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Tanwax Fishing Reports

By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/26/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2003
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/24/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/24/2002
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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.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2002
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/19/2002
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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...
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Posted: 6/12/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2002
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2002
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/26/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2002
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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.....
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/25/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2002
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2002
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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.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/27/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2002
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2001
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Rating: 2
Fished: 8/31/2001
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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 ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/28/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2001
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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 ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/4/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2001
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/30/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2001
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2001
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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 ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/8/2000
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2000
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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 ...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/18/2000
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2000
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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...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2000
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ME AND MY BUDDY WENT OUT TO TANAWAX OFF THE BENBOW RESORT DOCK AND COUGH ABOUT 25 KEEPER TROUT FROM ABOUT A QUARTER TO A HALF POUND. WHEN THE CLOUDS CAME OVER AND THE WIND STARTED UP THE BIT WAS ON, B...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/5/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/5/2000
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Fishing at tanawax was awesome on5/5 & 5/14 three of us limited out on stocker rainbows and kokanee two weekends in a row with a total of 4 days fished and a catch of 60 fish between us. Powerbait and...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/14/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/14/2000
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My partner and I fished Tanawax for 9 hours and we ended up catching and releasing about 20 rainbows. The fish were caught on Orange Twist Powerbait on the bottom. Some people around us caught tro...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/8/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2000
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Fished for 5 hours without a bite. We tried everything! This lake should get stocked soon. I'm going again as soon as the caretaker calls me to tell me when the fish arrive.
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/3/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2000
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Fished Lake Tanwax for four hours without a bite. I talked to three other boat fishermen with the same luck. One guy fishing from a small rubber boat said he had done well two weeks prior, using a we...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/19/2000
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/19/2000
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It was afternoon by the time we got out to the lake. We were fishing off of the dock at the Tanwax Resort, and the fishing was horrible!! Not a bite!! I have also talked to people at Rainbow Resort,...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/7/1999
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/7/1999
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After being skunked again at American Lake, my 5 year-old and I thought we'd try a different spot.. We packed our gear and headed to Tanwax. After a short while with no action a gal came to the spot...
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