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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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 ...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/19/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2005
Hot Spots: 0
best fishing in my life
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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 ...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2005
Hot Spots: 0
went fishing in tapps july 3rd. first mistake. there are so many skiers that its difficult to fish. plus the pre holiday celebrations were abundant with fat, cat calling women with too much alcohol in...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/29/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to hit Tapps for a couple of hours today after the rain quit. I had read about these Tiger Muskie before but didn't really think there were very many in the lake and didn't really think I wou...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2005
Hot Spots: 0
went to new spot on lake tapps in the morning ... clear water... as soon as i look in the water i spot a huge muskie so my brother casts out real fast and scares it.. so i walk were i thought it would...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/21/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Friday was a tough day of fishing but did turn out to be a very special one bite day. Wind was blowing at 5 to 10 mph most of the morning. I was smallie fishing with my white 1/4 oz. spiner bait on a...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I E-Mailed the WDFW recently because of rumors that the WDFW was going to discontinue the Tiger Muskie Stocking program and this is what they had to say: WDFW plans to plant Tiger Muskie into Lake T...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/11/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2005
Hot Spots: 0
This was about the roughest wind I have been out in for years. White caps on the main water. It was so rough the skiers were leaving early. Only a few bites for the 3 hours we stuck it out. Two small ...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Weather overcast, light rain and windy. Water slightly stained and about 65 degrees. Only two fish caught but they were doozies. First was 19 inches and 4 pounds and the second was 18 inches and al...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/4/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2005
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first fishing trip to Tapps. I got up early to beat the Seattle traffic and arrived at 7:30 AM, and launched at the county park. The shortest route from Seattle is to take 167 south from...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Arrive at lake around noon Monday. After pulling boat off the rack and putting everything including the motor on we realized we didn't have the Fuel line. Took till 1:30 waiting before my better hal...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/28/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful day, a little hotter than this old body is used to. On the water at 8:00 am and only one other boat trailer in the parking lot. Local ski boats out but maintaining good distance from fishe...
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