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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: FishingTenor
Posted: 11/11/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I am submitting this report late, but thought it was a unique experience and I had some photos worth sharing.
They have dropped the lake level 50 feet to work on the inlet. My brother reported to me...
By: NathanHarrell5
Posted: 2/27/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 2/27/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished tapps today after school for a couple hours. Used just about everything until I decided to start doing what I know best. Flipped a 3/8oz football head with a swimbait trailer tight up against s...
By: JesusFish
Posted: 7/10/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps for the first time since like September???
Was not great. I caught 2, another guy said they got 12 between the 2 guys on the boat. The fish were SKINNY and SUPER PALE. They looked lik...
By: bassman72
Posted: 7/11/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of the year to Tapps. Had low expectation after hearing other reports about water clarity. We did better than expected but had to work at it. Caught about a dozen smallies today. Had to fi...
By: ARMYGUY88
Posted: 7/11/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/11/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Went out to Tapps with a buddy, for the first time since it opened back up had good time. Smallmouth were biting. no real pattern, they struck multiple style baits and presentations, i caught a 2lb on...
By: KevinS
Posted: 7/17/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First time out on Tapps this season. Fished 3-6 PM. Caught 3 SMB - two 6-inchers and one 17-inch (pictured). The water is pretty milky. All fish caught in 10-15 feet. The big SMB was off the shor...
By: bassman72
Posted: 7/19/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/18/2015
Hot Spots: 0
was hoping the water would clear up a little more by now. It was slightly better than last week but not much. Got to the Co. launch at 0600. tried some topwater right away after an hour I only had one...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Tapps is awaking a bit. Took my son and grandson out for some smallie action. Parked up under the Tapps Bridge. Ended up with 8 good fish. Missed about 5 or 6 others. Used 4"sinkos. Whacky rigged minu...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Report from the 22nd..little late but better than way later. Hit a good 40 on a dawg in open water. Big dawgs mean bigger fish. Open water. Tapps has at least 10 muskies in it as of now. Gotta get out...
By: JesusFish
Posted: 8/4/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was still "ok" at best. I got skunked, my guest caught 3. Good job Jordan! Always weird when the guy you are teaching to fish catches 3 times as many as you do with your gear... but, in the...
By: red
Posted: 8/8/2015
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I caught my 2nd trophy musky in a month. Both 44-46 inches. Both on bucktails in 12 ft of water: I'm also posting a picture of a nice king I got at sekiu last month out of Olsons . 30 lb hatchery caug...
By: Amx
Posted: 8/13/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Finally made it back to Tapps, been 4 years. Got 4 Smallies with biggest at 2.73 pounds.The others were between 8" and a pound or a little more. Very slow soft bite. LOTS of time between bites. Jesus...
By: topdawg47
Posted: 8/16/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Lake Tapps, family was napping. Haven't been to Tapps in awhile since construction, etc.
I wasn't expecting to catch much, considering water is still very chalky in clarity.
Anyhow, ...
By: the piranha
Posted: 10/3/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I took my dad up to tapps since he was in town. We jumped main lake points for a few hours. Hooked 3 on d shot in 9 to 13 ft on water. My dad caught his first small mouth, so he was excited. On the...
By: jrhkuna
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and daughter caught 3 Smallies at the county park off of the docks. We were just throwing worms which seemed to work better than the plastics I was throwing.
By: jrhkuna
Posted: 4/3/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went back at it today. Used worms again. Caught this nice 16" Smallie. My oldest caught one but it spit the hook right before she landed it.
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 4/17/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hard fishing today. Started out trolling. Planer boards and one flat line. No strikes. Nadda thing. Got to play with the lowrance. Water temps were in the low 60's. A little casting had one hot follo...
By: Spaceyak1000
Posted: 5/3/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 7 AM. It was a glorious day out there. Threw buck tails and glide baits. Trolled a jointed shad rap. Crickets. Did not see any or have any follows. Had a 8" rainbow trout fo...
By: nx7k
Posted: 5/9/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Took my wife to Lake Tapps and had a pretty good morning. We caught 12 total. I caught a 5 1/2 lb Largemouth and a 3.75 lb Smallmouth. The Largemouth was already spawned out but the big Smallie was...
By: Lord Of The Fly
Posted: 5/30/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished hard with crankbaits, plastics on dropshots, jigs, spinnerbaits and senkos but no luck. Weather was sunny and temps in the 50's. Water temp was 62-63 degrees in areas that were 20 feet or less....
