Fishing near Pawtucket in Providence County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Mirror Carp, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Yellow Perch, Sunfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 214
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 619
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2nd stop near Pawtucket

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 Pawtucket

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 Pawtucket

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 Pawtucket

Olney Pond

GOOD DAY8 RAINBOW TROUT
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Turner Res. In east Prov. R.I. near Pawtucket

Turner Res. In east Prov. R.I.

The bass wereBANGIN' all day!!

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1st stop near Pawtucket

1st stop

Not even a nibble. Very shallow but an excellent shoreline.
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Top Fishing Spots near Pawtucket

Seekonk Reservoir
Seekonk Reservoir

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Sevenmile River
Sevenmile River

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Ten Mile River
Ten Mile River

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Olney Pond
Olney Pond

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Canada Pond
Canada Pond

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Seekonk River
Seekonk River

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Pawtucket Area Fish Species

Recent Pawtucket Fishing Reports

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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Lincoln Woods Fishing Report Apr 27, 2010

Lincoln Woods

Olney Pond, RI -

many spots to fish here...

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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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great day Fishing Report Jul 08, 2009

great day

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awesome day, 5 largemouth, 3 perch....

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Palmer, MA Part 2 and Middle Pond/Mystic Lake Fishing Report Sep 06, 2011

Palmer, MA Part 2 and Middle Pond/Mystic Lake

Barnstable,MA/Palmer, MA -

Back on the weekend of August 13th, me and a friend of my mine decided we wanted to bring my boat to Cape Cod and do some fishing. We dropped into Mi...

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India Point Park Dock Fishing Report May 02, 2011

India Point Park Dock

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30" Blue off of fresh pogie...

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Baits and Tackle used near Pawtucket

Check Prices

  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
  • Dat Food,
    Maple Peas,
    Chick Peas
  • Worm
  • senkos t rigged midnight flake
  • Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures
  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • 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.
  • Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
  • black worm

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • porgy
  • 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
  • live linning pogies
  • Medium sized Frog
  • 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
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook

Creature Check Prices

  • 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'.
  • used baby brush hog
  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • 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
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Black and Blue as usual

Minnow Check Prices

  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Shiners
  • 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.
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • live shiners and senkos
  • live shiners medium size
  • menhaden
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • 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
  • minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down

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
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • same as bass bait
  • Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
  • Rapala Poppers
  • topwater and worms
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • fish #1 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in baby bass color. Fish #2 Rebel Pop-R, in foxy shad color. Fish #3 Bass Pro Shops Minnow, in gold XXX shad color
  • good ole fashioned jitter bug

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.
  • 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
  • 3 chain pickerel on a silver/white 1/8oz Strike King Mini-King spinnerbait - 1 largemouth bass on watermelon/red flake Strike King Shim-E-Stick(a Senko-type lure)
  • fish#4 Strike King Shim-E-Stick, in watermelon w/ red/black flakes. Fish #5 Bass Pro Shops spinnerbait, white w/ dual nickel willow blades

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

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
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • golden spinner
  • 3/8 oz chartreuse spinnerbait w/ nickel colorado blade
  • neon green spinner bait
  • neon green spinner bait from bass pro in clearance bin
  • tornado black
  • Tornado spinner bait
  • 1 keeper @ 1.36lbs, and 5 shorts

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
  • 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
  • Stanley Ribbit
  • Spro Frog
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook

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
  • Mix of Mepps, Blue Fox spinners, variety of colors, mostly gold based
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail
  • Panther Martin
  • mepps agalia
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • Rooster Tail
    1. 9in
    2. 10.5in
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
  • 1st. 8in 6oz
    2nd. 5in

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

  • black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
  • 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.
  • red shad senko 6 inch
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • 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.
  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
  • xps swimbait
  • Storm Shad Minnow

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.
  • 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
  • My 4 keepers were 4.77lbs
    Three 1-1/4lbers, and One 1lber

    Also 2 shorts
  • My best 5 was about 7-1/4lbs:
    1-3/4lber
    Two 1-1/2lbers
    Two 1-1/4lbers

    also a couple 1lbers, and a short

    Various Swimbaits, Prop Bait, and a Spinnerbait
  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
  • DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
  • Drop Shot

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
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Rapala Original #7
  • zoom bass love em super fluke

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • 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".
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • 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
  • rebel ghost minnow - silver
  • 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
  • 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 Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub 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.
  • Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
  • 5" and 6" Senko

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"
  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • nice large nightcrawlers
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • 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.

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • Powerbait
  • porgy snagger
  • 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
  • Just bread balls
  • 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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