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Tapps Fishing Reports

Tapps
By: procaster
Posted: 11/3/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
fished Tapps on sunday from 1000 to 1430. Didn't catch any, not even any strikes. Fished from 9ft to 57ft mostly vertical jiggin. Talked to a couple other boats none for them either. Water was 54....
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 10/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Made our last trip to Tapps this year. Water level is falling fast. Caught eight SMB mostly in about 20 ft of water using Senkos Texas Rigged fishing on points. Will return to Tapps next spring whe...
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Tapps
By: procaster
Posted: 10/5/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to tapps for the first time of the year, This is the fisrt year that i have really targeted smallies, so i have been reading everything i can find. On a topo map i found a big hump and headed s...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 10/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps about noon and fished till 345pm. They close the park at 4pm. glad we quit when we did. We caught ten SMB ranging in size from a dink to 2 lb 6 oz. All on Green Senkos in about 20ft...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
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.
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps again this morning. Bite was later in the morning, I guess due to cooling water. Bite didnot turn on until about 945am. Water was 64 degs. Used Senkos in about twenty ft of water, T...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/22/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps Sunday Morning with a friend from Puyallup Hawg Hunters and fishing was slower due to cold front that had just passed but we boated 18 or 19 with largest about two pounds or just over. ...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/17/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps this morning. Departed from Pierce County Park at about 640am. Used Senkos in about 8 to 15 ft of water around points and slayed em. We boated about twenty or twenty five with the la...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/2/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the lake at 6:45am, with my buddy Bill Green. We left the ramp in a fog! I ment the lake was fogged in. Got lost, on with the GPS. Started fishing and the fish were on from the start. The mag...
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Tapps
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 8/29/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to fish the west side of the lake today. Used Yamamoto Hula Grubs, spinners and finally Yamamoto Sencos. Faster presentations are not working all that well here and the fish of any size that...
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Tapps
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 8/29/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/18/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Another slow day on Tapps. Headed back to the south side of Tapps island where I had a follow the week before from a nice sized bass, started 2 docks away from where I had seen it and on about the 2...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 8/13/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps on both Tuesday and Wednesday, we threw the whole tackle box of tricks at these fish for two days and managed a grand total of 5 fish. We fished the shallows, docks, deep water, weed bed...
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Tapps
By: wescooper2003
Posted: 8/8/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2009
Hot Spots: 2
When out to Tapps this morning got there about 615 tried top water throwing a zara spook caught around 30 all were on top water. Fished around docks around points with stumps on them.
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Tapps
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 8/6/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished deeper water near a point on the north end, Caught this one on a 3" Berkley power grub, smoke color. While returning to the dock we noted lots of fish holding at around 15 to 30' and came back...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/1/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My Grandson and I hit Lake Tapps early this morning and fished from about 6:15am until about 10:00am. Caught 15 keepers. This one my grandson caught went 2 1/2 lbs and was best of the lot. Mainly o...
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Tapps
By: gdrees
Posted: 7/31/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out in the morning with my son-in-law and one granddaughter. Fished on the north end of the lake and got into some schools of smallmouth bass. Caught a bunch of eight to ten inchers, had a lot ...
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Tapps
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...
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Tapps
By: nx7k
Posted: 7/28/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Lake Tapps this morning from North Pierce County Park. Using tubes in 10 to 18 ft of water on points had a great day. Had several SMB in the 3/4 bl to 2 1/2 pound range. Bite was steady until a...
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Tapps
By: rwohlhueter05
Posted: 7/24/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the lake around 4:30pm and spent time near the inlet of the lake had a few bites right away and ended up with a nice big mouth bass and a nice 2-3lb crappie in the Church Lake section of La...
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Tapps
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/22/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/22/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out a little ealier today under a foggy sky cover. Used a spinnerbait all day and managed to hook a few but lost them before I could get them to the boat. Wife was using a small rubber fish that...
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Tapps
By: Skeeterpilot
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start on Tapps today, headed for the area around the inlet again. Used Berkley power grubs, smoke color. Hit two small (about 1lb) SMB right off in the first 10 minutes. Had lots of hits...
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Tapps
By: wescooper2003
Posted: 7/20/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished tue, wed, thurs, fri, and sun on Tapps outstanding Small mouth fishing on tue caught about 40 smb biggest around 3.5 or 4 Ibs. caught 3around that size also caught several 3 Ibs. They were on a...
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