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By: red
Posted: 6/29/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well my persistence finally paid off. I didn't really want to get up early this morning but I knew if I didn't I wouldn't want to go later, with the heat and boat traffic. Got this nice 44 inch-er equ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Ski and I teamed up to fish the Chapter 57 Musky Tourney...LOOONG day. Didn't see a thing till about 10 A.M ish. I hooked up and we netted a very healthy 36" Tiger off a weed bed. Then another LOOONG...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/23/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 7:30am and pulled out about 11:00a. Trolled Dikes 3 & 4 and the NW area of the lake. We caught 2 dink SM and 3 more small fish, (not sure what). Longest fish caught was only 6 in...
By: dilbert
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps to try out a different motor and hopefully catch some fish. The motor ran great and was faster and quieter than the old one...not too shabby. Took my son ('lil-bert) and 200Subaru (it...
By: cj
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Dike 12 in my little boat me and my friend caught a few the bigest was 2 pounds fished for musky with my buck tail still cant catch any caught the bass on a 4 inch gary yamamoto single tail g...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The muskie gods smiled on us today.Hit the water with Lucious and hit a good area with some bucktails. I caught a hungry 35incher.Not very big,I know but this sucker slammed my lure and put up some fi...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps this mornin'. Great day to be on the lake since it was rather on the cool side and cloudy so all the skiers stayed away. Fishing was on the slow side, but still ended up with 8 smallies. Two...
By: red
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well my woes continue although I finally hooked up a musky this morning and had it to the boat. It spit the bucktail as I was fumbling with the net. Not real big maybe 30ish. Yesterday we took out a a...
By: cj
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to dike 4 fished it from shore caught one small smallie my friend caught one also i used soft plastics i also tried for muskies with big rapalas but no luck.. does anyone know were a good public...
By: car man randy
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Teddy and I fished all morning for SMB and muskys. We fished some of the best looking structure with all of the right presentations......and one lousy Rock Bass to show for it! We didn't even see fi...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 4pm and trolled up and down Dike 4 (main motor died so cant go far from ramp). Most of the fish seemed to be in the 15 to 25 foot deep range but as you got closer to Dike 3 they all...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the boys for a few hours. Mostly trolling around the North end of the lake. Cody picked up this nice SM with a lure that looks like a trout fry. I managed this silver fish, not really su...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with new Tiger fisherman Maury today. "He got the itch too!" Anyway, nice day on the water for Father's Day. Saw a Tiger in the early a.m And finally got one in the net around noon. Maury is...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/14/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked up with the Western Bass Club for our first "Fish in". Met a bunch of really cool dudes who are just as dedicated to bass as we Chapter 57 guys are to the Tigers. Great time on and off the wat...
By: shepdog_1300
Posted: 6/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my homie went out to tapps with a big 5 person raft and fished the area around the boat launch and rock area (dike 4 i think). GOT NOTHING. My friend was using some live maggots which didn't wo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well it's been a frustrating spring for me on the muskie front. I've had at least a dozen good follows to the boat without a single hookup. I tried figure 8's, big circle's, jigging, speeding up. All ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son up to Tapps and met up with a buddy that got a new boat(toy). We launched out of the North Tapps Park and began working(drifting)northward on dike#4 and started hitting some smallies in ab...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
well so far this summer me and my friends have caught 5-6 muskies and a lot of smallies. all we do is troll right out the back of a canoe so just to lets u guys know, u dont need some 30,000 dallar ba...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 7, ran into Kenster and Mtsview at the docks. Light cool breeze, water 60.8 according to the Garmin.
Total from the 4 of us on my boat, we only caught 1 small SM (along dike 4...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well it been a long dry spell on the musky front for me. In the last few weeks I've had at least a dozen good follows without a single hookup. At least my girls are having fun with the carp and sucker...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/5/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hey kids,
Got out to Tapps today. Fished from 9:30 till 5 pm. Yup the weather was kinda nasty. Not windy though..perfect weather for fishin...Hooked up and put a 37 x 16 Ski in the net. Off of a we...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Another decent day on the water. Took the niece for her first trip, and I actually put her on some fish. I'm starting to think that I have a few places on this lake that I can catch a fish even on t...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, got bored this afternoon after running around gathering up some more yamato cinnamon colored grubs, man they're hard to find these days. Any ways, hit Tapps. Didn't find them around the stumps t...
By: dilbert
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
None of my usual fishing partners could make it today (grounded), so I went out solo. The weather was overcast and cooler. Water temp was in the upper 50's to low 60's in some areas. I caught plenty...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 5/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water about 5:15pm and was out by 7:30. Water temp 60.8.
The kid caught a nice 3 pound rock, was a keeper but we felt sorry for it and let it go. (C&R baby...)
I caught a medium SM along ...
