Fishing near Woonsocket in Providence County, RI

Check Prices

• Rubber worms, topwater baits, weedless jigs any weedless lures
• Dat Food,
  Maple Peas,
  Chick Peas
• A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up
• Live worms and 3in ZOOM worm
• senkos t rigged midnight flake
• 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

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
• live shiners, 5-6 inches long
• porgy
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• pogie chunk
• Shiner one foot below float.
• 1 on the Senko
  1 on Sqiggly tail
  4 on Kivas
• Hand size Kivas

Creature Check Prices

• 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'.
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• 2.21lbs, 1-1/4lbs, and 1lb were my 3 fish
• Carolina Rig
• used baby brush hog
• Black and Blue as usual
• Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin

Tube Check Prices

• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• 8 lb line
  weightless
  3/0 hook
• texas rigged
• drop shots and topwater
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• tube dark...

Minnow Check Prices

• 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
• 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.
• Shiners
• Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
• Shinner hooked beside dorsal fin.
• Shinner Hooked beside Dorsal fin
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners
• mediums
• minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
• Caught by a friend on a shiner.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
• Jitter Bug
• topwater and worms
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Purple Flash Popper
• Skitter Pop
  Black size 8 Wooly Bugger
• My only Smallie was on a topwater. 1lber culled out.
• Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
• Rapala Poppers
• Frog themed Hedon mini torpedo

Lizard Check Prices

• watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go
• 4.5in Slug-go(Wacky Rigged) - Arkansas Shad
• Sluggo
• red 5" Senko
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• bullet weights are my favorite. punch right into the lilly pads or vegetation laying down in front of you.
• I've used Rapalas and Carolina-rigged rubber worms, but Yamamotos easily outfished them 2:! in this pond and the surrounding

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.
  
  
• Green Popper Frog Fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• rooster tail spinner
• tornado black
• Tornado spinner bait
• golden spinner
• Shad colored spinnerbait w/ white trailer
• uh, spinnerbait
• Red/black single Colorado gold
• Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
• spinner, silver with red trim
• brown/gold w/ red

Frog Bait Check Prices

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

Streamer Check Prices

• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• Jerkbait
• A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
• A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
• Black Huskie Jerk and black and blue football jig
• All morning chain pickerel were hitting my plastic lures, but not taking any hooks. One did manage to bite my power worm in just the right spot however, and gave a nice fight. After that I threw a newly acquired Rapala Husky Jerk around, and got an even nicer pickerel in return! If anyone wants that lure, it's still there, stuck in a tree branch.
• Jerk Bait
• Jerk Bait
  1st Calico was 8in
  2nd was 10in
  3rd was 9in
• Jerkbait
  1st was 13in 1lb
  2nd was 12in 11oz
  3rd was 11.5in 10oz
• RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.
  
  Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 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
• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• 11-3/4" on a tube
  11-1/2" on wacky worm
  7" and 10" on inline spinner
• 6" and 8" on inline spinner

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

• 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
• bass master 6 inch madi gras
• black blue fleck
• 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.
• senkos you name it i tryed it tried a kvd squair bill 4 ft dive even tried a plug around the pads
• Just a regular powerbait worm hooked thru the top.
• red shad senko 6 inch
• 5" Red/Black Senko
• assorted plastics and spinner bait top water frog

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Dark Powerbait 7" worms. no weight.
• Powerbait 7" plastic worms
• BkBl Senko Rigged Wacky
• xps swimbait
• Dark Senkos wacky
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Storm Shad Minnow
• Senkos Black with Flakes
  
  Kivas the little pretty ones
  hahahahahah

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

• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Dropshot - XPS Hand Poured Worm
• DropShot - Bass Pro XPS hand poured worm
• Drop Shot
• 4in Senko for 2 ,and tube for the other. These were in addition to my limit.
• 3 fish limit @ 3.37lbs
  lots of 1lbers
• Dropshot
• Drop Shot, and Shakey Head
• 11" Drop Shot
  11-3/4" Carolina Rig
• 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
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.
• 3" sluggo 1/16 oz #4 hook unpainted BPS leadhead Caught all fish on black and gold flake
• 5" Kalin grub Rootbeer flake 1/8oz 2/0 leadhead

