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Posted: 4/15/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So Mayfield not so good. Tapps well, is Tapps. Early April not so good for the muskies. But the bassers where out in force. Didnt see any muskies. No follows couldnt raise a fish today. Didnt try for ...
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By: kevinb
Posted: 6/5/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water with a buddy from work. He chucked a tube for smallies and I tossed a spinnerbait for muskies. Caught a small musky approx.25 inches on the outside edge of a weedbed. Water is very stain...
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Posted: 5/12/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few hours on Tapps today. Great day to be on the water. Rainier was magnificent. The sun was warm. And I finally put the 1st tiger of 2012 in the Frabill. A hard fish fighting battle. Trying t...
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Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water about 8 am. Bought my season pass. Water temp was 63 degrees. Saw one good 45 inch musky laying around. bounced a jig off her beak couldnt get her to hit. Hit the south end of the lake 2...
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Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple out yesterday first time on tapps. Pretty good day on the water for these fine folks. Netted a 30 incher. Hooked and missed a good 40 incher that jumped about 2 ft out the water. Good fi...
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Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today perfect day. Wind, clouds and cool. Water temps in the 60's. Weeds coming up. Had 4 fish on today. all had the tail end of my Invader. what the heck. Fish musta been half hungry. Wo...
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By: kevinb
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps late afternoon and into the evening. Other than a few jet skis and pleasure boaters,we had most of the lake to ourselves. Mostly chucked a Musky Innovations Shallow Invader and had a few ...
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Posted: 7/4/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today. Met Harry out there and his son. Pretty good day put a 42 x18 musky in the net. A couple follows. One an absolute piggy. Off the lake by 1 pm. Water temps was 65. Weeds growing som...
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By: esox54277
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the afternoon on the water, pulled three little guys in the boat. Really just spent a lot of time searching out areas with good weeds. Really curious if any of you guys have had luck on some of ...
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By: esox54277
Posted: 7/27/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Another afternoon/evening on the water, again no trouble getting the little guys in the boat, heck I even tried pulling away from one really little guy and this fish literally ate my bait 6 inches out...
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Posted: 8/2/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got out of the house this evening with my netgirl trying to get her her first musky. No fish for the young lady but she again did a heck of a job netting a pretty good 41.5 inch tiger. Also picked up ...
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By: esox54277
Posted: 8/4/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful Morning! Tough fishing though. Put this one 37-38 incher in the boat, but thats all I saw all morning. Tons of little bass that think they are big bad boys! Never thought I would say it ...
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Posted: 8/12/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Water temps were 71-74 degrees. Nice breeze in the morning. Mostly fishermen out this morning and a couple of skiers. Had a hot follow within my first 5 casts. Had a good follow by bout a 40 inch fish...
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By: esox54277
Posted: 8/9/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Only one Muskie all night, hit a couple fish late, hard to tell if they were muskie or bass. Lots of bass around. Anyways beautiful nigh on the water!!!!
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By: Ski
Posted: 8/15/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My first day back on the lake and I caught 1 1/2 fish - I will explain in a moment. The photo is of a barely legal 30 1/4 inch fish. The little scrapper hit during a figure 8. His first strike miss...
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Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked up with fellow Chapter member and friend Bret ( professional shore fisher) and fished for the first part of the day. Fished pretty hard and came up with 2 young ones both around the 28.5 inch m...
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Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well after I dropped off Brett I continued on for another 6 hours. Around 4 p.m hooked into and landed this nice 39.5" x 16.5 Tiger back in a cove. Got a very kind family to take a few shots. Answered...
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By: kevinb
Posted: 10/11/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps with Muskyhunter. I had a couple baits that I'm testing for Pro Time Fishing. Tossed those for awhile but it appeared that the tigers might be a little to deep for them. Then tossed a few b...
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Posted: 8/23/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hello, Got the oppurtunity to take fellow Chapter 57 member Cody out to fish today. Saturday. Hit the lake 6;30 ish. I needed to get Codeman over a Tiger. Lake was nice...Hit a Tiger around 8 am...3...
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By: Lucius
Posted: 7/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to fish tapps after work today. Got to the lake around 5:15pm. It was chaos. Not like the weekend chaos, but pretty close. I thought there would be a few boats on the water (especially for i...
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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...
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By: cj
Posted: 6/22/2008
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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...
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By: Ski
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day on Tapps with my partner Mark Wells - netman extraordinaire!! I caught this 46 x 20 this morning on a crankbait. Not only was this the first fish I caught on a crankbait, but a...
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Posted: 7/26/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hello, Spent most of the day at Tapps. I know I bad mouthed it...I just love this lake..Hi I'm an addict and couldn't stay away. Got there early and envisioned a really bad sight before I got ther...
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By: Ski
Posted: 7/19/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was my first successful day for muskies alone - and I paid the price! I managed to get this 37" ugly, skinny musky in the net. I had another musky around 40" all the way to the boat and here is w...
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