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By: kevinb
Posted: 8/31/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yep,you read that right...PERCH.
The rundown goes like this. My son and I spent the day at Mt.Rainier hiking/playing in the mud.
The wife had to work. On the return,stopped at Tapps for some bank fi...
By: red
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing has been real good out here. I've caught Muskies 3 days in a row. The one pictured being the only quality one. We have also been doing well with the smallmouth with soft plastic and night craw...
By: red
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I was fishing off the dock last night and hooked this little guy. low 20's I would estimate. We dropped our last two cameras in the lake so we got one that is submersible this time. I thought it would...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/28/2009
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Tapps in the early afternoon by Dike 15. Carp were swarming and didn't really see anything else. Fished for about 2 hours and called it a day. Nice Calm water and good weather, just no acti...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Took another walk down Dike 15 at the basin. Saw some carp jumping and having a good time but no action with my top water lure. Not feeling well today so I only stayed for about 20 minutes. Good excer...
By: kevinb
Posted: 1/29/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I cruised up to check the water level but I figured it would be foolish to drive up here
and not have a rod ready. The water level is down very low but may be possible to launch a small jo...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 3/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Ellen and I went up to Tapps Wed afternoon and fished for a couple hours off the tip of dike 6, until she asked me where I wanted to move to and I said "the fire place at The Rock". She laughed and we...
By: kevinb
Posted: 11/11/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Played hide n seek with the tigers today.
On the water at 10AM and began trolling with a firetiger super shad rap in the deeper channels.
Trolled about an hour or so and then took a stab at vertic...
By: sturgeongenerall
Posted: 11/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I fished from about 10:30 am to about 3:30 pm. I found a couple smallies near driftwood point running a firetiger jointed shad-rap at 25 to 30 feet. Didn't see another fisherman, just a couple folks o...
By: t-hughes
Posted: 12/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Mybuddy and I have been goin fishin, lookin for new spots. Not much luck...we did find a new killer spot tho for the summer. Then we were fishin and found a crappie floppin around on the top of the wa...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was good to get out for the first time this year and we took our dog for her first time in the boat too. It was more of a shake down cruise for us and the dog and she had a great time. We also we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/21/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
launched the canoe at about noon. trolled pretty much the whole time with the perch shad-rap. didnt catch anything but had the first musky encounter of the year......
i was trolling down the canal ...
By: JAYDOG
Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife out this morning to chase some smallies around before the KAMAKAZIES took over the lake. We launched from Driftwood Pt and started trolling rapallas as we made our way around the island....
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 6/25/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a couple of smallmouths, one about two pounds, as well as a rock bass trolling a perch colored crankbait in about 12 feet of water on the north facing points. Then I picked up my largest tiger...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps for about 2 hours on Sunday and got into 3 average sized Musky. All hit real hard and fought really well. First Musky of the year and another 2 quickly after. Seems like the water tempera...
By: garret
Posted: 7/4/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, this has been my first year bass fishing and I've been hitting Tapps consistently for the last couple months. I've caught a couple of small tigers by accident, but never really targeted them. Ye...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/31/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Picked up another smaller tiger tonight trolling a bronze crankbait while rowing in about 10 feet of water. Nice belly on this one, he has been eating good by the looks of it. His tail was all chewe...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a little tiger today on a bronze crankbait trolling in about 18 feet of water. Put up a nice fight, better than some bigger ones I have caught. Good time!
By: cptlaurion
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So my buddy and I decided to try out Lake Tapps for the first time tempt our luck with an elusive Tiger Muskie. We've never seen this body of water before and really didn't know anything more about it...
By: scarlin40
Posted: 8/8/2011
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
decent morning at tapps. never been there before nice facility but $15 bucks just to park is kinda steep in my book. caught two early trolling and one later on a mepps spinner. Lots of good areas to f...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out chasing tigers and smallmouths for a couple of hours. Saw no tigers and picked up a couple smallmouths on a crankbait that looked liked a smaller version of themselves. Bass tournament on t...
By: lingking1
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Had fun paddling a yak around and letting the lady fish! rappla on the end of a dodger. 1 lb maybe 1 1/2 lb bass she had fun, we were just out for a paddle with couple of hits and 1 solid bite that ...
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: Denman
Posted: 10/22/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
got this brute around 5 p.m. trolling a perch rapala. My second this season. The first was Sunday and only around 30" in length. When I got back to my dock, there was a larger Muskie hanging around...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
In the life-long pursuit of sexual equality the male gender goes down in flames again. Rosann G and I took a Sunday morning on Lake Tapps. Wind was light, overcast heavy with some moisture even, wat...