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By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/24/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After a night of celebrating my B-day with my 86 year old dad, I was able to hit up the lake, sometime after noon. It was wise to wait (read: slept in with hangover), as the clouds stopped dumping and...
By: kevinb
Posted: 10/23/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Punched in a couple hours at Tapps. Not sure if its a mix of weather or just luck. Caught a single slinky tiger that was around the 20 inch range but had multiple hot follows from several tigers of va...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 10/2/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps for a few hours on Saturday. Used BIG tubes and trolled...yes i trolled..really bad shoulder. Trolled with 12" Jakes and Grandma lures. No luck..marked lots of big fish off the big hump o...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/6/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my buddy Rich fished Saturday for a few hours. Rich had 2 good hot follows a mid 30" and a good 40" Musky. Couldnt connect and get Rich his first Musky in the net. Sunday hit Tapps by myself. H...
By: kevinb
Posted: 9/25/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A great evening on the water. My son and I had limited time and daylight. Went to one of our
perch spots with a mix of perch gear(mainly worm/bobber) and musky gear including a chatterbait,spinnerbai...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/12/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hey kids,
Fished Lake Wa in the morning volunteered for the C.A.S.T. event. Caught some perch. So ehn i got home about 2:30 figured hey...i have time to hit Tapps. Dropped off the wife and headed up...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/16/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished with a new buddy today. Got to Tapps about 10:30 am. looking for some sunshine. Headed to the search and rescue area and got a nice smallie on a bulldawg..All three fish today caught on Musky I...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My apologies if this report is poorly written than normal,typing on a very empty tank. Fished with my buddy muskyhunter,we worked a variety of areas in coves and rocky points etc. Changed lures often ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/22/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Punched in a few hours today. Got home from work,got my boy on the bus. On the water around 10:30.
Hooked up with a small tiger,a low 20 inches on a Musky Mayhem Baby Girl. Then had an impressive f...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 5/9/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps Sunday with my buddy Geoff. Launched from Allen Yorke. It is free to launch. From a reliable source it will be free for awhile. Bollards are down. Hit a heck of a rain squall 30 minutes i...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Tiger Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hey ho, fished Tapps Saturday. From 10:30 to 6 pm. Just in time for the monsoon to hit. Anyhow. Had about a dozen follows. One 40 inch fish followed me 5 times on 5 different lures before she got tire...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 5/30/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps the 28th and 29th. Hard fishin both days. the small muskies are active and the bigger ones are working doing their jobs feeding on the suckers. Saw 3 different muskies near dike 3 chasing...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/29/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Attack of the sub 30 inch tiger musky again this evening but better small than nothing at all.
Caught this tiger on a Musky Mayhem Baby Girl in about 8 feet of water. No official measurement but some...
By: kevinb
Posted: 7/2/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got out of the smaller tiger musky slump. Its been a great year for numbers but not so much in quality for me. Hit the water this AM with muskyhunter,shortly after taking off,he had a couple f...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A pretty good day on Tapps. On the water around 1PM or so with muskyhunter. Had a follow from a small tiger near Allan Yorke on a spinnerbait but the fish was only semi interested.
A bit later and I ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My boy and I arrived around 3PM. Started looking for tigers and smallies. Hooked a small tiger on a Suick in about 8 feet of water. No official measurement but I'd be lucky to stretch him 25inches. Th...
By: edge540
Posted: 7/5/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a blast on tapps today, Great weather brought out the bikinis and the fish were biting too! This was my first time on tapps so it took a couple hours of wandering and casting but I ended up releas...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/6/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A wierd day, the fish seemed to be a bit, well, non committal. Headed out about 7:15am for the back side of snagg island. My friend was using a green Yamamoto Swim Senko and I used a Stanley Ribbit ...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today just by myself. first weather people..thanks for the great fishing weather..really. cloudy and rain perfect. 2 hours into the morning, noon..almost exactly. Lunch time. Put a Heavy ...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps for a few hours Saturday morning. No Muskies caught. Did have a hot follow from a good 40. Couldn't get her to latch on. Spun her around a few times on a good sized loop. It was also goo...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few hours on this crazy metro lake today with a gent who WAS on a mission to get his 1st musky ever. Last time out he had a follow and was pretty excited. Today I got him over and hooked up no...
By: BankBasser
Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
As with MuskyHunter's report previously, there was a mission to complete and was it ever completed.
7AM on the water. 4 other boats that we could see and none of them musky fishing. About an hour i...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/7/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few hours at Tapps today with Kevinb. Got my boat back and needed to work out the kinks in it and the shoulder. Put a nice 3lb smallie in the net. Water temp ranged only 47-49 degrees. Kinda c...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the noonish and afternoon period fishing with my bud Kevinb. Little windier today. East wind. Yikes! Kevin raised a 30" musky but couldnt get er' to committ. Fished the north end of the lake onl...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/21/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today from roughly 9 am till 530pm. Raised 2 fish only. One mid 30 incher the other a bigger mid 40+ tiger. Couldnt get either one in the net. Great day to be on the water. sunny and warm...