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By: arniejl
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
OK, proof is in the pudding that I suck at bass fishing. Fished Banks Lake with my 17 year old kid for the first time ever. Expectations were high but were dashed. I can get skunked at Spanaway, 5 mi...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Oops, forgot to date my other Banks report as July 9.
OK, on to today. If you read my other report, I was going on a little over 3 hours sleep, a 5 hour drive and 10 hours of fishing. Finally got...
By: billdance
Posted: 7/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a couple days on Banks. Numbers were great, but almost everything was small. Managed a couple of decent LMB, but all the smallies were very small. Still a great time catching tons of fish. M...
By: arniejl
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and two of her kids hit Banks for the week-end. It was time to teach. First off was the 13 year old boy who has never cast a line in his life. Gave him the quick run down and off we went at 5:00...
By: 4petie5
Posted: 8/9/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sunset was epic and the lake was quiet. Started fishing around 5:00 am South of Steamboat. Fish started biting around 8:00. Slow troll with spinner about 12 inches off the bottom. Hit two walleye ...
By: jeebles121
Posted: 8/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow. I went to Banks lake today, to my secret spot, targeting smallies, caught my limit.
Tried a jig and i casted jigged twice then bam i thought it was a smallie but it was a huge 16 inch perch, lat...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We wanted to see if the fish were stacked up in the drawn-down lake. Normally this time of year the walleye bite is pretty good on Banks, so we thought that the skinnier water would increase our odds...
By: romanfishing
Posted: 10/28/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We came on Banks Lake about 11AM after fishing Evergreen Resevoir. All the boat launches were close except the one in Electric City. Only three boat trailers were parked at that boat launch. It alread...
By: Clear-Waters
Posted: 12/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had a great 2 days on the lake plenty of bass all day cuaght mostly on craink baits and suspending jerkbaits fish averaged 3-4 lbs bites were during the morning evening and some during mid day caug...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/5/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
As it goes, I was due for a trip like today with my mentor an good friend Joe Schmidt A.K.A fishinChristian to walakers. We hitched up his 2 person rig and headed up to Banks to see if we could catch ...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great time on Banks like always. The trout are biting like crazy from the shores. Fished 3 days and caught plenty of big bows. Fished the Coulee city marina area at mid afternoons and evenings. ...
By: bluegrouse bill
Posted: 4/16/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My first trip of the 2012 season!!! My buddy Pat & I headed to Bank's Lake hoping it would be warmer than the Spokane area lakes. We launched @Coulee City around 8:00 & the water temps were between...
By: sjrose24
Posted: 4/17/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Out Banks this sunday and fished Barker flats west of steamboat. trolled wally pops with a bottom bouncer between 20 and 30 ft with no luck. Seems like the fish were more concentrated in the dee...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/27/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Thursday was an absoutely amazing day of fishing for huge black crappie on Banks lake! I Hooked up with A.J. Barnett of Moses Lake, Aka "Worm" to all you Walakes fishermen. We were bummed that the wet...
By: bassplayer17
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Banks is starting to wake up. Fished barker flats in hope of finding mass bass on beds. Was not the case. Found a few on the flat but most still staged in 20 feet. Still a week to two away.
By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/15/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Given the stable warm trend of May weather, and a recent trip of fair success, my usual walleye partner and I decided on a trip to Banks, since I had a work-schedule change and could therefore go duri...
By: davidwat1
Posted: 5/22/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Just returned from a 4 day trip to Banks Lake and the fishing was on fire! The weather patterns were completely stable, we never saw a drop of rain, or even much wind, it was absolutely beautiful and...
By: silverbaws
Posted: 6/13/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 4 am with plastics and ultralight bobber jig setups ready to fish all day. Landed a half dozen or so large mouth in the 15-17inch range with the largest being 17.5inches (the one in t...
By: TheKing83
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing around 5am starting Wednesday fishing for crappie and bass I've had some good luck last year over on south side of lake. but this year its been hit and missed. I fished cpl more days morn...
By: magnum4469
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water about 8 am fished till 2pm and had eight strikes and landed five walleye. Most were 16+ and one over 18, fairly productive morning. The fish hit several different rigs tipped with ni...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 8/22/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks the last 2 days. 8/20 and 8/21. Used top water frogs mostly through the slop and senkos, worms around the edges of the slop. Had only one big hit on top water frog right when it was almos...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to banks lake again and fished for bass for about 2 days only with 1 largemouth bass C&R. Used topwater frogs/mice and senkos in lots of colors. Also used a buzz bait through the reeds and grass....
By: Red beard
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Every year my extended family go fishing and jetboating at Steamboat Rock state park on Banks lake for 10 days so this is a report from 9/3 til 9/13.
After last years slug fest from the lake being...
By: bottom feeder
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and fishing buddy, Connie, fished off the boat launch at Banks Lake for two days and caught 7 nice pigs about 5 to 6 lbs. These boys were fat, and really tested our 8 lb. test. Put about th...
By: bottom feeder
Posted: 12/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My lady friend and I tried to connect with fish Friday at Rufus Woods at Chief Joe but nothing shakin there, but a different drive for both of us at Grand Coulee. A enjoyable day sight-seeing and fis...
