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By: rickydbasser
Posted: 8/24/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son fishing with me to Tapps. Had a pretty good day, other than my son has a tendency to not only set the hook on fish, but also stumps he drags over. If there were such a thing, he would have...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 7/23/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked up with a fishing buddy and his bass boat, which is 8 ft longer than mine, and has a outboard of 214 HP more. Mine will do about 20 MPH, and his does somewhere around 72 MPH. Other than that, t...
By: DJSureal
Posted: 7/24/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Castmasters had a club contest on Lake Tapps. Now, I will tell you, I have never had much luck on this lake. Something was different today. We launched at the PSE launch and Uncle and I blasted off an...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 7/27/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Took the boy out to tapps this morning. Arrived at gate open and had it in mind I would NOT fish the shallows which I'm soooo comfortable with. Started out at a rocky point that drops from 3ft down to...
By: KevinS
Posted: 7/29/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent Sunday on Tapps. Caught nearly 20 fish, 5 of which were 14"-16". Decided just to use a drop shot all day and was pleased with the results. Thought I had only caught SMB, but the that's a LMB ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 8/1/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing yesterday with a friend in his bassboat. Was on the lake at 6:00. I've had some great days on Lake Tapps. But it out did itself this time. My partner caught somewhere over 30 smallmouth. ...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 6/27/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2013
Hot Spots: 0
YIKES! Very tough morning on Tapps. Fished docks and a couple points. My boy got 1 smallie on a senko and had a couple other bites. Seems the fishing here has took a downward spiral! I got the big...
By: nx7k
Posted: 6/29/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning and had a great time. I caught 7 SMB on Crankbaits, 5 SMB on Drop Shot, and 11 SMB on a Carolina Rig. Most fish in 14 to 18 ft of water. Water temp was 72 degrees. ...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 6/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Started out with the usual dock fishing 6am. Caught 1 dink right away on a senko. Went 2 more hours without a bite. Then another dink on a dock, Carolina rig. Had another hit 15 min later around 9am r...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 7/9/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
After two weeks of activities that have kept me from fishing, I finally got out. Went to Tapps. The day began windy, making handling the boat tough on the main lake ridge I wanted to fish. Came up wit...
By: nx7k
Posted: 7/10/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps July 9th. Arrived at about 6:15 am First boat on the lake. Caught 19 SMB before leaving at 11:45am. Caught some dinks on a crankbait but best fish came on a Senko and a Hula Gru...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 7/10/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went back out to Tapps today. Once again it was breezy in the morning then settling down in the afternoon. Caught 8 on a crankbait in around 12 feet of water, and 8 more on a Carolina rig in around 18...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 7/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, what a change. I guess this is why they call what we do fishing, rather than catching. Launched to water far less windy than the past two days. Overcast. How much more can a guy ask for? Well, mo...
By: al3x
Posted: 7/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the water around 1800. Didn't have much luck. Caught a little dink on a crank. Caught a 12" one on a plastic worm at 20' around 1930. Called it a day at 2000. Lake seemed to be in better co...
By: _Sergiy_
Posted: 7/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Went to Lake Tapps this afternoon for some bass. I got my blow up boat and went into the center of the swimming area away from the swimming people. I use my bill lewis rattle trap and after a couple c...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 7/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps this morning. Started out slow. Never put a fish in the boat in the first two hours. But that first fish was 3-2, which was my second bigest for the day. After that it was a couple fish ...
By: al3x
Posted: 7/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 5 stayed until 11. Had a good run around stumps and docks. Used some canks and some plastics. Silver with some black seemd to work the best. Majority between 14 to 18 inches caught 14...
By: _Sergiy_
Posted: 7/21/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/20/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Went to Lake Tapps in the morning until the evening. But i didn't pull any fish out until the evening when i first got a 3/4 pound, 10 1/4 inch sm bass and then my smallest which i didn't measure and ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with RickyDBasser and we hit Tapps at about 6am. Fishing started off kinda slow but was pretty good a little later. We finished with about 25 SMB caught mostly 1 lb to 3 lb range. Rick hooke...
By: nx7k
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps with a new friend from the BAss Club. We had a good morning. Started off slow but after about 45 minutes it heated up good. We caught about 30 SMB with ten being over 2 lbs and p...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/14/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6:30 till 11:30. Had a very good day. Caught 16 smallmouth with over half of them over two pounds, and one 3-2. Only caught two dinks. All caught on my home-made 4 inch straight worms in w...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Because of a promise to watch my grand urcants, sorry, grandkids, I was only able to go out for a couple hours. Because my time was limited I went straight to the point across the lake to the left, a...
By: b.gagne22
Posted: 5/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2013
Hot Spots: 3
fished from North boat launch from 6 until just after noon, and considering I have never fished this lake I think the 13 I caught today would be considered a great day. After fumbling around in some s...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/16/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Back to Lake Tapps, and, as usual, still kicking out smallies. Decided to try some locations I had never fished before with little success. Ended up going back to my old haunts, catching 12 with half ...
By: b.gagne22
Posted: 5/16/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/16/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Was on the lake early again today. A little tougher than yesterday, but still managed to catch three smallmouth, two of which were 2-3 lbs. Overall a good day, better than being at work.
