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By: bassman72
Posted: 9/16/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake in the afternoon. On the water by about 1:00 and it was still overcast. Water surface temp was about 72. Started out on the point furthest to the right of the county park before it opens ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 8/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps this morning. Didn't catch the numbers I did on the last couple trips, but how can one complain about a 22 fish day. Caught four that went from 3.0 to 3.12, which is the biggest smallmo...
By: KevinS
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day at Tapps. VERY foggy in the morning - stayed just north of the boat launch near shore to start. Caught six small SMB while waiting for the visibility to improve. Then headed off to my...
By: KevinS
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day a Tapps. Was VERY foggy in the morning, so spent the early morning just north of the park boat launch near the shore waiting for the visibility to improve. Caught several small SMB and...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 8/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps this morning. Was on the lake by 7:00. Fishing was spotty. Caught 18, but they came in bunches with long periods without a bite. All caught on a Carolina rig with a curly tailed grub or ...
By: bassman72
Posted: 8/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps in the morning from about 0700 to about 1200. I caught about 12-15 smallies. Used a 5" KVD finesse worm in watermelon color/coffee scented. 15-20 feet of water. The worm was Carolina rigg...
By: bassman72
Posted: 8/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well not quite the numbers today as yesterday but boy the big fish were biting. Hit the water at about 0700. Hit a new spot I never fished on a point off Snag Island. Fish were busting the surface aft...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 8/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Back to Tapps for one last trip this week. Rained far more than what the weather man was calling for, but that was alright. I had rain gear and the lake stayed flat all morning. Caught 17 smallies, wi...
By: Slacktime
Posted: 8/16/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps today for some smallies, had a very good day on the water. Caught 20 fish, released another 10 or so including 2 over 4lbs. Funny they hit watermelon colored crappie jigs all day long. W...
By: needs2hunt
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Squatch and I hit Tapps this morning... got there around 6:45... glad we started late because we had no idea that there was a tournament going on this weekend... quick launch ... fired up the boat and...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I met RickyDBasser at the Pierce County North launch and we terrorized the SMB for the morning. Between the two of us we caught 52 SMB and only about 5 were dinks. The largest was 3 lbs and we had s...
By: bassman72
Posted: 8/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well not my best day on Tapps. It was windy which made it tough to keep the boat in position. Not sure if it was all the fishing pressure from the weekend tournament or what but I struggled to locate ...
By: PintSizedLucille
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I just got a small fishing boat and like near Tapps, so I've been on the hunt to learn how to fish for SMB and also to learn the lake. I've been reading all your posts about the lake, what to use, whe...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 8/21/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2013
Hot Spots: 2
All I can say is, WOW! It was just one of those days. Decided to start off on the hump just out in front of the speed limit buoys at the boat launch. Caught 5 there, including one 3-0. Started moving ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 8/22/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went back to Tapps this morning. Water was flat all day. On any other lake, today's fishing would have been great. But for Tapps it was so-so. What can I say? I'm spoiled. Fished till 11:00. Caught 21...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/22/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning and took my wife. It was an absolutely perfect day. Temp in the mid seventies and clear skies. Beautiful sunrise. We caught 18 SMB and my wife had her best day ever...
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: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/28/2010
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit lake Tapps at North County Park. I walked most of the dikes there and caught three rock bass. The weather was nice and calm, there was two other guys fishing for carp. I did not see them catch ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 8/31/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yep,you read that right...PERCH.
The rundown goes like this. My son and I spent the day at Mt.Rainier hiking/playing in the mud.
The wife had to work. On the return,stopped at Tapps for some bank fi...
By: kevinb
Posted: 9/25/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A great evening on the water. My son and I had limited time and daylight. Went to one of our
perch spots with a mix of perch gear(mainly worm/bobber) and musky gear including a chatterbait,spinnerbai...
By: kevinb
Posted: 7/3/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for my son. Fished the bank at Tapps mostly looking for perch with eggs,hook and a bobber. He caught loads of perch,rock bass and sculpins. He started a little collection of fish in t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/14/2005
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Stayed at my grandma's lake lot and left the bobbers in all night. We got a lot of small perch and I got a 10" catfish. My friend casted in the next morning and caught a 13 1/2 in. perch. I haven't ev...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/17/2007
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hey kids,
Here is the photo of the smallie my buddy caught last Friday at Tapps. Nice, 2.8 lbs...enjoy the photo..see yah!!
By: scarlin40
Posted: 8/8/2011
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
decent morning at tapps. never been there before nice facility but $15 bucks just to park is kinda steep in my book. caught two early trolling and one later on a mepps spinner. Lots of good areas to f...
By: plabarge
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I just had to post these pictures of fishing with family and friends off of our dock. We were using kid poles and night crawlers on the bottom. Fished most the afternoon and caught plenty of small f...
