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By: KMC
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 1
We fished Banks for walleye the 13th-15th and landed six keepers, four of which were over 20" with the biggest being 27". Saturday was the best day getting the 27, a 25, and an 18 and losing four mor...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 5/22/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, first time fishing Banks today, and it took me to school! My adult son and I drove over to Banks from Lake Chelan, rented a boat from Coulee Playland, bought a fishing map of the lake, got some ...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2014
Hot Spots: 3
We fished Banks for the first time from 6/2 through 6/6. We had a great time but fishing was slower than we were hoping for. I gave it a 3 because we did catch some nice walleye our first time targeti...
By: BigPat
Posted: 5/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2014
Hot Spots: 3
The smallmouth bite was hit and miss. We used a combination of jigs, crank baits and spinner baits. Jigs were dark in color, crank baits were a perch imitation. and white spinner baits. Fishing was sl...
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 4/9/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Made it up to Banks twice this last weekend.
-Friday was a rough trip, turned out good, but was a little touch and go. Got to Northerup launch at daylight and was getting boat ready to launch and no...
By: basspro
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake is on for fall smallmouth bass fishing. Just finished 2nd at the TBF Open this past weekend. Reaction baits in the morning were working best. Jerk Baits,Crank Baits, and Spinner Baits. Afte...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Steamboat Rock State Park from Mon-Fri.
On Monday, setup camp and had a late lunch. We hit the water and it is windy. Couldn't fish properly at all. No whitecaps but was getting blown ...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So the trip was awesome guys, thanks for all the pre fishing info! Started out last weekend fishing Friday morning on Banks Lake, started at Barker Flatts fishing 5-7ft of water. My son got one righ...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 8/7/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks 8/5 and 8/6. Woke up at 4am each morning while it was still pitch black out to beat the coulee heat wave during the day. Fished till about 1:30 till 2 in the afternoon each day. Bass fish...
By: Stywe Lyn
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 1
First time on Banks Lake.
Started in Devils Punchbowl, fishing the weedlines, nothing.
Then got a couple of smallish SMB on the rip rap close to the bridge under highway 155.
Went to the big submer...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 8/17/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took a week off and brought my boy over to Banks for some bass fishing. Hit a couple of my honey holes and eventually ran into some PIG smallmouth some of which were over 5lbs. Went over to my walle...
Posted: 4/7/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
A beautiful day for fishing, no wind, just the occasional cats paw on the water - a few walleye and a few
perch - walleye in 35-50 and perch in 25-35. Bite went off between 10-10:30 - trollled around...
By: smathisen
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/1/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Got to Banks lake around 11:00. Started fishing just west of Coulee Playland Resort using Trolling poles, Leaded Line, Smile Blade Slow Death Hooks with Night Crawler. Down 55 ft, Trolling around 2 mp...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We recently moved to Coulee City from Spokane so we could be closer to the Walleye fishing and I have to say its great to be within a short drive of so many great lakes. Yesterday we launched at Steam...
By: justforfun
Posted: 4/17/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
On the water by 9 am, slow start but what a beautiful day. Slow death hooks on standard bottom bouncer set up. Keep three walleye 17 & 18 inchs, then to my surprise, 80 degree day and I pull up a 25''...
By: buc
Posted: 4/21/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
South end/only one trailer in parking lot at 7:30 drove down to big flat west side across from millon $ launch. Two limits in an hour, so me and the old man just drove the whole lake for fun. No other...
By: walleyes
Posted: 5/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Slow day on Banks, landed a single spawned out 26 inch female on a copper spin harness. We started fishing around 6am and called it a day at 1PM. We thew every color of spin/harness, flicker shads and...
By: buc
Posted: 6/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Banks was on; jigs 23' green watermelon lots of small ones @ first then found em' on rock slides average 16 to 18 "s. bigger fish are together. back soon for more freezer pack n.
New July limit w...
By: nwbhoss
Posted: 9/2/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2009
Hot Spots: 2
I fished Walleye for the first time and Banks Lake for the first time last weekend. It took a couple days to figure things out and fighting the wind but we picked up some good info and ended up landin...
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 11/23/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I wanted to catch some of the Whitefish @ Banks as I've seen in some videos. No luck for me on those, I did pick up the one small mouth while trying. After no Whitefish action, I moved to some wee...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 6/3/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent some R&R at Lake Chelan with the wife, then my son and I ran over to Banks for one day. We rented a boat from Coulee Playland, and hit the areas of the lake that had been recommended on this sit...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks today, got on the water at 8am and fished the slides. Was hoping for a repeat of last trip with the shiver minnow but they didnt want that this time. Didnt get a fish jigging at all. So went...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 7/13/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to Banks on Friday to test a theory I had and it was right. I didnt put a spinner on until around noon and all of the 22-26" eyes were caught casting to shelves after I marked the fish. I use...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 7/14/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went with Glenn to Banks on Sunday to chase some eyes. We started at the south end near the islands and only managed 3 dinks. They were holding in 25-30 FOW and hit our worn harnesses fairly lightly. ...
Posted: 10/15/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I have been wanting to get to Banks for a while finally got it done. Got to Northrup about 10:30, after a stop at Coulee Playland for worms and snacks.
There were about a dozen trailers at the launch...
