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Tapps Fishing Reports

Posted: 10/15/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Short snd sweet. Trolled Tapps today and got a nice 44 X 20 C-P-R'd this beast. Heavier than the 21 lbs with the LxG formula. Looks like she just filled up for the fall. Great fish..got it trolling o...
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By: dilbert
Posted: 10/13/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Started the morning by sleeping through my alarm, but still got to the water a little after 7:00am. It was a clear chilly Fall morning, the water temp was 57 degrees and the water was very calm. Aft...
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By: dilbert
Posted: 10/7/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Tapps expecting rain, but instead it was warm and REALLY windy. There were white caps in the main part of the lake. The wind made it really hard to fish, I think I would have preferred t...
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Posted: 10/4/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hey kids, Hit the water at or about 10 a.m till 3pm. Got to park for free..was willing to pay the 10 bucks...no one at the booth.Free is always good for me. My son and I tried a little Musky hunting ...
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By: dilbert
Posted: 9/30/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps in the morning from about 6:45 until around 12. It rained the WHOLE time, but we still managed to catch some fish. We saw a couple of deer grazing along the shoreline of snag island. I...
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By: dilbert
Posted: 9/23/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water at about 6:45 and fished until 11:15. The water level was down a few inches from the previous week. The surface water temperature was around 63-65 F depending on the location. We s...
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By: dilbert
Posted: 9/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We got out to my favorite spot a little before the sun came up. Then we saw what looked to be an unlimited hydroplane coming towards us fast, turns out it was just a bass boat...with a contest banner...
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Posted: 9/12/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I guess I should have checked with Dilbert to see if 'Harass a Fisherman" week was still going on. Everybody wanted to drive by within flippin stick distance of me. I even missed the only strike of th...
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By: Rosann G
Posted: 9/11/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Bill and I went to the lake to take out a new friend but got our wires crossed on meeting time and missed each other. We had time so we launched and tried a nw area only caught smallies 10 to 14 inche...
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By: Rosann G
Posted: 9/11/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Bill was able to take Greg out for the first time. Greg landed 9 smallies from 9 to 14 inches. No tigers found but still a great day. They were dragging crank baits that ran 10 feet deep over 16 fee...
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By: Malibu1
Posted: 9/10/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hello Everyone, I have been a lurker here for a while. I really enjoy seeing all the photo's of the Muskie's and Small Mouth that everyone is catching out of Tapps. It sure is a different lake th...
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By: Bill G
Posted: 9/9/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to get my old friends out today. Smitty has been my cohort for over 25 years and Lou for 15 years. They have listened to my stories for the last 10 years about tiger fishing and finally we ...
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By: Bill G
Posted: 9/9/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Today I have a new fishing partner from this site, Loris contacted me for a little help finding tigers. We didn't find any but he knows where to look for them. The smallies were falling for the lures...
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By: Bill G
Posted: 9/9/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Only had a few hours to fish went to the north end of Driftwood near the outlet. We were dragging crank baits that ran 16" over a 30' bottom. I hooked and landed a 44" tiger and 10 min later in the s...
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By: Bill G
Posted: 9/9/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Rosann picked up a 11" and 13" smallies trolling ared Fatfish that she lost to a submerged tree in 20' of water. No muskies found in area around Driftwood and Bankers islands. I got skunked. Bill
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By: Bill G
Posted: 9/9/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Dragging red Fatfish crank baits at 2.8 to 3.2 mph on the east side of Driftwood Point produced a 25" and 42.5 tigers and several smallies from 10 to 15 inches. We were fishing in 20 feet of water ...
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By: dilbert
Posted: 9/8/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got out to my favorite spot a little before the sun came up. I should have checked the calendar before I went fishing. Today was national harass an angler day, at least on Lake Tapps. A boat pull...
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By: Kenster
Posted: 9/8/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Tried to hit the county park this morning, got to the gate at 6:15am, CLOSED! Well a good thing can't last forever, unless you marry her! (maybe I can fish tomorrow too!). Kenny and I only had until 1...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/6/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
i was messing around thinking if i catch a muskie hes going to break me off cuz no steel leader my dad said worry about that after you hook one. well worry i did. he hit a rapala right after it hit th...
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By: Cman2007
Posted: 9/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
my dad caught two small smallies in a row so i took his rod and started to cast by stump in the water and hooked into this nice 3lb 4oz smallie he made a couple runs and jumped a couple times caught o...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/3/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
i was messing around thinking if i catch a muskie hes going to break me off cuz no steel leader my dad said worry about that after you hook one. well worry i did. he hit a rapala right after it hit t...
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By: Cman2007
Posted: 9/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
took my dads rod after he caught 2 little smallies i casted the lipless crank and hooked into this nice 3lb smallie good day after all
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By: Kenster
Posted: 9/2/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well this morning was great because Junior finally WANTED to go fishing. We arrived to the County gate at 7:28am and were allowed to still get in for free! Bonus!! This was my chance to put my son on ...
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Posted: 9/2/2007
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My wife said we had a couple hours before we had to be at our daughters for dinner so she made me take her musky fishin. Heck of a morning for her. Within 15 minutes she set the hook hard on a real he...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/1/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
caught both fish on drop shot rip with a green and brown worm wow they were monsters not any big smallies but still a good day.
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