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By: kevinb
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a small window this evening to chuck some baits. Heavy boat traffic,no surprise there. Had a few follows but from smaller tigers,nothing over the low 30's inch range. Still no complaints. Made a n...
By: esox54277
Posted: 7/20/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Very entertaining night, all together saw about 10 fish, three in the boat (2 30 inchers and a fatty 41), one upper 30s decided to try flying and spit my bucktail, one solid fish stuck for just a seco...
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 ...
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: 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...
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: esox54277
Posted: 7/29/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This evening I got the opportunity to fish with soaking wet feet, thanks to a rather large boat that has a whole lake to run on but decides to zoom between me and the structure I was casting to, needl...
By: tacfisher1
Posted: 7/29/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this morning to spend the last day my son had before he started his first job.Dint get a hit but son saw one.That was it for the few hours we were out.Had one of the guys from shore tell me h...
By: muskyhunter
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...
By: muskyhunter
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 ...
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 ...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/6/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps Saturday by myself ..put a little 2 footer in the net. Sunday my bud Eli from Chicago finally made the move to Wa State. He brought a buddy with him, another guide from the flatlander state....
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!!!!
By: muskyhunter
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...
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...
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...
By: muskyhunter
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...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, made up for almost 4 weeks of not seeing or catching a Tiger over 30 inches. Got out just in time to see Deadeye and Brett as they were coming in. Shot to a spot I had never tried for Tigers bef...
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...
By: muskyhunter
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...
By: muskyhunter
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...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/4/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Got to fish with Bill Green for the elusive Tiger Muskie today. We launched at 6:30am and immediately hit a couple smallmouth while trolling jointed plugs 45 ft behind the boat in 25 ft deep water. No...
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...
By: muskyhunter
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...
