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By: davesturkey
Posted: 7/5/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The small mouth bite was on EARLY. Crank-baiting over rocky bottom in the 3-15 foot depths. Caught about 15 small-mouth and one nice 5 lb walleye.
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 7/12/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks all week long. Got up at 3:30am each morning and fished before the coulee heat wave hit during mid morning. Air temps where in the mid to late 90s all week. Got lots of fish on top water ...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 5/29/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well the weather sure has changed in the coulee area. Not like a couple weeks ago when it was in the high 80s lower 90s for about a week. Not that many bass on there beds like there use to be since th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Nice weekend at Banks lake for Smallies. Most Fish came on tubes, however we managed to get fish on just about everything that Smallmouth like. Stopped in at Blue Lake for some Trout on Sunday and did...
By: dgsmith
Posted: 4/4/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I caught this 11 lb. 32" walleye in the punch bowl area of Banks Lake. What has happened to fish like this in Banks Lake?
I fished Banks Lake multiple times last year with no walleye or bass caught. ...
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: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/30/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
ON BEHALF OF MARDON RESORT:
By: Mike Meseberg & Nick Barr
Ready or not here comes the 4th of July, 2011 edition. The water level on Potholes Reservoir has dropped rapidly as of late, with th...
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: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Banks Lake B.A.S.S Qualifier
June 11th & 12th
I fished this tournament as a non-boater as I didn't even know I was going to fish it till last week.
We had 18 boats turn out as we launched Satur...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Larry and his Nephews Bill and Dylan went out with me for a day on Banks Lake.
We launched around 6am out of Coulee City and headed out to some shallow flats no deeper than 8 feet and began to fish...
By: Joey May
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My uncle and I went over to banks lake and tried our luck with the smallmouth bass. We had an absolute ball. Caught a bunch of smallies and the old guy even got him a pretty good size trout.Their were...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Family and friends annual camping trip to Steamboat Rock. Banks lake did not disappoint.
2 days of fishing
10 walleye (the bite was certainly off, as we caught a dozen other shakers)
about 30 ba...
By: Outjack
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Son and I headed to Banks for the first time this year. Put in at Steamboat, and tried to stay out of the wind. We ended up with three walleye, three nice perch, and a nice lunch consisting of roast...
By: Jordan
Posted: 7/31/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
caught a few smaller smallies around steamboat.
also got a few dink perch. could not find any crappie or walleye
By: bassguy
Posted: 8/5/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks Lake for 4 days. Got into some great fish prefishing and a few nice ones during the tournament. It took 24lbs for 2 days to win. Fish came on spinnerbaits, grubs, buzzbaits and a few othe...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I had planned for a week to take our daughters to Banks, since it is spring break. We knew what the weather forecast was, but hoped for a little bit of a break. We got no break whatsoev...
By: fishinPA
Posted: 6/26/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 4 days at Banks camping and fishing at Steamboat. Visited the usual haunts. At the Devil's punchbowl I caught a 13 inch largemouth on a chartreuse spinner. Failed to hit smallies along the ro...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2007
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished carolina rigged brush hog over points and drop offs and did very well for smallmouths. Some of the fish were still on beds. We some largemouth in the shallows but not a lot and none with a lot ...
By: y2says
Posted: 5/17/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Banks and my friend and I tore them up. We fished all day Monday and most of Tuesday. Tons of beds with fish on them. Some were in spawn and post spawn mode. Caught a lot of bass and...
By: Edgeran
Posted: 5/29/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks Lk. for Memorial Day weekend and had an amazing time. The fishing and the partying meshed together like mashed potatoes and gravy....umm. Anyway, we caught a walleye, a few perch, a coup...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 8/27/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Outstanding trip to Banks Lake. Arrived late Friday night so didn't fish until Saturday morning. Well worth the wait. On the water around 8:45am and limited by 10:45am. I would have to rate that morni...
By: danielt
Posted: 8/28/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks Sunday and caught a bunch of short fish in deeper water but ended up catching the bigger smallies in under 6ft. Drop shot, drop shot, drop shot...
