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By: cwbraue
Posted: 6/19/2024
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2024
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't fished Eastern Wa for a while and really wanted to check out this lake so I took an extra day off and drove the 4 hours. I really like this lake, it's pretty, clean, and has little coves and...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/17/2021
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/17/2021
Hot Spots: 0
In search of kokanee...
After speaking with fisheries biologist Mike S. I decided it would be worth giving Billy Clapp another try. Mike informed me that almost 400,000 kokanee have been planted th...
Posted: 3/31/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Billy Clapp again this week, water has come up a lot in the last few weeks. The dock is floating and launching is a easier now. We pulled plugs around the island and caught a few good size rain...
Posted: 3/13/2021
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/13/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Fished late morning to dark. Hooked a few fish on the first pass and then a few more once the sun went down. Best success was on a custom plug I have painted. Good day and nice weather!
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 11/22/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/20/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Typically I start looking for Walleye this time of year but with many of my usual access points blocked by covid closures I decided to hit Billy Clapp for some Rainbow Trout. I expected fish to be fee...
By: ElliottM
Posted: 6/14/2020
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/2020
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and I had heard about Billy Clapp lake but never fished there. Reports mention kokanee, walleye and big trout, and since my friend had never fished using downriggers nor for kokanee, we deci...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 4/16/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Terry and I had the opportunity to take our out of state grandson fishing this afternoon. The pressure was on as the last couple of years when he was visiting we had some great walleye catches. We st...
By: Mike Carey
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 ...
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...
By: Walleye Be Damn
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...
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.
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...
By: ncwflounderer
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...
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....
By: The Jigmiester
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...
By: mosleyfrommoses
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...
By: purplegrey
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...
By: purplegrey
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 ...
By: lonnie197272
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...
By: lonnie197272
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...
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
By: lonnie197272
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...
By: linetrash87
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.
By: The Jigmiester
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...
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...