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By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 3/24/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This is the results of a musky fishing trip to Lk Tapps last year in June but wanted to post a pick of the beautiful fiberglass reproduction I had done by Lax taxidermy. Pics and measurements taken, f...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/21/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps Friday evening going for Tiger Muskies again. Got skunked again but saw another smallie in the stumps off dike 6. Didn't throw anything to him, all lures I had were to big. As noted in previ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/15/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps around noon,fishing from the dock. Threw #5 Musky Buck(bright orange) Varied my speeds of retrieval. No luck today. Water is rising,might be full in the next month and a half. The weather wa...
By: tobeka
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I got to take my new boat on Tapps lake today. It was a nice day to be out on the water but we didn't have much luck, not even a bite. I fished with crankbaits and some soft plastics. I was only ab...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went off dike 6 again. Used a mepps#5,bright red. Also threw some rapala's at varied depths. Caught a nice pile of weeds,most action my rod has seen in awhile. However, did see a smallie hanging aroun...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/7/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
North Tapps. Well I'm not trying to waste anybody's time. I didn't catch anything, however saw alot of action off dike 6,about 50 yards out. I couldn't even see what species they were. From the ripple...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 3/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is fishable, both launches are open and free for now. The water averages 45 degrees. Bill got new electronics and we mostly were out to try them out so didn't fish seriously but it was a g...
By: DBASSFISH
Posted: 11/25/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well the water is getting lower so the fish are moving and getting hard to target. I still manage to get a few bites, but it takes a lot of moving around to find them. This time of the year is my favo...
By: dilbert
Posted: 11/11/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The word of the day was WINDY. Although the predicted rain never materialized, the wind sure did and it was gusty. Fished from around 9:30 am until about 2:30 pm fighting the wind most of the time. ...
By: dilbert
Posted: 11/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps to test out 2000Subaru's new boat and maybe even catch some bass. think that boat goes about as fast as I'd be comfortable going out there. It's niiiiiiiiiice! The weather coope...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 10/15/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Short snd sweet. Trolled Tapps today and got a nice 44 X 20 C-P-R'd this beast. Heavier than the 21 lbs with the LxG formula. Looks like she just filled up for the fall. Great fish..got it trolling o...
By: dilbert
Posted: 10/13/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Started the morning by sleeping through my alarm, but still got to the water a little after 7:00am. It was a clear chilly Fall morning, the water temp was 57 degrees and the water was very calm. Aft...
By: dilbert
Posted: 10/7/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Tapps expecting rain, but instead it was warm and REALLY windy. There were white caps in the main part of the lake. The wind made it really hard to fish, I think I would have preferred t...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 10/4/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hey kids,
Hit the water at or about 10 a.m till 3pm. Got to park for free..was willing to pay the 10 bucks...no one at the booth.Free is always good for me. My son and I tried a little Musky hunting ...
By: dilbert
Posted: 9/30/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps in the morning from about 6:45 until around 12. It rained the WHOLE time, but we still managed to catch some fish. We saw a couple of deer grazing along the shoreline of snag island. I...
By: dilbert
Posted: 9/23/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water at about 6:45 and fished until 11:15. The water level was down a few inches from the previous week. The surface water temperature was around 63-65 F depending on the location. We s...
By: dilbert
Posted: 9/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We got out to my favorite spot a little before the sun came up. Then we saw what looked to be an unlimited hydroplane coming towards us fast, turns out it was just a bass boat...with a contest banner...
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 9/12/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I guess I should have checked with Dilbert to see if 'Harass a Fisherman" week was still going on. Everybody wanted to drive by within flippin stick distance of me. I even missed the only strike of th...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 9/11/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Bill and I went to the lake to take out a new friend but got our wires crossed on meeting time and missed each other. We had time so we launched and tried a nw area only caught smallies 10 to 14 inche...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 9/11/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Bill was able to take Greg out for the first time. Greg landed 9 smallies from 9 to 14 inches. No tigers found but still a great day. They were dragging crank baits that ran 10 feet deep over 16 fee...
By: Malibu1
Posted: 9/10/2007
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hello Everyone,
I have been a lurker here for a while. I really enjoy seeing all the photo's of the Muskie's and Small Mouth that everyone is catching out of Tapps. It sure is a different lake th...
By: Bill G
Posted: 9/9/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to get my old friends out today. Smitty has been my cohort for over 25 years and Lou for 15 years. They have listened to my stories for the last 10 years about tiger fishing and finally we ...
By: Bill G
Posted: 9/9/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Today I have a new fishing partner from this site, Loris contacted me for a little help finding tigers. We didn't find any but he knows where to look for them. The smallies were falling for the lures...
By: Bill G
Posted: 9/9/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Only had a few hours to fish went to the north end of Driftwood near the outlet. We were dragging crank baits that ran 16" over a 30' bottom. I hooked and landed a 44" tiger and 10 min later in the s...
By: Bill G
Posted: 9/9/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Rosann picked up a 11" and 13" smallies trolling ared Fatfish that she lost to a submerged tree in 20' of water. No muskies found in area around Driftwood and Bankers islands. I got skunked.
Bill