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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Aaron, Rob, and I got to fish with Jordan Osborn of Upper Columbia Guide Service for a day of walleye fishing on Banks Lake. We met at 5:30am and hit the water running. It was a gorgeous day with ligh...
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: hewesbob
Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Just got home from three days at Banks. Wednesday the 10th we caught 70-80 sub legal walleye, all were 12-15 inches also nailed a 4 1/2 pound small mouth and 8 perch in the 9-10 inch range. Thursday w...
By: yearofthecraig
Posted: 6/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Fished Banks Lake from Steamboat north for three days. Smallmouth were very hard to find, but got one of note in the shade off of Steamboat, casting a sinking Rapala along the shore. The 15inch wall...
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: kokanee1
Posted: 6/25/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Okay this is a 3 day report form June 21-23. Went to Banks lake with some friends. Planned to fish hard, tube and get the guys up on water skis when it got hot out. Arrived Sunday around noon and s...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/4/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
As of July 1st the slot limit on Banks Lake has permanently moved to the 12"-22" and 8 fish per day limit. Limits are now the norm, not the exception.
The size of the walleye have been from the ta...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/7/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I headed to Banks Lake this morning with my son and 2 grandsons. The boys don't have a lot of fishing experience so I thought the abundant walleye would keep their interest up. I set them up with li...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We(Evie and I) fished Banks from 7-3 thru 7-6 every chance we could between wind events and 100 plus degree heat. We stayed at Coulee City park(what a zoo on a holiday weekend), with the wind blowing ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
If you have kids and want to get them on fish, Banks Lake is the spot to hit. The walleye action is basically not stop for fish running 15-17 inches with walleye up to 22-24 inches being taken as well...
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. ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
It is actually pretty amazing at the number of walleye that are in Banks Lake this year. Limits have been the norm on all of my trips.
The crankbait bite has been fast and furious for the first co...
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: 7/27/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Another day at banks and another 50+ fish day. The big gals where there again I just couldn't land them broke two 26" off at the boat then got to looking at my NEW line I put on and it had Knicks abou...
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake Walleye is absolutely on fire right now! We had a phenomenal day catching Walleye, and the bite is going to stay hot!
Trolling Mack's Lure Slowdeath Rigs from 1.0 to 1.2 mph in 20ft-35f...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/29/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hot, hot, hot. The walleye bite is simply on fire on Banks Lake! Even better, the fish are getting bigger by the day.
We got well over 50 fish today and kept only walleye that were at least 16 inc...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Despite getting 25 fish days at Potholes the last 3 weeks the recent reports had us headed to Banks this AM. Winds were forecast to be 5 MPH but whitecaps greeted us. We launched at Coulee City and ...
Posted: 8/10/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake Walleye fishing continues to be nothing short of on fire!
We kept 2 limits of 15" to 16.5" Walleye with a 20" big one as well! We were using Mack's Lure Slowdeath Rigs in Gold, Purple, Cha...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Warm water conditions on Cda Lake have had me on the sidelines as far as pike fishing goes lately. When the eater cools down they should pick up. That hasn't happened yet so I thought I would get in o...
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 8/14/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day chasing walleye with friend DT. Second time on Banks lake, started catching fish right after getting bottom bouncers with Walleye Delight lures, in green and orange colors + worms. fishe...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/16/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Fished Banks with the Packernut yesterday in the steamboat rock area. The fishing was again on fire with lots of action. We managed 57 walleyes between the two of us. We released a ton of small fish a...
By: bluewater16
Posted: 8/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Banks for first time in 25 years. Had To after reading all the reports. Not sure where we were just followed the boats
We were about 5 miles south of steamboat next to hyway where a spring come...
By: wafisherman20
Posted: 8/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2015
Hot Spots: 3
well, back from my european sports adventure for the summer, and naturally what do i want to do? GO FISHIN! so i head out with my dad on a two day adventure for salmon on wenatchee and walleye on bank...
By: clawman
Posted: 8/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/28/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Amazing how quick you can catch a limit now. Either troll a #5 shad rap in purplesecent at 10'-12' of water or throw a 4" swim bait on 1/4 oz head. Look for weeds and fish on the outside edge.
You sh...
