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By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Report from the 22nd..little late but better than way later. Hit a good 40 on a dawg in open water. Big dawgs mean bigger fish. Open water. Tapps has at least 10 muskies in it as of now. Gotta get out...
By: odie11974
Posted: 7/24/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out at 7:30 AM. Caught fish pretty much all day. Used ned rigs and neko rig in shad color and green / orange.
Hottest areas were rocks just by the boat ramp in early afternoon, and around s...
By: Jekbate
Posted: 6/11/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/11/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from shore at Lake Tapps Park in the one bay that is open for fishing. Most areas are closed due to COVID 19 or construction. Boat launch is open, and there were 4 rigs parked when I left at 11...
By: Staffola
Posted: 7/2/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Tapps about 6:00 headed to our favorite flat, no luck so we decided to head to another spot. On the way acrossed the lake we ran acrossed a nice weed bed in about 12 feet of water that was h...
By: cannondaler12
Posted: 7/17/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps for the first time this year. I got my first Muskie just west of Allen York ramp. 14" muskie then a 1# SMB hr later..nothing else the rest of the day..
By: Jerrodious
Posted: 5/22/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the south end of the lake and cought 4 smallies from about 3:00 to 6:00. This was the trophy of the day and was caught off a stump in about 8 feet of water. The rest were around two pounds and...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I finally got the boat out on Lake Tapps.The water level is coming up fast,and the boat launch is good.We fished hard all day for these two,and we missed four other bites.We were dragging p...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 15 minutes fishing at Tapps, while waiting for the wife to gt back from the Texco station. Hooked two, landed one small one.....not bad for 15 min :)
Also got in some fam time, toobin, lake s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/13/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
slow morning hit the lake at 6:00 am fishin was slow untill we hit this little cove towards the NE side of the lake casting towards the shore with a grub expecting to catch a bass and wham!! hooked in...
By: JesusFish
Posted: 4/2/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps about 10am for some smallmouth action. Fished all over the lake. North, Mid, South. Tried Deep, Shallow, Mid depths....nothing. Finally got the Musky mid-lake in like 2 ft of water with ...
By: al3x
Posted: 7/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the water around 1800. Didn't have much luck. Caught a little dink on a crank. Caught a 12" one on a plastic worm at 20' around 1930. Called it a day at 2000. Lake seemed to be in better co...
By: _Sergiy_
Posted: 7/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Went to Lake Tapps this afternoon for some bass. I got my blow up boat and went into the center of the swimming area away from the swimming people. I use my bill lewis rattle trap and after a couple c...
By: SS minnow
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 3
cought 12 smallies any where frome the 1-3 lb region and one 4lb largmouth...The fish are kinda spread out so find the fish and stick to that general area where you found em and sucsess should be had....
By: mtsiview
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I hit Tapps today, started at 8:00 and pulled off the lake at 4:30. I boated three tigers, 33", 41" and 41-3/4"! On top of that, I missed two, one on a short strike and one on a figure 8 when a wake...
By: Natebg1
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Sunday with a good buddy of mine from work who had never even fished for Tiger Muskies on Lake Tapps. What is even better is that He caught his very First One, 28 inches on the old school Red a...
By: tacfisher1
Posted: 7/24/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Son and I went out to see if we could get him his first Tiger.Didn't get his but I got my second. He did have one on and lost it at the boat when it took off as I was getting the net.Son also had 3 or...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 4/11/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I went to Tapps. Nothing in the morning. Tried shallow and deep. Finally went south of Snag Island. Noticed almost a 5 degree increase in water temperature. That was the difference. There...
By: Fishn4ever
Posted: 7/11/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught my First Tiger Musky. It wasn't a Monster but it counts. This is a fish that I have never caught. Day started out cold and windy, ended sunny and warm. Fished for bass while my friend lee fishe...
By: cudaman
Posted: 4/13/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps today to test out some new glide baits for muskie .But all i caught was bass and found a small muskie that looked like it got bit the picture is with my polarized glasses put up to the l...
By: RENTON STUNNA
Posted: 9/9/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got an itch to take the 1970 Glastron to Tapps the other day to do a little fishing with the old man and turned out to be our best outing yet. we caught a lot of smaller bass but plenty of larger ones...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 5/22/2020
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for about 2 hours during a good moon phase/sunset window. We tried to the typical spring tactic of downsizing our lures to smaller presentation in order to get something to move. Well after loo...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 5/23/2019
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This fish actually came on our third trip out for the season. The first two trips resulted in multiple fish following to the boat, but nothing was biting. On this trip we had limited time before sunse...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the 11th and 12th. My son and I have been wanting to give the Tiger Muskies a shot, so we headed to Tapps for a couple of days.
On the water by noon and armed with the "Tapps Mu...
By: red
Posted: 7/21/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got my personal best tiger this morning. 48+ x 21-1/2 !!! Got it on a perch glide bait in about 10 ft of water. Probably the hardest fighting one I've got to date as well. Came completely out of the w...
