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By: dilbert
Posted: 11/11/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The word of the day was WINDY. Although the predicted rain never materialized, the wind sure did and it was gusty. Fished from around 9:30 am until about 2:30 pm fighting the wind most of the time. ...
By: DBASSFISH
Posted: 11/25/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Well the water is getting lower so the fish are moving and getting hard to target. I still manage to get a few bites, but it takes a lot of moving around to find them. This time of the year is my favo...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 3/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is fishable, both launches are open and free for now. The water averages 45 degrees. Bill got new electronics and we mostly were out to try them out so didn't fish seriously but it was a g...
By: dilbert
Posted: 9/30/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps in the morning from about 6:45 until around 12. It rained the WHOLE time, but we still managed to catch some fish. We saw a couple of deer grazing along the shoreline of snag island. I...
By: dilbert
Posted: 9/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got my line in the water a little before 7:00 am. The sun was just coming up over the trees and steam was rising off the lake. There were a few morning clouds that quickly went away. I started ou...
By: dilbert
Posted: 9/8/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got out to my favorite spot a little before the sun came up. I should have checked the calendar before I went fishing. Today was national harass an angler day, at least on Lake Tapps. A boat pull...
By: BrianM
Posted: 7/27/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Tapps the last two days. I caught about 12 smallies, but none of the size I have been seeing on other posts. It was my first time actually fishing Tapps from a boat for smallies, so it too...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report...busy busy busy!! Met Brian at Tapps for a little smallie fishin.August 11th. I tried for a ski for an hour then hooked up with a new fishin bud. Manged to get I think 6 fis...
By: TSULLY31
Posted: 7/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was out at Tapps and fished for tiger muskies for the first 2 hours and then switched over to the drop shot rig for bass. While using a 5'9" spin rod with 6 lb maxima I got slammed. Turns out a sm...
By: chris martos
Posted: 5/25/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on Tapps again to catch some more smallmouth bass. My friend and I caught 20 or so and caught one musky around 24 inches and lost another one that was well over 50 inches that broke me off. T...
By: stevertd2010
Posted: 10/11/2019
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/11/2019
Hot Spots: 0
If I had to rate the day based on weather, I would have given it a 5 star. But for fishing quality, a big goose egg would be appropriate. First skunk of the year, and I go fishing a lot. Maybe my ...
By: KevinS
Posted: 5/1/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps for 3 hours, Tues afternoon. Water temps were 58-59 degrees. Caught three smallies - 2 on a clown X-rap and 1 on a red wiggle wart. The largest smallie was 18 inches and put up a good ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/22/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/21/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for a few hours had some good bites and landed a nice Small mouth
By: troutslayer_97
Posted: 6/29/2020
Species: Other
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/28/2020
Hot Spots: 0
went to tapps over the weekend to try to catch some new species grab some small jigs and some worms and boy did they work caught over 70 rockbass and and loads of sculpin. great day.
By: Washingtonian
Posted: 9/3/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up Tapps first thing this morning looking for some smallmouth action. We were the second ones on the lake and started out fishing some rip rap to see if anything had come up shallower yet. Coupl...
By: stevenjf3
Posted: 10/25/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/20/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and I went to Lake Tapps for only the second time and caught probably 20 to 25 smallmouth in 6 hours. Weather was cold and it was extremely foggy...at times could only see maybe 50 feet out from ...
By: triton21
Posted: 10/10/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 330 to 600 and it was slow fishing. Had some small light bites until the picture fish which weighed 4-14. Hardly felt the bite just a heavy weight on the end of the line. Was fishing in 2...
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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. ...