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By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/30/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is from 5/21/17 through 5/23/17 on Banks Lake in Grant County.
Arrived Sunday 5/21 at around 0830 and was launched out of the park at Banks Lake South by 0930. I motored out to a littl...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 6/7/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit banks for a family camping fishing trip from friday the 2nd through monday morning. It was tough fishing at first..went around to barker flats and ran everything from planers and flicker shads to...
By: sprecman
Posted: 6/9/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at 0530 on Barker Flats trolling worm rigs, changing colors often. Caught a nice 19 inch walleye on a chartreuse spinner and the a 18 inch walleye on a chartreuse smile blade. All in a...
By: NWDRIFTER
Posted: 6/11/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks for a few days with my son and his other fishing buddy for Walleye and Bass. Walleye fishing was decent on Barker flat. Averaged about 2 fish an hour. Slow Death with a green Smile Blade...
By: Markin' Fish
Posted: 6/17/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Bass and Bows at Banks
Fished Banks from Wednesday to Friday for bass and did some bow fishing for carp. The weather was sporadic with rain and wind mixed in the three days. Biggest bass of the t...
By: Lee Howe
Posted: 6/19/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Patty and I fished Banks Saturday and Sunday, camping at Coolee Playland. Flat water surprised us since Friday the wind was fierce. Water temp still cold at north end 58 and around 64 in the main la...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 6/19/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Persistence sometimes pays off. CF, Al and I headed to Banks for the first time this year. We launched at Coulee City and started on the East side flats pulling crank baits but only found weeds. He...
Posted: 6/21/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hello,
so I have been meaning to get to Banks Lake and Sunday the 18th I took the camper and boat and went to Barker Canyon. It is off Highway 174 before Grand Coulee. The road going to the Lake is...
By: Fisheries24
Posted: 7/1/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Tough fishing for me at Banks. Fished Barker Flats, Punchbowl and the outside face of steamboat rock. Heading to the south end next time.
By: wallmama
Posted: 7/25/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had not seen any reports on this lake for a while. I guess I would like to chime in. Got on water at 8 am.... started 5mph mild wind in the morning. Use spinner as well as smiley with worm. One on to...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 7/26/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks to a area I was told Kokanee could be found and sure enough, we found them. The bite was a little slow, then somebody turned on the lights and the bite was on for about 30 minutes, then ...
By: mschulman
Posted: 8/3/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Left Northrup docks at Banks Lake around 7:00 am and hits the flats. Fished in water from 13 ft thru 31 ft using slow death rigs in a few different colors, but none seemed to get the bite going. Caug...
By: aortbahn
Posted: 8/7/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on Banks this Saturday, and was able to get myself a limit of some nice eater walleyes down on the south end of the lake by Coulee city in between some humps in about 20-30ft. Crawler harnesse...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/10/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report.
I fished Banks Lake with the Packernut on Saturday the 5th. We tried jigs for about an hour to no avail, then switched to bottom walkers and Mack's smile blades, slow de...
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 8/13/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Late report....sorry,
Hit banks at first light, started on west side of steamboat, no good moved down to mid lake launch area and found success. Started shallow and had to move out to deeper water to...
By: boyscoutman
Posted: 8/16/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
caught a bunch of smallies and one small walleye my first one was using small single hook crank bait switched to a black rooster tail, and caught a 2 pounder.
By: hewesbob
Posted: 8/22/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing was great, the eclipse not so much. We put in at Coulee City park about 7:00 am and headed north to mid lake. We fish this area about 3 or 4 times a week and have been doing fair but n...
By: wallmama
Posted: 8/23/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
launched boat and headed middle of lake, pulled flicker shad #7 at 1.7 mph, north wind 8mph, depth 15-24 FOW, water temp 67-71, caught bunch of SM, only kept one 16", fished only 3 hrs, caught 3 eyes,...
By: Don Wittenberger
Posted: 9/7/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Tom and I fished Banks Lake from Sep. 4-6. Dense fog-like smoke from wildfires shrouded the lake. We could not see the opposite shore. We fished for smallmouth on the west side of Steamboat ...
By: CoyoteCrazy
Posted: 9/10/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Made our first trip to Banks. I have wanted it for years. Took the wife's pontoon boat, and 6 of us headed over. Launched around 8, wind was horrendous. Tried to hide from it in a couple small coves w...
Posted: 9/26/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/22/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Spent the week fishing for walleye, smallies and perch - stayed the week at Steamboat (Steamboat gets a 5 rating). Monday 9/18
started windy with white caps and rollers, so took the hint from the Cra...
By: haverman83
Posted: 11/27/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I'm going to just make this short and sweet a few buddies and I fished banks for walleye fri thru sun and all I can say is we killed them smallest fish probably 3lbs but almost all of our 25 to 30 wal...
By: haverman83
Posted: 12/16/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/8/2017
Hot Spots: 0
(*Editor's Note - the 5 star rating is for Rufus, not Banks)
Well this report is a total change from my last one on banks just a few weeks prior where we just couldn't keep the walleye off the hoo...
Posted: 3/12/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/10/2018
Hot Spots: 1
I caught a big case of spring fever! There is only one way to fix the sickness! I spent the weekend fishing walleye at Banks Lake. We launched at the day launch. There is still some ice building up on...
By: DAR
Posted: 3/31/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/31/2018
Hot Spots: 0
4 walleye, 2 perch and a burbot . All caught at 50-60 feet of water. My 85 year old mother got the burbot. Barker Flat area.
