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By: nx7k
Posted: 7/7/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took a friend to Tapps that actually just moved onto Driftwood Point but had never fished on Tapps. Dave and I launched about 6am and before the day was over we had caught 16 SMB with Dave catching t...
By: bassman72
Posted: 7/10/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Good day today. Caught about 25 fish. Nothing of bragging size though mostly 1 pounders and a couple dinks. Action was hot about 8 this morning when I located some weed beds in about 12 ft of water th...
By: bassman72
Posted: 7/12/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We'll after catching some fish at clear lake yesterday my boy got the bass bug and insisted on getting up early with mom and dad early and go fishing. The boy was hot. I set him up with a drop shot a...
By: bassman72
Posted: 7/22/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a great day on the water. Weather was great not to hot. Got a late start but the lake was quiet not a lot of boats out. Just bought my now 6 year old a new Jimmy Huston camo pole and had to b...
By: bassman72
Posted: 7/26/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake about 6:30 am by 7:30 we already landed 6 smallies including one that went 2 lbs. fished until about 2pm. The wife and I caught about a dozen each. Not the day we had last sat. But a goo...
By: bassman72
Posted: 8/14/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and I hit the lake about 0800. Was just straight out from the county ramp getting things situated in the boat and the wife throws out a Carolina rig in about 25 ft of water and gets one right...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/16/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning. Launched at Driftwood with a friend. We had a great time. We caught 35 or 36 Smallmouth Bass all in about 18 ft of water. There were dinks up to 3.5 pounder. Phot...
By: bassman72
Posted: 5/22/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water about 10:00 this morning. Beautiful sunny sky's and the mountain looked huge today. It was a bit of a challange today because I had knee surgery less than a week ago and I'm still not th...
By: nx7k
Posted: 4/12/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps about 11am. It was my first time out this year. Caught 14 Smallmouth all Catch and Release. Most effective bait was the Strike King DB Rage Craw around rocks in about 8 ft of wat...
By: bassman72
Posted: 4/18/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report. Had Tues. off and only had a few hrs in the evening to fish. Figured since the weather was cooperating to this point I would give it a try since the rest of the week looked...
By: russmcdonald
Posted: 4/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
First time out on the water for this year. Used it as a shake down cruise on the boat. Used Senko black with blue flecks. Bit was slow. Got to put the first fish in the boat. Lost a nice one at t...
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps with my buddy from the Bass Club Joe. We caught about 18 SMB all catch and release. Caught 7 that were real nice fish. Two photos attached of Joe with 3 lbrs he caught. Fishing ...
By: bassman72
Posted: 9/16/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake in the afternoon. On the water by about 1:00 and it was still overcast. Water surface temp was about 72. Started out on the point furthest to the right of the county park before it opens ...
By: FishingTenor
Posted: 10/22/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
My brother Dale took me out on Lake Tapps for my birthday. We both wanted to hook a tiger muskie, but I heard there were a lot of bass in there too. I brought my largest trout net for bass, and also ...
By: JesusFish
Posted: 11/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/30/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well ....Ron an I started off our morning at my favorite late fall Jerkbait spot. Week before I got a SM and a LM. Today...NADA. So we went to my late fall deep water dropoff and started cleaning ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/8/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning with my friend Joe. We arrived at boat launch at 6am. The day started off slow but really picked up around 9am. We ended up the day catching 25 Smallmouth Bass with ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/31/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning with my Grandson. We caught 14 SMB with no real dinks. Smallest one was about a pound and largest one went 2 lb 12 oz. All caught in about 18 ft of water on Grubs. ...
By: motodmast
Posted: 9/2/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Another usual day on tapps, got out there about 4pm, chop was super bad from all the pleasure boaters, im talking about some 4ft waves! besides that it was good, managed 14 in 2 hours, all in the same...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/22/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning and took my wife. It was an absolutely perfect day. Temp in the mid seventies and clear skies. Beautiful sunrise. We caught 18 SMB and my wife had her best day ever...
By: bassman72
Posted: 8/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps in the morning from about 0700 to about 1200. I caught about 12-15 smallies. Used a 5" KVD finesse worm in watermelon color/coffee scented. 15-20 feet of water. The worm was Carolina rigg...
By: bassman72
Posted: 8/15/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well not quite the numbers today as yesterday but boy the big fish were biting. Hit the water at about 0700. Hit a new spot I never fished on a point off Snag Island. Fish were busting the surface aft...
By: Slacktime
Posted: 8/16/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps today for some smallies, had a very good day on the water. Caught 20 fish, released another 10 or so including 2 over 4lbs. Funny they hit watermelon colored crappie jigs all day long. W...
By: needs2hunt
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Squatch and I hit Tapps this morning... got there around 6:45... glad we started late because we had no idea that there was a tournament going on this weekend... quick launch ... fired up the boat and...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/18/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I met RickyDBasser at the Pierce County North launch and we terrorized the SMB for the morning. Between the two of us we caught 52 SMB and only about 5 were dinks. The largest was 3 lbs and we had s...
By: bassman72
Posted: 8/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well not my best day on Tapps. It was windy which made it tough to keep the boat in position. Not sure if it was all the fishing pressure from the weekend tournament or what but I struggled to locate ...