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By: Kenster
Posted: 4/12/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time out with the boat this year, actually a week earlier than last year if you can believe it! Jr. his friend and I launched from the County park around 1pm. The boat fired up after a few attem...
By: Bill G
Posted: 4/15/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Yes guys I'm up to my old tricks again of showing new people where and how to fish Lake Tapps. You can be mad at me for getting more fisher people on the great lake, but I will keep doing it. When any...
By: mtsiview
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The Wife and I finally made our first trip to Lake Tapps. I, myself, had fished it with Bill G. one time last year. The wife and I were primarily targeting smallmouth bass and this was our first tim...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps this morning around 8. Great day to be on the water. Saw a few other fisherman out there. Concentrated on fishing the points. Had quite a few strikes on a 7in plastic Tequilla Sunrise Zoom w...
By: Keith
Posted: 4/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit tapps up to do some fishing with the kid. Got to the county park and there were three and four foot waves slamming the launch. So we went to allan york to launch. Finally got on the water about 8:...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the Mrs. Dilbert, and his brother in law this AM. I took the wife to the usual locations for completely selfish reasons. If she did not catch a fish, I would have to either spend less ...
By: dilbert
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of the North County launch at about 6:15 with my brother-in-law, no other trailers in the lot yet, but one guy was fishing on the dike west of the launch. Met up with 2000Subaru and his ...
By: Edgeran
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Tapps, amazing lake! Had a good day, best of the year as far as action goes. Landed 6 Smallies and missed about the same. Mr. Magler landed his first ever tiger on a spider jig.
Water ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 3
today was a pretty rainy day. me and my dad went out fishing after we got our boat fixed. we were letting the worm drag on the bottom with no weights. first he hooked into a 2 ft. musky, then i caught...
By: dilbert
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Please forgive the mediocre pictures, my photographer had the day off.
I Fished lake Tapps this morning with my brother-in-law. The weather was overcast and dry. The water was pretty calm and t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps around 7:30 this morning. Launched from the county park. Still no fee until next weekend; I believe. They were selling season passes though so picked one of those handy accessories up. Now, ...
By: Dan
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My 1st time at Tapps. Only had 4 hours to explore this big lake. Caught one nice Smallmouth - about 4 lbs. in 4' water along grave shoreline a couple of bays over from the boat launch. One of my bi...
By: mrbass
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
HIT TAPPS FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH SOME BUDDIES.AFTER GETTIN A FEEL FOR THE LAKE I TOLD MY BUDDY GET ME CLOSER TO ROCKS HE WANTED TO FISH DEEP. GOT CLOSE ENOUGH TO THROW A 1/2OZ RATTLE TRAP CUZ NOTHIN...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 5/24/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Catching is HOT at Tapps! (I say catching because we weren't just "fishing" today) Was on the water at 7:30 and didn't get done catching them until 2:45 when my partner and I left. He was using a cinn...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps again mid morning. Catching is still hot on smallies. Got to the county park around 8:30 and was off the water around noon, not as busy as I would have expected it. Partner skipped out on me...
By: dilbert
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
None of my usual fishing partners could make it today (grounded), so I went out solo. The weather was overcast and cooler. Water temp was in the upper 50's to low 60's in some areas. I caught plenty...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, got bored this afternoon after running around gathering up some more yamato cinnamon colored grubs, man they're hard to find these days. Any ways, hit Tapps. Didn't find them around the stumps t...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Another decent day on the water. Took the niece for her first trip, and I actually put her on some fish. I'm starting to think that I have a few places on this lake that I can catch a fish even on t...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with new Tiger fisherman Maury today. "He got the itch too!" Anyway, nice day on the water for Father's Day. Saw a Tiger in the early a.m And finally got one in the net around noon. Maury is...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 5/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Bumper and caught some smallies. I caught 3 after he headed for home skipping some docks, I believe he had 5 or so, and Yoda caught his first of the year. Saw a few beds, a beast, and so...
By: mrbass
Posted: 5/21/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
hit the lake finally with the man who got me back into fishing today. MUSKYHUNTER. we got a few but the big thing here was I saw my first musky to me it is an attractive fish. we saw 2 landed one. som...
By: nx7k
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Lake Tapps with my wife. I caught ten Smallmouth with the largest weighing two pounds seven ounces. The other nine all were in the pound to pound and a half weight range. Used a Watermelo...
By: HammerinHonkers
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps today. Weather was cloudy when we started then got nice and sunny and warm. We were fishing docks around tapps island. We were drop shotting senkos and throwing green curly tail grubs. T...
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: 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,...