Saltwater Spoon Check Prices

Craw Check Prices

• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• weightless and 3/0 gamakatsu hook, slow retrieve, skipping under branches and trees, shallow water
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
• Rooster tail
• Rapala Original #7
• 4" black slider worm w/1/8 oz head
• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Rooster Tail
• 1 on Rooster Tail
  1 on Rapala RTR5 Rattlin'/Suspending
• 1 on 8in on Rapala Original F-7
  4 on Rooster Tail
• DARK GREEN SHAKY HEAD WORM ON BALL HEAD JIG
• 1 on Rapala Original Perch #7
  1 on Rooster Tail

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
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
• First cast and I had one.
• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.

Jigs Check Prices

• Spider Grub
  1st was 2-1/2lbs
  2nd was 1lb 6oz
  
• surface plug. almost as big as the 2 bass caught. must be the spawning ground. ballsy little buggars...

Crankbait Check Prices

• Dilly diver shad
• Bass Pro XPS suspending minnow
• 4 inch rapala original floater - gold
• 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
• rebel ghost minnow - silver
• Rapala Original Floater F-7 - Minnow
• nicholas had 11 and i had 4. all crankbaits. a couple were pretty big for sunfish.
• nicholas caught 15 and i got 4. all on rapalas

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Blk/red w blk mister twister trailer
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub 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
• !/4 oz bk bl jig wYamamoto trailer bro Joe used 5" senko wacky Gr / wh
• black and blue round head jig with a berkley dark green traler.
• green pumpkin jigs 1/8 oz to 3/4oz
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• All Between 18"-22" on Jig, and drop shot

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
• Corn Yellow Powerbait
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• 4" dacquiri senko rigged texas on 3/0 Gammi
• 4"senko
• texas rigged senko
• Frog = 1 lil bump
  White Shad = 2 LMB
• Storm 2in Perch
• bk bl 5" senko texas rigged
• 5lbs was the lunker, everthing else was 2lbs, and smaller

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• regular silver spoon
• silver spoon
• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• nightcrawlers with an eagle claw hook rig with gold spinner "keep a nice long worm tail hanging from the hook"
• one huge cold nightcrawler
• small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
• nice large nightcrawlers
• 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.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• Nightcrawlers and troutworms
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait
• rattler
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• medium speed

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...

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
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Dropshotting

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• 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.
  
• 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
• 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.
• This was our trial run weekend for a new line of boilies my friends and I have been working on from the Blackstone Carp videos. Dat Food Boilies ( we used 3 types Shrimplies(shrimp), Gold(pineapple)and Pop-ups). I won't give the recipe on these as it has taken me quite some time to put a truly good boilie together. I will, on request, give out some more basic boilie recipes to get people started though.
  
  Also Feed corn was on the menu and did produce a fish or two.
• Our bucket contained once again
  feed corn, maple peas, dat food and chick peas.
  
  Sadly on this outing nothing really produced with a few Crucian carp grabbing anything they could.
  
  
• Feed corn and Dat food are always on the menu now. Maple peas have made their way back as well. We had a batch of Anise and fruit ( see the tutorial on bait in the forums or at www.blackstonecarp.com) and some of the Dat food dough un boiled. Dat food seemed to be the bait of choice with maples coming in just behind.
• We have been using primarily feed corn, soaked for at least 24 hours then boiled for 1 hour till it is a firm but chewable texture. Molasses and fishy flavors have been the producing choices.
  
  We have also been using a grits based pack bait, with some results.
  
  
  
  Pre-feeding will produce better results typically