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By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught smallmouth consistently today.the bonus was catching my first crappie fish on tapps.. water temperature was about 60 degrees , overcast in about 7 visibility .used yamamoto grubbs, watermelon b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I caught about a one 2 pound bass today using 2 sinkers and a 3 foot leader with a fake double tailed grub. overall a pretty good day
By: topdawg47
Posted: 5/8/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Tapps after work, North Tapps launch. Caught four. 3 Smallies and 1 Rock Bass. Missed one other Smallie. All on the smaller side, but I rather catch something than get skunked, lol.
Used...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/3/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Possibly the worse fishing report ever! Enjoy!
Not much time to work with but was able to finally wet a line after several months. Just made some casts from the shore for about 45 minutes. Nothing ...
By: topdawg47
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Tapps, Causeway spill way. Fished a Green fluke , by the rocks. Missed one bite and landed another, 1 lb or so. Was just fun to catch first smallie of year!
By: topdawg47
Posted: 8/2/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went out to Tapps for about 1 hour or so. Caught 3 smallies. 2 small ones and 1 dink.
Caught on a Yamato, Purple flake, curly tail grub.
Satisfied my fishing high for the day!
Need to find some b...
By: chris martos
Posted: 5/25/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on Tapps again to catch some more smallmouth bass. My friend and I caught 20 or so and caught one musky around 24 inches and lost another one that was well over 50 inches that broke me off. T...
By: TSULLY31
Posted: 7/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was out at Tapps and fished for tiger muskies for the first 2 hours and then switched over to the drop shot rig for bass. While using a 5'9" spin rod with 6 lb maxima I got slammed. Turns out a sm...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report...busy busy busy!! Met Brian at Tapps for a little smallie fishin.August 11th. I tried for a ski for an hour then hooked up with a new fishin bud. Manged to get I think 6 fis...
By: BrianM
Posted: 7/27/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Tapps the last two days. I caught about 12 smallies, but none of the size I have been seeing on other posts. It was my first time actually fishing Tapps from a boat for smallies, so it too...
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...
By: dilbert
Posted: 9/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got my line in the water a little before 7:00 am. The sun was just coming up over the trees and steam was rising off the lake. There were a few morning clouds that quickly went away. I started ou...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 4/8/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the boys wanted to get out for their first boat trip today. I waited as long as I could and hid from the rain until it was unbearable. We tried to launch at North Tapps, but ran into two guys ...
By: cole
Posted: 4/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 9 to 11, water temp in the low to mid 50s. Caught 5 smallest 3.5 biggest 5.2.
By: tobeka
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I got to take my new boat on Tapps lake today. It was a nice day to be out on the water but we didn't have much luck, not even a bite. I fished with crankbaits and some soft plastics. I was only ab...
By: BassTracker16
Posted: 4/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good day to be on the lake except for the wind. Hit two fish that were holding around 27 feet of water that had steep drop offs on both sides that went down to 50 and 60 feet of water. Both f...
By: Keith
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of fish on the fish finder. But none on the ends of the poles. Water temp 43.5 when we left at 2:30.
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...
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...
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...
By: dilbert
Posted: 11/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps to test out 2000Subaru's new boat and maybe even catch some bass. think that boat goes about as fast as I'd be comfortable going out there. It's niiiiiiiiiice! The weather coope...
By: dilbert
Posted: 11/11/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The word of the day was WINDY. Although the predicted rain never materialized, the wind sure did and it was gusty. Fished from around 9:30 am until about 2:30 pm fighting the wind most of the time. ...
By: DBASSFISH
Posted: 11/25/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well the water is getting lower so the fish are moving and getting hard to target. I still manage to get a few bites, but it takes a lot of moving around to find them. This time of the year is my favo...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 3/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is fishable, both launches are open and free for now. The water averages 45 degrees. Bill got new electronics and we mostly were out to try them out so didn't fish seriously but it was a g...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
DIlbert and I went to Tapps to avoid the silver fish fisher people this morning. The lake was flat and very uncrowded at launch, I even braved the B.O.D. to launch from Bonney Lake. We hit up our us...
