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By: cole
Posted: 5/13/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/13/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Great day of fishing with the kids. The kids caught 10 smallmouths five each. They were throwing gitzits from shore. All fish were released.
By: Kenster
Posted: 5/7/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
This the forth trip in as many days as i wait very patiently for the water to rise on Tapps. I've walked in from the County Park, Allen Yorke and the Tapps Island entry. I have not been let down yet,...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/11/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Me and a buddy launched at Alan Yorke Park around noon. was pretty slow but when we did hook up they were nice size. caught a nice 5lb smallmouth on a wedding ring tipped with nightcrawler
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/2/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2006
Hot Spots: 0
HAD A GREAT DAYON SUNDAY. NOT A LOT OF FISH BUT SOME VERY NICE SMALL MOUTH,ONE WELL OVER 5LBS. SOME ONE NEEDS TO TELL ME WHY ARE THE LETTING WATER OUT OF TAPPS?????? NEXT Q.???? HOW CAN YOR GET ON THE...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/29/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Just got the word today that the water level will be dropped for the winter on October 2. The launches will be unusable and it is not a good idea to walk out on the mud flats to get to the water.
Thi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/26/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/26/2006
Hot Spots: 0
the bass are very active in the morning and again in the evening right before the sun sets. Hooked and released 3 nice ones from my dock on Sunday evening and another nice one about 3 pounds again on...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/25/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/25/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tapps on Sunday morning with my son. He caught 3 smallies and this Tiger. Proud day for Dad. Caught the Musky in a cove on the north side of Scout Island. Rippin a yellow bucktail across a weed...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/18/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to our secret spot on tapps.....bass all day...biggest ranging from 2-3 pounds....really impressed with the fishing latley on this lake....All fish were caught and released....tight lines ta ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/17/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/17/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Nice day to be out on the water. Three of us were out on the water fishing for bass. I caught a small Smallmouth and released it, my buddy caught 2 Smallmouths, one of them being about 1/2 a pound. We...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/3/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/3/2006
Hot Spots: 0
This is for Gary who caught the large muskie on accident. The way to release a muskie without hurting them is to cut the hook with a small pair of bolt cutters (12" long) the chemicals in the mouth wi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/1/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing again with my buddy Rob and were landing lots of bass with worms, they are lurking.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Caught this one with about 2 other pounders, didn't have a tape measure or scale but figure it to be around 4 or 5 pounds. Just using a worm, big ones are lurking.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Caught this guy just using a nightcrawler, was using everything else but maybe I don't know how to use them that good so I dropped a worm and endless hits occured, lost about 5 other big hits
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/31/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Here is the picture of the 40 inch Musky caught last week. The 30 inchers pictures didn't turn out.
Bill
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/27/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/27/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Gary,
As far as musky fishing goes, congrats on the first musky. As far as releasing them goes, use some needle nose pliers and a larger net. I try to keep them in the water because they'll injure th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/27/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing is still great on Tapps. The water is starting to cool back just a little and the late summer feeding frenzy has started. The real toad bass are up in shallow water feeding on this years youn...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/26/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/26/2006
Hot Spots: 0
fished four 3 hours and got some small mouth and a tigar, had to throgh it back 19in the bass i cought though, was 2lb 17 3 min. to real it in. What a fighter
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/21/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/19/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Went out about 9:00. Caught a 1-2 lb Smallmouth pretty quick and this 5 1/2 pounder within ~30 minutes. Slowed down for the next bunch of hours (probably because of bright sun), but still got a few mo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/21/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Was headed to Lake Washington "OVERSLEPT" and ended up at Lake Tapps. I fished about four hours stuck 8 smallies nothing to big, but for the first time on the lake I was impressed. The fishing is a li...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/8/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
As soon as we got to our "secret spot", we started catching and releasing small mouth bass. We caught 12 to 15 fish in 1 hour. We were lazy and just put on a nightcrawler over the side of the anchor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/6/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I've lived on Driftwood Pt. for several years and was told the carp kept Lake Tapps pretty scarce on bass. Having little interest in catching carp, I never fished it until yesterday, Aug. 5th. A nei...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/30/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2006
Hot Spots: 0
It was quite a bit windy today on the lake. This was my first chance really fishing lake tapps from a boat. Thanks to Bill and his wife for giving me the best fishing experiece ever. We caught abou...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/29/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Windy but fun Bob and I boated 15 plus SMB and long line released that many more including one large tiger that wrapped me up in a stump and got off. All fish were caught between 10 AM and Noon. All f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/21/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/21/2006
Hot Spots: 0
It was a great day of fishing with my son and a new fishing buddy.
Guess what, I found out what Santa does during the summer, he goes Musky fishing. We caught 11 small mouth bass. I hooked into a Tig...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/19/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/19/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Buddy Bob outfished me again! We trolled Bankers Island flats, up Snagg Island caught 14 smallies, the biggest was 1.5 pounds. Bob caught 2 tigers 35 and 36 1/2 inches. All fish were released. This...