Fishing near North Smithfield in Providence County, RI

Check Prices

• Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures
• Dat Food,
  Maple Peas,
  Chick Peas
• A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
• Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
• Maize and molasses really the only action we got here
• I always have a bunch of bait and types with me. I believe in variety and good combos. Usuals are Chick peas, maize, sweet corn, DAT Food boilies
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  We had plenty of bait on hand. Blackstone Carp brought its very own DAT food boilies for the public to use, we also had a bucket of prepared feed corn, a bucket of Maple peas, a bucket of Chick Peas, a container of Luncheon Meat and a few loaves of bread.
  
  Fish were caught on Feed corn, DAT food Strawberry, and Chick Peas.
  
  
• Dat food, Chick peas and feed corn as well as a good bread/crushed boilie/anise-pepper ground mix
• This fish was caught on a Maize and Maple combo
• First fish was on pineapple flavored feed corn on a hair rig. After that though nopthing was touching it.
  
  Changed to the cream corn and grits pack bait and caught 4 other fish within 3 hours

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• 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 shiners, 5-6 inches long
• porgy
• pogie chunk
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Hand size Kivas
• Shiner one foot below float.

Tube Check Prices

• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• drop shots and topwater
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• texas rigged
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube

Creature Check Prices

• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• 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'.
• Carolina Rig
• used baby brush hog
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture

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.
• 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
• Shiners
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• mediums
• big dead goldies
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• Caught by a friend on a shiner.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Jitter Bug
• 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
• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Purple Flash Popper
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• 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
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• red 5" Senko
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding

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

• rooster tail spinner
• tornado black
• spinner, silver with red trim
• uh, spinnerbait
• Tornado spinner bait
• My 3 Fish Limit was:
  1lb 11oz
  1lb 4oz
  14oz
  
  4 Shorts too
  
• golden spinner
• Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
  11-1/2" Short
  1lber culled
  Limit was:
  1-1/2lbs
  1lb 7oz
  1-1/4lbs
  1lb 1oz
  1lber
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• brown/gold w/ red

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• Strike King Rage Toad
• Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Spro Frog
• green scum frog
  
  yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
• chartreuse SnagProof frog
• Weedless Topwater Frog

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

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

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• 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.
• Red worm from Big O's.
• live bait works well here also wether its frogs shiners or just a nightcrawler. i found swimbaits and spinners are also great just depends on weather conditions
• bass master 6 inch madi gras
• black blue fleck
• assorted plastics and spinner bait top water frog
• senkos you name it i tryed it tried a kvd squair bill 4 ft dive even tried a plug around the pads
• 4 inch wacky sekos
• sweat tater pie
• purple flake 6"

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• Dark Senkos wacky
• xps swimbait
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah
• Storm Shad Minnow

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• 1lb 10oz was the only one to make the limit.
  
  1lb 6oz, 1-1/4lber culled out
  
  a couple other 1-1/4lb to 1lbers, and some shorts
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• Drop Shot
• Dropshot
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• Drop shot
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/16#Sluggo leadhead with 3"chartreuse/pepper Kalin grub
• 1/16 oz leadhead w/3" rainbow trout sluggo
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster tail
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Rapala Original #7
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.
• Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Rooster Tail

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

• Dilly diver shad
• small lightning stick
• orange, black split center
• Bass Pro XPS suspending minnow
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• Rapala Jointed crankbait
• keep on crankin
• Squarebill, and dropshot
• did not change my lure all day
• steady retrieve

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• 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
• 3/4lb on Jig
  two 10 inchers on drop shot
• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• black and blue, with a blue craw trailer

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Corn Yellow Powerbait
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• Storm 2in Perch
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon
• silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• 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.
• nice large nightcrawlers
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• medium speed

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.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Pink with blue flake Kalin Grub Texas rigged

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• 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.
  
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
  
• Maize has been my bait of choice, followed closely by maple peas and an oat based pack bait.
  
  Molasses and maple have been strong producing flavors for me this early on..latter this will change to more fruit and maybe even a fish/blood as the water warms.
• This was our trial run weekend for a new line of boilies my friends and I have been working on from the Blackstone Carp videos. Dat Food Boilies ( we used 3 types Shrimplies(shrimp), Gold(pineapple)and Pop-ups). I won't give the recipe on these as it has taken me quite some time to put a truly good boilie together. I will, on request, give out some more basic boilie recipes to get people started though.
  
  Also Feed corn was on the menu and did produce a fish or two.
• Our bucket contained once again
  feed corn, maple peas, dat food and chick peas.
  
  Sadly on this outing nothing really produced with a few Crucian carp grabbing anything they could.
  
  
• Feed corn and Dat food are always on the menu now. Maple peas have made their way back as well. We had a batch of Anise and fruit ( see the tutorial on bait in the forums or at www.blackstonecarp.com) and some of the Dat food dough un boiled. Dat food seemed to be the bait of choice with maples coming in just behind.
• We have been using primarily feed corn, soaked for at least 24 hours then boiled for 1 hour till it is a firm but chewable texture. Molasses and fishy flavors have been the producing choices.
  
  We have also been using a grits based pack bait, with some results.
  
  
  
  Pre-feeding will produce better results typically