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By: red
Posted: 6/3/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
What a great morning of tiger hunting today. We were fishing with jerk baits, glide baits and bucktails . We hooked three landed two and had a couple other follows!! Only bummer was the two we got wer...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 6/5/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We started at 6:30 on Sunday. Straight away we went to the north side of lake casting all types of baits. Didn't see anything. Traveled back to the south side. Flipping docks and off of points. we got...
By: red
Posted: 6/8/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well my day started out pretty amazing. On my second cast with a bucktail I had a quality fish follow but no take. 10 minutes later about a dozen houses further down the shoreline I switched to a gli...
By: red
Posted: 6/12/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
My daughter got home from her soccer practice last night and wanted to go fish off the dock for a bit. So we grabbed some bread for the carp and a tub of worms for some bass and perch. We caught a bun...
By: red
Posted: 6/19/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Man what an awesome Father’s Day I had!
My 12 year old decided that she was going to get up early and take me fishing for Father’s Day so she gets up about 7:00, grabs me and the dog and we head ou...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 6/23/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Oh boy, the bite was on last night. Started fishing at about 6:45 after battling the boat lift for a little bit. No trolling just casting, medium to large crankbaits, spinners, and bucktails. Targeted...
By: odie11974
Posted: 7/15/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 6:15 AM- fished till 2:00 pm. when the lake turned into mayhem from all the jet skis/ski boats.
Dad and I never went more than a few minutes without a fish on. Smallies were scattered...
By: triton21
Posted: 10/16/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/15/2017
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I fished from noon to 4 on a beautiful fall day. The wife caught 2 fish that weighed 2 1/2 pounds each. I caught 6 fish 2 1/2 pounds also and 3 that weighed 3 lbs. I also caught my person...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 4/22/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I went out trolling for musky in my little boat with an electric trolling motor, as the big boat is not dewinterized yet. Trolled for three hours with large crankbaits along with bucktails...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 4/23/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a buddy went out again last night after I got off work. Fishing from a small boat casting at docks. Trying to pull some musky out from under the docks. Fished from about 7:00pm-8:00pm. Using sp...
By: Kenaiwild
Posted: 5/6/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Kid wanted to fish today... waded through a couple dinks and he got thi one.
By: Knox
Posted: 9/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Lake Tapps today with the wife to catch some small mouth bass. had no luck what so ever. It was very windy which made the water choppy. The water looked more murky then usual, but was warm...
By: Surge
Posted: 10/2/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got there about 6pm landed about 15 fish in two hours with these being the biggest all off the shore with a night crawler.
By: Surge
Posted: 10/3/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is a repost because the pics didnt work the first time. I'll go into a little better detail. Me and my dad got to one of the private access parks by his house at 6pm spent 20 minutes trying out a...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/28/2010
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit lake Tapps at North County Park. I walked most of the dikes there and caught three rock bass. The weather was nice and calm, there was two other guys fishing for carp. I did not see them catch ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from shore for about an hour and a half. It was slow at first, but then i picked up a few 12"-14". I had one really nice bass on and another that was probably about three pounds. I lost both. T...
By: shepdog_1300
Posted: 4/12/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I went up to Tapps and fished the shore line to the right of the boat launch. GOT NOTHING! I was fishing with a green and red X rap, kastmaster, and even some crazy hulla popper wannabe ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished from the shore along dike #4 in search of smallies. Wanted to play with my new rod and reel..tossed a Strike King Bitsy Bug with a Berkley Crawfish trailer lathered up in scent. No...
By: Knox
Posted: 5/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed over to lake tapps today. First time being there. We caught 3 smallmouth bass, in about 2 hours. Overall a nice change of pace around here. (i am used to oregon fishing).
Will be going back...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Lake Bonney around noon today and only got one small large mouth, but then I stopped by Lake Tapps to to some quick smallie fishing from shore and got this 19" smallie. She hit pretty slow a...
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to tapps with a friend and absolutly slayed them. Caught about 30 bass in 3 hours mostly in the 1-2 pound range. Awesome start to the summer.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/29/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My nephews came over to go swimming and the youngest asked if he could fish while the rest of us swam. So I set him up with a small rod with a 4" senko and flipped it out in the water for him. then ju...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/14/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My 7 year old daughter was fishing off our dock while my wife and I were doing work down at the lake. All of the sudden she yells daddy I have a big one. I had her set up with a night crawler so I was...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Not one bite. But I did manage to drag in a Rug and get a duck tangled in my line, eventually hooking (on accident) it when it decided to run. I eventually cut my line when I decided hauling the duck ...
By: Knox
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps after work today. Got there at 5:30ish, Fished off of Dike 3's bank. second cast I made I got a little smallie, and the trend continued. Left at 7 PM. Caught in total 7 fish, 6 sma...
