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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: red
Posted: 6/23/2007
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Big bait = big fish. N. Snagg CNR
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: Kenster
Posted: 6/24/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Mustangman and I launched at 6:15am Saturday morning in search of some prize fish. Well after he caught the largest Rock Bass in my boat I nailed this guy! 43in. (tape) and 21lbs. 3oz. (scale) I may n...
By: Kenster
Posted: 6/30/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Here's the catch......and the release!!!!!! notice the 3.5" tube!
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: dilbert
Posted: 7/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water a little after 5:30am. It was mostly sunny and steam was rising off the lake. Fished the little point southwest of bankers island and caught this smallmouth on my first cast if the ...
By: Kenster
Posted: 7/1/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the county launch at 6:10 and had to return home for juniors life jacket, ugh! Got to say hi to the Muskyhunter 1st though. Then upon returning I almost sank the Skeeter, forgot the plug! Pulle...
By: tmusky1
Posted: 7/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my 7 year old daughter to Tapps yesterday after hearing all the good things about this lake. We were going after smallmouth primarily but I did bring along all my musky gear. We go there at aro...
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: Kenster
Posted: 7/2/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Couldn't ask for better weather this morning it was beautiful. I was fortunate to meet Muskyhunter and Craig this morning and get an early report of the one that got away! We had one that got away thi...
By: TSULLY31
Posted: 7/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was out at Tapps and fished for tiger muskies for the first 2 hours and then switched over to the drop shot rig for bass. While using a 5'9" spin rod with 6 lb maxima I got slammed. Turns out a sm...
By: dilbert
Posted: 7/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I Fished Lake Tapps from 6:00am -9:00am. Caught 1small rock bass and 11 smallmouth bass. The largest smallie was 14" and 2lbs on my little spring scale, but the majority of them were in the 11" to ...
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: dilbert
Posted: 7/8/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6:00 until a little after 9:00. It was quite a bit cooler that the previous day and mostly cloudy. The wind was blowing enough to roughen the surface of the water and make it tough to st...
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: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/8/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Okeedoke, second time I've written this...remember to save and then go back and edit...Thought I had Tapps figured out...I was wronged. Must have been the cool weather that dropped in overnight. Thoug...
By: dilbert
Posted: 7/14/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 5:30am - around 11:00am with my neighbor. It was the first trip in a while where he has caught fish, so that was a plus. His first two were some of the smallest fish I've seen out of Tap...
By: Kenster
Posted: 7/14/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at the launch at 6:30am same as the MuskyHunter. Got off to a slow start, I targeted Muskies for the first couple of hours with no success! Momma finally landed the first smallie of the mor...
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: Kenster
Posted: 7/15/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked up at 6am with CraigVM62 at the county launch. It was pretty windy so we headed straight across from the launch to Muskyhunter's special cove (this is where he's been seeing them). Worked it ha...
