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By: Sideburns
Posted: 9/15/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/14/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Went back out to tapps last night, fished for about two hours with my dad. Brought home a couple of nice perch, but no bass. Going back out this evening, looks like I'll be fishin alone. Starting t...
By: bassman72
Posted: 9/17/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Did not get to the lake till about 10:30. Did not know this was the day they started drawing down the lake, it was about a foot down. Fished shallow around the weed lines and deep 20-25' as well. The ...
By: the piranha
Posted: 9/17/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 11 to 5. With dinks included I caught a lot of fish. It was my best day ever for smallmouth. Biggest was 2.7. All on top shot average 20 ft deep. I was jumping points and rotating out ...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 9/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few hours on the lake with no luck several day ago, and went back out yesterday morning, with similar results... Until I went to ask advice from another fisherman anchored up near bankers isla...
By: the piranha
Posted: 9/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got every thing ready to have the kiddos and wife fish the small mouth factory once again, but when we arrived at north tapps park, the sign was up saying the launch is closed. There was ecology bloc...
By: triton21
Posted: 9/22/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake with my buddy at 8 am and fished till 1 pm. The water level was very low but the fish were biting in the morning.The big ones came in 10 to 25 feet of water. Lots of smaller fish too, mos...
By: triton21
Posted: 11/10/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My buddy and I decided to walk the lake and get some pictures of some structure on the lake and brought along our rods to make a few cast and low and behold look what I caught on a senko!!! Water is e...
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: bassman72
Posted: 4/29/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Didn't hit the water till about 10:30. Really had to work hard the first few hours to get a couple which came on a lipless crank. I started out working the shallows about 0-7 ft. The rains must have d...
By: the piranha
Posted: 4/30/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I didn't get to the lake until 11. I caught 3 right away all on d shot on shallow points. Missed one on a white hula grub. That was it. I fish until 3. I forgot my front sonar and the one at steer...
By: JesusFish
Posted: 11/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well ....Ron an I started off our morning at my favorite late fall Jerkbait spot. Week before I got a SM and a LM. Today...NADA. So we went to my late fall deep water dropoff and started cleaning ...
By: JesusFish
Posted: 4/2/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps about 10am for some smallmouth action. Fished all over the lake. North, Mid, South. Tried Deep, Shallow, Mid depths....nothing. Finally got the Musky mid-lake in like 2 ft of water with ...
By: bassman72
Posted: 4/7/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
fished Tapps today. had to wait for the kids to get off to school so I was not on the water till after 10:30. fished hard all day trying everything I could think of for spring conditions and the wife ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 4/12/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps about 11am. It was my first time out this year. Caught 14 Smallmouth all Catch and Release. Most effective bait was the Strike King DB Rage Craw around rocks in about 8 ft of wat...
By: bassman72
Posted: 4/18/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report. Had Tues. off and only had a few hrs in the evening to fish. Figured since the weather was cooperating to this point I would give it a try since the rest of the week looked...
By: russmcdonald
Posted: 4/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First time out on the water for this year. Used it as a shake down cruise on the boat. Used Senko black with blue flecks. Bit was slow. Got to put the first fish in the boat. Lost a nice one at t...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 8/26/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished my home lake, Tapps. Tough day. Started out on the pocket in front of the boat launch. Caught two. Then went to Driftwood Point without catching a fish, then went to the point south of Banker's...
By: PintSizedLucille
Posted: 8/28/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Finally had a breakthrough day! (A lot of thanks go out to Rickydbasser)
Started fishing about noon and things were slow as I trolled with a curly tail grub about 20-24 ft deep. I switched to a water...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/31/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning with my Grandson. We caught 14 SMB with no real dinks. Smallest one was about a pound and largest one went 2 lb 12 oz. All caught in about 18 ft of water on Grubs. ...
By: motodmast
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another usual day on tapps, got out there about 4pm, chop was super bad from all the pleasure boaters, im talking about some 4ft waves! besides that it was good, managed 14 in 2 hours, all in the same...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched my boat at around 7:00 AM. It was sprinkling and the lake was flat as glass. Started fishing the edges of the pocket right in front of the boat launch. Caught 5 in the first 20 minutes. Only ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/8/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning with my friend Joe. We arrived at boat launch at 6am. The day started off slow but really picked up around 9am. We ended up the day catching 25 Smallmouth Bass with ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/10/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Arrived at Tapps at 7 am. Dense fog on the water. For that reason I fished the ridge and pocket directly in front of the boat launch. Caught five there. Nothing big. Once the fog began to lift motored...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps yesterday morning. Was on the lake at 7 AM. A thick fog covered the lake. Because I have no guidance system in the boat, I fished the pocket in front of the launch until the fog began li...
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps with my buddy from the Bass Club Joe. We caught about 18 SMB all catch and release. Caught 7 that were real nice fish. Two photos attached of Joe with 3 lbrs he caught. Fishing ...
