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By: Rich McVey
Posted: 4/13/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday we tried to wait out the rain in hopes for a break in the weather. Cody and I showed up to the County Launch about 10:45 and took some pictures of the two large bald eagles that were watching...
By: shepdog_1300
Posted: 4/12/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I went up to Tapps and fished the shore line to the right of the boat launch. GOT NOTHING! I was fishing with a green and red X rap, kastmaster, and even some crazy hulla popper wannabe ...
By: boatdude
Posted: 4/11/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit tapps with Bret from the musky club this morning and tried about every spot possible, Wind was blowing from west and continually picked up as the morning progressed. Saw one tiger in the shallows ...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 4/9/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
First fish of the year! I had a few hours without the children and was able to spend it on the lake between sprinkles. Found this one in 3 feet of water under a jet-ski dock, my usual hunting ground...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 4/7/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Started the morning by the county park and hit a bunch of spots throughout the morning all over the lake from shore before picking up a little muskie that was 37". he was a little on the skinny side b...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 4/6/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps after work. We decided to use Executive Athority and call "Date Night". Launched about 4:00. Surface temp was 49.
We trolled between the county park and NE point of Tapps Island. The find...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 4/6/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/6/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps Sat and Sun. Mostly seeking Musky and Bass, and exploring the prospect of crawfish. The water is cold, 45 degrees.
Was nice to see the number of anglers to rec boaters ratio was in t...
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: terry329
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was nice getting out on the water for the first time this year. We spent the better part of the day travelling from area to area around the lake with just a few nibbles and not one fish. Tried pl...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished for about a half hour this morning working my uncle reds special spinner.Not expecting much with the water bieng so cold. A few casts in and I had a big old toad follow. Probably mid to upper...
By: boatdude
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well first day of the year on tapps, really frigid in the morning. Went to work about 745 and continuously tried to find water temp that might signal some movement. Main lake was 40.2 with sunny poin...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 3/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the Tapps launch about 9:30 and had a false start, the motor would not cooperate and start. Killed two batteries in the process. Took the boat home and put it on the charger for a couple ho...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished from the shore along dike #4 in search of smallies. Wanted to play with my new rod and reel..tossed a Strike King Bitsy Bug with a Berkley Crawfish trailer lathered up in scent. No...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: dilbert
Posted: 11/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 7:30am - 10:30am. It was an unusually warm morning for November 1st, it felt like a nice spring morning. We fished all new spots trying to locate those cold November bass, and mana...
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: 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...
By: SPARKY101
Posted: 9/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit tapps for the first time with Bassmasterderek,got there early "no skiers"that's always nice.Cold morning foggy but turned out to be a good weather day.We took some info for this lake that we gathe...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 9/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day on the lake. My buddy caught this nice Smallie, his first ever! On another note while fishing we saw a big Tiger cruising the shallows along the bank, I had some family over and...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake from our dock and caught this nice Smallie. Also caught a Catfish last night on a worm.