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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: Dan
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My 1st time at Tapps. Only had 4 hours to explore this big lake. Caught one nice Smallmouth - about 4 lbs. in 4' water along grave shoreline a couple of bays over from the boat launch. One of my bi...
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: Edgeran
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Tapps, amazing lake! Had a good day, best of the year as far as action goes. Landed 6 Smallies and missed about the same. Mr. Magler landed his first ever tiger on a spider jig.
Water ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 3
today was a pretty rainy day. me and my dad went out fishing after we got our boat fixed. we were letting the worm drag on the bottom with no weights. first he hooked into a 2 ft. musky, then i caught...
By: dilbert
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Please forgive the mediocre pictures, my photographer had the day off.
I Fished lake Tapps this morning with my brother-in-law. The weather was overcast and dry. The water was pretty calm and t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/4/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps around 7:30 this morning. Launched from the county park. Still no fee until next weekend; I believe. They were selling season passes though so picked one of those handy accessories up. Now, ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 9/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We got out to my favorite spot a little before the sun came up. Then we saw what looked to be an unlimited hydroplane coming towards us fast, turns out it was just a bass boat...with a contest banner...
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: 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: 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: 10/13/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Started the morning by sleeping through my alarm, but still got to the water a little after 7:00am. It was a clear chilly Fall morning, the water temp was 57 degrees and the water was very calm. Aft...
By: tobeka
Posted: 3/9/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I got to take my new boat on Tapps lake today. It was a nice day to be out on the water but we didn't have much luck, not even a bite. I fished with crankbaits and some soft plastics. I was only ab...
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: 9/30/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps in the morning from about 6:45 until around 12. It rained the WHOLE time, but we still managed to catch some fish. We saw a couple of deer grazing along the shoreline of snag island. I...