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By: muskyhunter
Posted: 3/27/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hey Ho,
Fished Tapps today. Did some scouting. The lake is up about 2 feet from Wednesday. If one would want to launch a boat from Allen York it looks quite do-able. Might hit it this week after wor...
By: kevinb
Posted: 3/19/2011
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The orginal plan was to fish Mayfield but due to a late start,I opted for Lake Tapps.
I figured this would be another classic of fine tuning gear and thats about it. Basically,very low expectations. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/6/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Nice afternoon to go check out Tapps and get rid of some cabin fever. The stumps are beginning to show at Tapps. Pitched some jigs . No bites. water temp 41 degrees. Mainly just wanted to get ou...
By: kevinb
Posted: 10/23/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Punched in a couple hours at Tapps. Not sure if its a mix of weather or just luck. Caught a single slinky tiger that was around the 20 inch range but had multiple hot follows from several tigers of va...
By: nx7k
Posted: 10/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My grandson and I went to Lake Tapps maybe for last time this year before the bad weather hits. We caught 14 SMB with smallest one being 3/4 pound and largest 2 1/2 pounds. Fish are in about 18 to 3...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 10/2/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps for a few hours on Saturday. Used BIG tubes and trolled...yes i trolled..really bad shoulder. Trolled with 12" Jakes and Grandma lures. No luck..marked lots of big fish off the big hump o...
By: nx7k
Posted: 10/2/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I went to Lake Tapps for her last trip out of the year. We caught 17 SMB and my wife had her best fishing day of the year. She caught 8 with largest weighing 2 lb 10 oz. Picture attache...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/30/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Lake Tapps this morning. Took a day off from work. Fishing was great. My fishing partner and I caught 20 SMB with 5 weighing over 2 pounds. Fished from about 7am until 130pm.
Caught mos...
By: procaster
Posted: 9/29/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to tapps hoping for a good day before the close, but no such luck. When I arrived, there was heavy fog. My wife and I could only see about 50 yards or so and I told her I was worried about a ...
By: kevinb
Posted: 9/25/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A great evening on the water. My son and I had limited time and daylight. Went to one of our
perch spots with a mix of perch gear(mainly worm/bobber) and musky gear including a chatterbait,spinnerbai...
By: nx7k
Posted: 9/18/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
HIt Lake Tapps about 7am. Capital City Bass Club left before we did having a club tournament. We caught 14 SMB on Senkos on a Carolina Rig in 18 to 30 ft of water. No dinks this time. Smallest was...
By: procaster
Posted: 9/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tapps Mon. and Thurs. Same reults as usual, scattered dinks from 17 to 35 feet. I caught most fish on d-shot or draggin tubes. Biggest fish was about 1.5 lbs Water temp was at 67 still.
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By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/12/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hey kids,
Fished Lake Wa in the morning volunteered for the C.A.S.T. event. Caught some perch. So ehn i got home about 2:30 figured hey...i have time to hit Tapps. Dropped off the wife and headed up...
By: procaster
Posted: 9/11/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Finally made it to Tapps after a long summer. I was starting to tw tw twitch for some small mouth. I fished Tuesday, thurs. Fri. Tues. I just caught dinks, but I lost my personal best at boat, w...
By: RENTON STUNNA
Posted: 9/9/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got an itch to take the 1970 Glastron to Tapps the other day to do a little fishing with the old man and turned out to be our best outing yet. we caught a lot of smaller bass but plenty of larger ones...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/6/2010
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my buddy Rich fished Saturday for a few hours. Rich had 2 good hot follows a mid 30" and a good 40" Musky. Couldnt connect and get Rich his first Musky in the net. Sunday hit Tapps by myself. H...
By: kevinb
Posted: 8/31/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Yep,you read that right...PERCH.
The rundown goes like this. My son and I spent the day at Mt.Rainier hiking/playing in the mud.
The wife had to work. On the return,stopped at Tapps for some bank fi...
By: jaredpost
Posted: 8/31/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day out at lake tapps. Got to the launch at about 7 this morning with no one in site. Could have something to do with the pouring rain. Caught the first large mouth within 5 minutes of fis...
By: JonathanI
Posted: 8/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My daughter and I went fishing along docks in about 10-20 feet of water when I got a large smb on. As I got it to the boat, my line snapped. We stayed in that same area for about 30 more minutes but...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/25/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
got off work early so thought I could do some exploring on tapps. Evening fishing on tapps is like fishing in a washing machine. The boaters have no sense of space going by with in casting distance....
By: FishingFool
Posted: 8/24/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to go to Lake Tapps today to see if I can find some bigger fish than the ones I've been catching...
Go out in the water and at a point by 8AM. 2nd cast, fish on! Uh oh, feels pretty small...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/20/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Caught 27 SMB ranging in size; from 3/4 lb up to 2 lb 14 oz. Using Carolina Rig and Plastic Worms.. Fish on points in 20 to 32 ft of water.
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 15 minutes fishing at Tapps, while waiting for the wife to gt back from the Texco station. Hooked two, landed one small one.....not bad for 15 min :)
Also got in some fam time, toobin, lake s...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/15/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The day started off slow. My wife was with me and was killing me. A photo is attached of her 2 lb 1 oz SMB. We fished points in about 20 ft of water. Later she got bored and went tot he park and s...
By: nx7k
Posted: 8/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had lake Tapps to ourselves this morning. Arrived at 6am and not another boat or vehicle at the launch. Fished points and humps with grubs, worms, crankbakits, Flukes and caught fish consistently. ...