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By: SS minnow
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2013
Hot Spots: 3
cought 12 smallies any where frome the 1-3 lb region and one 4lb largmouth...The fish are kinda spread out so find the fish and stick to that general area where you found em and sucsess should be had....
By: KevinS
Posted: 5/20/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on Lake Tapps. Caught 5 SMB, the largest was just over 12" (photo) in about 12 foot depth. Had other hits but failed to get a hook set. Used a green tube and a green senko to get resu...
By: SS minnow
Posted: 5/23/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Hit tapps lastnight around 3pm and had a blast cought 7 smallies almost all most of them about 1-3 lbs and 9 rockbass.The smallies are acting odd there still spread out from point to point or dock to...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 5/25/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to tapps with my son. First time on the water at this lake. He's fallen in love with bass fishing so I've been tryin to find him some! We had to fish on and off through the rain down pour whic...
By: motodmast
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It was n ok day out on Tapps, seen lots of other bass boats out there, fish are kinda in a post spawn mode.. ended up with 6 smallies, none bigger than 2lb, and also managed to hook and net a 30"ish t...
By: nx7k
Posted: 6/2/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps with my friend bob, over here from East Wenatchee. We had a blast. The fishing was okay. Smallmouth have spawned and were scattered. No real pattern to the fishing. We would ca...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 6/4/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Second time fishing this lake. Unfortunately my boy couldnt go this time. Got to the lake around 3pm and started fishing some docks. Caught one on a jig maybe 10ft of water that went a pound and a hal...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 6/5/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps. Sunny skies and flat water. Nice. I wish I could say the same for the bass fishing. Lake Tapps is in that terrible transition period which happens every year about this time. Most ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 6/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps this morning. Tough fishing. Still no fish out on the main lake humps and ridges. Never caught or saw a fish shallow. Ended up catching 5 out on steep dropping shorlelines in between 18 ...
By: nx7k
Posted: 4/25/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps and launched around 9:30am. Water was 52 to 53 degrees. Caught 6 SMB with largest slightly over 2 lbs. Caught 4 on Rattletrap Type Lure and 2 on a Jerkbait. All fish caught in 9...
By: 06Roush
Posted: 4/26/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So I hit the water the evening of the 25th for a few hours and for the morning today. Temps yesterday hit 60.5 and today when I got out there they were down to 56 and 58.6 by the time I left around 11...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 4/26/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps. Started out deep, fishing at around 25 ft. Saw lots of fish on the graph, but no takers. Began pounding the shoreline. Caught three in the pound range on a swimbait. Then four others on...
By: bassaholic253
Posted: 4/29/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2013
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I launch from the County Park, which is still free, around 11. Fiished around tapps island bridge, nothing. fishing along dike 12. hit 3 fish really quick from 2-3.5 pounds on drop shot. ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/1/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps. Fishes shallow around docks and wood. Did catch 7 smallies, all but one were in the 2 lb plus range. The photos show the average. That was good, but a lot of casts for the fish I caught...
By: bassaholic253
Posted: 5/4/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went out on tapps after work yeterday. On the water at 6. Stopped at a spot over by Allen York to get some smallies. Got hit hard first cast so I threw my drop shot in the same spot and got hammered. ...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Was on Tapps when the gate opened at 6:00. Fished till 11:00 when the ski boats and jet skiers began showing up. Wind was a hassle, but fishing was great. Caught 17, including three 3 lbers, four 2's ...
By: nwmondou
Posted: 5/5/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Awesome weekend fishing tapps. Pulled in 12 all together most ranging from 1 to 2 pounds. The highlight came on Sunday when my pole got slammed by a nice 4 pound smallie. One of the bigger fish I've c...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
As I said, returned to Tapps. Caught nine, with three in the two pound plus range. Nothing bigger. Six on a curly tailed grub, and two on a Stick-o. With water temps now pushing 65.0 degrees, am seein...
By: needs2hunt
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 3
My boy and i decided to hit lake Tapps this morning... only 2 other guys were launching at 6am, and both i think were Walakes members...
We started out directly south of the launch and caught our...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Returned to Tapps again. Not as good as yesterday, but did catch 9 smallmouth, with three in the 2 plus pound range. All caught shallow on both grubs and Stick-0's. With water temps yesterday at 64 de...
By: 06Roush
Posted: 5/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Tapps all day with my nice day off! Ended up being my first 20 fish day, woo hoo. Caught all fish in the shallows and the majority were all guarding beds. I started off just casting and cruising d...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/8/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6:30 till only 10:30 because of prior appointment. But a great four hours. Caught 20 smallmouth. None that would go 3 lbs, but only a couple dinks. Most caught on a weightless Stick-0, wit...
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 5/9/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps from 6:30 till 10:00. Tried a new area first without success. Went back to the same area I've been pounding for the last four days. Caught six, with one being my biggest smallmouth so far...
By: needs2hunt
Posted: 5/11/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake this morning with a buddy...
good times caught a dozen smallies, all averaging 2 lbs... seen some much bigger fish just couldn't get them to bite... A few were caught off there beds w...
By: waflyboy
Posted: 5/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Howdy! Been watching this site for a while and finally decided to post a report:
Arrived at the North park ramp around 6am on Saturday. I think there was a tournament going on, because the ramp w...
