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By: kevinb
Posted: 5/4/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Weather conditions were brutal with heavy winds and monsoon caliber rains but my buddy Ryan and I powered through for what resulted in a pretty good day of musky fishing. Took some time but found the ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 12:30 with muskyhunter. Worked a few different areas using a mixed bag of crankbaits,tubes and swimbaits. mh was able to get a tiger musky interested as it followed from a rock poi...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Report from the 22nd..little late but better than way later. Hit a good 40 on a dawg in open water. Big dawgs mean bigger fish. Open water. Tapps has at least 10 muskies in it as of now. Gotta get out...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is a consolidated report from Saturday evening and most of Sunday.
Hit the water with some buds, Ryan, Kent and muskyhunter. We all managed to catch muskies on a variety of lures from spinnerb...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took fellow Muskyhunter, Mulehunter out to Tapps Tuesday evening. Heck of a fisherman. Heck of a guy. Tried my best to get him to move out this way. I think I got him hooked and seriously considering ...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 4/6/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps Sat and Sun. Mostly seeking Musky and Bass, and exploring the prospect of crawfish. The water is cold, 45 degrees.
Was nice to see the number of anglers to rec boaters ratio was in t...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 4/6/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps after work. We decided to use Executive Athority and call "Date Night". Launched about 4:00. Surface temp was 49.
We trolled between the county park and NE point of Tapps Island. The find...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished for about a half hour this morning working my uncle reds special spinner.Not expecting much with the water bieng so cold. A few casts in and I had a big old toad follow. Probably mid to upper...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 3/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the Tapps launch about 9:30 and had a false start, the motor would not cooperate and start. Killed two batteries in the process. Took the boat home and put it on the charger for a couple ho...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 4/13/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday we tried to wait out the rain in hopes for a break in the weather. Cody and I showed up to the County Launch about 10:45 and took some pictures of the two large bald eagles that were watching...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 4/16/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made it out tonight. Was great, sunny, light breeze, warm. Just the two of us. Then the freeking bright yellow hydro showed up... Again, passed by us within 50 ft at 60+ just off Dike 4, He was launc...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 4/18/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Was pretty nice out there today. Met up with the Major, discussed some musky strategy. The boys, drooling all over the Ski'teer. Lots of fast boats, but they kept their distance. Good tunes coming fro...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 1
caught this one with a bobber and a night crawler.
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/2/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out about 10:00am for the south side of Snag Island. Moved slowly westward around the shoreline. Partner was using small spinnerbait, I was using 5" Yamamoto Senco. Both of us had hits right...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed for the flume inlet today. Worked the cove and within about 10minutes I had hooked what I would estimate to be about a 1lb bass on a Storm Swim Shad. Fish broke water about half way to the bo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/13/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Did the 5:00-8:00 am shift this morning.I had a nice muskie 40+ drill my spinner at the boat he went nuts after he got hooked up. After a brief crazy fight he came unbuttoned. BUMMER! Probably the bes...
By: wescooper2003
Posted: 8/8/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2009
Hot Spots: 2
When out to Tapps this morning got there about 615 tried top water throwing a zara spook caught around 30 all were on top water. Fished around docks around points with stumps on them.
By: Ski
Posted: 6/25/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I caught this very sick 47 x 21 1/2 tiger last weekend. It was my personal best but sure didn't fight much. Thanks again to another Skeeter owner and his son for taking this picture for me. I wante...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start on Tapps today, headed for the area around the inlet again. Used Berkley power grubs, smoke color. Hit two small (about 1lb) SMB right off in the first 10 minutes. Had lots of hits...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/22/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out a little ealier today under a foggy sky cover. Used a spinnerbait all day and managed to hook a few but lost them before I could get them to the boat. Wife was using a small rubber fish that...
By: drhookem
Posted: 5/13/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I hit tapps for an afternoon of harrassing smallmouth threw cranks to the bank and docks boated 16 smallmouth and one hammer handle tiger. Water temp 60 degrees most places. Most of the f...
By: drhookem
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the afternoon checking out Tapps. We fishied for four hours, started off jigging gort only one in about 15 feet of water. Switched to crankbaits caught on one an x-rap and the other on # 5 sh...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/24/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to go to Lake Tapps today to see if I can find some bigger fish than the ones I've been catching...
Go out in the water and at a point by 8AM. 2nd cast, fish on! Uh oh, feels pretty small...
By: kevinb
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started a little late as members of CMA were taking part in a community work project
at Driftwood Point. Approx. 5 casts in and my buddy Todd nails a gorgeous tiger at
43x17 on a Ducktail Muskything...
By: red
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We fishshed for 2 hours this morning and hooked up 3 muskies. Two of them spit the hooks this one did not. The girth on it was nearly 2 ft. It came on a husky jerk, the other two hit bucktails.It was ...