Fishing near Walpole in Norfolk County, MA

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  • Most Caught Species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, Yellow Perch, Bluegill, Mirror Carp, Calico Bass(Black Crappie)
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Turner Pond Fishing Report May 03, 2009

Turner Pond

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First time to Tuner Pond...

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7/20/09 - Turner Pond - Walpole, MA Fishing Report Jul 20, 2009

7/20/09 - Turner Pond - Walpole, MA

Turner Pond - Walpole, MA -

3rd stop of 3 tonight. My 1st time fishing here. Started at the parking lot on Rt. 27, but there was so much crap in the water, and I wasnt feelin it....

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Finally!! Fishing Report Apr 23, 2010

Finally!!

Turners Pond, Walpole, MA -

It's been almost 3 years of fishing this place without catching a bass. I usually fish from the main parking lot catching nothing but pickeral an...

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6/25/15 - Turner Pond Fishing Report Jun 29, 2015

6/25/15 - Turner Pond

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I had a half hour to kill before my Avid Anglers meeting last Thursday. Water clarity is tough, stained brown. Dusted off one of the rods I have in my...

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Turner Pond Fishing Report May 08, 2010

Turner Pond

Turner Pond, Walpole, MA -

Went down to turner pond after the rain had passed around 4pm. Within a half hour I landed 2 bass. A 1lb on a 3.5" Yum craw and a 1.5lb on 5&qu...

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Mary's first day LMB fishing! Fishing Report Sep 16, 2008

Mary's first day LMB fishing!

Turners Pond, Walpole -

A first trip to Turners Pond, Walpole...not bad. Nice launch area for car-top boats only. Tons of frogs on shore. We all know what that means.........

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Baits and Tackle used near Walpole

Check Prices

  • Yum 5" senko type worm and Yum 3.5" craw papi.
  • shiner
  • will use nightcrawlers
  • black worm
  • Burning a Manns wake bait over weeds produced bites on every other cast.
  • Rubber worms, swimbaits
  • senkos blk/blu flake
  • 5 inch senko neon green/cream 4 inch watermellon w/ blk flake they were hitting on the way in. just drifting and casting on little cleo spoons.
  • we used wonder bread for the carp. and the bass were hitting spoons
  • zoom watermelon seed finese worms

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

  • Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
  • Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
  • Shiner one foot below float.
  • worm
  • slug
  • Chartreuse Powerbait
  • cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
  • 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
  • Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
  • Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.

Creature Check Prices

  • Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
  • GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
  • 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'.
  • Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
  • Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
  • Black and Blue as usual
  • Berkley 4.5in Pit Boss Green Pumpkin
  • squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
  • Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
  • Colorful Grub and a Pitboss

Tube Check Prices

  • tube dark...
  • 10" on a tube
    10-1/2" on inline spinner
    14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
  • white tube
  • use small tube
  • Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
  • Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
  • 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
  • minitube flourescent
  • texas rigged

Minnow Check Prices

  • 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
  • small minnows, pretty active
  • 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
  • shiner
  • shiners
  • medium-sized shiner
  • Shiners
  • Caught by a friend on a shiner.
  • Live, Medium sized silver side shiners.
  • 5 Tip Ups- Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

  • good ole fashioned jitter bug
  • Purple Flash Popper
  • topwater and worms
  • Heddon Lure, Mini Torpedo...silver in color with red below lip. Great lure, works great...just put together in haste, and fell apart.
  • basic top water pencil popper type lure.
  • Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
  • Heddon flourescent baby torpedo. Jitter, pop, and play dead.
  • Rapala Poppers
  • 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
  • 3inch Black Jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

  • Red/Red
  • Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
  • This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
  • 8" Pumpkinseed
  • Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
  • I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
  • Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
  • 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight
  • watermelon/red jr brush hog w/slider head 1/8 oz
  • Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig

Jerk Bait Check Prices

  • red 5" Senko
  • Senko, 5", green with red specks.
  • baby bass berkley slug
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
  • Sluggo
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
  • BASS ASASSIONS WHITE,BABY BASS AND ARKANSAW SHINNER WORK WELL!
  • Two 1lb Pickerel
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout

Fly (Other) Check Prices

  • Green Popper Frog Fly
  • Berkley PowerBait
    1" Power Honey Worms
  • 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.

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

  • BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

  • Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
  • Fishing tree lines
  • Fishing rocks and open water
  • Fishing shore line
  • single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
  • Worked several lures, while my son was busy catching the fish with shiners.
  • Tornado spinner bait
  • tornado black
  • my dads was on an S.K spinnerbait.
    the one I lost was on a KVD swim jig
  • white spinner bait with white curly tail grub

Frog Bait Check Prices

  • Spro Frog
  • Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
  • Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
  • Weedless Topwater Frog
  • Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
  • Strike King Rage Toad
  • Strike King Rage Tail (Rage Toad).
  • Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
  • 1 - Yum Frog
    1 - Salad Spoon
    1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
  • chartreuse SnagProof frog

Streamer Check Prices

  • Thomas's buoyant spoon
    woolly bugger
    Honey worm
  • Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

  • a lot of plastic worms work out.
  • 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
  • slow action on jerkbait long pauses
  • seinko 5" junebug purple
  • I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko
  • A pair of 7in on a jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
  • A pair of 12in on the jerkbait
  • Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
    3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
  • Jerkbait - Both were about the same size

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

  • mepps agalia
  • Panther Martin
  • silver in-line spinner with red feather
  • Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
  • Gold spinner
  • Rooster Tail
  • 1/8oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
  • 1/6oz Rooster Tail
  • 1/6 Rooster Tail

