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By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/29/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/28/2007
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Fished from 9 AM to about 2, caught a lot of smallies, a couple decent largemouth, some big perch, and a couple of dinky walleye. Bite seemed to be best shortly after we got there around 9. We found l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/5/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/3/2007
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If you are a Walleye fisherman, you should get to Banks lake, now. Walleye fishing is unreal, the bite is on. I have been fishing this lake all year every weekend, now is the time to be there. It has ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2007
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2007
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Fished Banks Lake Sunday 7/8/2007 from 1130am to 5pm with another angler (Terry). We both limited (5 each) on some nice Walleyes. (2) 18" (2) 19.5" (4) 20.5" (2) 22.5" and 2 released 15.5" Walleye. 1 ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/20/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2007
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Fished hard most fo the day for 2 days caught 64 smallmouth 3 crappies 2 perch and 1 walleye. We caught a lot of bass 2-3 pounds and a few 4 pounders. This was my girlfriends first real fishing trip a...
By: CK14
Posted: 6/27/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Day 1 - the first day for us was mainly run & gun. we tried all over the steamboat rock area, the punchbowl, and barker flats. we had minimal success with only a couple over 12". we were discouraged t...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 9/30/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Spent Sat and Sun on Banks Lake. Walleye Fishing is still good there. It was 44 degrees and windy on Saturday, Sunday was about 50 and raining. We were bottom bouncing with crawlers. We caught 1 18 in...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 10/20/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
2 day trip to Banks.
Thursday it was drizzling rain, 40's, windy, and fishing was as bad as I have seen it all year. It has been dynamite here for last few months but it was not so today. Used bott...
By: Caleb Brooks
Posted: 8/3/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We got to Banks at about 11:30 am and had a slow day. That is until we went to Spider Island and Goose Island around 4:30 and started catching decent smallies constantly on perch pattern crankbaits. C...
By: CK14
Posted: 8/7/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
after the potholes we went over to banks lake for a couple days and they were hitting pretty good. in the evenings you couldn't keep em off cranks and in the morning it was the same thing with dropsho...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time this year out on Banks. All the ice is gone and it felt great to be pulling bottom bouncers again. Didn't get on the water until 130pm today and when we finally found the fish we fished for...
By: riprap101
Posted: 4/22/2008
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Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks lake on Sat. First time on this body of water. Pops and I launched on the South end. Water temp. 44, and warming the further North we traveled. Started trolling on top for bows along S.W...
By: troutheart
Posted: 5/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a long day on the lake and not much luck. There were also probably 50 bass boats flying around the lake for the tournament. Walleye fishing was tough but we managed to hook this 19 incher righ...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/23/2008
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks last week before the tournament. Caught 4 little guys in 4 hours on Thursday evening anywhere from 14 to 41 feet of water. Not exactly what you want to see but oh well.
Friday I took a f...
By: Jordan
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My dad, my buddy, and I caught 64 bass. about 55 of them were between 1.5 lbs to 3.5 lbs. the others were pretty small. of those I think 5 or 6 of them were Largemouth and those were all 1.5 to 2 lbs...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks lake this past weekend.
Friday night I tried for Crappies for an hour, not happening.
Gave Walleyes a shot for 2 1/2 hours and caught 2 keepers, 1 dink and lost one other.
Saturd...
By: bassguy
Posted: 5/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 4 days at Banks lake and what a great time. Largemouth and Smallmouth were abundant. On Friday most fish were off in a little bit deeper water and not on beds. Did see a few that looked like the...
By: bassguy
Posted: 6/2/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake last week and had a blast. Sorry not alot of pics just some fun ones but the fishing was great. Lots of nice 2-3 lbers as you can see from my pics some real "monsters" too, LOL. Fish...
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 5/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
LowVW and I took our float tubes across the pass and got to Banks Lake around 5 pm on Friday. We stayed at Steamboat Rock. That first night we each landed one each. The fish have not moved to shall...
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing trip was from May 13th through May 17th. Made the 4 hour drive over to Steamboat Rock State park on Wednesday. The introductory weather was not great. Powerful winds made it tough the first...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
3 pretty good days of walleye fishing on Banks this weekend. A lot of boats struggled and a few caught limits. It was completely hit or miss, but if you found them you were on them. Friday night in 3 ...
By: Keith
Posted: 8/24/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well waited all year to go to Banks with my buddy and my kid. Got over there on Thursday morning and launched and got blasted by 6 foot waves all morning. The bilge pump broke and had to head in to ge...
By: CK14
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
had a club tournament on the weekend on banks lake. fishing was pretty slow with mostly small fishing being caught. i got a limit each day pretty easily but most fish were 13"-15". caught most of my f...
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 8/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Banks trip from 8/22 to 8/24. Stayed at Steamboat. First morning we had trouble with the motor, so just used the trolling motor. I hooked into 2.5 LMB first cast with a senko. Friend caught a 3+ S...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/11/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2004
Hot Spots: 0
After a chilly night at Steamboat Rock state park I and a fellow Vietnam Vet decided we'd try Banks for a few hours. We figured; no matter what the outcome this would be a most fitting Veteran's Day f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/5/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Banks Lake labor day with my dad. My dad and I fished the mornings and one evening. The first day we fished from 8-12:30 am and started out trolling for walleyes with a bottom bouncing rig an...
