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By: dilbert
Posted: 9/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got my line in the water a little before 7:00 am. The sun was just coming up over the trees and steam was rising off the lake. There were a few morning clouds that quickly went away. I started ou...
By: dilbert
Posted: 9/8/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/8/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I got out to my favorite spot a little before the sun came up. I should have checked the calendar before I went fishing. Today was national harass an angler day, at least on Lake Tapps. A boat pull...
By: BrianM
Posted: 7/27/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Tapps the last two days. I caught about 12 smallies, but none of the size I have been seeing on other posts. It was my first time actually fishing Tapps from a boat for smallies, so it too...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report...busy busy busy!! Met Brian at Tapps for a little smallie fishin.August 11th. I tried for a ski for an hour then hooked up with a new fishin bud. Manged to get I think 6 fis...
By: TSULLY31
Posted: 7/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I was out at Tapps and fished for tiger muskies for the first 2 hours and then switched over to the drop shot rig for bass. While using a 5'9" spin rod with 6 lb maxima I got slammed. Turns out a sm...
By: chris martos
Posted: 5/25/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on Tapps again to catch some more smallmouth bass. My friend and I caught 20 or so and caught one musky around 24 inches and lost another one that was well over 50 inches that broke me off. T...
By: cole
Posted: 5/13/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Great day of fishing with the kids. The kids caught 10 smallmouths five each. They were throwing gitzits from shore. All fish were released.
By: anthonyj63
Posted: 5/15/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out along eastern shoreline of Tapps Island. Started at about 8pm with about a 5" rapalla casting from shore. No luck. Switched to a chartreuse plastic, bumping the bottom, casting from shore....
By: chris martos
Posted: 5/22/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I went out on Tapps to do some bass fishing. We have been here before with great success but I haven't been able to figure out how to post reports. We started fishing around 5:00 p.m. an...
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 8/6/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hey had to get a new accout cause my old one got deleted cause there was already someone with the BassTracker name. O well my mistake. Well I went out to do some early morning roadside fishing on tapp...
By: NATEtheGREAT
Posted: 8/6/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
it was at about 330 in the after noon me and my friend were fishin our favorite spot on lake tapps we were fishin for small mouth when i hooked this and it was one of the bigger rock bass i have s...
By: Cman2007
Posted: 9/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
took my dads rod after he caught 2 little smallies i casted the lipless crank and hooked into this nice 3lb smallie good day after all
By: Deleted2
Posted: 8/3/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to our favorite fishing spot on lake tapps this evening. My buddy and I were catching alot of small bass and then Bam! I hooked into the biggest smallmouth I've ever caught, and he caught a n...
By: Cman2007
Posted: 9/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
my dad caught two small smallies in a row so i took his rod and started to cast by stump in the water and hooked into this nice 3lb 4oz smallie he made a couple runs and jumped a couple times caught o...
By: red
Posted: 4/6/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I walked down to the lake this morning and fished mine and my neighbors docks for smallies with no luck. My little girl caught her first musky. Unfortunately it was already dead. It was a big 44 inche...
By: Keith
Posted: 4/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Tapps later than I wanted to. Had a couple of bites that's it. Seen my first tiger and tried to get him to bite but no luck there.
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to lake tapps today with a couple friends lookin to get some smallmoutth bass. Ended up being a very good evening at the lake. We caught a few good sized smallmouth and a bunch of rock bass. ...
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 5/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to tapps a couple times the past week when my account was suspended. Not nearly as hot as the weekend before but still caught a few smallies.
By: kevinb
Posted: 8/3/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Tried for carp today,yes..CARP. No luck.I fished off Dike#12 using bread.Got plenty of nibbles but no takers.
A buddy from work pulled up and I hopped onto his boat trying for tiger muskies and small...
By: plabarge
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I just had to post these pictures of fishing with family and friends off of our dock. We were using kid poles and night crawlers on the bottom. Fished most the afternoon and caught plenty of small f...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished from the shore along dike #4 in search of smallies. Wanted to play with my new rod and reel..tossed a Strike King Bitsy Bug with a Berkley Crawfish trailer lathered up in scent. No...
By: shepdog_1300
Posted: 4/12/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I went up to Tapps and fished the shore line to the right of the boat launch. GOT NOTHING! I was fishing with a green and red X rap, kastmaster, and even some crazy hulla popper wannabe ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Lake Bonney around noon today and only got one small large mouth, but then I stopped by Lake Tapps to to some quick smallie fishing from shore and got this 19" smallie. She hit pretty slow a...
By: Fishaholic
Posted: 5/17/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to tapps with a friend and absolutly slayed them. Caught about 30 bass in 3 hours mostly in the 1-2 pound range. Awesome start to the summer.
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/4/2009
Species: Carp
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Well, it was another day that I was too sick to go to work. I somehow mustered up enough strength to do some therapuetic fishing. This time went to the intake, no water was coming out so the area was ...