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By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/4/2009
Species: Carp
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Well, it was another day that I was too sick to go to work. I somehow mustered up enough strength to do some therapuetic fishing. This time went to the intake, no water was coming out so the area was ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Good day on Tapps. Didn't even need a boat, just a hook and a few grubs. Caught 4 lost three all while drinking beers and swimming at a friends house.
By: plabarge
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I just had to post these pictures of fishing with family and friends off of our dock. We were using kid poles and night crawlers on the bottom. Fished most the afternoon and caught plenty of small f...
By: kevinb
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tried for carp today,yes..CARP. No luck.I fished off Dike#12 using bread.Got plenty of nibbles but no takers.
A buddy from work pulled up and I hopped onto his boat trying for tiger muskies and small...
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 5/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to tapps a couple times the past week when my account was suspended. Not nearly as hot as the weekend before but still caught a few smallies.
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to lake tapps today with a couple friends lookin to get some smallmoutth bass. Ended up being a very good evening at the lake. We caught a few good sized smallmouth and a bunch of rock bass. ...
By: Keith
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Tapps later than I wanted to. Had a couple of bites that's it. Seen my first tiger and tried to get him to bite but no luck there.
By: red
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I walked down to the lake this morning and fished mine and my neighbors docks for smallies with no luck. My little girl caught her first musky. Unfortunately it was already dead. It was a big 44 inche...
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
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...
By: Deleted2
Posted: 8/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to our favorite fishing spot on lake tapps this evening. My buddy and I were catching alot of small bass and then Bam! I hooked into the biggest smallmouth I've ever caught, and he caught a n...
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 8/6/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hey had to get a new accout cause my old one got deleted cause there was already someone with the BassTracker name. O well my mistake. Well I went out to do some early morning roadside fishing on tapp...
By: NATEtheGREAT
Posted: 8/6/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
it was at about 330 in the after noon me and my friend were fishin our favorite spot on lake tapps we were fishin for small mouth when i hooked this and it was one of the bigger rock bass i have s...
By: cole
Posted: 5/13/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Great day of fishing with the kids. The kids caught 10 smallmouths five each. They were throwing gitzits from shore. All fish were released.
By: anthonyj63
Posted: 5/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out along eastern shoreline of Tapps Island. Started at about 8pm with about a 5" rapalla casting from shore. No luck. Switched to a chartreuse plastic, bumping the bottom, casting from shore....
By: chris martos
Posted: 5/22/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I went out on Tapps to do some bass fishing. We have been here before with great success but I haven't been able to figure out how to post reports. We started fishing around 5:00 p.m. an...
By: danyole
Posted: 11/20/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/18/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had an awesome fall day of fishing! Didnt put on a lot of fish but to catch atleast 1 after not fishing for over a month, it feels amazing!
Vlogged it!
[youtube]https://youtu.be/6NmCDQE2j10[/yo...
By: danyole
Posted: 4/8/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of 2018 and was able to get some smallies in short amount of time! Vlogged it of course!
By: knishino
Posted: 7/10/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I checked out Lake Tapps for the first time. What a beautiful place! Gorgeous view of Mt. Rainier. I started out throwing a squarebill crankbait, and I caught 2 dink smallmouths. They hit really c...
By: topdawg47
Posted: 8/16/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Lake Tapps, family was napping. Haven't been to Tapps in awhile since construction, etc.
I wasn't expecting to catch much, considering water is still very chalky in clarity.
Anyhow, ...
By: jrhkuna
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and daughter caught 3 Smallies at the county park off of the docks. We were just throwing worms which seemed to work better than the plastics I was throwing.
By: jrhkuna
Posted: 4/3/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went back at it today. Used worms again. Caught this nice 16" Smallie. My oldest caught one but it spit the hook right before she landed it.
By: NineFingerFury
Posted: 6/7/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Heard there were some SMB in the resivoir, so I thought I'd check it out this morning. I don't have a boat and was told there was plenty of shore access for fishing. There is indeed. Threw out 4" Snip...
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 6/15/2016
Species: Carp
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My brother in-law bought a house on Lake Tapps last month and when we went to see it the first time I saw some big carp at the end of his dock. I've never fished for carp so I did some research and w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Just fishing form a dock pitched a green pumpkin tube wacky rigged right up against some stumps and just slowly jigged it and within seconds a salb of a rockbass creamed it caught four or five goodins...
