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By: dilbert
Posted: 11/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 7:30am - 10:30am. It was an unusually warm morning for November 1st, it felt like a nice spring morning. We fished all new spots trying to locate those cold November bass, and mana...
By: boatdude
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well first day of the year on tapps, really frigid in the morning. Went to work about 745 and continuously tried to find water temp that might signal some movement. Main lake was 40.2 with sunny poin...
By: terry329
Posted: 4/5/2009
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was nice getting out on the water for the first time this year. We spent the better part of the day travelling from area to area around the lake with just a few nibbles and not one fish. Tried pl...
By: dilbert
Posted: 8/17/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing just after 6:00 am with my Dad and Nephew. It was their first time on the lake and first time bass fishing. Everyone caught at least a few fish, the best ones coming from 14-20'. After...
By: SPARKY101
Posted: 9/13/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit tapps for the first time with Bassmasterderek,got there early "no skiers"that's always nice.Cold morning foggy but turned out to be a good weather day.We took some info for this lake that we gathe...
By: t_wild100
Posted: 8/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to tapps about 2 with my uncle. No luck at all though there were a couple loud swimmers about 30 yards on a private dock. had to get off the lake before we could choose a better spot.
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 8/17/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/16/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started at 5am at the Alan Yorke boat launch and fished from the dock. The boat launch was closed for the day, so I had to burn some time before heading to the county launch. Caught 4 before I left,...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps about 0700. Had a new guy start at work last week and he was talking bout fishing so decided I'd take him out this weekend. He caught his first smallie ever and now he's HOOKED! The day star...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, made up for almost 4 weeks of not seeing or catching a Tiger over 30 inches. Got out just in time to see Deadeye and Brett as they were coming in. Shot to a spot I had never tried for Tigers bef...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps this mornin'. Great day to be on the lake since it was rather on the cool side and cloudy so all the skiers stayed away. Fishing was on the slow side, but still ended up with 8 smallies. Two...
By: dilbert
Posted: 6/22/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps to try out a different motor and hopefully catch some fish. The motor ran great and was faster and quieter than the old one...not too shabby. Took my son ('lil-bert) and 200Subaru (it...
By: Capt.Longrod
Posted: 7/5/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the water at 7am and fished til 7pm. Landed 7 muskies and about 20 smallies. The biggest muskie was only 32" and the other 6 were under 30". The biggest smallie was only about 2.5. The litt...
By: Rosann G
Posted: 7/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tapps was mostly calm and heavily overcast. Water temp was in the low 70's. Smallies were small and crappies were handsize. I caught a couple of each and Rosann caught one crappie.
Started to trol...
By: tobeka
Posted: 7/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/7/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Tapps today and didn't have too much luck. I'm not really a pro at this lake so that could be why we didn't catch much. Overall, we caught 5 bass, 2 were 12+ inches and the rest were sma...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 5/19/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with Bumper and caught some smallies. I caught 3 after he headed for home skipping some docks, I believe he had 5 or so, and Yoda caught his first of the year. Saw a few beds, a beast, and so...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out with new Tiger fisherman Maury today. "He got the itch too!" Anyway, nice day on the water for Father's Day. Saw a Tiger in the early a.m And finally got one in the net around noon. Maury is...
By: dilbert
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
None of my usual fishing partners could make it today (grounded), so I went out solo. The weather was overcast and cooler. Water temp was in the upper 50's to low 60's in some areas. I caught plenty...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 6/1/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, got bored this afternoon after running around gathering up some more yamato cinnamon colored grubs, man they're hard to find these days. Any ways, hit Tapps. Didn't find them around the stumps t...
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Another decent day on the water. Took the niece for her first trip, and I actually put her on some fish. I'm starting to think that I have a few places on this lake that I can catch a fish even on t...
By: nx7k
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Lake Tapps with my wife. I caught ten Smallmouth with the largest weighing two pounds seven ounces. The other nine all were in the pound to pound and a half weight range. Used a Watermelo...
By: HammerinHonkers
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps today. Weather was cloudy when we started then got nice and sunny and warm. We were fishing docks around tapps island. We were drop shotting senkos and throwing green curly tail grubs. T...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 5/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps again mid morning. Catching is still hot on smallies. Got to the county park around 8:30 and was off the water around noon, not as busy as I would have expected it. Partner skipped out on me...
By: bigfish84
Posted: 5/24/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Catching is HOT at Tapps! (I say catching because we weren't just "fishing" today) Was on the water at 7:30 and didn't get done catching them until 2:45 when my partner and I left. He was using a cinn...
By: mrbass
Posted: 5/21/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
hit the lake finally with the man who got me back into fishing today. MUSKYHUNTER. we got a few but the big thing here was I saw my first musky to me it is an attractive fish. we saw 2 landed one. som...
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 ...