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By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/10/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling a small bronze crankbait on a lightweight rod in about 10 feet of water. Inhaled it. Excellent fight, made a couple good runs! Released unharmed. Had a decent smallmouth as well.
By: Kswift253
Posted: 5/31/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this last sunday from 7-1 for muskie. Started by trolling trying to stay on the ledge of water from 15-23 ft of water. trolled crankbaits and didn't see anything until this fish. Landed this o...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 8/2/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7-9 in the evening. Targeting tiger musky. Trolling the large water of the lake due to the heat. Didnt see any musky unfortunately. Spencer hit this monster trolling into fairweather cove....
By: Kswift253
Posted: 8/22/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2018
Hot Spots: 0
So I wasn't on the boat for this fish. I was too tired from being skunked on the puget sound earlier in the morning. Spencer hit this beast in a spot that has produced fish all year long. Trolling a 1...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 8/22/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished early in the morning to try and beat the ski boats it paid off for Spencer that morning. We have a few spots that we know hold large fish. Took a long time to really dial in on this lake, but I...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Took another walk down Dike 15 at the basin. Saw some carp jumping and having a good time but no action with my top water lure. Not feeling well today so I only stayed for about 20 minutes. Good excer...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 4/28/2009
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Tapps in the early afternoon by Dike 15. Carp were swarming and didn't really see anything else. Fished for about 2 hours and called it a day. Nice Calm water and good weather, just no acti...
By: kevinb
Posted: 1/29/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I cruised up to check the water level but I figured it would be foolish to drive up here
and not have a rod ready. The water level is down very low but may be possible to launch a small jo...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 3/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Ellen and I went up to Tapps Wed afternoon and fished for a couple hours off the tip of dike 6, until she asked me where I wanted to move to and I said "the fire place at The Rock". She laughed and we...
By: red
Posted: 7/14/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I was fishing off the dock last night and hooked this little guy. low 20's I would estimate. We dropped our last two cameras in the lake so we got one that is submersible this time. I thought it would...
By: red
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing has been real good out here. I've caught Muskies 3 days in a row. The one pictured being the only quality one. We have also been doing well with the smallmouth with soft plastic and night craw...
By: kevinb
Posted: 8/31/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yep,you read that right...PERCH.
The rundown goes like this. My son and I spent the day at Mt.Rainier hiking/playing in the mud.
The wife had to work. On the return,stopped at Tapps for some bank fi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake from our dock and caught this nice Smallie. Also caught a Catfish last night on a worm.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day on the lake. My buddy caught this nice Smallie, his first ever! On another note while fishing we saw a big Tiger cruising the shallows along the bank, I had some family over and...
By: Blade
Posted: 5/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Since hearing about the action at Lake Tapps, decided to take the family fishing since they were so nice to do their chores without being asked. Arrived just in time to be turned away by the park, sin...
By: kevinb
Posted: 5/25/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Cut our Canadian adventure short and got into town in the late afternoon. We decided to hit Tapps for smallies. Arrived around 4:30PM. Being an ESOX guy,I tossed a few times for tigers but then switch...
By: kevinb
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
38 inches BABY!!!
I was tossing some bucktails with no luck. Then switched to my wooden pikie....a few casts later I had the first follow, not aggressive, almost more curious. This tiger came all the...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/28/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
OHHHH! So close,sooooo close. I took my son and nephew to a spot where I've had previous success. I started tossing several different colors of bucktails with no luck. I then switched to my wooden pi...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/11/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Another fat 0 today. But water temp is rising. Might be a little early in the season but started working on a nice sized weed bed. I dipped my bucktail in the water to add some weight for my first cas...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 4/18/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Interlake Islands for about 20 min on my way in to work. Had what appeared to be a smallie take a short whack at my spinner but that was it on my end. However, I do have some disturbing new...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/7/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
North Tapps. Well I'm not trying to waste anybody's time. I didn't catch anything, however saw alot of action off dike 6,about 50 yards out. I couldn't even see what species they were. From the ripple...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went off dike 6 again. Used a mepps#5,bright red. Also threw some rapala's at varied depths. Caught a nice pile of weeds,most action my rod has seen in awhile. However, did see a smallie hanging aroun...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/15/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps around noon,fishing from the dock. Threw #5 Musky Buck(bright orange) Varied my speeds of retrieval. No luck today. Water is rising,might be full in the next month and a half. The weather wa...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/21/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps Friday evening going for Tiger Muskies again. Got skunked again but saw another smallie in the stumps off dike 6. Didn't throw anything to him, all lures I had were to big. As noted in previ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/25/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Early season bite is officially on. Hit Tapps late afternoon working Dike 3. Made a few casts with a crankbait and decided to switch to Blue Fox Super Vibrax #3. There was a set of logs submerged abou...
