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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/29/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Launched about 5:30am heading along the shoreline past the resorts getting all kinds of bumps off crankbaits, my buddy was getting all kinds of bites trolling with a wedding ring, with worm trailer. ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2003
Hot Spots: 0
I went camping this week and caught perch, bluegill, and Largemouth bass. All of them keeper size. The best bait is about a quarter of a nightcrawler, a whole one if going for bass, and put on the bot...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2003
Hot Spots: 0
I went out about 1:30 in the afternoon. Pulled in around some down timber and fished for crappie. Used chartreuse or yellow/white crappie jigs. Crappies hiding under lily pads. Need to use a long crap...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/20/2003
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Rating: 1
Fished: 6/20/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Headed for lake tanwax about 8 this morning with Pal Jurgen. Kinda cool and windy when we arrived at the Lake, Didn't have much action had one strike from a nice largemouth but lost him, Jurgen had...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/10/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/10/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at 7:30. Fished on SW side of lake. Used plastic worms and hit a largemouth bass. Went to Rainbow Resort to have picture taken then released fish. I went back out and fished by the pub...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2003
Hot Spots: 0
The weatherman once again totally botched the forecast. But, this time in our favor. A friend and I decided to avoid the mob at Mineral and instead took the kids to enjoy a late afternoon trip to Tanw...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2003
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing at Tanwax is HOT. Me and the kids caught another 12 nice trout in less than 2 hours. Slow trolling wedding rings with rainbow powerbait at the Benbow (north) end, and you can't keep em off...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/26/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Opening day at last! Hit the lake right at sunrise, POURING rain, but caught 11 nice trout, including a 2 pounder that my 3 year old caught! Only took a couple hours. Slow trolling pink and green wedd...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/24/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2002
Hot Spots: 0
BASS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING ON JIGS SLOWLY THEN CHANGE OVER DROP IT DOWN AND PERCH AND CRAPPIE ALL DAY LONG WITH MAGGOTS ON THE END.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Today I decided to pay for the first time to go fishing but let me tell you it was worth it. I caught a pound and and half Yellow Perch on a bobber and worm straight across from Rainbow Resort. Plus a...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2002
Hot Spots: 0
We started the day at 7am, fished the lily pads for bass, no takers. J-Bone my partner decided to leave his favorite raddle jig in the pads. 8:am45 opened my first beer, and things got better! We h...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/12/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I took a scouting expedition to Tanwax to get some pictures for a future Feature Lake article. Trolled to the north end of the lake using a worm harness/spinner combo. No takers. When I got to the nor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
We launched the boat about 9:30 a.m. and headed up by the resorts
looking for fish on the electronics. The fish we did see on the electronics were few and far between as we putted around the whole l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Well thought we might try and see if we could get the crappie and perch to bite... and guess what??? No crappie. but lots of perch. and very good sized ones. We caught 3 perch between 11-12 inches.....
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/25/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Started out around 6:30am fished until 11:00am ended up with 2 bass a one pound and a one and a half pound largemouth. lost 2 others on a jerk bait and boated and released the other two on a plastic w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went down today to check on our property. I decided to drown a worm while I was there. I fished the slough for a couple hrs and caught a ton of small perch and pumpkinseed sunfish. No trout today.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tanwax on the opener. Caught lots of fish, but none over 12". Most were 8-10", saw quite a few 16" and over caught though. We trolled small spoons, with red and white being the best color. This...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 8/31/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing for perch and crappie.. Not too much action.. Weather change... I was getting skunked... was trying to adjust my slip bobber on a white jig, and wham!!! nailed a 10 inch crappie.. Nice thick ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/28/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Tanwax for the 2nd Saturday in a row. Cleaned 19 fish last week. Kept 16 this week. Almost all were medium sized perch. We did not catch any jumbos. We did catch a bunch of very small ones ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2001
Hot Spots: 0
We launched about 5:30am. We fished the lily pads looking for spiny rays. We were very successful at that. One fellow was a novice fisherman. He took home a load of perch that he's likely STILL clean...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/30/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2001
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I fished tanwax lake at 8 am and I caught the mother of all perch, I thought it was a bass until I got it out of the water. this perch was super fat and 12 inches long weighing at least 1...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water with my father-in-law around 7:15. Started trolling using just a nightcrawler & an egg on 2' of leader with on small split shot to keep it below the surface. After about 10 minutes ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/8/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Well I did a lot of bass fishing and a lot of perch fishing. Perch are biting really good pretty much anywhere on the lake using night crawlers but mostly on the eastside of the lake that's where my ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2000
Hot Spots: 0
On Fathers Day my Dad and I decided we would give Rainbow Resort's Dock a shot. We arrived at the lake
around 1pm and fished for a couple of hours. The wind and weather changed a couple of times dur...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Me and my family of 4 people and 2 friends went out to Tanawax lake about 3:30 and put on a sliding weight then a swivel then 2' ft of leader with a hook. We then used a worm and a garlic marshmallow...
