Tucker Pond is a lake in Rhode Island, near Washington County.
Tucker Pond covers 101 acres in Washington County. The verified maximum depth at Tucker Pond is 32 feet.
Tucker Pond is a 101-acre South Kingstown lake with bass, pickerel, perch, sunfish and stocked rainbow trout. Its 32-foot maximum supports a deeper seasonal pattern than nearby shallow ponds.
The basin gives trout room to move below warm surface water, while vegetation and protected cover hold largemouth and pickerel. Perch can use either the first break or deeper firm bottom.
Rhode Island included Tucker Pond in the April 2026 trout schedule and has also stocked it during fall programs. Rainbow trout are listed separately from the five reported warmwater species.
Fish reported from Tucker Pond include bluegill, chain pickerel, largemouth bass, pumpkinseed, and yellow perch.
Largemouth bass in Tucker Pond can be searched with a spinnerbait before a Texas-rigged worm is worked through the best cover.
Bluegill and other sunfish in Tucker Pond take worms, crickets and tiny jigs along shade and vegetation. Keep a small jig, minnow or worm close to the bottom when perch are the target on Tucker Pond.
Chain pickerel in Tucker Pond can be found with spoons, spinnerbaits and small swimbaits along vegetation.
At Tucker Pond, test several examples of the same feature, such as weeds, wood, rock or a channel turn, before deciding the pattern is absent. At Tucker Pond, one repeated depth is better evidence than a single bite from an isolated spot.
A sunny spring afternoon can pull Tucker Pond fish toward dark bottom, wood and new vegetation. Summer fish in Tucker Pond may feed shallow at dawn before settling beside cover or deeper structure. Cooling water can bring Tucker Pond fish back to points and banks where bait gathers.
Use a small spoon or spinner at the cool-water depth for trout. Work a worm or jig around vegetation for largemouth, a spoon for pickerel and a small jig along the first firm break for perch.
A medium spinning rod with 8- to 10-pound line handles jigs, small crankbaits and live-bait rigs on Tucker Pond. A medium-heavy rod with 12- to 15-pound line covers bass jigs and bottom rigs at Tucker Pond.
Use three stops to simplify Tucker Pond: a protected shallow section, the best point or channel turn, and the deepest dependable structure. At Tucker Pond, fish each with one moving lure and one slower bait. At Tucker Pond, the first pattern that repeats twice is a better guide than an isolated strike from a feature that cannot be duplicated.
Its 32-foot maximum creates a genuine basin where trout and perch can move below warm surface water.
Yes. It appeared in the state’s April stocking schedule.
Yes. Rainbow trout are identified through stocking, while five warmwater species make up the reported community.
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Distances are straight-line estimates between mapped water locations.