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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Deadeyemark
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A couple of muskies moved but no takers. Kevin B and I wet our lines but only a smallie cooporated. It hit my Ducktail Lures 6" Weed Warrior Jerkbait like a freight train.
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
One musky spotted but still no takers. My partner and I both landed smallies on musky baits. Who says they're leader shy. 80# Power Pro and a 180# flourocarbon leader doesn't spook them at all.
By: Kenster
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps Saturday and had on my first musky of the year after setting the hook 3 times (I thought) he managed to spit the lure as I was directing my daughter to ready the NEW Musky Cradle! Remember t...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/28/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
OHHHH! So close,sooooo close. I took my son and nephew to a spot where I've had previous success. I started tossing several different colors of bucktails with no luck. I then switched to my wooden pi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/28/2008
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I went out trollin with some perch shad raps. He caught two smaller muskies right off the bat. They were his first tigers so he was pumped! Later on we were slammin the smallies in betwee...
By: dorfie
Posted: 4/29/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
when out casting with my perch minnow rap. Caught one smallie by bankers island. he was about a pound. it was fun after goin to school. didn't have a camera with me this time,
but ill have some pics...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 5/2/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Bill went out with his old buddy Lee this afternoon. They were trolling five inch rapala's jointed jerk baits, black and gold. My lure ran about 10 feet deep in 14 foot of water. Lee caught this 38 ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was pretty good, we got a mixed bag, 4 nice smallmouth, 1 nice Largemouth. Water temp 53 to 55 degrees.
By: kevinb
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
38 inches BABY!!!
I was tossing some bucktails with no luck. Then switched to my wooden pikie....a few casts later I had the first follow, not aggressive, almost more curious. This tiger came all the...
By: Edgeran
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Tapps, amazing lake! Had a good day, best of the year as far as action goes. Landed 6 Smallies and missed about the same. Mr. Magler landed his first ever tiger on a spider jig.
Water ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 3
today was a pretty rainy day. me and my dad went out fishing after we got our boat fixed. we were letting the worm drag on the bottom with no weights. first he hooked into a 2 ft. musky, then i caught...
By: dilbert
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Please forgive the mediocre pictures, my photographer had the day off.
I Fished lake Tapps this morning with my brother-in-law. The weather was overcast and dry. The water was pretty calm and t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps around 7:30 this morning. Launched from the county park. Still no fee until next weekend; I believe. They were selling season passes though so picked one of those handy accessories up. Now, ...
