Fishing near Richmond in Washington County, RI

3.49 Rating based on 194 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Blackfish, Summer Flounder (Fluke), Smallmouth Bass, Bluefish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 123
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 214
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Pike near Richmond

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Top Fishing Spots near Richmond

Usquepaug River
Usquepaug River

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Locustville Pond
Locustville Pond

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 3
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Biscuit City
Biscuit City

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 3
Views: 1278

Barber Pond
Barber Pond

Avg. Rating: 4.2
# Reviews: 5
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Wood River
Wood River

Avg. Rating: 4.5
# Reviews: 2
Views: 1947

Beaver River
Beaver River

Avg. Rating: 3.333
# Reviews: 3
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Richmond Area Fish Species

Recent Richmond Fishing Reports

Wood River Hot Summer Trout... Fishing Report Aug 27, 2014

Wood River Hot Summer Trout...

Barber Dam, Wood River -

Caught 2 Rainbow Trout on a Hot summer day.. on my kayak...

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Open Day of 2010 RI Trout Season Fishing Report Apr 17, 2010

Open Day of 2010 RI Trout Season

Browning Mill Pond/Arcadia RI -

April 10th 2010: Opening day of trout season! Caught 2 brookies at Browning Mill pond, 3 lg mouth, 5 bluegill and one crappie. A windy, cold day. ...

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Early morning 7-5-15 Fishing Report Jul 05, 2015

Early morning 7-5-15

Barbers Pond -

Little to no fish today, but I did catch one decent one....

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Fishing with my son. Fishing Report Aug 08, 2010

Fishing with my son.

Barbers Pond, RT2 RI -

Went out around mid afternoon with my 6 yr old. He caught small largemouth, perch, white/silver perch, crappie. Good day of fishing...

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wordons pond Fishing Report Mar 27, 2010

wordons pond

wordons pond, RI -

take rout 1 to 138 to 110 then take wordens pond rd...

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wood river Fishing Report Apr 28, 2010

wood river

wood river -

couple guys out on the wood on a very beautiful day!...

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Baits and Tackle used near Richmond

Check Prices

  • drifting worms no sinker
  • mummies
  • keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu
  • Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
  • pearl jerkbait
  • pearl strike king jerkbait
  • I was using a mepps #2 silver blade and white dressing
  • Live Bluegill
  • Chartreuse Blonde
  • Crank bait, surface poppers

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • meal worms
  • mussels on hook jigging
  • eel
  • deadly dick
  • eel/1 oz weight
  • live linning pogies
  • pogie chunk
  • Live lined eels, no weight

Tube Check Prices

  • Fishing bass tube along weed edges and downed trees.
  • running a bass pro shops 3.5 inch tube. Little fish were having a hard time choking the bait down, but they managed.
  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • tube and worm (sand worm)

Creature Check Prices

  • Brush Hog in the pads
  • used baby brush hog

Minnow Check Prices

  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • 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.
  • Shiners and chicken liver fished on the bottom.
  • drifting minnows small weights right off the bottom and useing some rubber baits with lead jig heads bouncing them off the bottom
  • menhaden

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
  • 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...
  • i was using my silver and black BPS popper, until i lost it in a tree, another lure lost to the pond kings
  • Bass pro 3.5 inch black silver popper
  • 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.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • small slgos
  • white luck-e-strike 110

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
  • spinner, silver with red trim

Squid Check Prices

  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig
  • put a sinker on it and dropped it to the bottom

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala slash bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer
  • Thomas spinner
  • Thomas Spinner
  • spearing/sqid
  • small spinners and very small rapala's
  • grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
  • white and silver rooster tail and mepps #3 dressed in white
  • yellow rooster tail 1/8th

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

  • gulp shrimp
  • on the teaser
  • Pink Spro bucktail jigs with squid/spearing

Worm Check Prices

  • texas riged power worm
  • 5" Red/Black Senko
  • red tube sandworm
  • tried the 5" green pumpkin worm today, vise my regular watermelon and it worked well.
  • landed the 2.10 on a 5 inch worm lost the monster while swimming a jig
  • blue black worm
  • Wacky worming any watermellon 5" sinko
  • 5" wacky worm
  • wacky rigged 5" worm
  • 5" yum dinger

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • carolina rig
  • dark worm very slow
  • cocahoe medium speed

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 4oz buck tail with a strip of squid and live mummy chub.
    a 14inch non weighted trailer with a yellow skirt & live mummy
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3"silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead with 3" silver and black sluggo
  • 1/16 oz leadhead w/ 3" silver and black sluggo

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

  • deadly dick

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Swimming plug
  • White Sassy shad
  • I used powerbait rubber worms.

Craw Check Prices

  • weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
  • yumm bait , crawfish with lpt technology

Saltwater Fly Check Prices

  • Moby Worm

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • yo zurry

Jigs Check Prices

Crankbait Check Prices

  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added
  • Rapala segmented shad
  • strikeking 3xd in green shad
  • KVD 1.5 Bluegill
  • 4" jerkbait silver-black back
  • Strike king KVD bluegill 1.5
  • Bright blue Shadow Rap Shad.
  • KVD 1.5

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail
  • chili immage skirt and watermelon red yum beaver tail
  • i used a jig and wacky worm.
  • blue black 1/8 bass jig with black with blue glitter craw
  • little stanley 1/4 round head jig with black paca craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • same as usual
  • Zoom superfluke, white chartruse spike it
  • dont know why these are coming up as hybrids there isnt an option for striped bass anymore?
  • Corn Yellow Powerbait

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • i was using a 1.5 inch eppinger spoon in orange with black dots.

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
  • very basic, traditional techs..and I never use a bobber. that way I come out with either a lmb or catfish in this spot, its a win-win situation :)
  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.

Herring Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • fish under lights and throw somethin shinny about 3 feet down

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid
  • Green crabs cut in half on a 4/0
    Gamakatsu Octopus hook

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • D DICK
  • Thomas's Little Tiger (I think)

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • 2 0z Zara Spook
    9" Sluggo(White)
  • slow and steady retrieve

Grub Check Prices

Marabou / Bucktail Jig Check Prices

  • Bucktail tipped with squid/spearing
  • Bucktails tipped with Squid/spearing. Brian caught the 9lber on bait rod with large silverside

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • Running a keitech 3" spider jig with BPS crappie Jig head. Fish did a good job almost getting away, fought very hard, and almost straitened out the hook.

Other Check Prices

  • Fished pogey chunks
  • Eels
    Squid
  • Live eel
  • same bait, dough bait
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • crabs
  • greenies

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