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By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 5/12/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 9:00am and fished the northwest end for about 4 hours. Water temps were between 57 and 61 over the time we were fishing. Caught a few 1 to 1.5lb smallies on green Sweet Beaver and g...
By: procaster
Posted: 5/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My friend wanted me to go fishing with him on tapps at 0700, so I met up with just a couple poles and the tackle box. Turns out he doesn't have his fishing license and no one else did either. We w...
By: jdozier
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 8 ranging from 1lb in 10 ft to 3.5 at 25 ft. All caught on perch pattern dive cranks, fast retrieve, staggered jerk pattern. Seems the males are starting to move up to scout out and clear some ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from shore for about an hour and a half. It was slow at first, but then i picked up a few 12"-14". I had one really nice bass on and another that was probably about three pounds. I lost both. T...
By: procaster
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 1130. Got one right away on a purple/white x-rap right in front of boat launch. It was only abut a pound. Only fish all day. Water temp was 54 all day everywhere. Lake is ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I finally got the boat out on Lake Tapps.The water level is coming up fast,and the boat launch is good.We fished hard all day for these two,and we missed four other bites.We were dragging p...
By: drhookem
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the afternoon checking out Tapps. We fishied for four hours, started off jigging gort only one in about 15 feet of water. Switched to crankbaits caught on one an x-rap and the other on # 5 sh...
By: procaster
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I only managed to catch a dink smallie. I caught it on jig head with firetiger minnow draggin on bottom. Threw all the usual stuff. Water was 56. There were other boats on water didn't talk to any...
By: procaster
Posted: 4/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well It looks like i'm the first Tapps report of the year. I only had from 2pm to 4pm to fish. I got lucky and found one smallie, it was about 2lbs. Got it on a purple/white x shad rap 8 to 10 foot...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 11/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We had about two hours to fish before we picked big brother from kindergarted, so we hit Tapps for some cool weather smallies. Fish were biting from 28 to 12 feet, finally picked one up shallow on a ...
By: procaster
Posted: 11/3/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
fished Tapps on sunday from 1000 to 1430. Didn't catch any, not even any strikes. Fished from 9ft to 57ft mostly vertical jiggin. Talked to a couple other boats none for them either. Water was 54....
By: nx7k
Posted: 10/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made our last trip to Tapps this year. Water level is falling fast. Caught eight SMB mostly in about 20 ft of water using Senkos Texas Rigged fishing on points. Will return to Tapps next spring whe...
By: procaster
Posted: 10/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to tapps for the first time of the year, This is the fisrt year that i have really targeted smallies, so i have been reading everything i can find. On a topo map i found a big hump and headed s...
By: nx7k
Posted: 10/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps about noon and fished till 345pm. They close the park at 4pm. glad we quit when we did. We caught ten SMB ranging in size from a dink to 2 lb 6 oz. All on Green Senkos in about 20ft...
By: Surge
Posted: 10/3/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is a repost because the pics didnt work the first time. I'll go into a little better detail. Me and my dad got to one of the private access parks by his house at 6pm spent 20 minutes trying out a...
By: Surge
Posted: 10/2/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got there about 6pm landed about 15 fish in two hours with these being the biggest all off the shore with a night crawler.
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps again this morning. Bite was later in the morning, I guess due to cooling water. Bite didnot turn on until about 945am. Water was 64 degs. Used Senkos in about twenty ft of water, T...
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/22/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps Sunday Morning with a friend from Puyallup Hawg Hunters and fishing was slower due to cold front that had just passed but we boated 18 or 19 with largest about two pounds or just over. ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/17/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps this morning. Departed from Pierce County Park at about 640am. Used Senkos in about 8 to 15 ft of water around points and slayed em. We boated about twenty or twenty five with the la...
By: Knox
Posted: 9/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Lake Tapps today with the wife to catch some small mouth bass. had no luck what so ever. It was very windy which made the water choppy. The water looked more murky then usual, but was warm...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/2/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the lake at 6:45am, with my buddy Bill Green. We left the ramp in a fog! I ment the lake was fogged in. Got lost, on with the GPS. Started fishing and the fish were on from the start. The mag...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 8/29/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to fish the west side of the lake today. Used Yamamoto Hula Grubs, spinners and finally Yamamoto Sencos. Faster presentations are not working all that well here and the fish of any size that...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 8/29/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Another slow day on Tapps. Headed back to the south side of Tapps island where I had a follow the week before from a nice sized bass, started 2 docks away from where I had seen it and on about the 2...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/14/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My 7 year old daughter was fishing off our dock while my wife and I were doing work down at the lake. All of the sudden she yells daddy I have a big one. I had her set up with a night crawler so I was...
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 8/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps on both Tuesday and Wednesday, we threw the whole tackle box of tricks at these fish for two days and managed a grand total of 5 fish. We fished the shallows, docks, deep water, weed bed...
