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By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake in the fog just before 9:00 am. Fished the northwest corner first and came up with a few dink smallmouths. Headed to the south side of snag island and started working the snag field on ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got to Lake Tapps early Friday morning with a relative and my Great Nephew, Adam who is a fishing fool. We caught Smallmouth consistently until noon. While fishing with a Grub and Fooball Head I hoo...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had lake Tapps to ourselves this morning. Arrived at 6am and not another boat or vehicle at the launch. Fished points and humps with grubs, worms, crankbakits, Flukes and caught fish consistently. ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The day started off slow. My wife was with me and was killing me. A photo is attached of her 2 lb 1 oz SMB. We fished points in about 20 ft of water. Later she got bored and went tot he park and s...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 27 SMB ranging in size; from 3/4 lb up to 2 lb 14 oz. Using Carolina Rig and Plastic Worms.. Fish on points in 20 to 32 ft of water.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got off work early so thought I could do some exploring on tapps. Evening fishing on tapps is like fishing in a washing machine. The boaters have no sense of space going by with in casting distance....
By: JonathanI
Posted: 8/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My daughter and I went fishing along docks in about 10-20 feet of water when I got a large smb on. As I got it to the boat, my line snapped. We stayed in that same area for about 30 more minutes but...
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: drhookem
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was back harassing the bass on tapps the bite had changed from two days before crankbaits couldn't buy a strike started pitching jigs the bites were very light only boated 12 bass biggest 15 inches mi...
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 8:00 am . Noticed that the Hawg Hunters where roaming the lake =) . Looked like they where having fun.
Went to the NE side of snag island and fished the stump flats despite the heavy p...
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: nx7k
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps at about 6:15am. Launched in light rain. Caught 11 SMB all using Watermelon Yamamoto Tubes off docks. Largest was 2 lb 12 oz. Weather was pretty windy and real cool and rained off...
By: BuckThunder
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 10:00AM. Very few boats on the water which was nice. There were three of us in the boat and we all caught around 3 decent small mouth. I landed a nice large mouth about 2' fr...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 6/14/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First time on Tapps,and after getting lost a couple of times trying to find the park, we hit the water around 8:30 am. I knew nothing about this lake except that I heard that the fishing is usually go...
By: arrow1300
Posted: 6/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
STARTED AROUND 7AM, RAINING,BUT NO WIND WHICH IS GOOD. FOUND ONLY SMALL BASS UNTIL AROUND 10 TO 11 LANDED A 3.5 4 LB . HT TOOK A YAMAMOTO GREEN CREATURE. USED TEXAS RIG WITH NO WEIGHT. SOON AS IT HI...
By: nx7k
Posted: 6/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps with my Grandson for a Father's Day Fishing Trip. Weather was miserable but we caught some pretty nice fish. Caught 12 SMB using Tubes and Drop Shot. Mostly caught off docks near dee...
By: nx7k
Posted: 6/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday at Lake Tapps was pretty good. Caught fish consistently using Tubes and Drop Shotting with worms around docks near deeper water and off points. Caught a couple of nice ones and rest were fr...
By: drhookem
Posted: 7/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps for the afternoon being cloud and showers figured the jets skis and skiers would stay home. Made for a very pleasent afternoon we caught 10 smallmouth and 6 rock bass. In 10ft of wate...
By: nx7k
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps at 6am. Had a good day. Caught 14 SMB using tubes. Largest was 3 lb 3 oz and also had one that was 2 lb 14 oz. Fish in mostly about 12 ft of water off points. Some dock action earl...
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: 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: 10/10/2009
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: 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: 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: 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...