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By: bigfish84
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps this morning around 8. Great day to be on the water. Saw a few other fisherman out there. Concentrated on fishing the points. Had quite a few strikes on a 7in plastic Tequilla Sunrise Zoom w...
By: mtsiview
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The Wife and I finally made our first trip to Lake Tapps. I, myself, had fished it with Bill G. one time last year. The wife and I were primarily targeting smallmouth bass and this was our first tim...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps on Saturday. Got to break in the new boat..it kicks ash!! Got to bomb around..quickly. Saw a bunch of other fishermen. That was good to see. I didn't see any Tigers. Had a 3 fish follow ...
By: Keith
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Tapps later than I wanted to. Had a couple of bites that's it. Seen my first tiger and tried to get him to bite but no luck there.
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
DIlbert and I went to Tapps to avoid the silver fish fisher people this morning. The lake was flat and very uncrowded at launch, I even braved the B.O.D. to launch from Bonney Lake. We hit up our us...
By: teeerip
Posted: 4/21/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
looking for info for catching musky in lake tapps. went out for about 5 hours on Sunday and never saw a one . only 1 smallmouth about 2 lbs. we have a private boat launch on property on inlet isl ...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 4/18/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Interlake Islands for about 20 min on my way in to work. Had what appeared to be a smallie take a short whack at my spinner but that was it on my end. However, I do have some disturbing new...
By: Keith
Posted: 4/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit tapps up to do some fishing with the kid. Got to the county park and there were three and four foot waves slamming the launch. So we went to allan york to launch. Finally got on the water about 8:...
By: cole
Posted: 4/16/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bite was on this morning, caught 6 all in the 3lb range biggest being 3 12. Water temp was in the upper 40s to 51.
By: Bill G
Posted: 4/15/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Yes guys I'm up to my old tricks again of showing new people where and how to fish Lake Tapps. You can be mad at me for getting more fisher people on the great lake, but I will keep doing it. When any...
By: bumper
Posted: 4/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty good day, caught 5 fish. 5.2 lbs to 3.5 lbs. Water in the mid 50's. All were caught at 9 to 11 feet of water. All in all a good day on the lake, nobody hooked and only one broken rod!
By: cole
Posted: 4/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 9 to 11, water temp in the low to mid 50s. Caught 5 smallest 3.5 biggest 5.2.
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 4/13/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from the county park about noon and by 12:45 had the first of 4 muskie in the boat. He was also the biggest of the year. 53" long. I did not get the girth on him but know that his weight was ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/12/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps at 11:00AM on Muskyhunter's boat. Fished several spots with not much luck. Eventually got a nice follow from a tiger but couldn't seal the deal. We saw 2 total. Off the water by 5PM. I know ...
By: Kenster
Posted: 4/12/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time out with the boat this year, actually a week earlier than last year if you can believe it! Jr. his friend and I launched from the County park around 1pm. The boat fired up after a few attem...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/11/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Another fat 0 today. But water temp is rising. Might be a little early in the season but started working on a nice sized weed bed. I dipped my bucktail in the water to add some weight for my first cas...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 4/8/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the boys wanted to get out for their first boat trip today. I waited as long as I could and hid from the rain until it was unbearable. We tried to launch at North Tapps, but ran into two guys ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
windy day on the lake. Its finally getting full!
was casting off shore with a jointed parrot shad rap, lookin for some smallies or possibly a tiger, but i caught this guy.
i was really surprised to ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Worked the North shoreline from Dike#3 down to Dike#6. Was using a #5 bucktail and switching back and forth to a bright red,orange and then a silver blade. I fished a spot where days before I saw a ti...
By: red
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I walked down to the lake this morning and fished mine and my neighbors docks for smallies with no luck. My little girl caught her first musky. Unfortunately it was already dead. It was a big 44 inche...
By: BassTracker16
Posted: 4/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good day to be on the lake except for the wind. Hit two fish that were holding around 27 feet of water that had steep drop offs on both sides that went down to 50 and 60 feet of water. Both f...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/2/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps around noon. Wanted to play with new crankbaits(toys). No fish today but only made around 50 casts. Spent most of the time just relaxing on the boat. In terms of fishing,this is a 1.However ...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 3/31/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of the north end and fished the majority of the western half of the lake. Fishfinder showed tons of fish. Did catch a few smallies drop-shoting nightcrawlers around bankers island and a c...
By: Keith
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of fish on the fish finder. But none on the ends of the poles. Water temp 43.5 when we left at 2:30.
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/25/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Early season bite is officially on. Hit Tapps late afternoon working Dike 3. Made a few casts with a crankbait and decided to switch to Blue Fox Super Vibrax #3. There was a set of logs submerged abou...