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By: steepanddeep
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling a short bill 2" bronze crank bait off the points on the main lake. Caught a few smallmouths, then thought I had the bottom....until the head shake! Made several salmon like runs, great fig...
By: NineFingerFury
Posted: 6/7/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Heard there were some SMB in the resivoir, so I thought I'd check it out this morning. I don't have a boat and was told there was plenty of shore access for fishing. There is indeed. Threw out 4" Snip...
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 6/15/2016
Species: Carp
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My brother in-law bought a house on Lake Tapps last month and when we went to see it the first time I saw some big carp at the end of his dock. I've never fished for carp so I did some research and w...
By: cajunlat
Posted: 8/5/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Went to Tapps for the first time ever. Was real sunny so fished wacky rigged senkos under docks and drop shots next to the shaded areas next to docks.
Tried throwing a topwater walking bait; got a...
By: JustinL24
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished tapps last week and caught lots of big smallmouth. We went out around 6 AM to 5 PM and the bite was best later. Our biggest smallmouth was around 5 pounds and managed to get a nice 30in tiger m...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 9/14/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Had errands in the area, so I figure I'll bring the boat with me and fish.
Turns out, free launching today since nobody was at the booth. Sweet.
Tough fishing. Worked shallow. Then a point. ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 4/2/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 10AM. Water temps ranged from 47-49.5 degrees. Much to my surprise, found a some healthy weedbeds at various locations. Found many muskies suspended off points ranging in depths f...
By: 502300
Posted: 4/11/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit tapps today (around 7:45am) in the kayak trying to catch some large mouth, or small mouth. Threw jerk baits chatterbaits senkos crankbaits but nothing seemed to have any interest. Switched to a ni...
By: 502300
Posted: 5/7/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kayak out on Tapps. Going after SMB threw wacky rigged night crawlers, and caught lots of small 4-8 inch SMB then a nice little 14 inch 1.5 SMB on a trout magnet. Fun day on the water.
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/10/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Trolling a small bronze crankbait on a lightweight rod in about 10 feet of water. Inhaled it. Excellent fight, made a couple good runs! Released unharmed. Had a decent smallmouth as well.
By: Ryan44
Posted: 5/23/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 7 to 10am. Caught a mixed bag of Smallmouth and Largemouth. Fish have moved up to the shallows for the spawn. All fish were caught around structure or near docks in less than 6 feet of wat...
By: steepanddeep
Posted: 5/31/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a nice smallmouth today, 4-5 lbs, along with another half dozen small ones. Initially thought this fish was a tiger due to the feeling of some mass , but then it jumped! Had my rubber salmo...
By: boyscoutman
Posted: 6/1/2017
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
went out on my kayack on Tapps. launched off the dock and tried some crank baits, but no luck. so went to an old dock to drop shot for crappie but still nothing. had two small bites but that was it. ...
By: red
Posted: 6/9/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for a compilation of fishing in tapps for the last couple weeks. The bass fishing I've been off the hook.you have to weed through a ton of dinks but there are some nice ones to be ha...
By: toadythekid
Posted: 6/15/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Two friends and I hit Lake Tapps earlyish on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. Gorgeous, summerlike weather, so we only had a couple hours before the speedboaters and jetskiers started tearing up th...
By: red
Posted: 6/28/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Tapps is putting out some toads!! Throwing big baits and picking up some nice muskies and some monster smallmouths. My daughters friend really wanted to come over and fish. She caught about 25 fish i...
By: 502300
Posted: 7/5/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 7:00 am. Started with a wacky rigged KVD dream shot and that's what I used all day. I caught 5 LMB in the 5-12 inch range I caught them all on wind blown concrete faces. Also caugh...
By: 502300
Posted: 7/8/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kayaks to Tapps with my brother yesterday. The wind was blowing pretty hard fished the back side of islands so the wind couldn't get us. I stuck with 3 lures all day a wacky rigged KVD drea...
By: knishino
Posted: 7/10/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I checked out Lake Tapps for the first time. What a beautiful place! Gorgeous view of Mt. Rainier. I started out throwing a squarebill crankbait, and I caught 2 dink smallmouths. They hit really c...
By: 502300
Posted: 7/16/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took kayaks out again on Tapps. Started off throwing a wacky rigged KVD dream shot, and that's what I used all day. Fishing started off slow (from about 7:45-9 we got no hits) I thought mabey it was ...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 7/18/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the 11th and 12th. My son and I have been wanting to give the Tiger Muskies a shot, so we headed to Tapps for a couple of days.
On the water by noon and armed with the "Tapps Mu...
By: Mr Fitten
Posted: 7/19/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Lake Tapps with my bro Rob to Fish Rainier Bass Clubs open tourney. Didn't get my first spot but did get my second choice to fish. It was a grind to get 5 but did with one goodin. Thew mos...
By: red
Posted: 7/21/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got my personal best tiger this morning. 48+ x 21-1/2 !!! Got it on a perch glide bait in about 10 ft of water. Probably the hardest fighting one I've got to date as well. Came completely out of the w...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 9/13/2017
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Drove down from Marysville to Tapps early to beat the worst of the traffic. Having checked the Lake Tapps website I noted that the park opened at 6:00AM. We arrived at the park at about 6:30--gate was...
By: nwmondou
Posted: 9/14/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/13/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to see if I could coax up some smallmouth that may be feeding up shallow. Wasn't expecting much this time of year, but ended up having a pretty awesome day. Came away with one undersized smal...
