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By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took a couple out yesterday first time on tapps. Pretty good day on the water for these fine folks. Netted a 30 incher. Hooked and missed a good 40 incher that jumped about 2 ft out the water. Good fi...
By: esox54277
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the afternoon on the water, pulled three little guys in the boat. Really just spent a lot of time searching out areas with good weeds. Really curious if any of you guys have had luck on some of ...
By: esox54277
Posted: 8/9/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Only one Muskie all night, hit a couple fish late, hard to tell if they were muskie or bass. Lots of bass around. Anyways beautiful nigh on the water!!!!
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/12/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Water temps were 71-74 degrees. Nice breeze in the morning. Mostly fishermen out this morning and a couple of skiers. Had a hot follow within my first 5 casts. Had a good follow by bout a 40 inch fish...
By: esox54277
Posted: 7/27/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Another afternoon/evening on the water, again no trouble getting the little guys in the boat, heck I even tried pulling away from one really little guy and this fish literally ate my bait 6 inches out...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/28/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps late afternoon and into the evening. Other than a few jet skis and pleasure boaters,we had most of the lake to ourselves. Mostly chucked a Musky Innovations Shallow Invader and had a few ...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/2/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got out of the house this evening with my netgirl trying to get her her first musky. No fish for the young lady but she again did a heck of a job netting a pretty good 41.5 inch tiger. Also picked up ...
By: esox54277
Posted: 8/4/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful Morning! Tough fishing though. Put this one 37-38 incher in the boat, but thats all I saw all morning. Tons of little bass that think they are big bad boys! Never thought I would say it ...
By: al3x
Posted: 7/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 5 stayed until 11. Had a good run around stumps and docks. Used some canks and some plastics. Silver with some black seemd to work the best. Majority between 14 to 18 inches caught 14...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/24/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 12:30 with buddies muskyhunter and Ryan. Began finding active fish shortly thereafter. Most active spots we found were in or near weed beds close to deep water. Had multiple follow...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/29/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Kevinb and I hit Tapps early this morning till 1230pm. The cloudy cool weather was a pleasant surprise with a little rain that really felt pretty good. Fished hard with crank baits and worms. Water te...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/30/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report coincides with muskyhunter's 6-29 Lake Tapps report.
Found active fish along weedbeds and rock points. I tossed a variety of gear including spinnerbaits,chatterbaits and crankbaits. The...
By: bigalila
Posted: 7/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Had a decent day out at Tapps. Got on the water around 0730. About an hour in my wife pulled in 4 small bass, one right after another. It was quiet then for about 2 hours. We hit another spot in 1...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/7/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the morning with my "muskyhuntress" trying to put a good fish in the net. Tapps is great for small fish right now. Lots of 30" and under fish now. The bigger fish are far and few in between and ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 6:30 with my buddy Ryan. Had a pretty good day fishing slightly deeper water(approx. 20 feet) went 4/5 with muskies in the net and a few follows.Most of the fish were smaller but d...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/1/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the past Tuesday the 30th. Put a 44 in the frabill. Had a window in the evening and it paid it for me. Hit a fish about 40 inches and missed it. Had another come out of the weeds di...
By: kevinb
Posted: 8/5/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Had the pleasure of fishing with some good friends,muskyhunter and Uncle Wes. Not the best fishing but we were able to get a few in the net. First musky hit on my Rapala Super Shad Rap(Perch) and mh's...
By: PintSizedLucille
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I just got a small fishing boat and like near Tapps, so I've been on the hunt to learn how to fish for SMB and also to learn the lake. I've been reading all your posts about the lake, what to use, whe...
By: kevinb
Posted: 8/25/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 8am with muskyhunter. Within minutes mh found a large musky giving interest in a bucktail but no hookup. Started working rock points and I ended up catching this 44x19 tiger on a D...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 12:30 with muskyhunter. Worked a few different areas using a mixed bag of crankbaits,tubes and swimbaits. mh was able to get a tiger musky interested as it followed from a rock poi...
By: kevinb
Posted: 5/4/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Weather conditions were brutal with heavy winds and monsoon caliber rains but my buddy Ryan and I powered through for what resulted in a pretty good day of musky fishing. Took some time but found the ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
This is a consolidated report from Saturday evening and most of Sunday.
Hit the water with some buds, Ryan, Kent and muskyhunter. We all managed to catch muskies on a variety of lures from spinnerb...
By: 502300
Posted: 7/5/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 7:00 am. Started with a wacky rigged KVD dream shot and that's what I used all day. I caught 5 LMB in the 5-12 inch range I caught them all on wind blown concrete faces. Also caugh...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/17/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hard fishing today. Started out trolling. Planer boards and one flat line. No strikes. Nadda thing. Got to play with the lowrance. Water temps were in the low 60's. A little casting had one hot follo...
By: Spaceyak1000
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 7 AM. It was a glorious day out there. Threw buck tails and glide baits. Trolled a jointed shad rap. Crickets. Did not see any or have any follows. Had a 8" rainbow trout fo...
