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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: 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: Anonymous
Posted: 8/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Most of you that know me, know why I troll for Smallies. Those of you that don't, here's the reason. I have painful arthritis in my hands and elbows. It makes a problem to cast even the smallest bait ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
In the life-long pursuit of sexual equality the male gender goes down in flames again. Rosann G and I took a Sunday morning on Lake Tapps. Wind was light, overcast heavy with some moisture even, wat...
By: kevinb
Posted: 11/11/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Played hide n seek with the tigers today.
On the water at 10AM and began trolling with a firetiger super shad rap in the deeper channels.
Trolled about an hour or so and then took a stab at vertic...
By: sturgeongenerall
Posted: 11/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I fished from about 10:30 am to about 3:30 pm. I found a couple smallies near driftwood point running a firetiger jointed shad-rap at 25 to 30 feet. Didn't see another fisherman, just a couple folks o...
By: t-hughes
Posted: 12/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Mybuddy and I have been goin fishin, lookin for new spots. Not much luck...we did find a new killer spot tho for the summer. Then we were fishin and found a crappie floppin around on the top of the wa...
By: Denman
Posted: 10/22/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
got this brute around 5 p.m. trolling a perch rapala. My second this season. The first was Sunday and only around 30" in length. When I got back to my dock, there was a larger Muskie hanging around...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was good to get out for the first time this year and we took our dog for her first time in the boat too. It was more of a shake down cruise for us and the dog and she had a great time. We also we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/21/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
launched the canoe at about noon. trolled pretty much the whole time with the perch shad-rap. didnt catch anything but had the first musky encounter of the year......
i was trolling down the canal ...
By: JAYDOG
Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife out this morning to chase some smallies around before the KAMAKAZIES took over the lake. We launched from Driftwood Pt and started trolling rapallas as we made our way around the island....
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a little tiger today on a bronze crankbait trolling in about 18 feet of water. Put up a nice fight, better than some bigger ones I have caught. Good time!
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/31/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Picked up another smaller tiger tonight trolling a bronze crankbait while rowing in about 10 feet of water. Nice belly on this one, he has been eating good by the looks of it. His tail was all chewe...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps for about 2 hours on Sunday and got into 3 average sized Musky. All hit real hard and fought really well. First Musky of the year and another 2 quickly after. Seems like the water tempera...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 6/25/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a couple of smallmouths, one about two pounds, as well as a rock bass trolling a perch colored crankbait in about 12 feet of water on the north facing points. Then I picked up my largest tiger...
By: garret
Posted: 7/4/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, this has been my first year bass fishing and I've been hitting Tapps consistently for the last couple months. I've caught a couple of small tigers by accident, but never really targeted them. Ye...
By: cptlaurion
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So my buddy and I decided to try out Lake Tapps for the first time tempt our luck with an elusive Tiger Muskie. We've never seen this body of water before and really didn't know anything more about it...
By: scarlin40
Posted: 8/8/2011
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
decent morning at tapps. never been there before nice facility but $15 bucks just to park is kinda steep in my book. caught two early trolling and one later on a mepps spinner. Lots of good areas to f...
By: lingking1
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2012
Hot Spots: 1
Had fun paddling a yak around and letting the lady fish! rappla on the end of a dodger. 1 lb maybe 1 1/2 lb bass she had fun, we were just out for a paddle with couple of hits and 1 solid bite that ...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out chasing tigers and smallmouths for a couple of hours. Saw no tigers and picked up a couple smallmouths on a crankbait that looked liked a smaller version of themselves. Bass tournament on t...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/6/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps Saturday by myself ..put a little 2 footer in the net. Sunday my bud Eli from Chicago finally made the move to Wa State. He brought a buddy with him, another guide from the flatlander state....
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/21/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on Tapps hoping to hit the sunny weather and a musky or 3 or 4. Weather was perfect for fishing 50ish temp some good wind a little rain and not many folks on the lake. Water temps I foun...
By: nwmondou
Posted: 7/23/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing with a couple buddies this morning/afternoon. Trolling for muskie on my little 10 foot fiberglass boat. Morning started off slow with no fish for about the first hour. Trolled past Tapps ...
By: FishingTenor
Posted: 11/11/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I am submitting this report late, but thought it was a unique experience and I had some photos worth sharing.
They have dropped the lake level 50 feet to work on the inlet. My brother reported to me...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling a short bill 2" bronze crank bait off the points on the main lake. Caught a few smallmouths, then thought I had the bottom....until the head shake! Made several salmon like runs, great fig...
