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By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the boys for a few hours. Mostly trolling around the North end of the lake. Cody picked up this nice SM with a lure that looks like a trout fry. I managed this silver fish, not really su...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 4pm and trolled up and down Dike 4 (main motor died so cant go far from ramp). Most of the fish seemed to be in the 15 to 25 foot deep range but as you got closer to Dike 3 they all...
By: car man randy
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Teddy and I fished all morning for SMB and muskys. We fished some of the best looking structure with all of the right presentations......and one lousy Rock Bass to show for it! We didn't even see fi...
By: cj
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to dike 4 fished it from shore caught one small smallie my friend caught one also i used soft plastics i also tried for muskies with big rapalas but no luck.. does anyone know were a good public...
By: red
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well my woes continue although I finally hooked up a musky this morning and had it to the boat. It spit the bucktail as I was fumbling with the net. Not real big maybe 30ish. Yesterday we took out a a...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps this mornin'. Great day to be on the lake since it was rather on the cool side and cloudy so all the skiers stayed away. Fishing was on the slow side, but still ended up with 8 smallies. Two...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The muskie gods smiled on us today.Hit the water with Lucious and hit a good area with some bucktails. I caught a hungry 35incher.Not very big,I know but this sucker slammed my lure and put up some fi...
By: cj
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Dike 12 in my little boat me and my friend caught a few the bigest was 2 pounds fished for musky with my buck tail still cant catch any caught the bass on a 4 inch gary yamamoto single tail g...
By: dilbert
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps to try out a different motor and hopefully catch some fish. The motor ran great and was faster and quieter than the old one...not too shabby. Took my son ('lil-bert) and 200Subaru (it...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/23/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 7:30am and pulled out about 11:00a. Trolled Dikes 3 & 4 and the NW area of the lake. We caught 2 dink SM and 3 more small fish, (not sure what). Longest fish caught was only 6 in...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Ski and I teamed up to fish the Chapter 57 Musky Tourney...LOOONG day. Didn't see a thing till about 10 A.M ish. I hooked up and we netted a very healthy 36" Tiger off a weed bed. Then another LOOONG...
By: red
Posted: 6/29/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well my persistence finally paid off. I didn't really want to get up early this morning but I knew if I didn't I wouldn't want to go later, with the heat and boat traffic. Got this nice 44 inch-er equ...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 7/5/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the water at 7am and fished til 7pm. Landed 7 muskies and about 20 smallies. The biggest muskie was only 32" and the other 6 were under 30". The biggest smallie was only about 2.5. The litt...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 7/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tapps was mostly calm and heavily overcast. Water temp was in the low 70's. Smallies were small and crappies were handsize. I caught a couple of each and Rosann caught one crappie.
Started to trol...
By: tobeka
Posted: 7/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Tapps today and didn't have too much luck. I'm not really a pro at this lake so that could be why we didn't catch much. Overall, we caught 5 bass, 2 were 12+ inches and the rest were sma...
By: Lucius
Posted: 7/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to fish tapps after work today. Got to the lake around 5:15pm. It was chaos. Not like the weekend chaos, but pretty close. I thought there would be a few boats on the water (especially for i...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bill and I took a young couple that we are friends with out fishing on Sunday morning. They had called and said they wanted to learn how to fish and would we show them how. We met up at the launch a...
By: Ski
Posted: 7/19/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was my first successful day for muskies alone - and I paid the price! I managed to get this 37" ugly, skinny musky in the net. I had another musky around 40" all the way to the boat and here is w...
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 7/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went out to tapps with my girlfriend and slayed em again like usual. Ended up hookin a small tiger as well.
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/26/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hello,
Spent most of the day at Tapps. I know I bad mouthed it...I just love this lake..Hi I'm an addict and couldn't stay away.
Got there early and envisioned a really bad sight before I got ther...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bill and I went to Lake Tapps this morning (I even got up early even though I know the fish don't bite till after 9 or 10) and stayed till noon. We caught a half dozen smallies and a rock bass. None...
By: plabarge
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I just had to post these pictures of fishing with family and friends off of our dock. We were using kid poles and night crawlers on the bottom. Fished most the afternoon and caught plenty of small f...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, made up for almost 4 weeks of not seeing or catching a Tiger over 30 inches. Got out just in time to see Deadeye and Brett as they were coming in. Shot to a spot I had never tried for Tigers bef...
By: Ski
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day on Tapps with my partner Mark Wells - netman extraordinaire!! I caught this 46 x 20 this morning on a crankbait. Not only was this the first fish I caught on a crankbait, but a...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps about 0700. Had a new guy start at work last week and he was talking bout fishing so decided I'd take him out this weekend. He caught his first smallie ever and now he's HOOKED! The day star...
