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By: RJD
Posted: 7/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Between the wind and the rain fishing on Banks was HOT! My daughter and I were into smallies and walleyes Friday evening and Sunday morning. Nothing real big but plenty of rod bending action. Best ba...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our plan was to try Banks on Thursday 3/31, but weather warnings for high winds caused us to postpone for Saturday 4/2 which looked better. At 4 am Saturday I checked the forecast again, and although...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The weather looked tolerable today, although the pressure was dropping, the skies were clearing, and the winds were swinging 90 degrees. Fishable, but not conducive to a bite, since all indications w...
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: 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: Jim Moats
Posted: 10/5/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks from 8am to 4pm around the hump. Fished deep between 45 and 65 feet with 3oz bouncers. Kept four, released four and missed four. Blue sky, no wind, 80+ degrees and very little traffic. ...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 10/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the annual Washington State Bass Federation Scholarship tournament on October 2 and 3. Took second place with a 2-day bag of 26.29 pounds, good for $500. The fall bass pattern at Banks seems ...
By: BMGW
Posted: 10/24/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well finally made it to Banks lake in a round about way. Went over to help a friend get his roof on before the snow flies, nice place up on a hillside overlooking the mouth of the Spokane river. Aft...
By: BuckThunder
Posted: 8/30/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had our annual Banks lake fishing trip and as usual had a great time. Only caught one large mouth this year, but there were some good sized small mouth biting. My son's friend caught one just shy of...
By: Tech Guy
Posted: 6/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks for about 5 hrs. The three of us caught about 80-90 Smallies. It was crazzzzzy! We also landed 3 Walleye during that same time. I will post some pix soon of the limits we kept. Banks is b...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: bassplayer17
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chelan in the morning for koks. At 930am loaded up the boat heading to banks for some smallies. 1230 in the afternoon pulled in to barker canyon boat launch. Boat in the water headed to the fla...
