Opening day for trout fishing in Rhode Island is usually mid-April. Licenses are required for anglers 15 years of age and older. Licenses many be purchased at Rhode Island’s city halls and town halls and many local bait and retail shops or online at the Licensing and Registration web page of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
Rhode Island residents are not required to have a license for saltwater fishing unless they wish to sell the catch. Out-of-state residents must have a license to shellfish in Rhode Island waters; also, they are forbidden to take lobster. For more information contact the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management at 401-789-3094.
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On Bullock's Cove, off Metropolitan Park Drive Barrington, RI Phone: 401-253-7482
End of West Beach Road, off Post Road / Route 1 Charlestown, RI Phone:
Off Ocean Avenue just west of Prices Neck Road Newport, RI Phone:
Beavertail Road Jamestown, RI, 02835 Phone: 401-884-9834
end of Barker Avenue Warren, RI Phone:
off Old Stafford Road Tiverton, RI Phone:
Gladys Casrr Bolhouse Road Newport, RI Phone:
Route 114 at Asylum Road Bristol, RI, 02809 Phone: 401-253-7482
Off Ocean Avenue Narragansett, RI Phone:
Off Plainfield Pike (Route 14) Coventry, RI Phone:
1 Burlingame State Park Road Charlestown, RI, 02813 Phone: 401-322-8910
West end of Charlestown Beach Road Charlestown, RI Phone:
Off Annawamscutt Drive Bristol, RI Phone:
at Jackson Schoolhouse and Widow Smith roads Chepachet, RI, 02814 Phone:
Barber's Pond Road, off Route 2 South Kingstown, RI Phone:
Ocean Drive Newport, RI, 02840 Phone: 401-847-2400
Bridge Street and Nooseneack Hill road Richmond, RI Phone:
Middle Bridge Road Narragansett, RI, 02882 Phone:
Off Seapowet Avenue Tiverton, RI Phone:
Off Route 146 Lincoln, RI Phone:
Beach Avenue Block Island, RI Phone:
Route 1A just off Route 1 Charlestown, RI, 02813 Phone: 401-364-1222
Pond swimming, fishing; playground, fields, nature center, Frisbee golf
at Freebody and Bayview drives Jamestown, RI Phone:
Van Zandt Avenue and Washington Street Newport, RI Phone:
Trims Pond New Shoreham (Block Island), RI, 02807 Phone:
Bluffhead Road Little Compton, RI Phone: