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By: kevinb
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps around 10:30AM going for smallies again. Using my Kastmaster(see previous report) Hooked into a little smallie(under a pound) Began switching back and forth to muskies and smallies. Had seve...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got out early...pretty blase' day just nice to get out on the water. Met dilbert and 2000 nice couple of dudes...caught a bunch of dink smallies. Saw 2 mid 30 inch Tigers. One followed to the boat the...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 5/19/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my wife out for the first time this year and had a pretty good day over all. Caught a couple smaller muskies on buck tails in the 30's range (inches), a couple smallmouth, (biggest was about 1.5#...
By: car man randy
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Teddy and I fished all morning for SMB and muskys. We fished some of the best looking structure with all of the right presentations......and one lousy Rock Bass to show for it! We didn't even see fi...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son up to Tapps and met up with a buddy that got a new boat(toy). We launched out of the North Tapps Park and began working(drifting)northward on dike#4 and started hitting some smallies in ab...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well it's been a frustrating spring for me on the muskie front. I've had at least a dozen good follows to the boat without a single hookup. I tried figure 8's, big circle's, jigging, speeding up. All ...
By: shepdog_1300
Posted: 6/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my homie went out to tapps with a big 5 person raft and fished the area around the boat launch and rock area (dike 4 i think). GOT NOTHING. My friend was using some live maggots which didn't wo...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/14/2008
Species: Sturgeon
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked up with the Western Bass Club for our first "Fish in". Met a bunch of really cool dudes who are just as dedicated to bass as we Chapter 57 guys are to the Tigers. Great time on and off the wat...
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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
By: cj
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species:
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...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Ski and I teamed up to fish the Chapter 57 Musky Tourney...LOOONG day. Didn't see a thing till about 10 A.M ish. I hooked up and we netted a very healthy 36" Tiger off a weed bed. Then another LOOONG...
By: red
Posted: 6/29/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well my persistence finally paid off. I didn't really want to get up early this morning but I knew if I didn't I wouldn't want to go later, with the heat and boat traffic. Got this nice 44 inch-er equ...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/5/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hey kids,
Got out to Tapps today. Fished from 9:30 till 5 pm. Yup the weather was kinda nasty. Not windy though..perfect weather for fishin...Hooked up and put a 37 x 16 Ski in the net. Off of a we...
By: red
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well my woes continue although I finally hooked up a musky this morning and had it to the boat. It spit the bucktail as I was fumbling with the net. Not real big maybe 30ish. Yesterday we took out a a...
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: 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...
