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By: Knox
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps after work today. Got there at 5:30ish, Fished off of Dike 3's bank. second cast I made I got a little smallie, and the trend continued. Left at 7 PM. Caught in total 7 fish, 6 sma...
By: carnahkj
Posted: 6/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the fellas yesterday on Tapps. We got out there at 4:30 which is earlier then normal because I thought we might be able to catch the bigger ones earlier. The size did not change most ave...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
By: bigfish84
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps about 0700. Had a new guy start at work last week and he was talking bout fishing so decided I'd take him out this weekend. He caught his first smallie ever and now he's HOOKED! The day star...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bill and I went to Lake Tapps this morning (I even got up early even though I know the fish don't bite till after 9 or 10) and stayed till noon. We caught a half dozen smallies and a rock bass. None...
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 7/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
went out to tapps with my girlfriend and slayed em again like usual. Ended up hookin a small tiger as well.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/14/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bill and I took a young couple that we are friends with out fishing on Sunday morning. They had called and said they wanted to learn how to fish and would we show them how. We met up at the launch a...
By: dilbert
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps to try out a different motor and hopefully catch some fish. The motor ran great and was faster and quieter than the old one...not too shabby. Took my son ('lil-bert) and 200Subaru (it...
By: Rich McVey
Posted: 6/23/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 7:30am and pulled out about 11:00a. Trolled Dikes 3 & 4 and the NW area of the lake. We caught 2 dink SM and 3 more small fish, (not sure what). Longest fish caught was only 6 in...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got to Lake Tapps early Friday morning with a relative and my Great Nephew, Adam who is a fishing fool. We caught Smallmouth consistently until noon. While fishing with a Grub and Fooball Head I hoo...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had lake Tapps to ourselves this morning. Arrived at 6am and not another boat or vehicle at the launch. Fished points and humps with grubs, worms, crankbakits, Flukes and caught fish consistently. ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The day started off slow. My wife was with me and was killing me. A photo is attached of her 2 lb 1 oz SMB. We fished points in about 20 ft of water. Later she got bored and went tot he park and s...
