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By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start on Tapps today, headed for the area around the inlet again. Used Berkley power grubs, smoke color. Hit two small (about 1lb) SMB right off in the first 10 minutes. Had lots of hits...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/22/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out a little ealier today under a foggy sky cover. Used a spinnerbait all day and managed to hook a few but lost them before I could get them to the boat. Wife was using a small rubber fish that...
By: drhookem
Posted: 5/13/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I hit tapps for an afternoon of harrassing smallmouth threw cranks to the bank and docks boated 16 smallmouth and one hammer handle tiger. Water temp 60 degrees most places. Most of the f...
By: drhookem
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the afternoon checking out Tapps. We fishied for four hours, started off jigging gort only one in about 15 feet of water. Switched to crankbaits caught on one an x-rap and the other on # 5 sh...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/24/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to go to Lake Tapps today to see if I can find some bigger fish than the ones I've been catching...
Go out in the water and at a point by 8AM. 2nd cast, fish on! Uh oh, feels pretty small...
By: kevinb
Posted: 7/31/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started a little late as members of CMA were taking part in a community work project
at Driftwood Point. Approx. 5 casts in and my buddy Todd nails a gorgeous tiger at
43x17 on a Ducktail Muskything...
By: red
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We fishshed for 2 hours this morning and hooked up 3 muskies. Two of them spit the hooks this one did not. The girth on it was nearly 2 ft. It came on a husky jerk, the other two hit bucktails.It was ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/24/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After a night of celebrating my B-day with my 86 year old dad, I was able to hit up the lake, sometime after noon. It was wise to wait (read: slept in with hangover), as the clouds stopped dumping and...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/6/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my buddy Rich fished Saturday for a few hours. Rich had 2 good hot follows a mid 30" and a good 40" Musky. Couldnt connect and get Rich his first Musky in the net. Sunday hit Tapps by myself. H...
By: Ski
Posted: 8/15/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My first day back on the lake and I caught 1 1/2 fish - I will explain in a moment. The photo is of a barely legal 30 1/4 inch fish. The little scrapper hit during a figure 8. His first strike miss...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked up with fellow Chapter member and friend Bret ( professional shore fisher) and fished for the first part of the day. Fished pretty hard and came up with 2 young ones both around the 28.5 inch m...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well after I dropped off Brett I continued on for another 6 hours. Around 4 p.m hooked into and landed this nice 39.5" x 16.5 Tiger back in a cove. Got a very kind family to take a few shots. Answered...
By: kevinb
Posted: 10/11/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps with Muskyhunter.
I had a couple baits that I'm testing for Pro Time Fishing. Tossed those for awhile but it appeared that the tigers might be a little to deep for them. Then tossed a few b...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/23/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hello,
Got the oppurtunity to take fellow Chapter 57 member Cody out to fish today. Saturday. Hit the lake 6;30 ish. I needed to get Codeman over a Tiger. Lake was nice...Hit a Tiger around 8 am...3...
By: Lucius
Posted: 7/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to fish tapps after work today. Got to the lake around 5:15pm. It was chaos. Not like the weekend chaos, but pretty close. I thought there would be a few boats on the water (especially for i...
By: kevinb
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The muskie gods smiled on us today.Hit the water with Lucious and hit a good area with some bucktails. I caught a hungry 35incher.Not very big,I know but this sucker slammed my lure and put up some fi...
By: cj
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Dike 12 in my little boat me and my friend caught a few the bigest was 2 pounds fished for musky with my buck tail still cant catch any caught the bass on a 4 inch gary yamamoto single tail g...
By: Ski
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day on Tapps with my partner Mark Wells - netman extraordinaire!! I caught this 46 x 20 this morning on a crankbait. Not only was this the first fish I caught on a crankbait, but a...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/26/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hello,
Spent most of the day at Tapps. I know I bad mouthed it...I just love this lake..Hi I'm an addict and couldn't stay away.
Got there early and envisioned a really bad sight before I got ther...
By: Ski
Posted: 7/19/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was my first successful day for muskies alone - and I paid the price! I managed to get this 37" ugly, skinny musky in the net. I had another musky around 40" all the way to the boat and here is w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Ski and I teamed up to fish the Chapter 57 Musky Tourney...LOOONG day. Didn't see a thing till about 10 A.M ish. I hooked up and we netted a very healthy 36" Tiger off a weed bed. Then another LOOONG...
By: red
Posted: 6/29/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well my persistence finally paid off. I didn't really want to get up early this morning but I knew if I didn't I wouldn't want to go later, with the heat and boat traffic. Got this nice 44 inch-er equ...
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 5/25/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I finally broke the ice folks. Darn it's taken a while this year. I guess all I had to do was put on my Ducktail Lures hat and team up with Craig. Heck of a net man to say the least. 42" X 20".
By: Deadeyemark
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! My personal best to date and I'm still excited. Craig, you're a great fishin partner and top of the line net man. You're welcome aboard any day.
It took half the day to put one in the net but ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps around 10:30AM going for smallies again. Using my Kastmaster(see previous report) Hooked into a little smallie(under a pound) Began switching back and forth to muskies and smallies. Had seve...