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Billy Clapp Fishing Reports

Posted: 9/6/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 3
Billy Clapp has been on my Bucket List for a while now. The potential of 20” kokanee (past performance does not equal present reality) had me salivating. Throw in walleye and bass and I was more than ...
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By: DAR
Posted: 6/7/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2018
Hot Spots: 1
Pretty poor morning. Caught a 2lb fish on the first cast which is always a good sign. Next 4 hours had only boated 6 fish and most were dinks. Using 3.5" tubes. Water was still kind of cold at 58 degr...
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Posted: 8/21/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/20/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Gave Billy Clapp a try this weekend. We set out for kokanee and after a few hours we switched to walleye, no bueno. Fish if there were any in there, just didn’t want to cooperate. I could see a few fi...
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By: Rosann G
Posted: 8/26/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We went fishing this morning for a little while. We caught 8 smallies, kept 3 for a couple of dinners and had a good time. Got out of the smoke for a little while also.
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By: Rosann G
Posted: 8/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We went to Billy Clapp yesterday to do a little fishing and to learn more about our new electronics on the boat. We each caught a smallmouth bass. Mine was 15" and I caught him on a chartreuse smile...
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Posted: 4/20/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I thought that with all the pressure up at lake Chelan that I would head over to Billy clap for sunrise service on Easter morning for some peaceful solace. Hit a couple of my favorite spots had a few...
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By: jdn127
Posted: 6/13/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 6-12-12 morning to 3pm. Tough fishing, i think will probabaly even be harder for some one named kirk or wade. they probably couldent even catch a cold! ended up with 3 walleye and a smallmouth....
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Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I got a chance to go toss a line with my good friend and fishing Buddy Mark Blakely of Outlook last Friday. We left Sunnyside headed East despite the gale force winds that were blowing in hopes that w...
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Posted: 7/2/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing a small secret lake and not alot of action so decided to jump to billy clap went out about 9am and fished the west shore tossing grubs and caught 5-6 small bass but did see some big one cruisi...
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Posted: 8/30/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Got back to Billy Clapp in hopes of catching some walleye big enough to keep. Caught 12 walleye but the biggest was only 14". Didn't find the smallmouth activity like last week (maybe due to the sligh...
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Posted: 8/27/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had a good day on Billy Clapp. First time we had ever fished this lake and it started slow with only a few bites in the first hour or so. Then I caught the first smallmouth around 1# on a perch color ...
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Posted: 8/22/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Billy Clapp Saturday morning. There were several rigs in the parking lot when I got there. Figured that with Banks being down so far that this lake will pick up quiet a bit of traffic. Ran up to t...
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Posted: 8/2/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Billy Clapp early Saturday morning, was the first one to launch, water temp 67. Fished the falls in 35-50' drift jigging along with the current with green pumpkinseed grub with pinch of crawler. 7...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
skunked again tough lake to figure out Mx8dave
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Posted: 9/7/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the Clapp Friday morning from 9am til about 1230. Fished by the falls along the west shore. Hit a dozen smallmouth anywhere from 12" to 17". Also connected with four walleye that were pretty small...
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Posted: 6/19/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 7 am fished for a couple of hours, caught mostly 12 inchers, one nice smallie on a topwater. Then got blown off the lake. Everybody else was trolling having little luck.
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Posted: 5/15/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed up to Pinto Dam at the South end of Grant County's Billy Clapp Lake on Thursday morning. The water was very clear,as usual, and the water was sitting right at 58 degrees when my friend Rob Gras...
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By: Big D
Posted: 11/6/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/6/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Billy Clapp Lake Driving Directions: From Soap Lake go east on HWY 28 for 10 mi. To J NE turn left go 2.6 mi. to access at end of Rd. Billy Clapp Lake is formed by Pinto Dam which is part of th...
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By: dr521
Posted: 7/7/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well, it was a great weekend out at Billy Clapp. little bit of wind, but otherwise nice and hot. Fished all over the lake from Friday morning through Sunday mid morning with limited success. Tried cra...
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Posted: 6/30/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Billy Clapp for the first time, from 7pm until dark. The swimming hole/boat launch area was so packed you had to park uphill outside of the recreational area. I was staying in Soap Lake, wher...
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Posted: 6/10/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2008
Hot Spots: 2
wow i just love going to this lake every year me and the buddies head over and every year we just slay em this year was really windy I'm talking white cap conditions but we just toughed it out thank...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/6/2006
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/28/2006
Hot Spots: 0
A little late post but better late than never. We hit up Billy Clapp on memorial weekend in search of the elusive bass. We hit up our new "secret spot" and knocked em dead. 2 3lb smallies, 2 1 1/2 ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/14/2004
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/14/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Trying to ignore the chill of the 0600, AM darkness I and my fishing partner, Dennis Morford left Kittitas Co., bound for Grant Co. and Billy Clapp Lake. Billy Clapp is one of those scenic jewels rest...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/14/2004
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/14/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Trying to ignore the chill of the 0600, AM darkness I and my fishing partner, Dennis Morford left Kittitas Co., bound for Grant Co. and Billy Clapp Lake. Billy Clapp is one of those scenic jewels rest...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/17/2004
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/17/2004
Hot Spots: 0
We started fishing around 7:00 am. There was a light wind (thank god) it's been so hot here lately. We hit all the points and drop offs. We caught around 27 bass. Their size was 6 inches to 16 inches...
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