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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/26/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2005
Hot Spots: 0
It was a nice day out. Very few play boats on the water. This time there were more fishing boats than jet slease.The water temp was low to mid 60s. Air temp in high 50s.
Wind out of north at around 8...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/30/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 12/23/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Heard some stories about tiger muskies out here so we came down and canoed about for a while. Saw a few explosions of feathers on the water and spent a good deal of time convincing ourselves that this...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/22/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Tapps is now full of water and the boat launches are open. Lots of debris still floating all over the lake. Launched at 7:30 with calm water and cear sky and that lasted almost an hour. The wind came ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Whent out for smallmouth caught 3 Nice fish on grubs.Browns, silvers. greens.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is full and the fish are starting to cooperate. The debris is setling out nicely with visibility to 7 feet. No nesting fish seen but the smaller male SMB are moving up. Smallie caught in 8 fe...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/6/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Had the day off so hooked up the boat and ran over to the lake. The cold front that came in last night hurt my catching. Started with crank baits went to sinkos then to small jig. The last is what wor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing Yesterday to a private park off of Forest Canyon Road. I don't have a boat so I was fishing off the dock but still had a lot of fun. Caught 3 Carp averaging 5-10 pounds each and lost one....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/14/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this morning around deer island, didnt catch anything, then went to the tapps island side of the snag island bridge and fished the stumps. Had some hits on crawdad plastics, then i caught a ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/14/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to get out a few hours on both Friday and Saturday mornings. The small Mouth Bass are in the spawning stage now. We saw the smaller males in different areas building nests. My buddy caught ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Just a quick note to all you freshwater fishermen out there. Please practice CPR(catch, photo and release)when you're bass or musky fishing. They're a bunch of fun to catch and when you release them i...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I Fished Bouth SAT, Sun, Did Reall Well for small mouth on jigs,Roboworm Sculpin,Baby bass Color. I Did not se any tiger muskie.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/18/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing tapps for a few weeks now and fishing is finally starting to pick up. Water temp up to about 58F. Caught many smallmouth in 8-12' of water, fished soft plastics -SLOW- in natural colors....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2006
Hot Spots: 0
My dad and I fished for about 12 hours. Landed ( 2 ) small mouth a piece. Lost ( 3 ) at the boat a piece. All on spinners. All about 2lbs.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/21/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is HOT on the big lake. Lots of SMB biting 3" grubs in white or natural colors. Try the back water canals and the big gravel flats 6' of water and less. The tigers are active and following the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/21/2006
Hot Spots: 0
pierce co parks is already charging to launch/park ,anyway came to fish and caught one smallie and 3 rock bass
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/24/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/24/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to Allen Yorke Park after school today. Got there about 3:30. Tried a bit of everything in the soft plastics department with a few taps but no hookups. Then I put on a stubby black on top, gol...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/25/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is awesome. News Flash to all the idiot fisherman.......You do not need to skin a trophy. Take your pics and measurements and let the thing go!! Too many people kill fish just to put them o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my buddy we're fishing along the shore in his aluminum boat. Started out with a floating rapala and threw it next to a lily pad bed. Had a tiger musky follow it all the way up to the boat. I sl...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went up again with a buddy in his 10ft Livingston...bad luck from the beggining. The boat had a gnarly hole on the left side and of course the battery for our trolling motor was dead. SO, we get out t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
It was a cloudy but calm day on Tapps. As usual we had to go to the edges where the stumps are to avoid the very rude ski boats. There were about a dozen fisherpeople (that we saw) and probably that m...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished in about 12 feet of water around points tonight. Trolled rapalas various in colors. My buddy got a 9# tiger muskie. I got a pretty large small mouth estimated around 4 lbs. Got a couple of ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Smallmouth everywhere 3 hours of fishing and 9 fish biggest 3lbs. I only fished around snag island.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Bill Green took me out on Tapps Lake for the first time today. We had a great time. All together, I think we caught about 13 bass in a 4 hour period, with the biggest being about 15 inches. Most of...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing in Tapps today, caught two smallies about 9-10 inches.other than that real slow. We trolled a little livingston for about an hour and half or so. I'm more into fishing trout so i'm slowly...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/7/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 5:00 to 8:00_PM and got one small Mouth Bass and four small perch, all that I released. I fished just south of the North boat ramp. Lot of fish on the fish finder, Just couldn't get them...
