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By: mrbass
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
HIT TAPPS FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH SOME BUDDIES.AFTER GETTIN A FEEL FOR THE LAKE I TOLD MY BUDDY GET ME CLOSER TO ROCKS HE WANTED TO FISH DEEP. GOT CLOSE ENOUGH TO THROW A 1/2OZ RATTLE TRAP CUZ NOTHIN...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with the Mrs. Dilbert, and his brother in law this AM. I took the wife to the usual locations for completely selfish reasons. If she did not catch a fish, I would have to either spend less ...
By: dilbert
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched out of the North County launch at about 6:15 with my brother-in-law, no other trailers in the lot yet, but one guy was fishing on the dike west of the launch. Met up with 2000Subaru and his ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was pretty good, we got a mixed bag, 4 nice smallmouth, 1 nice Largemouth. Water temp 53 to 55 degrees.
By: mtsiview
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The Wife and I finally made our first trip to Lake Tapps. I, myself, had fished it with Bill G. one time last year. The wife and I were primarily targeting smallmouth bass and this was our first tim...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps this morning around 8. Great day to be on the water. Saw a few other fisherman out there. Concentrated on fishing the points. Had quite a few strikes on a 7in plastic Tequilla Sunrise Zoom w...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
DIlbert and I went to Tapps to avoid the silver fish fisher people this morning. The lake was flat and very uncrowded at launch, I even braved the B.O.D. to launch from Bonney Lake. We hit up our us...
By: Keith
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Tapps later than I wanted to. Had a couple of bites that's it. Seen my first tiger and tried to get him to bite but no luck there.
By: cole
Posted: 4/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 9 to 11, water temp in the low to mid 50s. Caught 5 smallest 3.5 biggest 5.2.
By: bumper
Posted: 4/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Pretty good day, caught 5 fish. 5.2 lbs to 3.5 lbs. Water in the mid 50's. All were caught at 9 to 11 feet of water. All in all a good day on the lake, nobody hooked and only one broken rod!
By: Bill G
Posted: 4/15/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Yes guys I'm up to my old tricks again of showing new people where and how to fish Lake Tapps. You can be mad at me for getting more fisher people on the great lake, but I will keep doing it. When any...
By: cole
Posted: 4/16/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bite was on this morning, caught 6 all in the 3lb range biggest being 3 12. Water temp was in the upper 40s to 51.
By: Keith
Posted: 4/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit tapps up to do some fishing with the kid. Got to the county park and there were three and four foot waves slamming the launch. So we went to allan york to launch. Finally got on the water about 8:...
By: Kenster
Posted: 4/12/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time out with the boat this year, actually a week earlier than last year if you can believe it! Jr. his friend and I launched from the County park around 1pm. The boat fired up after a few attem...
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: 2000subaru
Posted: 4/8/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, the boys wanted to get out for their first boat trip today. I waited as long as I could and hid from the rain until it was unbearable. We tried to launch at North Tapps, but ran into two guys ...
By: BassTracker16
Posted: 4/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good day to be on the lake except for the wind. Hit two fish that were holding around 27 feet of water that had steep drop offs on both sides that went down to 50 and 60 feet of water. Both f...
By: red
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I walked down to the lake this morning and fished mine and my neighbors docks for smallies with no luck. My little girl caught her first musky. Unfortunately it was already dead. It was a big 44 inche...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/25/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Early season bite is officially on. Hit Tapps late afternoon working Dike 3. Made a few casts with a crankbait and decided to switch to Blue Fox Super Vibrax #3. There was a set of logs submerged abou...
By: Keith
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/30/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Lots of fish on the fish finder. But none on the ends of the poles. Water temp 43.5 when we left at 2:30.
By: dilbert
Posted: 11/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps to test out 2000Subaru's new boat and maybe even catch some bass. think that boat goes about as fast as I'd be comfortable going out there. It's niiiiiiiiiice! The weather coope...
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: 10/7/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Tapps expecting rain, but instead it was warm and REALLY windy. There were white caps in the main part of the lake. The wind made it really hard to fish, I think I would have preferred t...
