Fishing near Warren in Bristol County, RI

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Yellow Perch, Striped Bass, Sunfish
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 170
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 356
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at the roadside where two parts of resv. connect via drain pipes under road
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love the swamps in warren near Warren

love the swamps in warren

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Bristol Narrows near Warren

Bristol Narrows

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first bass of the year near Warren

first bass of the year

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bass #1 near Warren

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Top Fishing Spots near Warren

Warren Reservior
Warren Reservior

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Warren River
Warren River

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Kickamuit River
Kickamuit River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 2
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Palmer River
Palmer River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
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Barrington River
Barrington River

Avg. Rating: 3.25
# Reviews: 4
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Brickyard Pond
Brickyard Pond

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# Reviews: 6
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Warren Area Fish Species

Recent Warren Fishing Reports

cool sunday Fishing Report Nov 01, 2009

cool sunday

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went to fish for 2 1/2 hrs at warren res. not thinking we would catch much. my son and i had 24 shinners. we caught 8 bass 4 pickerels and a crap...

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warren   ri Fishing Report Sep 23, 2009

warren ri

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fished for 1 hour just before sunset. caught 2 bass
1st on scum frog 1/2 lb
2nd on a black/chart. flake senko worm. i missed one wi...

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Afternoon Shore Fishing at Bristol Narrows Fishing Report Jun 05, 2010

Afternoon Shore Fishing at Bristol Narrows

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Started fishing around 3pm, just after high tide. Fished for about 20 minutes with no bites, then got a nice hit by this fish. Caught on clam bellie...

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mmmm..carp Fishing Report Jul 10, 2009

mmmm..carp

Brickyard Pond, RI -

best carp day yet...

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First Bass of the year Fishing Report Apr 03, 2010

First Bass of the year

swansea ma. -

Went out for an hour and a half and caught my first fish of the year, a small 12 inch bass on a worm. There were alot of small bass pickerels and blue...

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swansea reservoir Fishing Report Aug 02, 2009

swansea reservoir

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Caught 1 pickerel and 3 largemouth bass on shiners and 1 largemouth bass on a brownish senko.
Be careful parking on the road tho, they love to give...

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Baits and Tackle used near Warren

Check Prices

  • basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • Watermelon red/gold flake Texas
  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
  • Dat Food,
    Maple Peas,
    Chick Peas
  • i used pogy
  • Worm
  • shiners
  • senkos t rigged midnight flake
  • Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • 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
  • used baby brush hog
  • Flipping a laydown
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • 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'.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture

Tube Check Prices

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

Minnow Check Prices

  • live shiners medium size
  • live shiners and senkos
  • menhaden
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Used a live shiner to see what I would catch since I haven't had much luck with my artificial tackle.
  • Shiners
  • mumpers
  • 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.
  • Large (heavies) shiners

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
  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS
  • same as bass bait
  • top water popper minnow orange bottom red mouth blue top
  • 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...
  • 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
  • Rapala Poppers
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..

Lizard Check Prices

  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • 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)
  • 6" watermelon black red flake-colored Gary Yamamoto Senko, rigged weightless, Tex-posed, on a 4/0 Eagle Claw extra-wide gap hook
  • 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
  • Mann's Shadow
  • 5" baby bass Senko - caught 2 chain pickerel and one largemouth bass
  • 6" Senko (see pic for color)
    Rapala Floating Minnow
  • Sluggo
  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • pearl-colored Zoom Super Fluke, 8# Berkley 100% fluorocarbon line, Diawa spinning gear
  • Shad colored 5" Senko

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
  • yellow spinner colorado blade silver
  • Spinnerbait
    Limit consisted of:
    2lb 5oz
    2lb 4oz
    1lb 15oz
    1-1/2lbs
    1lb 6oz
  • All 10 between 1lb - 1-14lb culled or didn't make the cut
  • Mostly between 3lbs-4lbs
  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • rooster tail spinner
  • neon green spinner bait

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • green scum 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
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • largemouth caught on Sizmic Toad in pumpkin green w/ red flake, chain pickerel on silver/yellow Mepps spinner

Squid Check Prices

  • i used squid,surf clams, and sea/sandworms. had luck with all three baits

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 7in on a 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
  • Mepps #1 Silver with a white foxtail

Dry Fly Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

  • senko
  • 5 inch brown and green senkos
  • black w/chart specs senkos

    wacky rig and texas

    both close to shore
  • black/chart flake senko
    yellow/green spinner
    bass pro 4.5 inch cut tail worm pumpkin seed
  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • clam worms
  • black senko
  • Watermelon Red flake rigged weed less, casted right by the lily pads
  • caught it on a greenish senko
  • Senko
    1st Bass 1lb 15oz
    2nd Bass 14oz

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

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • 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.
  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • Worm, and Spinnerbait

    1.48lbs, and three 1lbers

    4 shorts
  • 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"
  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics

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
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • 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

Lure (Other) Check Prices

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • My Limit was:
    2.27lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1lb 10oz
    Two 1-1/2lbers

  • caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
  • Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
  • Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
  • Zoom salamander
    Sunfish crank bait
  • shallow shad rap
  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick
  • Dilly diver shad
  • 2 bass on a Rapala floating minnow, 1 pickerel on a spinnerbait

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
  • 3/4lb on Jig
    two 10 inchers on drop shot
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • regular silver spoon

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
  • fish on the bottom water is hot and deep
  • nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • a yo-ziri lipless crankbait green back,silver sides,and orange belly. and a 3/8 oz. football head jig/w a strike king rage tail craw in dirty craw color texas rigged to it.

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

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).

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • same bait, dough bait
  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • Just bread balls
  • porgy snagger
  • Powerbait
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.
  • 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
  • Pink Powerbait nuggets
  • 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.

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