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The rule for this water, with the receipt.

Special regulations for State fishing and boating access areas; Johnson’s Pond (Flat River Reservoir), Coventry; Waterman Reservoir, Glocester, as the state words them

RI County · Lake · RI

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The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text

Straight from RI's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.

Whole water
  • All fish
    Permits required, applications submitted a minimum of three weeks prior to tournament. Cancellation requires written notice at least three weeks prior; failure results in one-year revocation of eligibility, subject to exceptions at Division discretion. Contact: RIDEM Division of Fish and Wildlife, 277 Great Neck Rd., West Kingston, RI 02892. Tel: (401) 789-7481.

Statewide base layerParsed

These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.

Season
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Gear
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Bait
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Poles
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations

Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.

SpeciesDaily limitSize
trout or charr
See sizemin. eight inches (8”), measured from the tip of the snout to the tip of the tailStatewide
northern pike
two (2) fishmin. twenty-four inches (24”) (measured from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail)Statewide
chain pickerel
five (5) fishmin. fourteen inches (14”) (measured from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail)Statewide
black bass (largemouth and smallmouth bass)
five (5) fish, either singularly or in aggregatemin. twelve inches (12”) (measured from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail)Statewide
American eel (Anguilla rostrata)
twenty-five (25) fish per day, per personmin. nine inches (9”) (measured from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail)Statewide

How this answer was assembled

  1. StatewideStatewide lake rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
  2. This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
  3. Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.

Where this rule applies

This water is not yet drawn on the map. Its rules are captured and receipted; the geometry ledger records exactly why it is not drawn (an ambiguous name match or a gap in the source data), and it will never ship as a guess. Each rule above describes in the state's own words where it applies, and those written descriptions are the authoritative boundaries.

What are you fishing for here?Advice

Pick from the species named in State fishing and boating access areas +2 more's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.

Receipts

Statewide rules
Statewide
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.
Special rules - State fishing and boating access areas +2 more
This water
Checked against this official source on July 12, 2026.

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