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By: tuneweaver
Posted: 5/14/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/13/2014
Hot Spots: 3
I got on the water about 7AM and fished til 1:30. Air temp? Hot! It was a beautiful day with a light breeze that felt great. Fishing was tough though. I caught 4 bass between 1-1 1/2 lbs. As usu...
By: the piranha
Posted: 5/10/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I started out in the outtake. I was throwing a jig and a strike king shimmy sick. When I was working the shimmy stick, I saw one come out, I stopped my worm the fish just swam up and took it. As s...
By: the piranha
Posted: 4/30/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/28/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I was hoping to get my first large mouth of the year, but no such luck. I broke one off next to a dock on a crank bait. I only saw the wake of the fish run back under the dock, then hearing it spla...
By: the piranha
Posted: 10/13/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I figured I would do better going for large mouth instead of smallmouth so I went to tanwax . I caught about 13 biggest was about 2.5 lbs most were pounders. A couple were caught shallow on...
By: nickthestick
Posted: 8/11/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
got out late around 10am, fished till 2pm. caught a few small largemouth on small white spinnerbait and a big crappie. The perch were nailing the green senko but not getting the hook most of the time....
By: #Bird_Dog
Posted: 8/4/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the water at sunrise. Never fished the lake before and didn't check the reports. Was hoping for some trount and some crawdads. Dropped my pots right after launching baited with chicked quart...
By: the piranha
Posted: 7/10/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/10/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake at 5:30 and started down shore. Right away I saw some rustling around right near the shore so I casted my senko close by and immediately one back flipped over it missing the wor...
By: needs2hunt
Posted: 7/6/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So the wife and I took a short close in camping trip to Lakeside campground on the east side of Lake... nice and quiet for the most part, great boat launch and dock space... So the wife and I went out...
By: the piranha
Posted: 6/30/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2013
Hot Spots: 2
Hit Tanwax Saturday, arrived at launch at 4:45 I was first at launch, I usually hang around the boat launch fishing until people start rolling in just to keep an eye on my truck. I wanted to catc...
By: viking fan
Posted: 6/14/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2013
Hot Spots: 0
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had a great day on the lake(caught trout and perch) but after loading boat and starting to leave my low gas reminder went off on my 2002 trailblazer. I left home 15 miles away wi...
By: Stansjoy
Posted: 5/19/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Drove south before o'dark thirty to meet my youngest son, Wesly, for a fishing trip to Tanwax Lake on his birthday. Used to live near the lake and loved fishing it... been at least 10 years since the ...
By: tuneweaver
Posted: 5/10/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/8/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water about 7AM for my first trip of the year. Weather was overcast and water was dead calm most of the day. Nothing til 10:45 when I put a beautiful 3 1/2 lb in the boat. Fifteen minute...
By: markwayne
Posted: 5/2/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Spent opening weekend on Tanwax, Fished from the boat around Rainbow RV resort. Had a fairly good trip limited every day no problem. Trolling a red wedding ring tipped with worm. The rain sucked but t...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/25/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/24/2012
Hot Spots: 0
sunday me and the wifey. Monday me and my little boy..lol. Again Tanwax. My son actually wanted some fish to eat so we went for some panfish. Started out with a nice little 1lb or so bass. Then search...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 9/23/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished ol' Tanwax today with my wife. Looking for some panfish for dinner and found a bunch crappies, perch, blugills and perch.Only kep a half dozen perch. Found the fish in water depths of 10-16 fee...
By: SergeantJack
Posted: 8/15/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/14/2012
Hot Spots: 3
I went out around 6 pm and spent a few hours. No action at all! :(
By: Slacktime
Posted: 7/25/2012
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Tanwax to relieve some stress, a friend told me there was good perch fishing there. He was correct !!! The perch were biting all morning I got about 30 and released quite a few. I'll bet there...
By: Chumknuckle
Posted: 7/5/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/3/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Main camping plans fell through so the girlfriend and I decided to check out Rainbow RV Resort on Tanwax. We got a tent site and rented a boat for about $30 total, fair deal. As it turns out, they hav...
By: hogstwo1
Posted: 6/18/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Brother and i took a weekend off from riffe, not my best choice . i would rather fish riffe then any other. any who i watched while brother ed fished. His luck was bad he caught a couple dinks and los...
By: init2live
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Took the wife and my 2 boys out to catch some dinner. Bites were constant, kept only as many as we wanted for dinner and were off the water in a couple hours. My oldest son had a great time and caug...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got to The lake around 630 am. I was trolling with a dick nite watermelon dodger and a pink squid had 4 fish in the first hour one got off at the side of the boat. Trolled for another hour and half w...
By: init2live
Posted: 5/19/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Got out early and set some powerbait on the bottom, started slow but picked up after a little bit. Watched a guy 50ft from me with his two daughters limit out in about an hour (he hooked me up with a...
By: jeflen156
Posted: 5/11/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished at Rainbow Resort @ Tanwax lake this morning and limited out in about 3 1/2 hours with 5 trout, all about 12-13" long. Saw a couple of nice 16-18" caught by a couple of fellow dock fishermen. ...
By: procaster
Posted: 8/14/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got a new reel (spinning) so I had to test it out. Reel is nice but the fish weren't biting. Threw all the usual stuff. Talked to a couple guys who caught some small lmb but no crappie. I'll have...
By: muskyhunter
Posted: 8/2/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day with my son and 2 of his buddies looking for some fish to catch and eat. So Tanwax came to mind. We caught approximatley 75-80 perch. Ended up keeping only about 20 total. Plus a couple ...
