I fish from shore where there are down trees. I've pulled some giant crappie out of that lake

 

thats good to know, you know if its anygood for bass?

 

To me most of the crappie and gills there seem stunted. I caught over 30 crappie there last time with the few keepers being borderline. It is a decent bass
lake though. I dont fish it much but have a buddy who bass fishes there religiously. I've seen some pics on his phone of 5 & 6 lbers caught there.

 

A couple of years back Kim pulled a 6+lb bass out of the channel between the island and the ramp and a 3lb'er on the very next cast prefishing for a tourni. You think she could land one on the day of the tourni? NOT. We are gr8 prefishing champions but cant land dodo when it counts. Kinda like when it came to taking tests in school. TEST STRESS!!!
Man you never grow out of somethings. LOL
ya its a good lake for bass. We have seen some 20lb sacks come out of there. And they are still there getting bigger each year.
Good Luck
donm

 

I got a 7.5 lb large mouth out of their two years ago
I have a pic of it on my profile

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I fish Walborn regularly. I would say it is a bass lake for sure. Some nice ones in fact. My largest was 19" (no weight sorry) but I have seen a 21" pulled out of there. Lots of catfish as well but nothing of size that I have seen. I agree about the stunted crappie. There are lots of them and gills but as t.stuller says not many keepers.

It is a nice quite lake with plenty of features. 9.9 hp limit. Well worth the visit.

 

awesome, i appreciate all of the feedback! We had plans to go last year and have heard people have pretty good luck out there, we never went because they were fixin the bridge and supposedly the "best spots" are past the bridge..dont know how much truth is in that tho..

 

Always catch a lot of catfish, but if you just want to have a fun time fishing go to the bottom of the spillway with a can of corn and you can pull out carp every cast that put up a great fight... you just have to pull them up about 20ft up concrete wall to unhook them.

 

Walborn is my favorite bass lake. I think the best spots are north of the bridge. But they were fixing it last year so I never went after May 1. It's not unusual to catch 3 lbers all day long. I have had plenty of days were my total weights would have went 30 lbs. Real dark water and steep ledges close to the banks. I like to throw big thumping spinnerbaits. Chartruse with a big gold blade. Big dark (black and blue)jigs and worms are great too. Wide wobble crankbaits with a bright body and black back also work well.

 

thats good to hear, i cant wait to get out there now!

 

I have fished DW for the last 20 yrs. Super bass lake.
Not Quite what it used to be ,but still good. Lots of nice
structure,points ,and humps, no weeds.Last year when every
lake in Ohio was a foot or two low DW was at full pool. Plus,
no fishing pressure. I love it.

 

Heard there was a lot of dead fish (gills mostly) around the shores at the res.Anyone hear anything as to why?

 

Where does 1 target catfish on walbourn?? Never fished there before but I love cat fishing after dark! Any help appreciated.


Thanks,
Justin


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Never fished there before but I love cat fishing after dark!

It's a Stark County park. They close the gates on the Price Rd parking lots at dark (or the times below). I'm not sure if you can fish there after dark.

You might be able to fish the causeways on German Church Rd and McCallum Rd. Just park on the side of the road.

Price St. parking lot closes at 9 p.m. (April - Sept.) and 7 p.m. (Oct. - March)


http://www.starkparks.com/park.asp?park=5&view=1

 

Well that sucks! Thanks for the heads up though


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Sorry. McCallum turns into Stroup Rd north of German Church Rd.

If you want to night fish, keep going further east on Price Rd and try Deercreek Reservoir. It's the water supply for Alliance.
I believe they close the road to the launch at dark too but you could fish the Price Rd. causeway after dark. A lot of eater channels in that lake.

By the way, I noticed this past weekend on my way to Berlin that they paved the gravel road back to the boat launch on Deercreek.

 

Erie,

Shoot me a p.m. and i can give you some info. Have fished there for ten years or better. Definately pulled some 10+ pounders outta there

 

also one thing at deer creek yes they close at dark, ranger will drive in to close the gate, and now the causeway has no parking signs along the road, not sure if they watch that at nite , but u could park west of the guardrail there is a small pull off along the road on both sides...

 

when I was a kid ,we caught huge cats at deercreek they now close the gate I think at 11pm. for the park but there other places .around the lake. I don,t think deercreek gets much fishing pressure.

 

Walborn is a great crappie,catfish,bluegill,bass,walleye,perch,carp,osprey,eagle ..... lake. You will love it.

 

They have a parking area on price road that stays open all night. and u can park on the road at either end of the Railing. Just not between the rails.

 

I caught a nice carp out there one day.

 

Are there walleyes in Walborn or deer creek??

 

Are there walleyes in Walborn or deer creek??

there were eyes in walborn at one time, guys get them once in awhile now. and if deer creek has any they came over the dam from walborn, but never heard of any caught at deer crk.they don,t stock them anymore the last i heard..

 

walborn has had dam trouble way back there should be eyes in deercreek, I have seen a big eye caught in the spillway of wal born.