Fishing near Scituate in Providence County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Mirror Carp, Chain Pickerel, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Smallmouth Bass, Yellow Perch
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 197
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Top Fishing Spots near Scituate

Scituate Reservoir
Scituate Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 0
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Moswansicut Pond
Moswansicut Pond

Avg. Rating: 5
# Reviews: 1
Views: 4037

Barden Reservoir
Barden Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 2.75
# Reviews: 4
Views: 2439

Oak Swamp Reservoir
Oak Swamp Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 3
Views: 4666

Waterman Reservoir
Waterman Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 3.333
# Reviews: 3
Views: 4404

Kent Dam
Kent Dam

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1027

Scituate Area Fish Species

Recent Scituate Fishing Reports

Hopkins Mill Pond Fishing Report Apr 27, 2010

Hopkins Mill Pond

Hopkins Mill Pond, RI -

Great Trout Spot...

Avg. Rating: 3
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night trip Fishing Report Jun 16, 2013

night trip

john l curran -

2 hours at midnight...

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co-worker Training  Fishing Report Sep 06, 2019

co-worker Training

Hope Pond -

Went fishing with one of my fellow co-workers Mr.Gold. He wanted to take me out and show me his old stomping grounds here in RI as i am new to fishing...

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Stump Pond - Take 2 Fishing Report Aug 08, 2010

Stump Pond - Take 2

Stump Pond -

Took both boys and my wife. JJ caught some more Bluegill, but the boys lost interest quickly. My wife, however, went on to catch 6 Bluegill, 1 Sunfish...

Avg. Rating: 4
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Stump Pond Fishing Report Aug 08, 2010

Stump Pond

Stump Pond -

Our neighbor told us that Stump Pond (aka Stillwater Reservoir) in Smithfield had a great setup for first-timers. They were right!!...

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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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Baits and Tackle used near Scituate

Check Prices

  • Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
  • 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
  • Rattle trap
  • White Nichols spinnerbait w/ white grub trailer
  • shiners nightcrawlers and meal worms
  • nuts berries vegetation of all natures and LIVE GAME !
  • Tube

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • porgy
  • 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
  • pogie chunk
  • Medium sized Frog
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • live linning pogies
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • 1 on the Senko
    1 on Sqiggly tail
    4 on Kivas
  • Hand size Kivas
  • meal worms

Creature Check Prices

  • used baby brush hog
  • 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
  • Carolina Rig
  • 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'.
  • zoom brush hawg pumpkin

Tube Check Prices

  • 8 lb line
    weightless
    3/0 hook
  • texas rigged
  • drop shots and topwater
  • 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.

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.
  • mediums
  • big dead goldies
  • Hitting it real well with shinners
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • 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
  • menhaden
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
  • 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
  • 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...
  • My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.

Lizard Check Prices

  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • Sluggo

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

  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • rooster tail spinner
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • Spinnerbait/Chatterbait
    11-1/2" Short
    1lber culled
    Limit was:
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 7oz
    1-1/4lbs
    1lb 1oz
    1lber
  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • 2lber on Spinnerbait
    10" on drop shot
  • My 3 Fish Limit was:
    1lb 11oz
    1lb 4oz
    14oz

    4 Shorts too
  • Calm 8 am small pond nice fish
  • golden spinner
  • tornado black

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

Squid Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala slash bait
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait

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
  • grabed it on a 1/8th rooster tail in yellow with silver spinner
  • silver/red inline spinner

    white/red spot jerk bait
  • Thomas Spinner
  • Thomas spinner
  • mepps #4 silver and white trailer

Worm Check Prices

  • 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 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 shad pwer worm
  • red shad powerworm
  • black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
  • 4 inch wacky sekos
  • Had the worms hooked weedless and just casted into the lilly pads and we kept bringing them in.
  • using bass pro shops worms that i just picked up and they hold up a lot better than the garys.
  • strike king watermelon flake worm

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • Powerbait 7" plastic worms
  • Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
  • BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky

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

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • 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
  • 1lb 13oz and 1-1/4lbs
  • 2-1/4lber was my best
    Bunch 1lbers, and shorts
  • Tourney Lunker at 4.34lbs
    The rest were 3/4lbs or smaller
  • 1-1/4lber & 3/4lb in the limit
    the rest were 3/4lbs and smaller

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

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

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
  • Rooster tail
  • Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
  • Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  • Again rooster tails work well as an all around bait, small spinners etc.
  • Small rooster tails and spinner baits tend to work well here. I like reds and browns some greens.

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • First cast and I had one.
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color

Crankbait Check Prices

  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick
  • Dilly diver shad
  • Squarebill, and dropshot
  • crankbaits and spinners
  • 3 yellow perch, one bluegill,
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow
  • Rapala segmented shad
  • 4" jerkbait silver-black back
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow w/berkely extruded night crawler added

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • 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
  • Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
  • i used a jig and wacky worm.
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait
  • Baby Bass-Green Yamamoto Senkos

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

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

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • 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.
  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
  • 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 :)

Lipless Bait Check Prices

Grub Check Prices

  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.

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

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