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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/8/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2006
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Nice evening out on the Lake. The bass were hitting sporadically with a few quality fish. I landed this big 3# 19" smallie.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/11/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2006
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Went out with my old buddy Bob, Musky Hunting. Could not even raise a small one. We use the big baits but no Musky's were found. The small mouth bass really liked the big crank baits. We caught 10 SMB...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/12/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2006
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My son went out late Sat. afternoon to feed his passion to fish for bass. He was using a 5 1/2 foot light wieght browning rod when he hooked this 42 3/4" 26 LBS Tiger muskee. He was in our small 9' bo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/13/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2006
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The weather wasn't too good, windy and cloudy, but this kept the skiers and wakeboarders at home tonight. It was a good thing, because we caught and released 5 smallmouth bass in 2 hours of fishing. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2006
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Fished about 2 1/2 hours. Took about as long to find the launch. First time out fishing for Musky this year around here. First time ever for my partner J.B. He catches his very first Tiger. About 30 i...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2006
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This photo goes with story I posted for my 17 y/o son on 6/10. 42 3/4" 26 Lb. Tiger muskee. He caught a 38" 14 Lb Muskee the week before.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/27/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2006
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WoW gotta love Tapps if u know what ur doing.Cought this 1 with 8lb test and a lure(ha).Fought 4 bout 10 mins doing circles,Coming up and going back down 2 try 2 spit my lure.42 in 20lbs.Killing Em On...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2006
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I thought they weren't stocking tapps with muskies anymore??? I can't wait to get home and do some fishing. I am in Missouri right now. The largemouths are hammering the topwater here!
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2006
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I got to the ramp around 8:00 am. We started fishing around Snag Island. We had little luck fishing the stumps so moved on to dock fishing. We picked up two 1 1/2 lb smallies and lost 2 other smallies...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/16/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/16/2006
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Great day on Lake Tapps. First legal Musky. 40 inch,25+lb Tiger. Just a father and his son. Outfished the youngster today. Just a photo and released. Caught on a hand-made yellow bucktail. Made by my ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/18/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2006
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Caught this Tiger Musky at Tapps on a white crankbait while in my float tube. Not the first I've caught, but the largest so far.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/19/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/18/2006
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Well i woke up early and it was a great day!! i was all pumped up to go fishin with my buddies so we took off around 7 oclock and headed for tapps island in my boat. For the first hour, nothing, but t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/19/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2006
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Buddy Bob outfished me again! We trolled Bankers Island flats, up Snagg Island caught 14 smallies, the biggest was 1.5 pounds. Bob caught 2 tigers 35 and 36 1/2 inches. All fish were released. This...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/21/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2006
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It was a great day of fishing with my son and a new fishing buddy.
Guess what, I found out what Santa does during the summer, he goes Musky fishing. We caught 11 small mouth bass. I hooked into a Tig...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/29/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2006
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Windy but fun Bob and I boated 15 plus SMB and long line released that many more including one large tiger that wrapped me up in a stump and got off. All fish were caught between 10 AM and Noon. All f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2006
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It was quite a bit windy today on the lake. This was my first chance really fishing lake tapps from a boat. Thanks to Bill and his wife for giving me the best fishing experiece ever. We caught abou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/6/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2006
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I've lived on Driftwood Pt. for several years and was told the carp kept Lake Tapps pretty scarce on bass. Having little interest in catching carp, I never fished it until yesterday, Aug. 5th. A nei...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/8/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2006
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As soon as we got to our "secret spot", we started catching and releasing small mouth bass. We caught 12 to 15 fish in 1 hour. We were lazy and just put on a nightcrawler over the side of the anchor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/21/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2006
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Was headed to Lake Washington "OVERSLEPT" and ended up at Lake Tapps. I fished about four hours stuck 8 smallies nothing to big, but for the first time on the lake I was impressed. The fishing is a li...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/21/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/19/2006
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Went out about 9:00. Caught a 1-2 lb Smallmouth pretty quick and this 5 1/2 pounder within ~30 minutes. Slowed down for the next bunch of hours (probably because of bright sun), but still got a few mo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/26/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2006
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fished four 3 hours and got some small mouth and a tigar, had to throgh it back 19in the bass i cought though, was 2lb 17 3 min. to real it in. What a fighter
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/27/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2006
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Fishing is still great on Tapps. The water is starting to cool back just a little and the late summer feeding frenzy has started. The real toad bass are up in shallow water feeding on this years youn...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/27/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Gary,
As far as musky fishing goes, congrats on the first musky. As far as releasing them goes, use some needle nose pliers and a larger net. I try to keep them in the water because they'll injure th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Here is the picture of the 40 inch Musky caught last week. The 30 inchers pictures didn't turn out.
Bill
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Caught this guy just using a nightcrawler, was using everything else but maybe I don't know how to use them that good so I dropped a worm and endless hits occured, lost about 5 other big hits
