Fishing near Portsmouth in Newport County, RI

3.57 Rating based on 204 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Chain Pickerel, Scup (Porgy), Brook Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 134
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 203
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off Bay Island near Portsmouth

off Bay Island

caught 8 black sea bass that day and lots of scup.
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off Bay Island near Portsmouth

off Bay Island

caught 8 black sea bass that day and lots of scup.

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off Bay Island near Portsmouth

off Bay Island

caught 8 black sea bass that day and lots of scup.

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Top Fishing Spots near Portsmouth

Narragansett Bay
Narragansett Bay

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Mt Hope Bridge
Mt Hope Bridge

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Bristol Harbor
Bristol Harbor

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Creamer Pond
Creamer Pond

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# Reviews: 1
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Smith and Sayles Reservoir
Smith and Sayles Reservoir

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Squid Fishing
Squid Fishing

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Portsmouth Area Fish Species

Recent Portsmouth Fishing Reports

Sea Robin - Carrs Point Fishing Report Jun 14, 2011

Sea Robin - Carrs Point

Middletown, RI -

while fishing for bass I pulled in a Sea Robin, never saw one before... super pretty....

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STRIPERS IN EARLY MAY Fishing Report May 07, 2009

STRIPERS IN EARLY MAY

BRISTOL HARBOR -

The day started with us launching the boat @ burma road in Middletown, RI @ 2:00. We then ran up past prudence island on the way up through the bristo...

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31" Blue Fishing Report May 24, 2012

31" Blue

Newport, RI -

31" Blue off Carr's Point...

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plymouth/capecod Fishing Report Apr 04, 2015

plymouth/capecod

went to good a cold water pond down in the plymouth/ cape cod area today with my good friend James and along with ken haskins and his partner scotty, ...

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Fogland Beach  Fishing Report May 23, 2012

Fogland Beach

Tiverton, RI -

first Striper of the season... only 24", just short of a keeper. Next time!...

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Good day out Fishing Report Jun 05, 2011

Good day out

Private pond -

Hit a small pond in Weston in my boat and was highly rewarded with several bass. Biggest was 5, a few 3s and many single pounders. Big boy was caught ...

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Baits and Tackle used near Portsmouth

Check Prices

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

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • live linning pogies
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • pogie chunk
  • green crabs
  • greencrabs
  • Shiners on a bobber
  • porgy
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • sandworms
  • mussels on hook jigging

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
  • Flipping a laydown

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • menhaden
  • live shiners medium size
  • live shiners and senkos
  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • mumpers
  • 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.
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
  • 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...
  • 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..
  • same as bass bait
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • small slgos
  • 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

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
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • rooster tail spinner
  • neon green spinner bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog
  • green scum frog

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

Squid Check Prices

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

Stick Bait Check Prices

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait

Worm Check Prices

  • Watermelon Red flake rigged weed less, casted right by the lily pads
  • clam worms
  • Texas rigged 4" watermelon colored worm with a medium action ugly stick.
  • senko worm brown
    topwater popper
  • black senko
  • Senko
    1st Bass 1lb 15oz
    2nd Bass 14oz
  • caught it on a greenish senko
  • My Smallie was 1-1/4lb
    Vinny's was 1lb
  • Shakey Head
  • 1st was 13oz
    2nd was 1lb 10oz

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.
  • Green rattling to Zuri
  • carolina rig
  • cocahoe medium speed
  • 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
  • Used an assortment of hard and soft baits. Spinnerbaits work really well.

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Two 11-3/4", one 11-1/2", one 11-1/4"
  • 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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color
  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
  • used almost everything in my bag, plastic worms,craws,lizards,creatures,space monkeys, heddon crazy crawler, swimbaits, buzzbaits, suspending jerkbaits, I could be here all night
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad

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
  • Dilly diver shad
  • And Lipless Crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

    2lb 13oz, and a 2lber
  • Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

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

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.
  • one huge cold nightcrawler

Herring Check Prices

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Red and white daredevil
  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • same bait, dough bait
  • Fished pogey chunks
  • Just bread balls
  • porgy snagger
  • Powerbait
  • 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

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