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By: waiteman
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of the year to Banks Lake. Took the boys for 3 days of fishing and exploring the north end. We had to work for our 1/2 dozen Bass and a handfull of Trout but certainly had a good time doing...
By: bass2elk
Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks Lake this last Saturday and caught a few fish with my daughter. It was sunny but windy. Water temps were 43 to 46.8. Nice day overall.
By: Outjack
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Son and I headed to Banks for the first time this year. Put in at Steamboat, and tried to stay out of the wind. We ended up with three walleye, three nice perch, and a nice lunch consisting of roast...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We were hoping the walleye might be on the move. They aren't. We covered depths from 85 to 15, without a bite. Jigs of many colors, and spinners with crawler. We caught one rainbow in about 70 fee...
By: maxlilly
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We hit Banks for a 3 days of fishing Fri., Sat. and Sunday hoping the water temp. was up and moving fish in but no such luck. Water was 45 to 47 depending on your location, Sunday it finally reached 4...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A big thank you to Joe Scmidt a.k.a (fishin'_christian) for his generosity on this trip to my old stomping grounds up at Banks Lake. This years infernal cold weaher has wrought havoc on trying to patt...
By: capnhook
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Just spent 3 days in central and eastern Washington. Mainly fished Banks Lake but took a couple of side trips, one to Jameson and another to Blue Lake.
Banks was full of all kinds of fish too bashf...
By: PBWADE89
Posted: 5/6/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well I finally made it out to Banks for the first time this year. I started off fishing smallies and was able to find a few of them in Old Devils lake area. I think we boated 7 bass in two hours. Not ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
while fishing for bass at banks I caught a huge walleye with a brown grub in less than 15 feet of water. lots of small mouth being caught by good fisherman I have caught a few
By: cast&blast
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks Lake Sunday on way way home from a coulpe of days of Trout Fishing in the Sun Lakes area. We launched on the southwest end of the lake. Fished around rocky points and steep drops. Stayed clo...
By: Joey May
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My uncle and I went over to banks lake and tried our luck with the smallmouth bass. We had an absolute ball. Caught a bunch of smallies and the old guy even got him a pretty good size trout.Their were...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun catch. 5 lb small mouth
By: dreamer0131
Posted: 6/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 2
went camping all weekend. fished sunday night and monday morning. nailed them. all fish in 2-6 ft of water. fished the southend of lake. all fish were catch and release. caught alot of fish. here are ...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks Friday and Saturday, water temp was 61-63 weather was mostly sunny with light breeze from time to time. Fished midlake to south end trolling cranks in 15-20 fow. Lots of dinks and a few good...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Banks Lake B.A.S.S Qualifier
June 11th & 12th
I fished this tournament as a non-boater as I didn't even know I was going to fish it till last week.
We had 18 boats turn out as we launched Satur...
By: waiteman
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the north end of Banks from Thursday thru Saturday. Weather was great and the fish were biting. We were tossing Green curly tail grubs on 1/8 oz jigs and caught all sizes from 8" on up to this ...
By: buzz bomb
Posted: 6/18/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks from 8am to noon. Wind was awful! But the fishing as always was great. Look shallow to 12 feet right now. The fish were full of crawdads! The big one was 3 lbs! Have fun and good luck... ...
By: kjtemp
Posted: 6/20/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from the 11th to the 17th on the south end of banks lake. Stayed at the city park and had my dads boat at the dock. Unfortunetly It got broken into twice along with several other boats. The ...
By: rhodes
Posted: 6/23/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I've been fishing crawler harness rigs and plugs. fishing has been real spotty, lots of no fish...
surface temps right around 60, been a freaky year. a few nice ones far and few betwween.
on...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for an afternoon, since I had to go to Ellensburg. Hey, that's most of the way from Yakima... Isn't it??
41 smallmouth, 6 largemouth. Smallmouth were mostly on crawfish colored tubes...
By: y2says
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Last Sunday and Monday my friend, his wife and 3 yr old son stayed at Steamboat and had a pretty decent days of fishing. Fishing was tough at times, but we still had a few quality fish. Water temp w...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Larry and his Nephews Bill and Dylan went out with me for a day on Banks Lake.
We launched around 6am out of Coulee City and headed out to some shallow flats no deeper than 8 feet and began to fish...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 6/28/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Steamboat 22nd through 26th. Pleasant weather but big winds, which prevented us from covering large portions of the lake. Fished Barker, Steamboat, clay banks, Punchbowl, and Jones. Jigs,...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/30/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
ON BEHALF OF MARDON RESORT:
By: Mike Meseberg & Nick Barr
Ready or not here comes the 4th of July, 2011 edition. The water level on Potholes Reservoir has dropped rapidly as of late, with th...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/7/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished mostly the south end, that being from the Mile south. Caught 12 for the day, 7 keepers, for two of us. Two nice perch as well. Fished the mid lake area without a bite. No depth produced unt...
