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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Just fishing form a dock pitched a green pumpkin tube wacky rigged right up against some stumps and just slowly jigged it and within seconds a salb of a rockbass creamed it caught four or five goodins...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 5/23/2019
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This fish actually came on our third trip out for the season. The first two trips resulted in multiple fish following to the boat, but nothing was biting. On this trip we had limited time before sunse...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 4/22/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I went out trolling for musky in my little boat with an electric trolling motor, as the big boat is not dewinterized yet. Trolled for three hours with large crankbaits along with bucktails...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 4/23/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a buddy went out again last night after I got off work. Fishing from a small boat casting at docks. Trying to pull some musky out from under the docks. Fished from about 7:00pm-8:00pm. Using sp...
By: Kenaiwild
Posted: 5/6/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Kid wanted to fish today... waded through a couple dinks and he got thi one.
By: red
Posted: 6/3/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
What a great morning of tiger hunting today. We were fishing with jerk baits, glide baits and bucktails . We hooked three landed two and had a couple other follows!! Only bummer was the two we got wer...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 6/5/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We started at 6:30 on Sunday. Straight away we went to the north side of lake casting all types of baits. Didn't see anything. Traveled back to the south side. Flipping docks and off of points. we got...
By: red
Posted: 6/8/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well my day started out pretty amazing. On my second cast with a bucktail I had a quality fish follow but no take. 10 minutes later about a dozen houses further down the shoreline I switched to a gli...
By: red
Posted: 6/12/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
My daughter got home from her soccer practice last night and wanted to go fish off the dock for a bit. So we grabbed some bread for the carp and a tub of worms for some bass and perch. We caught a bun...
By: red
Posted: 6/19/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Man what an awesome Father’s Day I had!
My 12 year old decided that she was going to get up early and take me fishing for Father’s Day so she gets up about 7:00, grabs me and the dog and we head ou...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 6/23/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Oh boy, the bite was on last night. Started fishing at about 6:45 after battling the boat lift for a little bit. No trolling just casting, medium to large crankbaits, spinners, and bucktails. Targeted...
By: odie11974
Posted: 7/15/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 6:15 AM- fished till 2:00 pm. when the lake turned into mayhem from all the jet skis/ski boats.
Dad and I never went more than a few minutes without a fish on. Smallies were scattered...
By: triton21
Posted: 10/16/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I fished from noon to 4 on a beautiful fall day. The wife caught 2 fish that weighed 2 1/2 pounds each. I caught 6 fish 2 1/2 pounds also and 3 that weighed 3 lbs. I also caught my person...
By: red
Posted: 7/21/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got my personal best tiger this morning. 48+ x 21-1/2 !!! Got it on a perch glide bait in about 10 ft of water. Probably the hardest fighting one I've got to date as well. Came completely out of the w...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the 11th and 12th. My son and I have been wanting to give the Tiger Muskies a shot, so we headed to Tapps for a couple of days.
On the water by noon and armed with the "Tapps Mu...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 5/22/2020
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for about 2 hours during a good moon phase/sunset window. We tried to the typical spring tactic of downsizing our lures to smaller presentation in order to get something to move. Well after loo...
By: JesusFish
Posted: 4/2/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps about 10am for some smallmouth action. Fished all over the lake. North, Mid, South. Tried Deep, Shallow, Mid depths....nothing. Finally got the Musky mid-lake in like 2 ft of water with ...
By: SS minnow
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 3
cought 12 smallies any where frome the 1-3 lb region and one 4lb largmouth...The fish are kinda spread out so find the fish and stick to that general area where you found em and sucsess should be had....
By: al3x
Posted: 7/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the water around 1800. Didn't have much luck. Caught a little dink on a crank. Caught a 12" one on a plastic worm at 20' around 1930. Called it a day at 2000. Lake seemed to be in better co...
By: _Sergiy_
Posted: 7/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Went to Lake Tapps this afternoon for some bass. I got my blow up boat and went into the center of the swimming area away from the swimming people. I use my bill lewis rattle trap and after a couple c...
By: mtsiview
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I hit Tapps today, started at 8:00 and pulled off the lake at 4:30. I boated three tigers, 33", 41" and 41-3/4"! On top of that, I missed two, one on a short strike and one on a figure 8 when a wake...
By: Natebg1
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Sunday with a good buddy of mine from work who had never even fished for Tiger Muskies on Lake Tapps. What is even better is that He caught his very First One, 28 inches on the old school Red a...
By: tacfisher1
Posted: 7/24/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Son and I went out to see if we could get him his first Tiger.Didn't get his but I got my second. He did have one on and lost it at the boat when it took off as I was getting the net.Son also had 3 or...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 4/11/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I went to Tapps. Nothing in the morning. Tried shallow and deep. Finally went south of Snag Island. Noticed almost a 5 degree increase in water temperature. That was the difference. There...
By: Fishn4ever
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught my First Tiger Musky. It wasn't a Monster but it counts. This is a fish that I have never caught. Day started out cold and windy, ended sunny and warm. Fished for bass while my friend lee fishe...