worm.
  • blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
  • little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw
  • blue 1/4 jig with yum beaver tail trailer
  • my regular watermelon red flake

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • same as usual
  • Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
  • dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
  • Corn Yellow Powerbait

Lake Pattern Check Prices

  • Drop shot and finesse worms

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 :)
  • Used the classic worm and a bobber...werent expecting to catch anything big, and we didnt, but still a fun time.

Herring Check Prices

  • Fresh Chunked Herring

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
  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

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

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

  • Live eel
  • crabs
  • greenies
  • Fished pogey chunks
  • Eels
    Squid
  • blue crab!
  • chicken
  • blue crab on chicken

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