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By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/20/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wasn't sure where I was going to fish today but let the weather determine it as after Craig left yesterday at 2pm, I got back to Sun Lakes and tidied things up a bit. I had heard that a pretty signif...
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Northrup pt. and decided to try the flats first before moving elsewhere - long story short, stayed
at the north end of the flats the rest of the day, that is until about 1:15PM and the wi...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We recently moved to Coulee City from Spokane so we could be closer to the Walleye fishing and I have to say its great to be within a short drive of so many great lakes. Yesterday we launched at Steam...
By: rseas
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What started with a “Fishing this weekend?” text at 6:10 Thursday morning ended being one of the most incredible and productive fishing trips ever. The text string went something like this; “Fishing t...
By: Asianju
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to hit banks lake on Saturday. Boy was it a hot day and I was very thankful that my friend had just purchased a Bimini top cuz it was about 15 degrees cooler under the top.
We arrived f...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/9/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Annual camping trip time. Heading to Banks and stayed from Monday-Thursday. Was scared of the forecast though. And for the most part, they were right.
On our drive there, we steadily saw the temp...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 6/14/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First trip to Banks this year. Launched at Coulee City with the usual suspects at 7:15. There were several boats working just outside the launch area but we headed further north and worked some hump...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 6/28/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well we gave Banks a shot for the first time on the south end at Coulee City. We set out at about 07:30 and within 10 minutes we had the first 2 walleyes. I thought it was going to be a fast day with ...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/9/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I bribed my wife with breakfast if she would go walleye fishing yesterday. I think it was making sure we had enough fillets in the freezer that sealed the deal. We launched at Coulee City and were p...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After a successful morning of Kokanee fishing, we headed to Banks Lake in Coulee City since it was close to the Kokanee fishing lake. We trolled for about 3 hours and never got a single walleye but di...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 8/11/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Al and I headed north this morning with our wives instead of CF, our usual fishing partner. There was much more chatter coming from the back seat instead of the normal snoring we were used to hearing...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 8/12/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day on Banks Lake. Walleye fishing has been of the chart for us here for the past couple months and just seems to be getting better. We got on the water at 9:30 and had 16 walleye in the...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 8/21/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I had to rate this a four instead of a five because of the drop in water level. The level has dropped about three to four feet in the past week. Before the water started dropping is was very common fo...
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Northrup cyn before 7 - headed south to do the mile, but about half way there Aeolius the wind God
decided to let it all hang out - less than 5 minutes we were in white caps and rollers -...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for technically last Monday AND Tuesday even though Monday was mainly a sightseeing endeavor. First trip ever to Banks Lake for myself and my wife and unfortunately we were greeted by...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 8/30/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After a awesome morning of Kokanee fishing on Deep, we headed to Banks for walleye. We put in at Coulee City and tried north of Goose Island. Tried trolling bottom bouncers with worm harness's and sha...
Posted: 9/15/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Banks was a bust !!! On the water b/4 7:00am and headed for old devil's lake area to try for a few whitefish - spent
almost two hours jigging and watching two other boats, nada for all of us, left a...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 3/11/2017
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/10/2017
Hot Spots: 1
This is going to be a long winded report. So please, bear with me. I fished from Friday night, March 10th till Saturday morning March 11th.
Arrived in electric city, Friday around 1400, had to ki...
By: wallmama
Posted: 3/25/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/25/2017
Hot Spots: 1
A lot of boats on the lake. Barker flats, Coulee play land, all over. A beautiful sunny day, a little windy, 8-12mph chop, fishing was slow,. I only managed boated a few egg filled perch. Talked to o...
By: Lee Howe
Posted: 4/1/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
First time out this year. Launched at Coolee Playland and stayed in that section of the lake. Patty and I fished the exact spots that were real good at this time in the last two years and did not get...
By: motley
Posted: 4/23/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kids to Barker flats on Banks and the fish were hanging in 50 ft. Water temp was still chilly. Used Slow death roll rigs pink worked the best. Caught four biggest was caught by my youngest da...
By: DAR
Posted: 5/6/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Good day on Banks except for the wind. 20 smallies and a 3lb trout. Very few boats at the south end and they were all after Walleyes.
Posted: 5/7/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks all week, Sunday 4/30-Friday 5/5. Water temp started at 47deg and Friday was 51-52. Clarity was very good. Walleye
spawn was/is still on - thru back the girls, kept some/few boys. Pesky ...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 5/27/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye seem to have finally started biting. I had an idea for a lure set up I have been wanting to try out, I took a Perch pattern Oldgoat lure and rigged it with a Slow Death hook. It worked GREAT. ...
By: craighix0708
Posted: 5/27/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report after being a devout reader over a number of years. We left Wenatchee at 7am , and launched at Northrup around 9:30. Ran across to Barker and fished for a couple hours with jus...
