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Tapps Fishing Reports

Tapps
By: boatdude
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well first day of the year on tapps, really frigid in the morning. Went to work about 745 and continuously tried to find water temp that might signal some movement. Main lake was 40.2 with sunny poin...
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Tapps
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 3/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the Tapps launch about 9:30 and had a false start, the motor would not cooperate and start. Killed two batteries in the process. Took the boat home and put it on the charger for a couple ho...
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Tapps
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished from the shore along dike #4 in search of smallies. Wanted to play with my new rod and reel..tossed a Strike King Bitsy Bug with a Berkley Crawfish trailer lathered up in scent. No...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
By: dilbert
Posted: 11/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 7:30am - 10:30am. It was an unusually warm morning for November 1st, it felt like a nice spring morning. We fished all new spots trying to locate those cold November bass, and mana...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
By: kevinb
Posted: 10/11/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps with Muskyhunter. I had a couple baits that I'm testing for Pro Time Fishing. Tossed those for awhile but it appeared that the tigers might be a little to deep for them. Then tossed a few b...
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Tapps
By: SPARKY101
Posted: 9/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit tapps for the first time with Bassmasterderek,got there early "no skiers"that's always nice.Cold morning foggy but turned out to be a good weather day.We took some info for this lake that we gathe...
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Tapps
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/9/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took fellow Muskyhunter, Mulehunter out to Tapps Tuesday evening. Heck of a fisherman. Heck of a guy. Tried my best to get him to move out this way. I think I got him hooked and seriously considering ...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Had another great day on the lake. My buddy caught this nice Smallie, his first ever! On another note while fishing we saw a big Tiger cruising the shallows along the bank, I had some family over and...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake from our dock and caught this nice Smallie. Also caught a Catfish last night on a worm.
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/23/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hello, Got the oppurtunity to take fellow Chapter 57 member Cody out to fish today. Saturday. Hit the lake 6;30 ish. I needed to get Codeman over a Tiger. Lake was nice...Hit a Tiger around 8 am...3...
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Tapps
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 ...
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Tapps
By: dilbert
Posted: 8/17/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing just after 6:00 am with my Dad and Nephew. It was their first time on the lake and first time bass fishing. Everyone caught at least a few fish, the best ones coming from 14-20'. After...
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Tapps
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 8/17/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to go at night and try the boat launch again...this time with the family. We got there about 9PM and fished until 11PM. About 10 fish with the largest around 2LBS. Had to be the wife's fish...
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Tapps
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 8/17/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 5am at the Alan Yorke boat launch and fished from the dock. The boat launch was closed for the day, so I had to burn some time before heading to the county launch. Caught 4 before I left,...
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Tapps
By: Ski
Posted: 8/15/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My first day back on the lake and I caught 1 1/2 fish - I will explain in a moment. The photo is of a barely legal 30 1/4 inch fish. The little scrapper hit during a figure 8. His first strike miss...
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Tapps
By: t_wild100
Posted: 8/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to tapps about 2 with my uncle. No luck at all though there were a couple loud swimmers about 30 yards on a private dock. had to get off the lake before we could choose a better spot.
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Tapps
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/4/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Got to fish with Bill Green for the elusive Tiger Muskie today. We launched at 6:30am and immediately hit a couple smallmouth while trolling jointed plugs 45 ft behind the boat in 25 ft deep water. No...
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Tapps
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well after I dropped off Brett I continued on for another 6 hours. Around 4 p.m hooked into and landed this nice 39.5" x 16.5 Tiger back in a cove. Got a very kind family to take a few shots. Answered...
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