Fishing near Smithfield in Providence County, RI

Check Prices

• 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
• 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
• porgy
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• pogie chunk
• live linning pogies
• Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Shiner one foot below float.
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas

Tube Check Prices

• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• texas rigged
• drop shots and topwater
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook

Creature Check Prices

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

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

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
• 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
• Jitter Bug
• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• Rapala Poppers
• Purple Flash Popper

Lizard Check Prices

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

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• Sluggo
• red 5" Senko
• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas 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.
  
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

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

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

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

• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner
• silver/red inline spinner
  
  white/red spot jerk bait
• 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

Dry Fly Check Prices

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.
• 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
• 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
• black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
• bass master 6 inch madi gras
• black blue fleck
• red shad pwer worm
• red shad powerworm
• red shad senko 6 inch

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• xps swimbait
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Dark Senkos wacky

Hard Baits Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• 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
• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Drop shot
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• 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

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
• strike king red craw texas rigged
  
  blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Rooster tail
• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Again same as listed rooster tails, spinners etc.
• Spinners and rooster tails, fly spinners work well for the pan fish as well
  
• Rapala Original #7
• 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.
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

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

Jigs Check Prices

• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  

Crankbait Check Prices

• Dilly diver shad
• small lightning stick
• orange, black split center
• 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
• rebel ghost minnow - silver
• 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

• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• 3/4lb on Jig
  two 10 inchers on drop shot
• Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot
• 1-1/2lber on Jig
  11" on Dropshot
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• Boag Hog Baits Brush Jig/Chigger Craw
  
  3.44lber, and 11-3/4"
• Boag Hog Bait Brush Jig/Chigger Craw

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Corn Yellow Powerbait
• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• 4"senko
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• texas rigged senko

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

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

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back

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

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• 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
• 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.
  
• Powerbait
• porgy snagger
• Just bread balls
• Pink Powerbait nuggets
• 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.