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By: nx7k
Posted: 7/24/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning with a buddy from the Bass Club. We had a good day fishing until just before noon when the boat traffic got terrible. We caught about 15 or 16 SMB with largest about ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/16/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing Tapps about 7:00 AM. And it was cold. Fishing started off slow, but after an hour it began picking up, then it caught on fire. Betwee 8 and 1 caught 28 smallmouth. Nothing big. All in ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps Wednesday morning and fished from about 745am until 1215pm. Only caught 5 fish but the five weighed about 16 lbs. All were nice fish but pretty scattered. All fish caught in about 16 ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps. Fished from 7 am till 12:15. Caught and released 13 smallies. Caught one 3-6 and a couple over 2. Am sorry to see the county park close on the 31st. The smallmouth fishing is still very...
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/25/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my nephew and went to Lake Tapps. We caught 17 SMB with largest goig three pounds.
Met up with a friend from the Bass club and he said fishing was good for size but fish were scattered. He ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ran out to Tapps to fish real quick on my usual bridge. I always seem to do pretty well there. Cnr'd two nice smallies (the one pictured was 17") and I had a smaller Tiger Muskie follow my grub. Got i...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/16/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Grampa and grama said they'd watch the kids tell noon, so BAM! the boat was in the water at 7am. hit my first spot started around 15 foot huckin ratltraps and jerkbaits... nuthin... headed out to deep...
By: procaster
Posted: 1/30/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/30/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't been fishin for a couple weeks because the rivers have been too high. So, I figured I would have a better chance getting a smallie than large mouth. The only problem is North tapps parks i...
By: garret
Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I had a short trip out on Tapps today after work. Tried throwing for tigers for a couple of hours with one good follow from about a 36". Switched over to smallmouth and caught 2 in the last hour. The ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/9/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Lake Tapps Pierce Count North Park, launched at 6am. Fishing was sort of a struggle, We caught 10 but not much size. Fish were spotty, not in one place. Mostly caught them in 8 to 12 ft of water. ...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at the park. Caught a couple right off the bat. 13" range.
Then nothing for a while. Then a bunch of dinks. My partner would have had fish of the day, but lost it when it jumped.
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By: procaster
Posted: 5/26/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up Tapps because they start charging after this weekend. There were no fish shallow that I saw, but it was so windy it was hard to see. With an electric motor, I have to decide how long I'm want...
By: nx7k
Posted: 5/21/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps with a friend. Weather was beautiful. Finally hit mid 70's. Water temp was 57 to 63 degrees depending upon where you were in the lake. Caught a limit wilth largest 3 lb 8 oz. Photo a...
By: topdawg47
Posted: 7/3/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from shore over on Causeway road for about 1hr & 30mins or so...only 1 rock bass for that effort.
Then decide to pull out my pontoon I had loaded up in the suv. I started working the right h...
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: dilbert
Posted: 7/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps from 5:30 until about 9:30. Started out fishing some deeper water structure, then switched and tried several new areas further north on the lake without much luck. Used a wide variety o...
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: Skippyh2o
Posted: 7/23/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went with a friend that just bought a 18' smokercraft river boat on sat. Saw a few others fishing. Caught a few smallies and had a great day with friends.
By: Skippyh2o
Posted: 7/24/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Cought a few smallies on Tapps Sunday the 22nd. I already posted a report but forgot to add pics, sorry.
18' Smokercraft sportsman that a friend just bought Sat the 21st. Was really excited to get on...
By: dilbert
Posted: 7/14/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 5:30am - around 11:00am with my neighbor. It was the first trip in a while where he has caught fish, so that was a plus. His first two were some of the smallest fish I've seen out of Tap...
By: tmusky1
Posted: 7/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my 7 year old daughter to Tapps yesterday after hearing all the good things about this lake. We were going after smallmouth primarily but I did bring along all my musky gear. We go there at aro...
By: dilbert
Posted: 7/8/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6:00 until a little after 9:00. It was quite a bit cooler that the previous day and mostly cloudy. The wind was blowing enough to roughen the surface of the water and make it tough to st...
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: dilbert
Posted: 7/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I Fished Lake Tapps from 6:00am -9:00am. Caught 1small rock bass and 11 smallmouth bass. The largest smallie was 14" and 2lbs on my little spring scale, but the majority of them were in the 11" to ...
