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By: Red beard
Posted: 9/11/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Alright. First report in a while. Just returned from 5 months working in alaska, so straight to steamboat rock for the annual 10 day vacation with family and friends. Weather was great. Fishing was ev...
By: Zagdogg007
Posted: 9/16/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I was able to fish both the 11th and the 12th. We trolled walleye magic behind a bottom bouncer near the million dollar camp site and caught nonstop Walleye. 3 keepers. An 18", 19", and a good fightin...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 9/17/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the punch bowl at banks yesterday targeting bass. Caught lots of largies and smallies on plastics and cranks. Also caught lots of perch and walleye on my texas rigged lizards and senkos. The wa...
By: wallmama
Posted: 9/22/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2014
Hot Spots: 3
WT: 64-70 F, northern wind <= 5 mph, lake level was very low; 5-6 ft lower than full pool, water was stained, weeds are dying: cabbage are dead, Millfoil Ok,
Fished flats on north and middle section...
By: wallmama
Posted: 9/25/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
WT: 64-70 F, northern wind <= 5 mph, lake level was very low; 5-6 ft lower than full pool, water was stained, weeds are dying: cabbage are dead, Millfoil Ok,
Fished flats on north and middle section ...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 10/22/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Caught lots of dink largemouth in the osbourne slough area on cranks and senkos. Of course the bigger fish have been deep for awhile but I love fishing the weed beds and reeds. Was a great fall day wi...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 12/24/2014
Species: Burbot
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/21/2014
Hot Spots: 2
This was my last big trip for the Cascadia Big Fishing Year, where I am attempting to catch/harvest as many species of fish/shellfish in OR/WA in 2014. My two target species for this trip were burbot ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 2/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First of all, its hard to believe I'm sending a report for Banks Lake on February 8th for walleye. The entire lake is ice free as of this weekend. The water temperatures are 38-39 degrees in the main ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 2/15/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye bite was on today at Banks Lake. Caught numerous fish today ranging in size from 16-27 inches. Everything came on the new Mack's Lure SpinDrift Rig. This bait is far and away out fishing a...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 2/22/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye bite remains very strong at Banks Lake. Fish are holding in 35-50 feet and are munching down on the Mack's Lure Spindrift Walleye Rig tipped with a whole crawler. Slow trolling with 2 ounc...
By: Oceanlord26
Posted: 3/9/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the water. The docks are in at Steamboat, so launching is not a problem. All the walleye were caught between 40 and 45 feet. Used a Mack's Lure chartreuse blade with a slow death hook...
By: Oceanlord26
Posted: 3/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Day two for this trip. Fished Barker Flats along with five other boats - 40- 50 ft with Mack's Smile blade and worms with the Slow Death Hook behind 1.5oz bottom bouncers. Boated the limit but misse...
Posted: 3/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 3
We fished Banks lake this past Sunday and found some great success. We targeted water that was 40 to 50 feet deep. The surface temp was 43 tp 44 degrees. Our best crawler harness patterns were gold in...
By: Oceanlord26
Posted: 3/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/16/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Just got back from another three day trip to Banks Lake. It's unfortunate but my wife has volunteered all the fish for Sunday dinner.
Great trip, slow at times and frustrating at others. Went to Ba...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 3/26/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a couple largemouth on banks in my inflatable around osbourne slough area. Did not have a lot of time to fish. All fish where caught on a perch color Strike King KVD jerk bait. Fished very slow...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I gave this trip a 5 because it was truly a blast.
Dumped the boat into bank at the mid lake launch, not an easy task, water is way down! But it's only a 17.5 boat so no problem.
Ran up the la...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Slept in and listen to the wind blow today. About 10am I figured I'd give it a try.
Launched at Steamboat, ran out to Barker Flats, way to windy. So I ducked back in behind Steamboat.
Picked up...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 3/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I'd like to give it a higher rating. But part of me sez to give it a lower rating.
I fished from like 9:30am till nearly 4 pm.
I caught atleast 40 walleye. One I think I could have passed f...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/6/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to rate it for what it is... I'm perfectly happy with my little trip.
No time this weekend to fish, had lots of chores. But managed a couple of hrs Sunday afternoon. Put in at Coulee City about...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Thursday, April 9th. The walleye bite is strong right now on Banks Lake. But wow the fish are spread out and are in various depths. Yesterday we caught walleye in depths as deep as ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Not only are the walleye cooking on Banks but so are the smallmouth bass. The smallmouth are currently relating to water depths of 3-10 feet and are clobbering crankbaits. Today we hit numerous smalli...
By: lsnelso2
Posted: 4/27/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Had a great weekend fishing Banks. Caught a few but had to work pretty hard to find them, I think the cold front that rolled through over the weekend slowed the bite down a little bit. I was able to c...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 5/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Spent most of last week at Banks targeting walleye and bass and hoping for some , whitefish and burbot. Banks is full to the brim and they are still pumping in lots of water. Water temps at the north ...
Posted: 5/26/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Went to check out Banks Lake with my now Fiancé! Well, there are TONS of small walleye and medium sized perch to keep you busy and steal tons of worms! Found the nice keeper Walleye in 15 to 25 feet o...
By: Aaron
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Had a fantastic (if not crispy) outing on Banks this last Saturday. Drove under a heck of a storm on the way to the lake. Lightning, major wind and rain.
Had planned to stay at the Steamboat Park ...
