Fishing near North Providence in Providence County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Mirror Carp, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Yellow Perch, Smallmouth Bass
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 207
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 607
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1st stop near North Providence

1st stop

Not even a nibble. Very shallow but an excellent shoreline.
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2nd stop near North Providence

2nd stop

Great little spot with deeper water, good standing room and some benches. Hoping for bites around a nearby island, but we got nothing.
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Final stop near North Providence

Final stop

Nice little dock-ish setup with no boat launches. Some railing to provide a place to relax, but the best fun is up on rocks to the right of the parking area. No fish in sight, but it was a beautiful morning!
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Final stop near North Providence

Final stop

Nice little dock-ish setup with no boat launches. Some railing to provide a place to relax, but the best fun is up on rocks to the right of the parking area. No fish in sight, but it was a beautiful morning!
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Olney Pond near North Providence

Olney Pond

GOOD DAY8 RAINBOW TROUT
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Top Fishing Spots near North Providence

Wenscott Reservoir
Wenscott Reservoir

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Canada Pond
Canada Pond

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Olney Pond
Olney Pond

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Georgiaville Pond
Georgiaville Pond

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Poccasset River
Poccasset River

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Woonasquatucket River
Woonasquatucket River

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North Providence Area Fish Species

Recent North Providence Fishing Reports

Windy Fishin Fishing Report Apr 28, 2010

Windy Fishin

Canada Pond, RI -

i went fishing today and the wind was INSANE!! lol.. but, the first of my 4 cast that actually touched water produced a fish :) ...

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Lincoln Woods Fishing Report Apr 27, 2010

Lincoln Woods

Olney Pond, RI -

many spots to fish here...

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Day on the Pond Fishing Report Nov 03, 2014

Day on the Pond

Smithfiels, RI -

Kayak of the Pond 1 Bass and three of the Biggest Black Crappie I've seen in a while!...

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The Quest For the Golden Rainbow Trout Fishing Report Aug 01, 2019

The Quest For the Golden Rainbow Trout

Rhode Island -

Ever since I learned of the existence of the golden rainbow trout, it had been a personal goal of mine to catch one. After I caught my first muskie i...

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Barneys pond at the damn dam.  Fishing Report May 02, 2016

Barneys pond at the damn dam.

Barneys Pond, RI -

Was waiting for around 5 to get out there. Knew the conditions were decent having rained for the last 12+ hours. Got to Barneys in lincoln around 6, t...

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pocasset cemetary Fishing Report Jun 02, 2013

pocasset cemetary

pocasset cemetary pond -

I took my neice fishing for the first time. She caught 3 sunfish, to my 2. using marshmellos, and cut worms. ...

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Baits and Tackle used near North Providence

Check Prices

  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
  • Dat Food,
    Maple Peas,
    Chick Peas
  • Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures
  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
  • senkos t rigged midnight flake
  • Worm
  • we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
  • 5 inch senko neon green/cream 4 inch watermellon w/ blk flake they were hitting on the way in. just drifting and casting on little cleo spoons.
  • Maize and molasses really the only action we got here

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • porgy
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • pogie chunk
  • 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
  • live linning pogies
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Shiners on a bobber

Tube Check Prices

  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • texas rigged
  • drop shots and topwater
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook

Creature Check Prices

  • used baby brush hog
  • Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • 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
  • using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Shiners
  • menhaden
  • live shiners medium size
  • live shiners and senkos
  • 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
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • mediums
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Topwater pencil bait, shoots down about 1-2 feet when you yank it, then pops back up to the surface.
  • Pencil bait, same as other
  • Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
  • topwater and worms
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • same as bass bait
  • Rapala Poppers
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • 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..

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • 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!
  • Sluggo
  • red 5" Senko
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • Mann's Shadow

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.

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • rooster tail spinner
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • golden spinner
  • tornado black
  • 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
  • neon green spinner bait
  • neon green spinner bait from bass pro in clearance bin
  • Tornado spinner bait
  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • Spro Frog
  • green scum frog
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Brown and White Soft plastic swim frog, texas rigged with a 3/16 ounce red colored weight and red plastic ball. StrikeKing Baits

Squid Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • a lot of plastic worms work out.

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait
  • 11-3/4" on a tube
    11-1/2" on wacky worm
    7" and 10" on inline spinner
  • 6" and 8" on inline spinner
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
  • Rooster Tail
    1. 9in
    2. 10.5in
  • 1st. 8in 6oz
    2nd. 5in
  • 1/8in Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    1. 15.5in
    2. 13in 1lb

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • 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 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.
  • black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • red shad senko 6 inch
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • black/chart flake senko
    yellow/green spinner
    bass pro 4.5 inch cut tail worm pumpkin seed
  • black w/chart specs senkos

    wacky rig and texas

    both close to shore
  • 5 inch brown and green senkos

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • 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.
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • xps swimbait

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber
  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
  • Jerkbait
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • 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
  • Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
  • DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

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
  • yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
  • Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
  • Rooster tail
  • Rapala Original #7

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • First cast and I had one.
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • Dilly diver shad
  • small lightning stick
  • orange, black split center
  • 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
  • rebel ghost minnow - silver
  • i had 10 (3 were 20+) and nicholas had 11. most were crankbaits, though i caught a couple on a rooster tail.
  • Rapala DT-4, Perch
  • perch rapala
  • nicholas caught 15 and i got 4. all on rapalas
  • tried a soft worm for a while, but got nothing. crankbaits and spoons work well on this pond.

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
  • Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • regular silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
  • 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.
  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • nice large nightcrawlers

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • medium speed
  • Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • zara spoof

Grub Check Prices

  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • 2in. chartreuse colored w/ black spots grub (texas rigged).
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Pink Powerbait nuggets
  • same bait, dough bait
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.

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