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By: bluewater16
Posted: 8/31/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Banks this morning. I forgot how bad the wind out of the south can make that lake. Finally gave it up at 1:00 pm. Did manage two get to limits of 14 to18" walleye and c&r'd two nice smallies 2....
By: nwbhoss
Posted: 9/2/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2009
Hot Spots: 2
I fished Walleye for the first time and Banks Lake for the first time last weekend. It took a couple days to figure things out and fighting the wind but we picked up some good info and ended up landin...
Posted: 9/15/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/12/2015
Hot Spots: 3
This report is for both weekends of September!
The Walleye fishing at Banks Lake continues to be absolutely amazing! It is going to continue to be red hot well into this fall. We have been catching...
By: Prazerm
Posted: 9/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2015
Hot Spots: 3
First time fishing Walleye. Watched alot of videos and called some friends for tips. Got on water at Steamboat at 7:30. Headed out across lake from the back of Steamboat Rock. Bottom bouncers and ...
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 9/27/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
trolled Banks lake again with Slow Death rig with silver smile blade on bottom bouncer (1 oz.) put in at Steamboat Rock and went South. Fished 15 - 25 ft at 1.2 mph once we found some fish we kept c...
By: fishin2
Posted: 10/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2015
Hot Spots: 3
My partner and I fished Banks Lake in the Barker Canyon area. We caught twelve walleye 13" to 17" in length. It was a nice fishing.
By: OldFishGuy
Posted: 10/9/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Off to Banks Lake with my Grandson to try for Walleye. Neither of us had ever fished for them before. We bought some of those leaded wire bottom bouncers, a couple colored spinners with double hooks...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 10/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the water at 3 pm to fish this lake that I had never done before. Found my way to the flats and dropped the rods. Since I was solo I was a bit nervous, but I trusted my electronics. Wind was just ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 10/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Day 2= met up with my buddy and headed to the flats again. Filled with confidence from a pretty quick day before we hit it hard. Today we had to battle to get our fish, but by the end my buddy had his...
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 11/23/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I wanted to catch some of the Whitefish @ Banks as I've seen in some videos. No luck for me on those, I did pick up the one small mouth while trying. After no Whitefish action, I moved to some wee...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 12/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked into some nice trout on the south end of banks. All have been large and fat. Great fighters too. Been using power eggs and throwing kastmasters in chrome from the banks. Great time to fish for...
Posted: 3/19/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day of fishing at barker flats near steamboat rock . Awesome weather. Saw easily over 50 boats today fishing barker flats. Fish seemed to bite better when it was breezy in the morning. Most of m...
By: Fish'n Fever
Posted: 3/22/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
With a forecast for clear skies, and light winds, I loaded my 14' boat into my 5th wheeler, and headed for Steamboat State Park at Banks Lake. While driving there, my son Shane called. Upon learning w...
By: asmith
Posted: 4/1/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Total of 10 walleye, 7 perch and 2 burbot between the two people. All caught using bottom walkers with various color slow death rigs. Biggest was 21.5", 2.5lbs, smallest 12.25". Beautiful day, with...
By: smathisen
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/1/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Got to Banks lake around 11:00. Started fishing just west of Coulee Playland Resort using Trolling poles, Leaded Line, Smile Blade Slow Death Hooks with Night Crawler. Down 55 ft, Trolling around 2 mp...
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for got pictures on the first report.
Took the family out on Banks Lake today! What a amazing day. You couldn't ask for better weather. Kept a few for a fish fry! Released a ton of fish! I st...
By: motley
Posted: 4/3/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/3/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Took the kids over to Banks to get in on the walleye action at Barker flats. On the troll over there from Steam boat park my youngest daughter caught a 29 inch Burbot on a spinner off the bottom. The ...
Posted: 4/7/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
A beautiful day for fishing, no wind, just the occasional cats paw on the water - a few walleye and a few
perch - walleye in 35-50 and perch in 25-35. Bite went off between 10-10:30 - trollled around...
By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 4/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake from shore for about an hour and a half. Caught one beautiful male Rainbow 17 inches long. the bite died and the sun was getting hot so we went shooting!
By: C-money
Posted: 4/14/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks last weekend. Had a great time. Fishing was ok, plenty of slow time, but there was a few doubles at times as well. We boated 14 walleye, 7 perch and 3 crappie. One 19" walleye still had e...
Posted: 4/15/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks Lake on 4/14 and 4/15. Thursday's weather reminded me of running charter boats in Alaska. I'm glade we remember the raingear. It rained until we had our limits. The drive home was nice an...
By: justforfun
Posted: 4/17/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
On the water by 9 am, slow start but what a beautiful day. Slow death hooks on standard bottom bouncer set up. Keep three walleye 17 & 18 inchs, then to my surprise, 80 degree day and I pull up a 25''...
By: buc
Posted: 4/21/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
South end/only one trailer in parking lot at 7:30 drove down to big flat west side across from millon $ launch. Two limits in an hour, so me and the old man just drove the whole lake for fun. No other...
By: walleyes
Posted: 5/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Slow day on Banks, landed a single spawned out 26 inch female on a copper spin harness. We started fishing around 6am and called it a day at 1PM. We thew every color of spin/harness, flicker shads and...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/19/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
So after a quick shower and some food we repacked the boat up and set out for Banks to try for some big eyes! Craig had never caught a walleye or tasted one so I was anxious for him to get a chance t...
