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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: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/2/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got out of the house this evening with my netgirl trying to get her her first musky. No fish for the young lady but she again did a heck of a job netting a pretty good 41.5 inch tiger. Also picked up ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 7/30/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6:00 till 11:30. Kind of nippy on the water, but, on the bright side, pretty much had the lake to myself. Started shallow with no results. Found a cove somewhat protected from the cold win...
By: tacfisher1
Posted: 7/29/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/29/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this morning to spend the last day my son had before he started his first job.Dint get a hit but son saw one.That was it for the few hours we were out.Had one of the guys from shore tell me h...
By: esox54277
Posted: 7/29/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This evening I got the opportunity to fish with soaking wet feet, thanks to a rather large boat that has a whole lake to run on but decides to zoom between me and the structure I was casting to, needl...
By: mtsiview
Posted: 7/28/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I hit Tapps today, started at 8:00 and pulled off the lake at 4:30. I boated three tigers, 33", 41" and 41-3/4"! On top of that, I missed two, one on a short strike and one on a figure 8 when a wake...
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: nx7k
Posted: 7/25/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps with my Grandson. Arrived at lake at 6:30am. Fished until 11:30am. CAught 20 SMB with Largest going a little over two pounds. Photo attached Water temp still around 69 to 70 de...
By: tacfisher1
Posted: 7/24/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Son and I went out to see if we could get him his first Tiger.Didn't get his but I got my second. He did have one on and lost it at the boat when it took off as I was getting the net.Son also had 3 or...
By: Natebg1
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Sunday with a good buddy of mine from work who had never even fished for Tiger Muskies on Lake Tapps. What is even better is that He caught his very First One, 28 inches on the old school Red a...
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: esox54277
Posted: 7/20/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Very entertaining night, all together saw about 10 fish, three in the boat (2 30 inchers and a fatty 41), one upper 30s decided to try flying and spit my bucktail, one solid fish stuck for just a seco...
Posted: 7/13/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 8 took my buddys new bass boat hooked a small smb on a rapala jointed shade rap red crawdad . my buddy hooked his first tiger muskie about 14" or so on a rapala dt 6 then i hook...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 7/11/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today from 6:15 till 12:30. Caught 8 smallies and several rockbass. Nothing close to 2 lbs. All caught in 15 to 18 feet of water dragging a Carolina rig. Headed off to St. Claire tomorrow...
By: nx7k
Posted: 7/10/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Lake Tapps today. Launched from Pierce County North Park at 6:20am. Fished until Noon. CAught 8 SMB with largest going 3 lb 5 oz. Only 1 real dink. Was an okay day. Used soft plastics ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 7/8/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a small window this evening to chuck some baits. Heavy boat traffic,no surprise there. Had a few follows but from smaller tigers,nothing over the low 30's inch range. Still no complaints. Made a n...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 7/6/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/6/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the lake shortely after 6:00. Tried shallow for an hour or so with no luck. Began dragging a football head in 18 to 20 feet of water. Was off the lake by 11:00. Only caught three. But one was c...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/4/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today. Met Harry out there and his son. Pretty good day put a 42 x18 musky in the net. A couple follows. One an absolute piggy. Off the lake by 1 pm. Water temps was 65. Weeds growing som...
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: 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: Anonymous
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2012
Hot Spots: 0
man it was windy out there today but got my first smallie about a half an hour in after i tired of trying to keep my small flat bottom going in the direction i wanted. finding protection from the wind...
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: steepanddeep
Posted: 6/17/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went out chasing tigers and smallmouths for a couple of hours. Saw no tigers and picked up a couple smallmouths on a crankbait that looked liked a smaller version of themselves. Bass tournament on t...
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: 6/14/2012
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...