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By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Good day on Tapps. Didn't even need a boat, just a hook and a few grubs. Caught 4 lost three all while drinking beers and swimming at a friends house.
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Not one bite. But I did manage to drag in a Rug and get a duck tangled in my line, eventually hooking (on accident) it when it decided to run. I eventually cut my line when I decided hauling the duck ...
By: Knox
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps after work today. Got there at 5:30ish, Fished off of Dike 3's bank. second cast I made I got a little smallie, and the trend continued. Left at 7 PM. Caught in total 7 fish, 6 sma...
By: Knox
Posted: 5/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed over to lake tapps today. First time being there. We caught 3 smallmouth bass, in about 2 hours. Overall a nice change of pace around here. (i am used to oregon fishing).
Will be going back...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/29/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My nephews came over to go swimming and the youngest asked if he could fish while the rest of us swam. So I set him up with a small rod with a 4" senko and flipped it out in the water for him. then ju...
By: Surge
Posted: 10/2/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got there about 6pm landed about 15 fish in two hours with these being the biggest all off the shore with a night crawler.
By: Surge
Posted: 10/3/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is a repost because the pics didnt work the first time. I'll go into a little better detail. Me and my dad got to one of the private access parks by his house at 6pm spent 20 minutes trying out a...
By: Knox
Posted: 9/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to Lake Tapps today with the wife to catch some small mouth bass. had no luck what so ever. It was very windy which made the water choppy. The water looked more murky then usual, but was warm...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/14/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My 7 year old daughter was fishing off our dock while my wife and I were doing work down at the lake. All of the sudden she yells daddy I have a big one. I had her set up with a night crawler so I was...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from shore for about an hour and a half. It was slow at first, but then i picked up a few 12"-14". I had one really nice bass on and another that was probably about three pounds. I lost both. T...
By: Jake Dogfish
Posted: 5/28/2010
Species: Rock Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit lake Tapps at North County Park. I walked most of the dikes there and caught three rock bass. The weather was nice and calm, there was two other guys fishing for carp. I did not see them catch ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 6/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Caught smallmouth consistently today.the bonus was catching my first crappie fish on tapps.. water temperature was about 60 degrees , overcast in about 7 visibility .used yamamoto grubbs, watermelon b...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I caught about a one 2 pound bass today using 2 sinkers and a 3 foot leader with a fake double tailed grub. overall a pretty good day
By: topdawg47
Posted: 5/8/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Tapps after work, North Tapps launch. Caught four. 3 Smallies and 1 Rock Bass. Missed one other Smallie. All on the smaller side, but I rather catch something than get skunked, lol.
Used...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/3/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Possibly the worse fishing report ever! Enjoy!
Not much time to work with but was able to finally wet a line after several months. Just made some casts from the shore for about 45 minutes. Nothing ...
By: topdawg47
Posted: 8/2/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/1/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went out to Tapps for about 1 hour or so. Caught 3 smallies. 2 small ones and 1 dink.
Caught on a Yamato, Purple flake, curly tail grub.
Satisfied my fishing high for the day!
Need to find some b...
By: topdawg47
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Tapps, Causeway spill way. Fished a Green fluke , by the rocks. Missed one bite and landed another, 1 lb or so. Was just fun to catch first smallie of year!
By: topdawg47
Posted: 8/16/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Lake Tapps, family was napping. Haven't been to Tapps in awhile since construction, etc.
I wasn't expecting to catch much, considering water is still very chalky in clarity.
Anyhow, ...
By: NineFingerFury
Posted: 6/7/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Heard there were some SMB in the resivoir, so I thought I'd check it out this morning. I don't have a boat and was told there was plenty of shore access for fishing. There is indeed. Threw out 4" Snip...
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 6/15/2016
Species: Carp
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
My brother in-law bought a house on Lake Tapps last month and when we went to see it the first time I saw some big carp at the end of his dock. I've never fished for carp so I did some research and w...
By: jrhkuna
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/2/2016
Hot Spots: 0
The wife and daughter caught 3 Smallies at the county park off of the docks. We were just throwing worms which seemed to work better than the plastics I was throwing.
By: jrhkuna
Posted: 4/3/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Went back at it today. Used worms again. Caught this nice 16" Smallie. My oldest caught one but it spit the hook right before she landed it.
By: knishino
Posted: 7/10/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/9/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I checked out Lake Tapps for the first time. What a beautiful place! Gorgeous view of Mt. Rainier. I started out throwing a squarebill crankbait, and I caught 2 dink smallmouths. They hit really c...
By: danyole
Posted: 11/20/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/18/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had an awesome fall day of fishing! Didnt put on a lot of fish but to catch atleast 1 after not fishing for over a month, it feels amazing!
Vlogged it!
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By: danyole
Posted: 4/8/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of 2018 and was able to get some smallies in short amount of time! Vlogged it of course!