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Tapps Fishing Reports

Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/16/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Grampa and grama said they'd watch the kids tell noon, so BAM! the boat was in the water at 7am. hit my first spot started around 15 foot huckin ratltraps and jerkbaits... nuthin... headed out to deep...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/10/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Ran out to Tapps to fish real quick on my usual bridge. I always seem to do pretty well there. Cnr'd two nice smallies (the one pictured was 17") and I had a smaller Tiger Muskie follow my grub. Got i...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/25/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Took my nephew and went to Lake Tapps. We caught 17 SMB with largest goig three pounds. Met up with a friend from the Bass club and he said fishing was good for size but fish were scattered. He ...
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Tapps
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps. Fished from 7 am till 12:15. Caught and released 13 smallies. Caught one 3-6 and a couple over 2. Am sorry to see the county park close on the 31st. The smallmouth fishing is still very...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps Wednesday morning and fished from about 745am until 1215pm. Only caught 5 fish but the five weighed about 16 lbs. All were nice fish but pretty scattered. All fish caught in about 16 ...
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Tapps
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/16/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing Tapps about 7:00 AM. And it was cold. Fishing started off slow, but after an hour it began picking up, then it caught on fire. Betwee 8 and 1 caught 28 smallmouth. Nothing big. All in ...
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Tapps
By: BankBasser
Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
As with MuskyHunter's report previously, there was a mission to complete and was it ever completed. 7AM on the water. 4 other boats that we could see and none of them musky fishing. About an hour i...
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Tapps
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a few hours on this crazy metro lake today with a gent who WAS on a mission to get his 1st musky ever. Last time out he had a follow and was pretty excited. Today I got him over and hooked up no...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/4/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning with my Grandson and my Nephew. We had our best day quality wise this year. We fished from about 645am until noon and caught 27 SMB. We had one fish 4 lb 2 oz, Two S...
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Tapps
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 9/2/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Was at Tapps at daybreak. Caught 27 smallmouth, with 5 over two. No threes. Most caught in 18 to 25 ft of water. Would have been better if the wind wouldn't have become a problem.
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Tapps
By: WCCT
Posted: 8/30/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I was finally able to get out on the boat Sunday evening with the kids. My goal was to get the kids into some fish. I taught my two oldest (10 & 7) how to drop shot, and they put several in the boat...
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Tapps
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps for a few hours Saturday morning. No Muskies caught. Did have a hot follow from a good 40. Couldn't get her to latch on. Spun her around a few times on a good sized loop. It was also goo...
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Tapps
By: rickydbasser
Posted: 8/26/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Lake Tapps Wednsday and Thursday. Both days I was on the lake by 6:30 AM. The first day had to leave by 9:30 AM. Caught 9 the first day, the biggest about two pounds. The second day fished till...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/22/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps with my lovely wife and my Nephew. My wife only stayed a couple of hours but in total we aught 34 SMB before we left with six fish 2 lbs and over. I threw a crankbait for a few mi...
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Tapps
By: kevinb
Posted: 8/21/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After returning from a family camping trip,decided to give the Tapps tigers a try. Caught a sub 30 inch musky on a Salmo Pike crankbait. She was probably in the mid to upper 20's. After a brief battle...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps with a friend from the BAss Club. We had a fantastic day. We stopped counting at 40 SMB all C & R. Largest was a little over two pounds. We also caught a Musky photo attached. ...
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Tapps
By: scarlin40
Posted: 8/8/2011
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
decent morning at tapps. never been there before nice facility but $15 bucks just to park is kinda steep in my book. caught two early trolling and one later on a mepps spinner. Lots of good areas to f...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps. Started off slow. Tried several different soft plastics and finally tried a lizard. Slammed the SMB. We caught 20 SMB and 1 Tiger Muskie. Tiger Muskie was a small one about 22...
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Tapps
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/29/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Met Kevin and his big time musky fisherman son Brett at North Park. 4 hours on the lake. Brett reeled in a nice 31 " Tiger. (Kevin will post his picture on his report) That made Brett A little tired ...
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Tapps
By: kevinb
Posted: 7/29/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
One of my best fishing trips ever. Hit the water with muskyhunter and my boy,a few minutes in and I had a musky on and my little boy assisted in the reeling effort,not a beast but went 31 inches. Late...
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Tapps
By: kevinb
Posted: 7/24/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today and Friday. Friday had a few follows and picked up a 34 inch tiger on a Salmo Pike crankbait. Sunday-Fished with muskyhunter for a couple hours. I ended up picking up this small ti...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 7/24/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning with a buddy from the Bass Club. We had a good day fishing until just before noon when the boat traffic got terrible. We caught about 15 or 16 SMB with largest about ...
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Tapps
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps today just by myself. first weather people..thanks for the great fishing weather..really. cloudy and rain perfect. 2 hours into the morning, noon..almost exactly. Lunch time. Put a Heavy ...
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Tapps
By: cptlaurion
Posted: 7/17/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
So my buddy and I decided to try out Lake Tapps for the first time tempt our luck with an elusive Tiger Muskie. We've never seen this body of water before and really didn't know anything more about it...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/16/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
man today is the reason i go fishing! i was targeting muskie. went staight across from allan york park throwing my " river to sea" six inch jointed trout crankbait wouldnt u know the one time i dont d...
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