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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/18/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing tapps for a few weeks now and fishing is finally starting to pick up. Water temp up to about 58F. Caught many smallmouth in 8-12' of water, fished soft plastics -SLOW- in natural colors....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I Fished Bouth SAT, Sun, Did Reall Well for small mouth on jigs,Roboworm Sculpin,Baby bass Color. I Did not se any tiger muskie.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Just a quick note to all you freshwater fishermen out there. Please practice CPR(catch, photo and release)when you're bass or musky fishing. They're a bunch of fun to catch and when you release them i...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/14/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to get out a few hours on both Friday and Saturday mornings. The small Mouth Bass are in the spawning stage now. We saw the smaller males in different areas building nests. My buddy caught ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/14/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went out this morning around deer island, didnt catch anything, then went to the tapps island side of the snag island bridge and fished the stumps. Had some hits on crawdad plastics, then i caught a ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing Yesterday to a private park off of Forest Canyon Road. I don't have a boat so I was fishing off the dock but still had a lot of fun. Caught 3 Carp averaging 5-10 pounds each and lost one....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/6/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Had the day off so hooked up the boat and ran over to the lake. The cold front that came in last night hurt my catching. Started with crank baits went to sinkos then to small jig. The last is what wor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is full and the fish are starting to cooperate. The debris is setling out nicely with visibility to 7 feet. No nesting fish seen but the smaller male SMB are moving up. Smallie caught in 8 fe...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/24/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Whent out for smallmouth caught 3 Nice fish on grubs.Browns, silvers. greens.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/22/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 4/22/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Tapps is now full of water and the boat launches are open. Lots of debris still floating all over the lake. Launched at 7:30 with calm water and cear sky and that lasted almost an hour. The wind came ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/30/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 12/23/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Heard some stories about tiger muskies out here so we came down and canoed about for a while. Saw a few explosions of feathers on the water and spent a good deal of time convincing ourselves that this...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/26/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2005
Hot Spots: 0
It was a nice day out. Very few play boats on the water. This time there were more fishing boats than jet slease.The water temp was low to mid 60s. Air temp in high 50s.
Wind out of north at around 8...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/26/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Caught some small smallmouth today. My son was down from Sitka, AK so we went fishing. Had one follow from a musky.
I wanted to take this time to ask all that read this site to please release all mu...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/17/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/17/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Here is a couple of identical 4 pound smallies caught under the Tapps Island bridge using a [fire tiger] Timber Tiger crank bait. I was trolling the bait on 10 lbs test 30 feet behind the boat. No tig...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/5/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2005
Hot Spots: 0
It was nice to have a day of fishing with my old buddy Bob. We went through the gate right at 7:30 and were fishing in 10 min. The water is around 70 deg., the wind was a steady 10 mph. The skies were...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/28/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2005
Hot Spots: 0
My dad caught this 41", 19 1/2 pounder at my grandma's lake lot! First time I have ever seen one over there. The lake lot is on the cold (what use to be) side of the lake about 8 houses down from the ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/19/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2005
Hot Spots: 0
best fishing in my life
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/18/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2005
Hot Spots: 0
It was a quiet day on the lake overcast and light rain in the morning hours. The play boat traffic was very light and they by the most part gave us plenty of room. I normally don't fish much, It's Bil...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/14/2005
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed at my grandma's lake lot and left the bobbers in all night. We got a lot of small perch and I got a 10" catfish. My friend casted in the next morning and caught a 13 1/2 in. perch. I haven't ev...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/10/2005
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Now that the south end of the lake is as warm as the north end (I live on the south end)the fishing has improved. catching bass and perch off my dock with crawler. The bass aren't huge...about 12" o...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/7/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2005
Hot Spots: 0
If you are a rock and roller lake Tapps is the place to be. Oh I'm not talking about music, it's the wakes off the play boats. Some of the boats are coming within 50 feet, throwing 3 foot rollers. I f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/31/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 7:30 AM. The local guys were sking but are very respectful of others. We were able to fish where we wanted and picked up a few smallies. My buddy was looking for a trophy Tiger but on...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/18/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/17/2005
Hot Spots: 0
motored over to a little cove around Snag in the a.m. Sunday. Beautiful day to be on the lake. This cove is so long, the skiers and pwc's can't and don't go in there. couldn't keep the crappie and ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/12/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/12/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I was looking for a good fishing spot on tapps and broght my pole with me .I was at the last spot i was going to stop by it was the dike 2b and on my first cast i hooked on to a muskie about 18 inches...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/5/2005
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I have to agree with Steve it was crazy out on the lake. My buddy and I tried to fish in the late afternoon but it was very hard to fish effectively. I was hanging out at a friends house who lets my f...