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By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
As I said, returned to Tapps. Caught nine, with three in the two pound plus range. Nothing bigger. Six on a curly tailed grub, and two on a Stick-o. With water temps now pushing 65.0 degrees, am seein...
By: needs2hunt
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 3
My boy and i decided to hit lake Tapps this morning... only 2 other guys were launching at 6am, and both i think were Walakes members...
We started out directly south of the launch and caught our...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Returned to Tapps again. Not as good as yesterday, but did catch 9 smallmouth, with three in the 2 plus pound range. All caught shallow on both grubs and Stick-0's. With water temps yesterday at 64 de...
By: 06Roush
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps all day with my nice day off! Ended up being my first 20 fish day, woo hoo. Caught all fish in the shallows and the majority were all guarding beds. I started off just casting and cruising d...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/8/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6:30 till only 10:30 because of prior appointment. But a great four hours. Caught 20 smallmouth. None that would go 3 lbs, but only a couple dinks. Most caught on a weightless Stick-0, wit...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/9/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps from 6:30 till 10:00. Tried a new area first without success. Went back to the same area I've been pounding for the last four days. Caught six, with one being my biggest smallmouth so far...
By: needs2hunt
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake this morning with a buddy...
good times caught a dozen smallies, all averaging 2 lbs... seen some much bigger fish just couldn't get them to bite... A few were caught off there beds w...
By: waflyboy
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Howdy! Been watching this site for a while and finally decided to post a report:
Arrived at the North park ramp around 6am on Saturday. I think there was a tournament going on, because the ramp w...
By: kevinb
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 6:30 with my buddy Ryan. Had a pretty good day fishing slightly deeper water(approx. 20 feet) went 4/5 with muskies in the net and a few follows.Most of the fish were smaller but d...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps Saturday in my buddy's bassboat. Of course we were fishing for smallies. And then it happened. While fishing a swimbait I got a tic and set the hook. Early in the fight I thought to myse...
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.
By: SS minnow
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 3
cought 12 smallies any where frome the 1-3 lb region and one 4lb largmouth...The fish are kinda spread out so find the fish and stick to that general area where you found em and sucsess should be had....
By: KevinS
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on Lake Tapps. Caught 5 SMB, the largest was just over 12" (photo) in about 12 foot depth. Had other hits but failed to get a hook set. Used a green tube and a green senko to get resu...
By: SS minnow
Posted: 5/23/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Hit tapps lastnight around 3pm and had a blast cought 7 smallies almost all most of them about 1-3 lbs and 9 rockbass.The smallies are acting odd there still spread out from point to point or dock to...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 5/25/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to tapps with my son. First time on the water at this lake. He's fallen in love with bass fishing so I've been tryin to find him some! We had to fish on and off through the rain down pour whic...
By: motodmast
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was n ok day out on Tapps, seen lots of other bass boats out there, fish are kinda in a post spawn mode.. ended up with 6 smallies, none bigger than 2lb, and also managed to hook and net a 30"ish t...
By: nx7k
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps with my friend bob, over here from East Wenatchee. We had a blast. The fishing was okay. Smallmouth have spawned and were scattered. No real pattern to the fishing. We would ca...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 6/4/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Second time fishing this lake. Unfortunately my boy couldnt go this time. Got to the lake around 3pm and started fishing some docks. Caught one on a jig maybe 10ft of water that went a pound and a hal...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 6/5/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps. Sunny skies and flat water. Nice. I wish I could say the same for the bass fishing. Lake Tapps is in that terrible transition period which happens every year about this time. Most ...
