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Tapps Fishing Reports

Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 6/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Saturday at Lake Tapps was pretty good. Caught fish consistently using Tubes and Drop Shotting with worms around docks near deeper water and off points. Caught a couple of nice ones and rest were fr...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 6/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps with my Grandson for a Father's Day Fishing Trip. Weather was miserable but we caught some pretty nice fish. Caught 12 SMB using Tubes and Drop Shot. Mostly caught off docks near dee...
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Tapps
By: arrow1300
Posted: 6/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
STARTED AROUND 7AM, RAINING,BUT NO WIND WHICH IS GOOD. FOUND ONLY SMALL BASS UNTIL AROUND 10 TO 11 LANDED A 3.5 4 LB . HT TOOK A YAMAMOTO GREEN CREATURE. USED TEXAS RIG WITH NO WEIGHT. SOON AS IT HI...
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Tapps
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 6/14/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First time on Tapps,and after getting lost a couple of times trying to find the park, we hit the water around 8:30 am. I knew nothing about this lake except that I heard that the fishing is usually go...
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Tapps
By: BuckThunder
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing around 10:00AM. Very few boats on the water which was nice. There were three of us in the boat and we all caught around 3 decent small mouth. I landed a nice large mouth about 2' fr...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 5/29/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps at about 6:15am. Launched in light rain. Caught 11 SMB all using Watermelon Yamamoto Tubes off docks. Largest was 2 lb 12 oz. Weather was pretty windy and real cool and rained off...
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Tapps
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 ...
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Tapps
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 5/24/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
After a night of celebrating my B-day with my 86 year old dad, I was able to hit up the lake, sometime after noon. It was wise to wait (read: slept in with hangover), as the clouds stopped dumping and...
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Tapps
By: drhookem
Posted: 5/23/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
my son and i took the afternoon and went to tapps to harrass the smallmouth. The bite was kinda slow the bass had moved out deeper than previous. Still managed to boat twelve smallmouth and three ro...
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Tapps
By: cole
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
7lbs even 6 inch senko!
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Tapps
By: cole
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
7 lbs even Caught on 6 inch senko.
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Tapps
By: procaster
Posted: 5/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was a little better today, Caught about 12 smallies and 3 rock bass. All fish were dinks though, and I didn't care to catch rock bass. Most fish were caught a small light brown tube that cut abou...
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Tapps
By: BucketMouthCatcher
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 8:00 am . Noticed that the Hawg Hunters where roaming the lake =) . Looked like they where having fun. Went to the NE side of snag island and fished the stump flats despite the heavy p...
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Tapps
By: drhookem
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was back harassing the bass on tapps the bite had changed from two days before crankbaits couldn't buy a strike started pitching jigs the bites were very light only boated 12 bass biggest 15 inches mi...
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Tapps
By: drhookem
Posted: 5/13/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I hit tapps for an afternoon of harrassing smallmouth threw cranks to the bank and docks boated 16 smallmouth and one hammer handle tiger. Water temp 60 degrees most places. Most of the f...
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Tapps
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 5/12/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake at 9:00am and fished the northwest end for about 4 hours. Water temps were between 57 and 61 over the time we were fishing. Caught a few 1 to 1.5lb smallies on green Sweet Beaver and g...
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Tapps
By: procaster
Posted: 5/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My friend wanted me to go fishing with him on tapps at 0700, so I met up with just a couple poles and the tackle box. Turns out he doesn't have his fishing license and no one else did either. We w...
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Tapps
By: jdozier
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 8 ranging from 1lb in 10 ft to 3.5 at 25 ft. All caught on perch pattern dive cranks, fast retrieve, staggered jerk pattern. Seems the males are starting to move up to scout out and clear some ...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
By: procaster
Posted: 5/2/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake about 1130. Got one right away on a purple/white x-rap right in front of boat launch. It was only abut a pound. Only fish all day. Water temp was 54 all day everywhere. Lake is ...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I finally got the boat out on Lake Tapps.The water level is coming up fast,and the boat launch is good.We fished hard all day for these two,and we missed four other bites.We were dragging p...
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Tapps
By: drhookem
Posted: 4/21/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the afternoon checking out Tapps. We fishied for four hours, started off jigging gort only one in about 15 feet of water. Switched to crankbaits caught on one an x-rap and the other on # 5 sh...
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Tapps
By: procaster
Posted: 4/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I only managed to catch a dink smallie. I caught it on jig head with firetiger minnow draggin on bottom. Threw all the usual stuff. Water was 56. There were other boats on water didn't talk to any...
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Tapps
By: procaster
Posted: 4/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well It looks like i'm the first Tapps report of the year. I only had from 2pm to 4pm to fish. I got lucky and found one smallie, it was about 2lbs. Got it on a purple/white x shad rap 8 to 10 foot...
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Tapps
By: 2000subaru
Posted: 11/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We had about two hours to fish before we picked big brother from kindergarted, so we hit Tapps for some cool weather smallies. Fish were biting from 28 to 12 feet, finally picked one up shallow on a ...
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