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By: Jerryj33
Posted: 7/20/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2016
Hot Spots: 3
Started a little late at 7am. Planned on fishing structure for bass in the morning and switching to panfishing in the afternoon to fill up the cooler with dinner. Figured I might as well troll a line...
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 6/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/18/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This could have been a 5 star day. Rainbow Resort held their annual fishing derby and released 150 3-8lb trout. The lake was packed and within the first 5 minutes my son landed a decent 12" rainbow....
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 6/9/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 2
We hiked to Mowich lake on Saturday and of course I packed my pole. The lake was surrounded by snow and the water was crystal clear but no fish in the shallows. The wife went to spend time with her ...
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 5/16/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Alarm went off at 5am but my son was not up to going out that early so it was a day on the lake by myself. I was on the lake by 6:15 and started trolling a Rebel Crawfish at a slow speed. The water ...
By: bigdaddy3769
Posted: 4/25/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/23/2016
Hot Spots: 2
My boy and I hit the lake at 7am and started out by trolling with pop gear and spoons. When we got to the far end of the lake, I landed a small 9" rainbow. I didn't want to go home empty handed so I...
By: the piranha
Posted: 8/10/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I just got the boat back from having some fuel issues worked out. I only had a couple hours to run boat and fish. It was misting pretty heavily when I stared fishing at 630 or so. Got a 12" on a sen...
By: the doc
Posted: 7/14/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
thought id try this lake, in search of some keeper size perch. went over to the lilipads, and tryed jigs. nothing. then, switched to good old fashioned worm. i got four perch, each about 4 or 5 " lon...
By: cjrodarme
Posted: 7/12/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
WOW! What a day. I was fishing at the Rainbow RV Resort off their dock, starting early in the afternoon. I had set up for panfish and bass, and fished for about 3 hours, without a single bite. I had u...
By: fishingchick
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had one on, but got away, my husband caught nothing, my friend had a good sized one on, but lost that too. Other people were catching with garlic scented powerboat and junker lotion, shrimp scent.
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 5/26/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Been a long time since my last report... lots of life-changing events... getting back to near "normal"...!!! Got my two oldest sons and their families together for a great day of pic-nicing and fishin...
By: the piranha
Posted: 5/19/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
So I went right to a place where I have caught a few fish. Right away I missed one on a senko. I threw a jig back in to get as a follow up bait. I didn't get bit though. I decided to cast jig next t...
By: schu7498
Posted: 5/14/2015
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/12/2015
Hot Spots: 1
In search of crappie, next lake on the list was Tanwax. Had only 2 short hours to fish and launched at 5. Cloudy with a light drizzle. Started fishing lily pad beds just off the launch and immediately...
By: b.gagne22
Posted: 5/12/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2015
Hot Spots: 3
first time fishing Tanwax and was very pleased. 5 total fish. No scale but if I had to guess I would say three of them were in the 1.5 to 2 lb range and two of them were 3 lb. All fish were hugged in...
By: the piranha
Posted: 5/5/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
After leaving clear lake, I only had about about an hour to fish, but with launch wait time, that was down to 45 min. I ran down the lake and started with some new stick worms I bought. On the third c...
By: bass junkie
Posted: 4/27/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the lake around 6 and parking was already limited. Lots of people out fishing and bumped into a couple of bass fishermen out there. Between my brother and I we caught 3 fish the largest was 2...
By: bassman72
Posted: 8/22/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got up early and was on the water just before 0600. Thought I would go for some largemouth action. a little fog early but it burned off quickly but stayed cool till about noon when I was leaving. I wa...
By: bassman72
Posted: 8/6/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Been fishing smallmouth at Tapps all year and doing well. Needed a challenge and decided I needed to make sure I still know how to catch a largemouth. Hit Tanwax at first light. It was cloudy kinda c...
By: stillyfisher
Posted: 7/26/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2014
Hot Spots: 1
I drove a bus load of kids over to Camp Lakeview last Monday and came back rod in hand to take them home last night. Not really a bass fisher, but everybody seems to think Tanwax is a good bass lake ...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 7/26/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Went south to celebrate my grandson's (Benjamin) eighth birthday. Ben has been dying to go fishing with grandpa, so we headed to Lake Tanwax to see if we could get some perch to bite. Rented a boat at...
By: HunterT136
Posted: 7/12/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great day of fishing today at Tanwax lake. Best day I have had at this lake skipping senkos under docks between me and my buddy we caught 7 all over 1lb biggest 2.11lb Green pumpkin color senko....
Posted: 7/1/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
A nice morning at tanawax got there at 5:45am had the lake to myself got two little ones on the spro bronzeye shad in blue gill. Lost a nice.on at the boat started debating on boat flipping it or grab...
By: tuneweaver
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/23/2014
Hot Spots: 3
On the water around 6 AM. Nice day, calm wind. I caught five bass(1, 1/12, 2 and 2 @2 1/2). The first fish was on sparse, shallow pads at 8:30(north side). My first pad fish in this lake. The ot...
By: tuneweaver
Posted: 6/3/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Another frustrating day on Tanwax. Calm day, warming trend, prespawn/spawn period. I think Helen Keller could have found a boat load on a day like that. I somehow got two bass to impale themselves ...
By: bassman72
Posted: 6/1/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Only had about two hours to fish from about 6-8 pm after pulling the kids around on the tube for a while. Punching a jig n pig (black and blue) in the pockets of the pads near timber. Caught one nice...
By: kevinb
Posted: 5/27/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Enjoyed a day off work as did my son from school. Put the boat in around 11. Very first cast of the day yielded an aggressive largemouth bass at about 2 pounds but quickly went silent after that. Trie...