Fished from shore over on Causeway road for about 1hr & 30mins or so...only 1 rock bass for that effort.

Then decide to pull out my pontoon I had loaded up in the suv. I started working the right hand side of lake/Causeway Rd (if you were to be making a right hand turn, on that side).

Anyhow, worked all the docks with spinnerbait, senko & shad crank bait, nothing, Switched to a swimbait that my wife happened to buy me on clearance one day.

The swim bait produce a couple of bites, 1 smallie about 12-13in range, 3 rock bass & huge tiger muskie!

Now, I usually dont fish for Muskie & was not today, and you usually get them on accident fishing for smallies in Tapps. I threw it real close to a dock, parellel, took a couple of rows backwards to work the dock, 2 reels in & then bam!! I thought it was simply a really, really nice smallie. Forgot to mention, I was using my ultra light rod, like 2 or 4lb test, light as you can go.

I had to have fought that Tiger Muskie from my toon for 10 mins trying to let it run and tire out, while at same time, I was trying to row towards a dock/land to get more leverage - this was a tough task, lol. Slowly but surely I get to a residents dock and ask could I get on their back lawn and try to land this Muskie, lady says yes, & I'm like if I land this Muskie on a pan fish, ultra light rod, I have to be one of the greatest of all times, haha, lol.

Unfortunately, I had it half way to the shore from this residents back yard/in- bankment & one last surge from the Muskie & that was all she wrote, snapped my line!

I have not had that kind of excitement reeling / fighting a fish in quite sometime.

Look at the ultra light rod I was using to fight this Muskie...lol

Lesson learned on Tapps, not to use my ultra light rod, you just never know!

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