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By: dilbert
Posted: 10/13/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Started the morning by sleeping through my alarm, but still got to the water a little after 7:00am. It was a clear chilly Fall morning, the water temp was 57 degrees and the water was very calm. Aft...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 10/15/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Short snd sweet. Trolled Tapps today and got a nice 44 X 20 C-P-R'd this beast. Heavier than the 21 lbs with the LxG formula. Looks like she just filled up for the fall. Great fish..got it trolling o...
By: dilbert
Posted: 11/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps to test out 2000Subaru's new boat and maybe even catch some bass. think that boat goes about as fast as I'd be comfortable going out there. It's niiiiiiiiiice! The weather coope...
By: dilbert
Posted: 11/11/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The word of the day was WINDY. Although the predicted rain never materialized, the wind sure did and it was gusty. Fished from around 9:30 am until about 2:30 pm fighting the wind most of the time. ...
By: DBASSFISH
Posted: 11/25/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well the water is getting lower so the fish are moving and getting hard to target. I still manage to get a few bites, but it takes a lot of moving around to find them. This time of the year is my favo...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 3/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is fishable, both launches are open and free for now. The water averages 45 degrees. Bill got new electronics and we mostly were out to try them out so didn't fish seriously but it was a g...
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: tobeka
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I got to take my new boat on Tapps lake today. It was a nice day to be out on the water but we didn't have much luck, not even a bite. I fished with crankbaits and some soft plastics. I was only ab...
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: Deadeyemark
Posted: 3/24/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This is the results of a musky fishing trip to Lk Tapps last year in June but wanted to post a pick of the beautiful fiberglass reproduction I had done by Lax taxidermy. Pics and measurements taken, f...
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...
By: Keith
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of fish on the fish finder. But none on the ends of the poles. Water temp 43.5 when we left at 2:30.
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 3/31/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of the north end and fished the majority of the western half of the lake. Fishfinder showed tons of fish. Did catch a few smallies drop-shoting nightcrawlers around bankers island and a c...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/2/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps around noon. Wanted to play with new crankbaits(toys). No fish today but only made around 50 casts. Spent most of the time just relaxing on the boat. In terms of fishing,this is a 1.However ...
By: BassTracker16
Posted: 4/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good day to be on the lake except for the wind. Hit two fish that were holding around 27 feet of water that had steep drop offs on both sides that went down to 50 and 60 feet of water. Both f...
By: red
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I walked down to the lake this morning and fished mine and my neighbors docks for smallies with no luck. My little girl caught her first musky. Unfortunately it was already dead. It was a big 44 inche...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Worked the North shoreline from Dike#3 down to Dike#6. Was using a #5 bucktail and switching back and forth to a bright red,orange and then a silver blade. I fished a spot where days before I saw a ti...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
windy day on the lake. Its finally getting full!
was casting off shore with a jointed parrot shad rap, lookin for some smallies or possibly a tiger, but i caught this guy.
i was really surprised to ...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 4/8/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the boys wanted to get out for their first boat trip today. I waited as long as I could and hid from the rain until it was unbearable. We tried to launch at North Tapps, but ran into two guys ...
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: Kenster
Posted: 4/12/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time out with the boat this year, actually a week earlier than last year if you can believe it! Jr. his friend and I launched from the County park around 1pm. The boat fired up after a few attem...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/12/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps at 11:00AM on Muskyhunter's boat. Fished several spots with not much luck. Eventually got a nice follow from a tiger but couldn't seal the deal. We saw 2 total. Off the water by 5PM. I know ...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 4/13/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched from the county park about noon and by 12:45 had the first of 4 muskie in the boat. He was also the biggest of the year. 53" long. I did not get the girth on him but know that his weight was ...
