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Tanwax Fishing Reports

Tanwax
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.
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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 ...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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....
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Tanwax
By: bass kickin redneck
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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 ...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
By: bassman72
Posted: 5/26/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/24/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kids out for some fast action trout fishing. We went the week before with the same results and the kids have been begging to do it again. Waited till evening. Hit the water about 5:30 which w...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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....
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Tanwax
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...
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Tanwax
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...
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