Fishing near Jamestown in Newport County, RI

3.58 Rating based on 185 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Chain Pickerel, Scup (Porgy), Sunfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 122
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 172
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nicholas first salwater fish near Jamestown

nicholas first salwater fish

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dogfish near Jamestown

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31" Blue near Jamestown

31" Blue

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Top Fishing Spots near Jamestown

Smith and Sayles Reservoir
Smith and Sayles Reservoir

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Squid Fishing
Squid Fishing

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Uri Bay Pier
Uri Bay Pier

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Narragansett Bay
Narragansett Bay

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Ponagansett Reservoir
Ponagansett Reservoir

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Silver Spring Lake
Silver Spring Lake

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Jamestown Area Fish Species

Recent Jamestown Fishing Reports

31" Blue Fishing Report May 24, 2012

31" Blue

Newport, RI -

31" Blue off Carr's Point...

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5/5/13 - Newport RI Fishing Report May 06, 2013

5/5/13 - Newport RI

Newport Harbor, RI -

Vinny and I got an invite to head out on a buddy Dave's boat. He just upgraded to a 24ft Center Console Whaler, nice rig. Still early in the seaso...

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Newport RI Boating/Fishing Fishing Report Aug 23, 2007

Newport RI Boating/Fishing

Newport, RI -

Went to Newport for the day. The weather was excellent and there were tons of boaters and fisherman. The annual kite festival was also going on, so it...

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08/08/09 - Narragansett Bay - Rhode Island Fishing Report Aug 09, 2009

08/08/09 - Narragansett Bay - Rhode Island

Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island -

i have been on a few saltwater trips in the past, but nicholas has never been. went out with some friends on his boat and spent about 5 hours in the ...

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5/11 Fishing Report May 11, 2011

5/11

Newport, RI -

caught a lil' 17"... I need a boat or summer to get a move on because I'm sick of catching these 17"-20" stipers... I want to g...

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easton beach Fishing Report May 25, 2011

easton beach

newport, ri -

fishing for stripers...

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Baits and Tackle used near Jamestown

Check Prices

  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • i used pogy
  • basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
  • drifting worms no sinker

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • live linning pogies
  • mussels on hook jigging
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • green crabs
  • greencrabs
  • pogie chunk
  • meal worms
  • porgy
  • Shiners on a bobber
  • sandworms

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • 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
  • HIT IT ON A PALM TREE MADE BY KINAMI BAITS
  • palm tree red skirt black trunck
  • used baby brush hog

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • menhaden
  • live shiners medium size
  • live shiners and senkos
  • 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.

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...
  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
  • 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.
  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • small slgos

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • yellow spinner colorado blade silver
  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
  • All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
  • Spinnerbait
    Limit consisted of:
    2lb 5oz
    2lb 4oz
    1lb 15oz
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 6oz
  • Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • uh, spinnerbait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog
  • green scum frog

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

Squid Check Prices

  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig
  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait

Worm Check Prices

  • clam worms
  • Watermelon Red flake rigged weed less, casted right by the lily pads
  • Texas rigged 4" watermelon colored worm with a medium action ugly stick.
  • senko worm brown
    topwater popper
  • black senko
  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • Senko
    1st Bass 1lb 15oz
    2nd Bass 14oz
  • My Smallie was 1-1/4lb
    Vinny's was 1lb
  • caught it on a greenish senko
  • Shakey Head

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.
  • carolina rig
  • cocahoe medium speed
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • dark worm very slow

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

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
  • Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
  • shallow shad rap
  • Zoom salamander
    Sunfish crank bait
  • caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
  • My Limit was:
    2.27lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1lb 10oz
    Two 1-1/2lbers

  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
  • one huge cold nightcrawler

Herring Check Prices

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • 2 0z Zara Spook
    9" Sluggo(White)
  • zara spoof

Grub Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • Fished pogey chunks
  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • 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

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