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By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Report from the 22nd..little late but better than way later. Hit a good 40 on a dawg in open water. Big dawgs mean bigger fish. Open water. Tapps has at least 10 muskies in it as of now. Gotta get out...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling a short bill 2" bronze crank bait off the points on the main lake. Caught a few smallmouths, then thought I had the bottom....until the head shake! Made several salmon like runs, great fig...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/2/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 10AM. Water temps ranged from 47-49.5 degrees. Much to my surprise, found a some healthy weedbeds at various locations. Found many muskies suspended off points ranging in depths f...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/10/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling a small bronze crankbait on a lightweight rod in about 10 feet of water. Inhaled it. Excellent fight, made a couple good runs! Released unharmed. Had a decent smallmouth as well.
By: red
Posted: 6/28/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Tapps is putting out some toads!! Throwing big baits and picking up some nice muskies and some monster smallmouths. My daughters friend really wanted to come over and fish. She caught about 25 fish i...
By: red
Posted: 6/9/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for a compilation of fishing in tapps for the last couple weeks. The bass fishing I've been off the hook.you have to weed through a ton of dinks but there are some nice ones to be ha...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the 11th and 12th. My son and I have been wanting to give the Tiger Muskies a shot, so we headed to Tapps for a couple of days.
On the water by noon and armed with the "Tapps Mu...
By: red
Posted: 7/21/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got my personal best tiger this morning. 48+ x 21-1/2 !!! Got it on a perch glide bait in about 10 ft of water. Probably the hardest fighting one I've got to date as well. Came completely out of the w...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 9/13/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down from Marysville to Tapps early to beat the worst of the traffic. Having checked the Lake Tapps website I noted that the park opened at 6:00AM. We arrived at the park at about 6:30--gate was...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 5/31/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this last sunday from 7-1 for muskie. Started by trolling trying to stay on the ledge of water from 15-23 ft of water. trolled crankbaits and didn't see anything until this fish. Landed this o...
By: red
Posted: 6/3/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
What a great morning of tiger hunting today. We were fishing with jerk baits, glide baits and bucktails . We hooked three landed two and had a couple other follows!! Only bummer was the two we got wer...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 6/5/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
We started at 6:30 on Sunday. Straight away we went to the north side of lake casting all types of baits. Didn't see anything. Traveled back to the south side. Flipping docks and off of points. we got...
By: red
Posted: 6/8/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Well my day started out pretty amazing. On my second cast with a bucktail I had a quality fish follow but no take. 10 minutes later about a dozen houses further down the shoreline I switched to a gli...
By: red
Posted: 6/12/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2018
Hot Spots: 0
My daughter got home from her soccer practice last night and wanted to go fish off the dock for a bit. So we grabbed some bread for the carp and a tub of worms for some bass and perch. We caught a bun...
By: red
Posted: 6/19/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Man what an awesome Father’s Day I had!
My 12 year old decided that she was going to get up early and take me fishing for Father’s Day so she gets up about 7:00, grabs me and the dog and we head ou...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 6/23/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Oh boy, the bite was on last night. Started fishing at about 6:45 after battling the boat lift for a little bit. No trolling just casting, medium to large crankbaits, spinners, and bucktails. Targeted...
By: tmusky1
Posted: 8/11/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/10/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Son and I launched at 6:30am and having only fished this lake once before(half-heartedly) decided to hit the "obvious" spots like weed flats, docks, points,etc. I was surprised to see the water temp a...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 8/22/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2018
Hot Spots: 0
So I wasn't on the boat for this fish. I was too tired from being skunked on the puget sound earlier in the morning. Spencer hit this beast in a spot that has produced fish all year long. Trolling a 1...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 8/22/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished early in the morning to try and beat the ski boats it paid off for Spencer that morning. We have a few spots that we know hold large fish. Took a long time to really dial in on this lake, but I...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 4/22/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2018
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I went out trolling for musky in my little boat with an electric trolling motor, as the big boat is not dewinterized yet. Trolled for three hours with large crankbaits along with bucktails...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 4/23/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a buddy went out again last night after I got off work. Fishing from a small boat casting at docks. Trying to pull some musky out from under the docks. Fished from about 7:00pm-8:00pm. Using sp...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 8/2/2018
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7-9 in the evening. Targeting tiger musky. Trolling the large water of the lake due to the heat. Didnt see any musky unfortunately. Spencer hit this monster trolling into fairweather cove....
By: Kswift253
Posted: 5/23/2019
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2019
Hot Spots: 0
This fish actually came on our third trip out for the season. The first two trips resulted in multiple fish following to the boat, but nothing was biting. On this trip we had limited time before sunse...
By: Kswift253
Posted: 5/22/2020
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for about 2 hours during a good moon phase/sunset window. We tried to the typical spring tactic of downsizing our lures to smaller presentation in order to get something to move. Well after loo...
By: stevertd2010
Posted: 10/11/2019
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/11/2019
Hot Spots: 0
If I had to rate the day based on weather, I would have given it a 5 star. But for fishing quality, a big goose egg would be appropriate. First skunk of the year, and I go fishing a lot. Maybe my ...
