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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: 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: 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: 6/5/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water with a buddy from work. He chucked a tube for smallies and I tossed a spinnerbait for muskies. Caught a small musky approx.25 inches on the outside edge of a weedbed. Water is very stain...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 5/12/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few hours on Tapps today. Great day to be on the water. Rainier was magnificent. The sun was warm. And I finally put the 1st tiger of 2012 in the Frabill. A hard fish fighting battle. Trying t...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water about 8 am. Bought my season pass. Water temp was 63 degrees. Saw one good 45 inch musky laying around. bounced a jig off her beak couldnt get her to hit. Hit the south end of the lake 2...
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: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today perfect day. Wind, clouds and cool. Water temps in the 60's. Weeds coming up. Had 4 fish on today. all had the tail end of my Invader. what the heck. Fish musta been half hungry. Wo...
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: 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: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the noonish and afternoon period fishing with my bud Kevinb. Little windier today. East wind. Yikes! Kevin raised a 30" musky but couldnt get er' to committ. Fished the north end of the lake onl...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/7/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few hours at Tapps today with Kevinb. Got my boat back and needed to work out the kinks in it and the shoulder. Put a nice 3lb smallie in the net. Water temp ranged only 47-49 degrees. Kinda c...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/21/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/21/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today from roughly 9 am till 530pm. Raised 2 fish only. One mid 30 incher the other a bigger mid 40+ tiger. Couldnt get either one in the net. Great day to be on the water. sunny and warm...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/15/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
So Mayfield not so good. Tapps well, is Tapps. Early April not so good for the muskies. But the bassers where out in force. Didnt see any muskies. No follows couldnt raise a fish today. Didnt try for ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...