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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...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 8/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Most of you that know me, know why I troll for Smallies. Those of you that don't, here's the reason. I have painful arthritis in my hands and elbows. It makes a problem to cast even the smallest bait ...
By: dilbert
Posted: 8/17/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing just after 6:00 am with my Dad and Nephew. It was their first time on the lake and first time bass fishing. Everyone caught at least a few fish, the best ones coming from 14-20'. After...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 8/17/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to go at night and try the boat launch again...this time with the family. We got there about 9PM and fished until 11PM. About 10 fish with the largest around 2LBS. Had to be the wife's fish...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 8/17/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 5am at the Alan Yorke boat launch and fished from the dock. The boat launch was closed for the day, so I had to burn some time before heading to the county launch. Caught 4 before I left,...
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: t_wild100
Posted: 8/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to tapps about 2 with my uncle. No luck at all though there were a couple loud swimmers about 30 yards on a private dock. had to get off the lake before we could choose a better spot.
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: 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: 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: kevinb
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tried for carp today,yes..CARP. No luck.I fished off Dike#12 using bread.Got plenty of nibbles but no takers.
A buddy from work pulled up and I hopped onto his boat trying for tiger muskies and small...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps about 0700. Had a new guy start at work last week and he was talking bout fishing so decided I'd take him out this weekend. He caught his first smallie ever and now he's HOOKED! The day star...
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: 7/27/2008
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: plabarge
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I just had to post these pictures of fishing with family and friends off of our dock. We were using kid poles and night crawlers on the bottom. Fished most the afternoon and caught plenty of small f...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bill and I went to Lake Tapps this morning (I even got up early even though I know the fish don't bite till after 9 or 10) and stayed till noon. We caught a half dozen smallies and a rock bass. None...
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: Fishaholic
Posted: 7/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went out to tapps with my girlfriend and slayed em again like usual. Ended up hookin a small tiger as well.
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: Anonymous
Posted: 7/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bill and I took a young couple that we are friends with out fishing on Sunday morning. They had called and said they wanted to learn how to fish and would we show them how. We met up at the launch a...
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: tobeka
Posted: 7/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Tapps today and didn't have too much luck. I'm not really a pro at this lake so that could be why we didn't catch much. Overall, we caught 5 bass, 2 were 12+ inches and the rest were sma...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 7/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tapps was mostly calm and heavily overcast. Water temp was in the low 70's. Smallies were small and crappies were handsize. I caught a couple of each and Rosann caught one crappie.
Started to trol...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 7/5/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the water at 7am and fished til 7pm. Landed 7 muskies and about 20 smallies. The biggest muskie was only 32" and the other 6 were under 30". The biggest smallie was only about 2.5. The litt...