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By: luisfe
Posted: 6/5/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I know I must use my best writing but let me tell you that English is my second language, so I hope you understand what i write.
Today was my first day at Tanwax Lake (Camp Lakeview), I got there a...
By: arniejl
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished this afternoon and evening. Caught one on a 7" power lizard no weight and weedless, skipping it from pad to pad. Caught the other on 7" powerworm in blue fleck. Overall, pretty darn slow. Spent...
By: 35jsm
Posted: 5/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, no school friday, so I took my 9 year old grandson down to the lake for a little dock fishing at the resort. Got there about 8. Fish on with the first cast and I'm sure that fish took it on th...
By: 35jsm
Posted: 5/25/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is kind of late, haven't been at the old computer fot a while. I fished from the dock at the resort. Got there about 8 and had my five by 10. Got 1 nice 15 incher and the rest were the smaller...
By: salmonslayer117
Posted: 5/18/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/18/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Welp, me and my wife made a last minute decision to hit tanwax this morning so we got the kids off to school and hit the road. Got on the water at about 9:30. Weather was fair... at first. Rowed out t...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/15/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wow, my skunks are adding up. Should have stuck with Chambers, I guess.
Got to Tanwax way early. Had stuff to do and then off to Elma for the Sprint cars, so, on the lake at 5:30a.m. and off shortl...
By: marka777
Posted: 5/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to the lake today, (Beautiful weather) Started fishing from the dock at the resort. Started catching fish right away. We were using nightcrawlers W/5ft of leader off a sliding sinker. We had ...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/14/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my kid out after work, again, to Tanwax. Was fishing by 5:15, or so. I fished plastics, for the most part, with some crappie jig tipped with worm, here and there. My kid fish some crankbaits, an...
By: arniejl
Posted: 5/1/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got onto Tanwax about 2:30 p.m. in search of LMB. Seen a guy pulling out with a decent bass boat and talked to him for 15 minutes while waiting for my buddy. This guy had caught no bass, so I figured ...
By: TBone
Posted: 4/29/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well we headed to tanawx today, got to the launch around 10, parked the truck and trailer and headed staright from the launch and fish on not 5 mins in the water but was a small planter so we releas...
By: the Salmonid Kid
Posted: 4/26/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Figured I might as well check out a new lake in Pierce county since I had a dentist appointment in University Place this morning. Checked out a few (Rapjohn: too crowded..... Silver: too windy.... Cl...
By: dangerdoug
Posted: 4/24/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Greetings,
Hit Tanawax about 7 am. Fished by inlet on North side. Bobber at 4 feet with chunk of worm tipped with orange powerbait. Me and son limited in two hours. All, and I mean all, really...
By: BrianB
Posted: 9/1/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Tanawax yesterday evening to have a try at the LMB. Got my boat in the water around 1830 and went to the NW bank about half way up the lake (adjacent to the little stern-wheel paddle bo...
By: leahcim_dahc
Posted: 8/17/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got a late start this morning...didn't get to the lake until 0930. Weather turned out to be great...sunny and mid-80's. Water temperature was fairly warm...ranged anywhere from 69F at the southwest en...
By: bpater00
Posted: 7/25/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Tanwax at about 4am and started throwing a white Top Water Crank along the lilly pads hoping to draw out a big bass. Had no success with that so when the dock opened I headed over there. Got to...
By: slicbob
Posted: 6/29/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Myself & a couple friends went to Rainbow resort on Tanwax lake. Got there about 6:00 AM and fished til after 3:00 PM. Tried both worms & a wide variety colors of power eggs. Also used worms. Caught a...
By: jsb7273
Posted: 6/23/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Launched boat around noon. A bit windy and light rain and cloudy most of the afternoon. Tanwax is not my favorite lake, but LM can usually be found in or around any of the lily pad bunches. Flipping i...
By: Toni
Posted: 6/16/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I fished 8-12 catching 1 bluegill on bobber and worm still fishing. 1 cutthroat trolling a wedding ring with honey worm and worm. Then I let the wedding ring go to the bottom while I was putting gear ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a nice 6 pound large mouth right by the first dock and a 5 pound trout.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/28/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried this lake for the first time. I fished from the dock at the Rainbow Resort and took almost 3 hours to get my limit. They seem to come in 2 distinct sizes. I got 2 that were about 8 inches and w...
By: Abeone
Posted: 5/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on the lake about 11:30 AM. Got three and a friend got one. Trolling seem to be the best bet. Got several hits trolling and manged to bring in two. We did stop and use a bobbler and worm and g...
By: flyfishinkid
Posted: 5/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
did better than yesterday, I caught two my dad cought one, and my brother caught one. Gonna try again tomarrow.
By: flyfishinkid
Posted: 5/24/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to tanwax to relax and try our new motor. Caught two. My dad through his back, and I kept mine for dinner.
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 5/24/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My wife, son, and I decided to try Tanwax for the first time. We got to Rainbow RV Resort at 6 am and rented a boat. We started out trolling as we followed the shoreline around just to see what the la...
By: TBone
Posted: 5/19/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/16/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to tanwax and started trolling right after we launched, within 10 mins of the launch we boated 2 planters about 11 inches, continued trolling down the lake and got fish after fish but nothing wit...