Dry Fly Check Prices

  • black and while bivisble about size 16

Worm Check Prices

  • Senko
  • Two 1-1/4lbers
    1lber
    10 incher
  • Zoom 10" shad color
  • 4-inch yum.
  • Rigged 6" worm almost floating on the service no weight slow retrieve
  • 4-inch yum dinger
  • 5" Yamamoto Senko
    Pumpkin Green with Purple and Copper Flakes
    Weightless, Tex-Posed
  • Zoom Finese Worm(Brown) on Shaky Head
  • Yamamoto Senko, Chartreuse and Black.
  • 17" 2lb 2oz, 3/4lb, and 1lb 5oz

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

  • 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
  • Storm Shad Minnow
  • xps swimbait
  • Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
  • Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
    season
  • 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
    Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
  • Dark Senkos wacky
  • Modeled after a baby yellow perch
  • lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
  • Storm shad mullet color

Hard Baits Check Prices

  • Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
  • 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
  • Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
    1st was 7in
    2nd was 12in 7oz
    3rd was 10in
    4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
  • MS Slammer 7" Perch
    Buzzjet Real Largemouth
    Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
    KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
    Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
  • Crank and buzzbait
  • Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
  • Inline Spinner on the 8"
    Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
  • All between 6" & 9"
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
    1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
  • 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
    2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

  • We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
  • Five 2lbers
    Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb
  • Dropshot Sluggo
  • Dropshot
  • 1st bass on jitterbug 2nd bass on craw 3rd bass on senko
  • Drop Shot
  • 1 Keeper barely 12"
    The rest were in the 8"-11"range
  • Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
    1st was a little over a 1lb
    2nd was 12"
    3rd was 2lbs 2oz
  • Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
  • 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
    The rest were in the 8"-11" range

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

  • 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
  • 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.
  • first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

  • Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
  • Rapala Original #7
  • Powerbait
  • Rooster Tail
  • Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
  • Rocket Shad Spinner Bait
  • bleeding hook rapala floater
  • zoom bass love em super fluke
  • Rapala F-5 Original
  • I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
    Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait

Craw Check Prices

  • nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
  • brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
  • doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
  • yamamoto watermelon crawdad
  • Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
  • crawdads and soft frogs
  • Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
  • Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
  • Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

  • Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
  • 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
  • Rapala Jerkbait
  • Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
  • Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
  • If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
  • 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
  • I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".
  • Shad Rap in Blue/Black color
  • Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

  • metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

  • 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.

    Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
  • 11" on Shaky Head
    15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
  • Our Limit was :
    My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz

    1lb and under on the rest
  • jig n pig

Crankbait Check Prices

  • switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.
  • 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas
  • shallow crank square almost matching bass color
  • - White (Bass Pro)

    - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
  • Used a small suspending minnow worked great caught a couple of yellow perch as well
  • kept hitting the crankbait right on of the cast just as i started retirieve.
  • was slowly fishing a deep crank that floats letting it float to top after each crank then BANG these little suckers came right up on it
  • Shallow Water Daiwa Crank. Fished slow
  • Strike King KVD Shad/Purple Square Bill Shallow Running Crankbait (Not exact name)
  • perch rapala

Bass Jig Check Prices

  • White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
  • Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
  • Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
  • Strike King Bass Jig
  • Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.

    YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
  • Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
  • Threw a black on black 1/4 jig and #11 pork frog in the trees and a Koppers live target frog in the scum and pads
  • flipping rubber craws with a 1 oz weight
  • manns stone 3/8 jig
  • Bitsy Bug- black and blue with a black and blue crazy leg craw trailer

Emerger Check Prices

  • Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

  • IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
  • 5" and 6" Senko
  • Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
  • 4" senkos texas rigged in Bk/Bl and watermellon red
  • Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
  • 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
  • Storm 2in Perch
  • 3 keepers, one was culled
  • Only keeper was just over a pound
  • 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad

Wet Fly Check Prices

  • White Wooly bugger
  • White wooly bugger
  • Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

  • "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • regular silver spoon
  • Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
  • "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
  • Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
  • 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
  • gold little cleo
  • Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
  • 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
  • silver spoon

Nightcrawler Check Prices

  • nice large nightcrawlers
  • Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
  • Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
  • Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
  • Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
  • night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
  • night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
  • we used live worms it worked very well
  • live worm on float
  • Kids materials

Lipless Bait Check Prices

  • Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
  • rattler
  • we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
  • Shad Rattlin' Rapala
  • the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
  • 1/2oz Rapala Rattlin'
  • Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
  • Greyish, green, red face
  • smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
  • Live Target Golden Shiner Vibration Trap Lipless Crankbait

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

  • Calms
  • Clams
  • Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

  • Gold Johnson silver minnow.

    Catch and release.
  • medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

  • Popper Fishing
  • Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
  • Popper fishing off the boat
  • My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

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

Grub Check Prices

  • Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
  • Pumpkin tail carolina style
  • Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
  • Orange & yellow curl tail grub
  • Dropshotting
  • 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
  • T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
  • Berkley white grub with a tail.
  • Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
  • Berkley White Grub.

Live Baits Check Prices

  • white rooster tail
  • Seaworms
  • Fresh Cut Pogies
  • Sea Worms

Panfish Jig Check Prices

  • 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner
  • Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
  • ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
  • Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
  • 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.

Other Check Prices

  • Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
  • Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
  • Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
  • Powerbait
  • Sweetcorn
  • Berkley PowerBait
  • White Berkely Honey worm
  • Jigs, Craws, Swimbait, Dropshot, Chatterbait, Spinnerbait

    Two were 1-3/4lbs
    Five were 1-1/2lbs
    The rest were 1-1/4lbs and lower
  • Pink Powerbait nuggets
  • Shiners, senkos, plastic salamander.

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