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By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/3/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/3/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Took another walk down Dike 15 at the basin. Saw some carp jumping and having a good time but no action with my top water lure. Not feeling well today so I only stayed for about 20 minutes. Good excer...
By: kevinb
Posted: 1/29/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I cruised up to check the water level but I figured it would be foolish to drive up here
and not have a rod ready. The water level is down very low but may be possible to launch a small jo...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 3/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/11/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Ellen and I went up to Tapps Wed afternoon and fished for a couple hours off the tip of dike 6, until she asked me where I wanted to move to and I said "the fire place at The Rock". She laughed and we...
By: topdawg47
Posted: 4/10/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
First outing of year for me, stopped by Lake Tapps and hooked Into a nice smallie to kick of 2012 fishing season! Took about 6 or so casts and had a nice tug of Senko. Nothing else after that catch. C...
By: kevinb
Posted: 7/3/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for my son. Fished the bank at Tapps mostly looking for perch with eggs,hook and a bobber. He caught loads of perch,rock bass and sculpins. He started a little collection of fish in t...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/29/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Met Kevin and his big time musky fisherman son Brett at North Park. 4 hours on the lake. Brett reeled in a nice 31 " Tiger. (Kevin will post his picture on his report) That made Brett A little tired ...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 3/27/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hey Ho,
Fished Tapps today. Did some scouting. The lake is up about 2 feet from Wednesday. If one would want to launch a boat from Allen York it looks quite do-able. Might hit it this week after wor...
By: kevinb
Posted: 11/11/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Played hide n seek with the tigers today.
On the water at 10AM and began trolling with a firetiger super shad rap in the deeper channels.
Trolled about an hour or so and then took a stab at vertic...
By: sturgeongenerall
Posted: 11/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I fished from about 10:30 am to about 3:30 pm. I found a couple smallies near driftwood point running a firetiger jointed shad-rap at 25 to 30 feet. Didn't see another fisherman, just a couple folks o...
By: t-hughes
Posted: 12/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 12/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Mybuddy and I have been goin fishin, lookin for new spots. Not much luck...we did find a new killer spot tho for the summer. Then we were fishin and found a crappie floppin around on the top of the wa...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was good to get out for the first time this year and we took our dog for her first time in the boat too. It was more of a shake down cruise for us and the dog and she had a great time. We also we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/21/2009
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
launched the canoe at about noon. trolled pretty much the whole time with the perch shad-rap. didnt catch anything but had the first musky encounter of the year......
i was trolling down the canal ...
By: JAYDOG
Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife out this morning to chase some smallies around before the KAMAKAZIES took over the lake. We launched from Driftwood Pt and started trolling rapallas as we made our way around the island....
By: Denman
Posted: 10/22/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/21/2008
Hot Spots: 0
got this brute around 5 p.m. trolling a perch rapala. My second this season. The first was Sunday and only around 30" in length. When I got back to my dock, there was a larger Muskie hanging around...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
In the life-long pursuit of sexual equality the male gender goes down in flames again. Rosann G and I took a Sunday morning on Lake Tapps. Wind was light, overcast heavy with some moisture even, wat...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Most of you that know me, know why I troll for Smallies. Those of you that don't, here's the reason. I have painful arthritis in my hands and elbows. It makes a problem to cast even the smallest bait ...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bill and I went to Lake Tapps this morning (I even got up early even though I know the fish don't bite till after 9 or 10) and stayed till noon. We caught a half dozen smallies and a rock bass. None...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/23/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 7:30am and pulled out about 11:00a. Trolled Dikes 3 & 4 and the NW area of the lake. We caught 2 dink SM and 3 more small fish, (not sure what). Longest fish caught was only 6 in...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 5/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water about 5:15pm and was out by 7:30. Water temp 60.8.
The kid caught a nice 3 pound rock, was a keeper but we felt sorry for it and let it go. (C&R baby...)
I caught a medium SM along ...
By: cannondaler12
Posted: 5/24/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I was out on Tapps today. I noticed something floating on the southeast side of the lake. It was a huge Tiger Muskie belly up... It was 40+ inches..... must have been dead a few days due to the white ...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/16/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the boys for a few hours. Mostly trolling around the North end of the lake. Cody picked up this nice SM with a lure that looks like a trout fry. I managed this silver fish, not really su...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 4pm and trolled up and down Dike 4 (main motor died so cant go far from ramp). Most of the fish seemed to be in the 15 to 25 foot deep range but as you got closer to Dike 3 they all...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 7, ran into Kenster and Mtsview at the docks. Light cool breeze, water 60.8 according to the Garmin.
Total from the 4 of us on my boat, we only caught 1 small SM (along dike 4...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
well so far this summer me and my friends have caught 5-6 muskies and a lot of smallies. all we do is troll right out the back of a canoe so just to lets u guys know, u dont need some 30,000 dallar ba...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 5/2/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Bill went out with his old buddy Lee this afternoon. They were trolling five inch rapala's jointed jerk baits, black and gold. My lure ran about 10 feet deep in 14 foot of water. Lee caught this 38 ...