Fishing near North Kingstown in Washington County, RI

3.52 Rating based on 215 Reviews
  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass, Calico Bass(Black Crappie), Chain Pickerel, Sunfish, Brook Trout
  • # of fishing spots within 25 miles: 140
  • # of reports within 25 miles: 199
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How not to go ice fishing! near North Kingstown

How not to go ice fishing!

Car through the ice in Belleville!
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Belleville Fall 06 near North Kingstown

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Top Fishing Spots near North Kingstown

Belleville Pond
Belleville Pond

Avg. Rating: 3.8
# Reviews: 5
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Hunts River
Hunts River

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Pettaquamscutt River
Pettaquamscutt River

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1781

Silver Spring Lake
Silver Spring Lake

Avg. Rating: 3
# Reviews: 1
Views: 2318

Ponagansett Reservoir
Ponagansett Reservoir

Avg. Rating: 4
# Reviews: 1
Views: 1279

Smith and Sayles Reservoir
Smith and Sayles Reservoir

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North Kingstown Area Fish Species

Recent North Kingstown Fishing Reports

morning fishin Fishing Report Aug 19, 2010

morning fishin

Bellville Pond -

Got up at 6:00 on Saturday morning and decided to try my luck fishing. I went to Bellvile Pond alone and a friend came a little later in the day. We ...

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plymouth/capecod Fishing Report Apr 04, 2015

plymouth/capecod

went to good a cold water pond down in the plymouth/ cape cod area today with my good friend James and along with ken haskins and his partner scotty, ...

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nice day Fishing Report Aug 24, 2010

nice day

idian lake,RI -

caught nice size largemoth bass ...

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24" Flounder Fishing Report Jul 26, 2011

24" Flounder

East Greenwich Bay, RI -

24" 7.5 pound caught on Pogie...

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first strikes of 2010 Fishing Report May 16, 2010

first strikes of 2010

Chip Pt. Warwick -

Blues are finning and stripers are begining to hit. ...

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bluefish Fishing Report Aug 24, 2010

bluefish

greenwich bay,RI -

slow day not many out there...

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Baits and Tackle used near North Kingstown

Check Prices

  • Crank bait, surface poppers
  • drifting worms no sinker
  • basspro lazer eye nitro ,light blue/ white underneath
  • i used pogy
  • mummies
  • keitech swing impact fat 4.8 ayu
  • Northland Thumper chart-green, ~1/4 oz
  • Live Bluegill
  • A grits based, molasses flavored pack bait with a corn pop pick up

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • live linning pogies
  • Clam Bellies wrapped with my secret no-fail strategy - I've yet to lose bait!
  • pogie chunk
  • meal worms
  • mussels on hook jigging
  • porgy
  • live shiners, 5-6 inches long
  • green crabs
  • greencrabs
  • Shiners on a bobber

Tube Check Prices

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

Creature Check Prices

  • used baby brush hog
  • using Kinami's Palm tree green pumpkin green weedless no weight
  • 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

Minnow Check Prices

  • menhaden
  • Shiners and Gary plastic 4 and 5in
  • live shiners medium size
  • 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.
  • live shiners and senkos
  • 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.

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • 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...
  • 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.
  • Topwater poppers and black worms dode up with the texas rig..
  • BLACK JITTERBUG, STICK BAITS

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • small slgos
  • white luck-e-strike 110

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • 4 INCH SHAD

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • spinner, silver with red trim
  • White Spinner bait with a white Double Tailed Grub trailer
  • yellow and orange combo.....basicly a rooster tail
  • yellow spinner colorado blade silver
  • white/ chart. spinner 3/8 oz for the largemouth..
  • 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
  • uh, spinnerbait
  • rooster tail spinner

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • green scum frog

    yammamotto black/chart. flex senko 5inch worm weightless texas rigged
  • green scum frog

Squid Check Prices

  • double hook rig either let it drift or sink it and jig

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • Rapala slash bait

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • silver/red inline spinner

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

Worm Check Prices

  • clam worms
  • strike king watermelon flake worm
  • Watermelon Red flake rigged weed less, casted right by the lily pads
  • black powerbait,yum curly tail,potato pie senko,weightless
  • 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
  • Texas rigged 4" watermelon colored worm with a medium action ugly stick.
  • black senko
  • senko worm brown
    topwater popper
  • senko
  • 5 inch brown and green senkos

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • carolina rig
  • 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.
  • dark worm very slow
  • cocahoe medium speed
  • Green rattling to Zuri

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Two 4lbers, a 3-1/2lber, two 2-1/2lbers.
  • We keep 5 Bass total
    My three were 2.79lbs, and two 1-1/2lbers. Paul had a 1lb 14oz, and 1-1/2lber

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 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
  • strike king red craw texas rigged

    blue fox inline spinner yellow/green color

Lure (Other) Check Prices

Jigs Check Prices

  • Snap Rap#6 from rapala.

Crankbait Check Prices

  • orange, black split center
  • small lightning stick
  • Catching them on the bluegill squarebill again.
  • Bluegill colored square bill from Strike King
  • shallow shad rap
  • Zoom salamander
    Sunfish crank bait
  • caught the smallest on spinerbait and the rest on a crankbait
  • My Limit was:
    2.27lbs
    1-3/4lbs
    1lb 10oz
    Two 1-1/2lbers

  • Dilly diver shad
  • rapalla balsa floating minnow

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • war baits warblade in dirty chartreuse 1/2 oz
  • green pumpkin 1/4 oz jig with zoom beaver tail

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • Corn Yellow Powerbait

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • small bits on small hook dipped into the water from the bridge.
  • Night crawler on a #8 hook
  • night crawler on a rattling bobber lol
  • one huge cold nightcrawler
  • 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 :)

Herring Check Prices

Lipless Bait Check Prices

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Crabs, and Squid

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Red and white daredevil

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • 2 0z Zara Spook
    9" Sluggo(White)
  • zara spoof

Grub Check Prices

Other Check Prices

  • Fished pogey chunks
  • same bait, dough bait
  • uncle joshs dough carp bait. its ground corn, corn syrup, and something else i dont remember.
  • Bottom rigging by the bridges left pillar
  • Just bread balls
  • porgy snagger
  • Powerbait
  • 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

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