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By: DAR
Posted: 3/31/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
4 walleye, 2 perch and a burbot . All caught at 50-60 feet of water. My 85 year old mother got the burbot. Barker Flat area.
Posted: 9/16/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Real ratings by topic: weather -5, walleye 1, trout 3, perch 5. Appears we'll be eating fish tacos all winter instead of walleye filets. Fish and Game counter is pleading to keep all perch because of ...
By: haverman83
Posted: 12/16/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
(*Editor's Note - the 5 star rating is for Rufus, not Banks)
Well this report is a total change from my last one on banks just a few weeks prior where we just couldn't keep the walleye off the hoo...
Posted: 9/26/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Spent the week fishing for walleye, smallies and perch - stayed the week at Steamboat (Steamboat gets a 5 rating). Monday 9/18
started windy with white caps and rollers, so took the hint from the Cra...
By: Don Wittenberger
Posted: 9/7/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Tom and I fished Banks Lake from Sep. 4-6. Dense fog-like smoke from wildfires shrouded the lake. We could not see the opposite shore. We fished for smallmouth on the west side of Steamboat ...
By: DAR
Posted: 5/6/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Good day on Banks except for the wind. 20 smallies and a 3lb trout. Very few boats at the south end and they were all after Walleyes.
By: aortbahn
Posted: 8/7/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on Banks this Saturday, and was able to get myself a limit of some nice eater walleyes down on the south end of the lake by Coulee city in between some humps in about 20-30ft. Crawler harnesse...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/10/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report.
I fished Banks Lake with the Packernut on Saturday the 5th. We tried jigs for about an hour to no avail, then switched to bottom walkers and Mack's smile blades, slow de...
Posted: 6/21/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hello,
so I have been meaning to get to Banks Lake and Sunday the 18th I took the camper and boat and went to Barker Canyon. It is off Highway 174 before Grand Coulee. The road going to the Lake is...
By: Fisheries24
Posted: 7/1/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Tough fishing for me at Banks. Fished Barker Flats, Punchbowl and the outside face of steamboat rock. Heading to the south end next time.
By: wallmama
Posted: 7/25/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had not seen any reports on this lake for a while. I guess I would like to chime in. Got on water at 8 am.... started 5mph mild wind in the morning. Use spinner as well as smiley with worm. One on to...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 8/12/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day on Banks Lake. Walleye fishing has been of the chart for us here for the past couple months and just seems to be getting better. We got on the water at 9:30 and had 16 walleye in the...
Posted: 9/15/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Banks was a bust !!! On the water b/4 7:00am and headed for old devil's lake area to try for a few whitefish - spent
almost two hours jigging and watching two other boats, nada for all of us, left a...
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Northrup cyn before 7 - headed south to do the mile, but about half way there Aeolius the wind God
decided to let it all hang out - less than 5 minutes we were in white caps and rollers -...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for technically last Monday AND Tuesday even though Monday was mainly a sightseeing endeavor. First trip ever to Banks Lake for myself and my wife and unfortunately we were greeted by...
By: Noskills72
Posted: 4/10/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for the first time, this weekend, out of all weekends. Friday was windy, but got b.o.w for a few hours. No luck. Saturday was nuts! 30+ gusts, so searched up and down, for shore fishing...
Posted: 9/12/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2022
Hot Spots: 0
My family and I went out for 3 days for Labor Day Weekend. 2 at Lake Roosevelt and 1 at Banks lake. We easily caught 250 smallmouth. Lots of dinks and clones. Average fish were 1-2 1/2 pounds. We cou...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/12/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Banks from Monday-Thursday.
Taking the puppers on her first camping trip. She did very well on the 4 hour ride.
Arrived late at about 4:30PM. Got everything setup and made dinner. Phi...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 11/20/2020
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We planned a trip to Banks lake and found the Walleye bite to be tough. We decided to try fishing a new species to us, whitefish! We ended up anchoring in 120ft of water. We found that fish were stack...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 11/29/2020
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2 of our whitefish adventure started out rough! We woke up to a ton of smoke from the fires. Thankfully we had some respirators packed just in case. We hit the water in the morning and decided to ...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up banks yesterday since the weather was some what nice. It rained and was cloudy. No big deal for me as long as I was hookin' bass. Fished the punch bowl the whole day caught several largemouth b...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks again today with high hopes.
2nd cast I landed a nice 17' SM, off to a good start..
Then the wind chimed in....
Tried to fish a few areas out of the wind, but came up zero.
Sw...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 5/21/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks for only 2 1/2 hours for largemouth in the punch bowl. Tried lots of lures and no takers. Didn't even see a largemouth. Only carp. Only thing I caught was a perch on a square bill crank. ...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 6/6/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished osborne bay area at banks lake last night for largemouth. Fishing was pretty slow and windy but saw lots of largemouth in the shallows. Caught 2 on top water frogs and 1 on a 6in senko. Also c...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 6/26/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the punch bowl at banks yesterday. Fishing was good. The largemouth are really spooked so good thing i was fishing from my raft so I didn't make a lot of noise running up on them. Fish are way ...
