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By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 6/23/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Tough bite early with no fish sited at all. Close to noon, my partner had a good fish follow but wouldn't commit. Just a bit later I caught a 45"x21" musky. CPR'd of course.
By: usmcfishnut
Posted: 6/24/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the lake with my buddy Steve and we always get a lot of bass but it was my lucky day! Got this tiger muskie on the west side of Tapps island. Sorry the pics are so small there on a camara pho...
By: CraigVM62
Posted: 6/21/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2007
Hot Spots: 0
After stumbling upon this website and seeing the photo's of some big tiger muskies, I have been biteing at the bit to hit the water. I hit the water this morning at 5:00 AM in a little 9' Pontoon "...
By: Dave R
Posted: 6/21/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day on the lake, caught a lot of smally mouths prior to catching the pig. 44inches, 26lbs.
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/30/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps Saturday Morning6 a.m. till about 3 p.m. Took CraigVM62 along for a 8 hour hunt for a possible Tiger. About a hour into it we saw our first Tiger. BIG Musky hit at the boat. I was fiddlin...
By: Bill G
Posted: 7/1/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Made a new friend on the lake today, Ken S. Tried to help him land his muskie but net snagged the lure out of the fishes mouth.
Got these pictures of him and the fish as we were coming over to help....
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 7/4/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
A quick trip to Tapps early with my wife produced a 4th of July double for us. Within a 1/2 hr my wife CPR'd this nice healthy 40x19. About a 1/2 hour later I released this fat 42x20. We were off the ...
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 7/8/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went Sat with my dad. Skunked. If I ever figure out what turn's em on, I'm gonna bottle it.
Went this morning with a buddy(bugle1in). Cloudy skies. Looked really good for a triple or better day but w...
By: CraigVM62
Posted: 7/8/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning kicking around the west side of the lake around Bankers Island. No luck with the Tiger Muskies which I targeted 90% of the time, but did manage one 12" Small Mouth with a small cra...
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 7/14/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My wfe and I went out for a few hours this morning. Met Bad Esox & KUP @ the launch. I heard from a little bird that Bad Esox had a follow on secret bait #27. Good for him. My wife and I got skunked. ...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/14/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Met Kenster at the launch promptly late for me 0630....Had a follow in the inlet at Landscapers Point...slow follow on a Purple bucky..smaller fish low 30's which is good. Means there are some juvies...
By: red
Posted: 7/14/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We got out on the water about 5:00 to get a couple hrs fishing at our normal north end spots and got this nice 41 inch-er. He tore himself up in the net pretty good and was tangled so badly I had to c...
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 7/15/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Half hour into the late morning(we slept in)I had a decent ski hit on/off a dbl showgirl. Only ski action. Switched to smallies about noon. Wife and I caught a half dozen with two being nice ones.
By: beag
Posted: 7/15/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Paul an I went to Tapps today. We targeted muskies. We did manage one small one. Maybe 27 inches or so. Didn't see any others. Last week I was there and caught about a 30 incher trollin...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/21/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/21/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hey kids,
Me and fellow NW Tiger Pac member Mark H.headed out to try our luck for Tigers.Got on the water about 6:30 a.m. Mark was just happy to be out fishing for Skies again. It had been quite awh...
By: Bill G
Posted: 7/26/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Finally got the film developed of that muskie grabbing the smallie I was reeling in. So here it is. It was pretty cool to see. It was on June 17, 2007.
BG
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 8/1/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Seemed like a great afternoon/evening with that wind pounding some points and shorelines but my partner(bugle1in)and I got skunked. I'd have bet my next paycheck on tonight being a big fish night. Gla...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/6/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked up with Kenster for what turned out to be a 14 hour day of musky hunting and smallie searchin'. This won't be a novel I promise...First off Kenster is a darn good guy and a pretty good fisherma...
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 8/11/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Bad Esox and I got the bottom of the boat wet this morning but to no avail. A short strike and off on the hook set for us both was the total excitement for the morning. Ya just never know when the 10,...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 8/14/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Today was a relaxing day on the lake with overcast skies and a minimal amount of play boats. We did a little cast and retrieving with no success so kicked back and threw out the trolling gear. We tr...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 8/16/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Here's a picture of the 42" muskie that Bill caught last Sunday. I didn't get it in the initial report since I didn't hit the right button (upload). Duh!
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 8/18/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/18/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I had a great opportunity to fish with the "MAN". Jack Tipping. WDFW retired. Jack's the man that got the tiger musky program started in WA. After speaking at our Chapter meeting Thursday evening, we ...
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 8/18/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/18/2007
Hot Spots: 0
These are the pics of the fish I caught while fishing with Jack Tipping. The lake report only allows 2 pics.
Mark
By: Bill G
Posted: 8/19/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Weather was overcast and raining, sometimes substantially, rain gear was the uniform of the day. The fishing was ok but the company was great. I had the opportunity to take my old buddy Bob and my n...
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 8/30/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to post a couple of pics from last Saturday's NW Tiger Pac's Lk Tapps musky tournament. There have been some questions on how we handle the fish to get measurements etc. The first pic shows m...
